MURDER BY INDIAN PRINCESS.

Bruce Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 59, 31 July 1911, Page 3

MURDER BY INDIAN PRINCESS.

A POISONED DRAUGHT, Great excitement among Indians lias been caused by the passing of sentence of death at Amritsar, Punjab, on the Suderani Bhagwan Kaur, commonly known as the Ranee Sahiba, for having caused the death of a Brahmin named Kalian Chanel by giving him arsenic in milk. The Ranee (whose rank is equivalent to that of a princess) is the widow of Sirdar Dyal Singh, who was one of the most prominent men in the Punjab. The murdered man had been the Ranee's lover, but she tired of him and wanted to get rid of him. As he flatly declined to leave her she admitted him to her private apartments on the night of February 20 and gave him a draught of milk with arsenic in it. Two days later she had the body removed by some trusted servants. In passing sentence the judge said that it was difficult to conceive a more cold-blooded murder, as the Ranee must have heard the groans of her discarded lover <Tying on the theshold of her apartments. "I therefore sentence her." proceeded the judge, "to be hanged by the neck until she is dead." The Raneo has appealed to the Punjab Chief Court.