Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1909-07-08
Young Indian Kills EngIlshman
and Persian.
ASSASSIN CAPTURED
An "At-Homc" Evening for Indian
Students Brought to Sudden Ter
mination by Terrible Tragedy,
Which Seems to Have Been Pre-
meditated.

metitated.
dispatch from London says a
startling double assassination of a
political character occurred late
| Thursday night towards the conclu-
sion of public gathering at the I'm
erial Institute. An Indian student,
whose name is not known, shot and
killed Lieut.. Col. Sir VIM HUT
Curzon Wyllie and DR.. Calas Lalcaca,
OF Shanghai.
Wylie. who had held important
Indian appointments, fell dead on
the spot. DIR. Lalcaca showed signs
OF life after he fell and was hurried
to st. Georges hospital but on arrival
there 1T was found that he was dead.
Those near the assassin seized and
held him until the arrival of the
police. He had two revolvers, a
dagger and a knife. All were new,
and 1t is believed the crime was pre-
meditated.
The gathering IT the Imperial In
stitute. a building devoted to Indian
and other colonial functions, was an
lat home" to Indian students. ID.
w. Thorburn. one of the guests, thus
graphically describes the scene at
tending the murder:
1T was near IL o'clock, and the
musical program was just conclud-
ing when / saw a middle aged Eng
lish gentleman conversing with
young Indian student dressed in a
dark jacket and wearing a pale blue
turban.
Suddenly the native drew a re-
volver and fired four shots with the
greatest rapidity full at the head OF
tho Englishman. The shots were
fired with tho muzzle of the weapon
close to the victims face
Then came another shot as the
Englishman fell and a sixth which
struck an elderly Indian gentleman
standing few yards off and who
fell. shot in the side.
II rushed at the assassin, and
others sprang forward at the same
time. We seized him but he strug-
gled. and wrestling one hand free.
placed the revolver to his forehead
and pulled the trigger. 1t clicked
harmlessly, as he had fired all Of
his shots.
We shouted for doctors and the
police. Meantime there was "A ter
rible scene and commotion and the
folding doors were finally closed to
prevent the people from looking on
the fearful sight.
"A doctor in the hall finally came
forward and knelt at the side of the
Englishman. After an examination
he said nothing can be done for
him
At this moment some one ex-
claimed in a horror-stricken voice
why it is Curzon Wyiie,' then
stately woman in evening dress came
upstairs from the cloak room to dis
cover what had happened. Looking
at the recumbent figure and not i'm
mediately recognizing it. she said:
Poor fellow. She then knelt
down and as she looked closely at
the disfgured face a look OF horror
leaped into her eyes and she ev-
claimed:
1T is my husband; why wasn't
l with him.?
at was Lady Wyilie who had left
| her husband only a few minutes be-
! fore.
"Other doctors came but they
could find no wound on Lalcaca s
body until the clothing was removed.
when tiny stream of blood from
the side revealed the position of the
| injury. Screens were placed around
the victims and the awe-stricken peo-
pie quickly left the hall"
The victims were placed in ambu-
lances and removed to hospital.
Detectives searched the assassin.
The attack on Sir William oc-
Cured on wide square landing lead
ing to the staircase. Sir William and
Lady Wyilie were just preparing TO
depart when the former was ap-
preached by the Indian student One
bullet shattered the face just below
the left eye.
DR.. Lalcaca was n Parsee, and from
present evidence il would seem that
he was shot accidentally. The as
| SdoClus W uO IL dlSO a L al Stts IL dOOul
twenty-five years of age. He wa:
cool and self-possessed after his ar
rest. EIe has maintained an obsti.
nate silence. The Identification o.
the man so far has been impossible
as a great number of visiting cards
bearing different names were founc
on him. He will be arraigned il
police court. II is reported that h,
had in his possession written docu
ments setting forth reasons and jus
tifcation for the crime.
Lieut.. Col Sir William HUT Cur
zon Wyilie was born in 1S4S. boinl
the youngest son of the late Gen
Sir William Wyilie. G.. c. p. IL
was political aldo dc camp to tn,
Secretary of State for India sine
1901. In 1896 he entered the In
dian staff corps and served II
Beluchistan during the Afghan wa
in 1s7a-SO. and accompanied Gen
Sir Robert Phayre's force TO the re