REVENGE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 291, 2 September 1908, Page 7

REVENGE.

AN INDIAN INFORMER SHOT DEAD. BY FELLOW ACCUSED. CONCEALED WEAPONS AND SHAJIJIED ILLNESS. (by TELEGRAFH —PP.ES3 ASSOCIATION—COriRIGIIT.) (Rec. September 2, 1.5 a.m.) Calcutta, September 1. Gossain, the informer ivlio gavo evidence against his follow accused in connection with bomb outrages, was shot in revenge at Alipur Gaol Hospital yesterday. ~ His assailants, two fellow accused, concealed revolvers which had been supplied by visiting friends, shammed illness, and were sent from gaol to tho hospital. Gossain, on being shot, died immediately. Two European prisoners, who attempted to disarm the miscreants, were seriously wounded. S ■ The gaol authorities had frequently protested against the number of persons allowed to visit tho gaol. HIS FATHER'S PROPHECY. Narendro Nath Gossain, when lie turned informer in June last, was at once disowned by his father, who predicted that he would meet "the end of a traitor." Gossain's fellow prisoners on that occasion made such a violent demonstration against him that he had to be kept apart from them. Gossain was chargcd, along with Arabindo Ghose (the scholarly Hindu agitator) and 33 others, with complicity in tomb outrages. In his confession ho stated that' Arabindo Ghoso urged that funds for revolutionary purposes should be secured by looting, and mentioned various unsuccessful attempts to do this.