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 hare been
hcoadly 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 Athenmum,
the public may learn that atrocities similar to those
with which Bengal Sepoys have been charged are
certainly 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 Mussultean Sepoye, and the
victim a yoang woman of their own creed—has just
been dispoeed 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 acid docile people of Hiadostan, we
look upon it as a matter of duty to place before the
public each 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 leoee cha•
ratter named Jatuahlee, who resided in the same can-
tonment, and resolved on revenging himself. He found
no difficulty in getting six of hie comrades and a bliefi-Ay
of his corps to joiu him in the perpetration of the con-
templated outrage. Measures having been pi-concerted,
the abovenamed Sepoy and one of his comrades dogged
the foot,teps of Jainahleeone evening, when seeing their
inten.led victim seated in a bazar, they went up to her.
an.i after greeting her eourteou:q asked her in a casual
way to come and partake of a 6;14.53 of arrack with them.
She unsuspecting consented to their preposal and ac-
companied them. They weeded their way pike cheer-
fully, out of the B.zear lines, to the Bad-firing plain,
in doing which they happened to meet, 'as if accidentally,
the remaining five Sepoys and the bheesty.' When
they bad got here a bottle of arrack was brought, and
while all seemed t) partake of the intoxicating stuff,
care of taken to make Jamahlee drunk. No sooner was
this result produced than every one of these monster-
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 jewele, 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 ball-firing plain in the canton-
ment, in order, it appears, that all who passed by might
spit upon it.' Two of those eight wretches have been
sentenced to death, and the remaining six to transporta-
tion for life."