MURDER AT LAHORE
REVENGE FOR DEATH OF NATIONALIST LEADER
(Australian Press Association.) (Rec. December 18, 7.35 p.m.)
Delhi, December 18.
J. P. Saunders, 21 years of age, European Assistant Superintendent of Police at Lahore, was brutally murdered while leaving his office last night. Two Indian students tired five shots at him and then killed an Indian clerk who attempted their arrest. The assailants disappeared into a nearby Hindu college and escaped by another entrance. It is believed that the crime was in revenge for the death of Lal Lajpat Rai, the Punjab Nationalist leader, on the same day last month, after a clash with the police during a boycott demonstration against the Simon Commission. [Lal Lajpat Rai’s death, his medical adviser alleged, was due to rough handling by the police at Lahore station on the arrival of the Simon Commission]
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 73, 19 December 1928, Page 13
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