AN INDIAN TRAGEDY.
A shocking tragedy ocoured at Kumohee lately. A seapoy of the Twenty-sixth Native Infantry, having possession of forty rounds of ammunition, ran amuck through the linos at 1 o’clock in the morning, Ho first shot two Sepoys who were asleep in the barracks verandah. The alarm was immediately sounded, and the regiment turned out, but nothing could be done till daylight, when detachments were sent in all directions to search for him. Meanwhile, the murderer had proceeded to the soldiers’ bazaar, and had shot four rhopkeepers who were sleeping outside their houses, He .then went to the plain behind the infantry lines and shot five oartmen. When he found out that the regiment had turned out, betook refuge in a stone enclosure, whence ho fired many rounds, The colonel called for volunteers to rush in upon him, and two Sepoys responded. When they got within six yards of him he shot himself through the heart. The eleven men whom he hud shot were killed on ihe spot, or died in a few hours.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1626, 27 August 1887, Page 3
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176AN INDIAN TRAGEDY. Temuka Leader, Issue 1626, 27 August 1887, Page 3
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