A STUDENT'S CRIME.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9533, 3 July 1909, Page 5

A STUDENT'S CRIME.

TWO MEN SHOT DEAD.

ASSASSIN ARRESTED.

DESPERATE STRUGGLE.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright! Received June 2, 11.20 p.m. BOMBAY, July 2.

After a musical At Home at the Imperial Institute, last night, an Indian student, armed with two loaded revolvers and a dagger, shot Sir William Hutt Curzon Wyllie, political aide-de-camp to the Secretary for India, dead, and also shot Doctor Lalcaca fatally. Doctor Lalcaca, an Indian Paruee lately resident in Shanghai, died almost immediately.

The assassin had a card in one of his pockets, bearing the name D'hingrai, and the address Bayswater. LONDON, July 2. A man named A. Thorbury, who witnessed the deed, made the following statement to the ''Daily Mail" correspondent:—"The square landing between the hall and the staircase was used as a smoking room. Here I saw Wyllie apparently conversing with a student wearing a pale blue turban. The latter drew a revolver and fired four shots rapidly into Wyllie's head, the muzzle, being near the face when he fired the fifth shot at him as he fell. The sixth struck Dr Lalcaca, who was standing three yards distant, in the breast. I rushed the assassin, and another man sprang to my assistance, and we seized the assassin, who struggled and wrested one band free. He placed the revolver to his own head and pulled the trigger, which clicked harmlessly. A crowd gathered, and a doctor pronounced Wyllie dead. A j stately woman ascended the staircase and exclaimed 'Poor fellow!' aa she looked at the Englishman's body. She knelt down beside the body—the four vrojnds had disfigured him —and then in sorrow sfricken tones said quite quietly, 'lt's my husband. Why was I not with hi n? I had left him a few mimtes before to fetch a cloak. He was following when the assassin engaged him in conversation.' " Krishnavarma, in yesterday's number of the "Indian Sociologist," wrote an article in which he said that political assassination is not murder.