INDIAN MURDER CASE.
ANOTHER. CHARGE AGAINST SAVARKAR. By .Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrtelit* (Rec. January 24, 11.45 p.m. Bombay, January 21. Vinayak Savarkar, the young Indian law student, who-has been tried and sentenced on- other counts for sedition-, is now charged with having aided the murder of Mr. Jackson, of Nasik, cabled on December 22, 1909. The prosecution states that he sent fifty Browning pistols through' a cook oniployed in the India House by means of a box with a false bottom, thui evadiug the Customs. One of the pistols was given :to Mr. Jackson's murderer. Mr. Jackson had been Collector of Nasik for several years. Ee was under orders for Bombay City, and was to have left on December 24, 1909. On the evening of December 21, accompanied by the Assistant-Collector, tho Postmaster-General, and some ladies, he went to the native theatre. As the party entered a younc Hindu stepped out, aimed a revolver at. Mr. Jackson's chest, and : fired. He missed his first shot, but before he could be disarmed fired again and again, one bullet striking the victim in the heart. Death was almost instantaneous.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1034, 25 January 1911, Page 7
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