SEDITION IN INDIA.
(Received August 8, 9.35 m.)
CALCUTTA, August 7
In the trial of forty-t>vo Beng.nis, arrested in August last year, nr.d charged with conspiracy at Dacca last June, when the assessors stated t hat the police evidence was worthless and unreliable, and found the prisoners not guilty, the judge disagreed with the assessors, and has sentenced three conspirators to transportation for life. Fivo were acquitted, and the remainder sentenced to various terms of imprisonment.
(In August of last year forty-two
persons were charged at Dacca in connection with what was known as the Bengal Conspiracy. During the progress of the case, Police-Inspector Grhose, an important witness for the prosecution, was shot in the street by two young men, and seriously injured.)
A POLICE HOAX
(Received August 8, 9.35 a.ra.)
BERLIN, August 7
The police were hoaxed in making their raid on the thieves' quarters in Zeigenhals, by an anonymous denunciation by an alleged burglar's sweetheart. The twenty persons who were nrrested have been released, and the jewellery which was seized has been restored.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10309, 9 August 1911, Page 3
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175SEDITION IN INDIA. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10309, 9 August 1911, Page 3
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