The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-27
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 WORK IN INDIA
 .----s---. . Murder is Done Because
 of Politics. Z GOVERNMENT IS DISTURBED Native Police Inspector Was
 Killed. The Hindus and Nesisms Are. stIii sowsns seaasien Ansns the Ma lives. Of India-pisturbins
 Politiesi szeetihss
], GOVERNMENT IS DISTURBED
BY A. K. HOWARD.

Calcutta Dec 2es-~IWo adys ase a the attempt on the life of Sir AnoEsW s Fraser. Lieutenant Governor of Bengal Detective Inspector Uundo. Lall Ban- $ nerji was shot in Serpentine Lane. Cal- cntta. Some account of the muraef has been teiegraphed, hut additional oarticulars are now available. Appar- ently the whole affair had been wen thought out and every detah eafeiui,y s planned. That the assassins were anie to carry out their design m sDs'n., ssss. cd part of the town at unie@ When there would be number Of persons moving about points to their being able to rely upon q safe refuge not Tar from tha scene of their crime;- for al. though the attack was made at cross road. and at I. T.o'eioek in the evening. the miscreanta appear 70 nave been able to get away comfortably.
 inspector Banferji lived in Kerani BaRan. a locality almost at the back of the Church of Scotland zenana' Mis- sion, about a hundred yards in the df- reetfon of Sealdah from the junction of st. James Street with Bow Bazar Street. He had been writing a letter which he was anzious to post, and set nut to post 1t himself. II wanted
 few minutes to as he stepped out of his door and. walked away to the north in the. direction of. Bow Bazar street, His assAssiifB, who must nave been lurRifk about. with. firearms con. eaAiea under their garments, followed him quickly, and overlook him at the crossing of serpentine Lane and Kera- nj Bagan Lane. Ostsnsibly the two men (tha evidence of Some of the peo@ pie of the locality, Is that there were. tnree) were ordinary pedestrians who were walking faster ti1AA BannerjL and no one cast more than . passing glance at them till afterwards. As they came abreast Os the deceased, one Of the naisereants fired revolver at close range point blank into his light side just below the armpit, the bullet pass inc. rl~ht through the body and com. ffse out on the left side. As the -unfof% tunate man. dropped to the ground sev- eral ahpte were fired st him.. Leaving their victim weltering in his blood, the men turned to the west and ran down Serpantine Lane. and that is the last that anyone saw of them.
 The deceased had received one wound at the back of his. head, one in the middle of the back, and one on each shouldaF; in fact his back was simply. rfddIod with bullet wounds, while he hAa also received a sffot on the le1t hip. All the shots. with the exception of the fast named, had boen fired at htfn fronay behinds- and at such close duarfaraa that he. clothes inc was wear iisr were sfngHd The first shot was hrea before he got to the corner of q blind gully. and this was exidentlye airnBds from ss& considerable distance.l After ne haa gone a few paces eufthefl he suddenly collapsed. .a
 5 iCoIdRy Executed. ygi9e Then more shots were ffedA-sorne accounts say three and others four and hve--in quick succession. The sound of the shots quickly brought e crowd of people to the place, and just before the .spark of life dickered out Nund0 LAll was heard to. say, sInform my brother at 10a Berpentino Lane" He- fore the people arrived, heweYersa thA, assassIns-4for 1t Is certain there were. more than one-had dieappeared as, completely as if the earth had sYal- lowed them. The only man who ad-s mits that be was an eyewitness of the. crime is an old bootnnaker. who lives nearly opposite where. the EnurdSred man fell. He was washing his .cook;-s ing utensils when the drst shot was fired. and on coming to the door tq see what had happened saw three men cl0se to the sitting figure. and heard and saw several more shots fired. He was naturally much excited and con. fused and could not give any descrfp- tIon of the murderers, except that they were Bengalis. It is worthy of note that in the locality are several native
 
 Inspector Banneril had no doubt been marked down" by the conspira- tors on account of the part he played in the discovery of Diminish Roy, the Muzanerpur murderer. Diminish Roy went across country, and finally took rail for Mokamah Station, on the East Indian Railway. On the way he was met and drawn into conversation with the young BengaIi inspector of police, rIrtrn Chunder Bannerdi. the veteran govern I1ent pleader of Muzafferpur to whom he had been paying 6 visit. The ofd- cer asked Roy certain questions. and not being satisfied with the answers became suspicious, and st one of the stations wired back to .Muzafferpur stating his suspicious and asking for instructions. These came In due course, and at Mokamah he decided on his coup. But this was only partially successful for Roy. to escape capture, shot himself dead, almost in the arms Oe the two constables who were en- aeavoring to arrest him.
 Had Been Rewarded.
 Inspector Bannerji received a money reward, and was shortly Afterwards transferred on promotion from the Bengal police to the Bengal criminal investigation department, and finally found himself In Calcutta, Indeed, he later gave evidence at the AIipore mag istrate's court in the trial of the bomb conspiracy case to identify the photo graph of the suicide Roy, and was to have bean & witness in the sessions trial at Alipore. Meanwhile, however, he had been transferred back to the Muzanerjur district, and was actually to have left on the night of his mur- der
 Rhudiram Bose, who. murdered two English ladies at Muzafferpore, still commands enormous influence among the Bengali youth During a recent festival a remarkable proceeding was witnessed in Beldon Street when a number of boys were seen singing and marching. carrying Khudiram's DOT trait covered with garlands and flags. Booklets containing his portrait and a stirring song were distributed. The song translated runs somewhat thus: The fearless martyr went to work
 Without trace of dread.
 With the burden of his duty
 Resting on his head.
 Tn the name of mother, dear.
 He plunged in horrid strifo.
 And hailed with a heEo's grace
 The sentence on hTs ltfes
 Then the world shuddered at
 4 sacrifice so meet. And red rod bloomed the lotuseS
 At the mothers feet!
 The government advocate has filed AAmDlaint in the Court of the District