TERRIBLE CRIMES IN INDIA.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1865, 14 March 1889, Page 3

TERRIBLE CRIMES IN INDIA.

The annals of nineteenth century crime can hardly furnish a more shocking example of the terrible atrocities some human fiends are capable of committing than that revealed by the latest accounts from India. A native named Nathu Sahib, whose mother is a European, it appears, has exercised a terror over the people in the district of Tebri Eaj for some years past, which m no way adds credit to the arrangements for suppressing crime in the locality. _ Nathu commenced his career in crime by seriously maltreating bis mother. He armed himself with a rifle and a long knife used by the natives, and committed a series of murders, which for heinousness will bear comparison with the "Whitechapel atrocities. On two natives refusing to comply with an unreasonable request, he murdered one by cutting his throat and shot the other"dead. On the next day he murdered a woman who refused to give him assistance, and shot two ether men dead who interfered. He subsequently murdered and seriously wounded several pilgrims, one of whose hands he cut off. He then shot the man dead. The police now considered it time to interfere, and succeeded in arresting Nathu, who was sentenced to five years' imprisonment and ordered to pay 20,000 rupees for his misdeeds. The inadequate punishment was brought under the notice of the Commissioner tor the district, who rightly refused to sanction such a judgment, and for the safety of the inhabitants of the district it is to be hoped the law which Nathu has so fearfully outraged will be fully { vindicated.