SOLDIERS' CRIME.
.Private Sentenced to Life Imprisonment. INDIAN VILLAGE RAIDED. (Received 9.30 a.m.) CALCUTTA, October 20. A message from Jubbulpore states .that Private James Dowdall was sentenced to penal servitude for life and nine other soldiers to imprisonment with hard labour, for participation in a Taid on the village on July 24. The trial, in which 23 men of the Ist Battalion the King's Liverpool Regiment were concerned, arose out of an attack by the soldiers, armed with sticks, upon a village as a result of which 13 natives were injured, one of whom died. The attack was in the nature of a reprisal against villagers of Karodi, who had roughly handled a soldier who had frightened some women. The men, however, raided a neighbouring village by mistake.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 249, 21 October 1935, Page 7
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SOLDIERS' CRIME.
Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 249, 21 October 1935, Page 7
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