NANA SAHIB.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4816, 4 September 1894, Page 2

NANA SAHIB.

Tliirty.four.yoirsagogrcate7S]tcmont.S to occasioned k ' England Mho an. '# novicemcut tkat Nana Sgnib, tliesi; traitorous villa in who butchej? $ helpless i : * women and children at Cawi/ Sre during' K the Indian Mutiny;had ft fn into'tho >* bands of the mcL.ee.But .iUMiIbT the ltcsident bad got bold of tho tuong-9 man, and after half-a-dozen more or? less evil-looking but comparatively in- > noccnt natives bad been wrested on 3> suspicion, the report that the nrchrfioud : ■? had succumbed to an attack of fever S ; shortly after i.tho.perpoWion of W4 atrocious crimes was generally accepted. S We aro now told by a cablegram from v" Calcutta (says the Lt/ileltim Wines) that;- : < it is reported that the scoundrel has been £ arrested by the Bombay policcjbuttbero ■ ■ is littlo hope, wo fear, of tho report v i turning out to bo true, A man so wuwly < ~* known as Nana was during 'tho Mflack w days of tho Mutiuv could hardly lrido himsolf oven in the'wilds of India' for-; thirty-seven years, and wo shall. pro|.; ; i ably learn in a day or two that' Some 4 fanatic, who has just beard of tho trco- •', : -\ smearing wbicb we have been discuss. - ing during tho past twelve months, lias ? misled the police. • Nana Sahib, it may :; interest somo of our readers to recall, ' was bom about 1820, and was adopted as' 1 a son, in 1827, by Bajco Ilao, tho;child. ; less cx-Pcishwaof Pooua,' He was cdu- / catcd as a Hindu : nobleman-r-taught4i English and brought 'much in contact with European officers—but the.; Government of Calcutta .refused to ■ rccogniso his claim to a pension of eight■'.( lacs of rupees that bad been enjoyed by ■'-. bis adopted father undera treaty mado ; in 1818, and this probably rankled in bis mind. At any rate, when tho mutiny • broko out in 1857 bo treacherously,':: placed himself at tho head;of thp : mutineers. His first act was tomaft" sacra the.garrison at Cawnpore, and. ' when be bad disposed of tho men in this barbarous fashion ho removed the women- and children to a house within the town.' Sir Henry Havcloek fought his way from Allahabad to rescue tho, survivors, but when tho gallant ■": General roached Cawnporehediscovcred that the women and children had been put to death with unparalleled atrocity. A long scries of engagements followed, and Nana Sahib was ultimately driven beyond tho English froutierihto Ncpaul,- \ In 1800 his death was anuouueed, but ' two years later movements were dis. ' covered which were attributed to him, and wo aro still without any positive information as to bis fate. The news that he is at last on the threshold of tho gal. lows is too good to, be true.