ATTEMPTED MURDER
Attack on Calcutta Editor Calcutta, Nov. 17. Sunil Kumar Chatterjee was sentenced to transportation for life; Promode Ranjan Bose to ten years’ imprisonment with hard labour; Amai’ Chandra Ghose to two years with hard labour; while three other accused, Dutt, Das and Bakshi, were acquitted by a special tribunal on charges In connection with the attempt to murder Sir Alfred Watson, editor of the Calcutta “Statesman.”
When Sir Alfred Watson was entering his office early in August a Bengali youth fired a revolver through a side window, the bullet missing his hend by inches. The assailant swallowed poison and died on the way to hospital. At the encl of September Sir Alfred was wounded while he was driving in his car round the Maidan, a big open space in the European quarter. The assailants opened fire from a car which drew up along side Sir Alfred’s ear in a lonely spot. Sir Alfred was injured in the shoulders, his secretary Mrs. Grose, was hurt in the hand, and the Sikh driver received a wound in the right shoulder. Two of the would-be murderers took poison and died when they found the police hot upon their heels in an outlying suburb.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 48, 19 November 1932, Page 11
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