THE KOLAPORE CONSPIRACY.

Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 65, 19 March 1881, Page 4

THE KOLAPORE CONSPIRACY.

f • ■ ••=^-= — • The European Mail gives the following particulars of the diabolical plot to murder Englishmen in India, the existence of which has been briefly reported by cable :— A very • serious occurrence has taken place at Kolapore. By a mere- accident the existence of a • plot in which some thousands of natives are Baid to be implicated has been most providentially discovered. The full extent-, origin, and real objeot of this conspiracy are at present a complete mysUr'y, but they involved the deposition of the\Rajah and the • massacre of the whole of the ' European residents whilst in ohuroh, The discovery of the plot was energetically followed up, and - twenty-seven natives of all castes, including - among them Beve'ral Brahmins} 'have ' been arrested, and brought to trial. According to the evidence,, some of the Brahmins implicated wbtb to 'work certain charms • in the Temples, -ani upon Orders ' given by the leaders a body of men were "-tp attack the Europeans while attending service in the churoh'. The plans of the ringleaders were a strange medley; sensible in some respeotß, but curiously foolish in many of the details. They had arranged to cut ■ the telegraph wires, and to proteot from loot some buried treasures which the Bvahmins expected to find by means of their charms. A man was obtained to personate the deposed. JBajakdn, hia alleged return to exile. As the incantations to find the buriea treasure failed, dacoities were substituted in orde* to raise irioney. An accident twioe averted a massacre of Europeans. There ia no leader of mark engaged in the affair.