The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-09
An Incident of the Hfutiny.

TFrom the Cornhiu AIagazine.l
black eyes flash through the crowd of
excited Sepoysi The clamor Of voices
takes a new shrillness. Two sahibs are
down before their eyes, under the vic
torious arm Of one of their comrades;
the Thirty-fourth. at the orders Of their
native officer, run forward a rev PAGES
al the double but they. do not attempt to
seize the mutineer. Their sympathies are
FRO FRO The nearest snife with the butt ends
of their Tauskets at the two wounded
a cluster Of British officers by this time
is on the scene; the colonel of the Thirty
aiiv takes commend. He orders the men
Of the quarter guard to seize the mutt
in charge that the men Twill not 90 on
The colonel is. unhappily. not of the stun
fhro1s4h his snectae ies at MIIngl11 Pandy
hand-himseif loaded more dangerously
by fanaticism. strongly Favored with
look on trembling with angry sympathy,
does not make cheerful spectacle -
mel, in his ofaciai report after the incl
dent, going on any further in the mat
less sacrifice of life to order a European
officer of the guard to seize him. ]
left the guard and reported the matter TO
the brigadier. Unhappy colonel! He
may have had his red tape virtues. but
he was clearly not the man to suppress
mutiny The mutiny, IN word, sup
pressed him. And let it be imagined how
added a new element of wondering delight
to the huge crowd of SWaying Sepoys-
At this moment General HearSey, the
brigadier in charge rides onto the parade
ground: red faced, wrathfuts hard fight
ing. iron nerved veteran, with two sons,
of blood as warlilSe as their father 5. rid
ing behind him as aides HearSey, Witn
quick military glance. takes in the whole
sceue-the mob of excited Sepoys, the sui
len quarter guard. the two redcoa1S lying
in the road, and the victorious Mungul
Pandy, musket in hand As he rode up
somebody called out: Have a care; his
musket IS Loaded To Whlch the genera
replied with military brevity, D his
rnusketi' An oath" says Treyelyan.
concerning which every true English
man will make the customary invocation
to the recording angel
AIhngul Pandy covered the general with
his nusket. Hearsey found time to say
to his SON. IF I fall. JOhn, rush in and
put him TO death somehow. Then, pull
ing up his horse on the flank OF the quar-
ter guard. he plucked a pistol from his
holster. leveled it straight at the head of
the native officer, and CURLY ordered the
men to advance and seize the mutineer.
The Ieveled pistol, doubt had its own
logic. but effective than even the
STEADY and tiny tube was the face that
looked from behind it. with comma nd and
iron courage in every line That masteTIul
British wiaf instantly asserted itself. The
loose line of the quarter guard StlfTened
with instructive obedience: the men step
ped forward, and Mungul Pandv. with one
unsteady glance at HearSey's stern visase.
turned with a quick movement the muzzte
of his gun to his own breast, thrust his
naked toe into the trigger. and fell self
shot. He survived to be hanged, with due
official ceremonies. seven days afterWaru-
It was a true instinct which, after this.
taught the British soldier to call every
dent at Barrackpore is really the history
of the Indian Tnutiny in little.