The Sun.
London, England, 1858-05-26 00:00:00

MADRAS MUSSULMAN SEPOYS.

Accounts of the mutilation and torture of our
murdered countrywomen in Bengal have been
broadly affirmed, but slenderly substantiated by
living sufferers-or eyewitnesses. If you will pub-
lish the accompanying statements, taken by me
fr, m a recent number of the Madras Athenceum,
the public may learn that atrocities similar to those
with which Bengal Sepoys have been charged are
certaiuly not unknown among their Madras
brethren.---Yours obediently,
May,24.

SEMYD.

" BANGALORE.—A murder case, which for atrocity
and cruelty vies with the outrages' recently perpetrated
in the North-west—excepting that in the present in•
stance the murderers are Muesulatan Sepoye, and the
victim a young woman of their own creed—has just
been disposed of by the Judicial Commissioner in
Mysore. We have the greatest disinclination to place
the horrible in actual life before our readers, yet, as
many of the advocates of the traditional policy in Eng-
land and elsewhere speak of clemency and tolerance to-
wards the harmless and docile people of Ilindostan, we
look upon it as a matter of duty to place before the
public such of the occurrences in every-day life that
pass under our review as tend to develop the awful de-
pravity and present tendencies of the many.coloured
tribes we are surrounded with. Some time last year,
in the month of February, a Sepoy of the 35th Regi-
ment Native Infantry, at Hurryhur, was offended about
some trivial matter with a young woman of loose cha-
racter named Jamablee, who resided in the same can-
tonment, and resolved on revenging himself. He found
no difficulty in getting six of hie comrades and a bheesty
of his corps to join him in the perpetration of the con-
templated outrage. Measures having been precancarted,
the abovenamedSepoy and one of his comrades dogged
the footsteps of Jatnahleeone evening, when seeing their
intended victim seated in a hazier, they went up to her,
and after greeting her courteously asked her in a casual
way to come and partake of a glass of arrack with tlrrn.
She unsuspecting consented to their pr )posal and ac-
companied them. They wended their way quite cheer-
fully, out of the Bazaar line, to the Ball-firing plain,
in doing which they happened to meet, as if accidentally,
the remaining five Sepoys and the ' bheesty.' When
they had got here a bottle of arrack was brought, and
while all seemed to partake of the intoxicating stuff,
care of taken to make Jamahlee drunk. No sooner was
this result produced than every one of these monsters
ravished their poor victim, after which they carried her
to a ruined temple on the banks of the Toombudra river
close by, stripped her of her clothes and jewels, lit a fire,
and roasted her alive, stomach downwards, pointed a
bamboo stick and pierced her ear and other parts of her
body with it, beat her with a rattan, and tortured her to
death. Not satisfied with all this they brought the corpse
back, and threw it on the hall-firing plain in the canton-
ment, in order, it appears, that all whd passed by might
spit upon it.' Two of those eight wretches have been
sentenced to death, and the remaining six to transporta•
lion for life."