THE MURDER AT NASIK.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 74, 30 March 1910, Page 7

THE MURDER AT NASIK.

SENTENCES OF DEATH. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received March 30, 9 a.m.) CALCUTTA, 29th March. Kariare and two confederjues wero found guilty of abetting the murder of Mr. A. Jackson, Collector at Nasik. They were sentenced to death. Two others were pentenced to transportation for life, and another to two years' imprisonment. Kanare and six others were charged with the murder. The prisoners, all Brahmins, are described as typical dogenerates belonging to a secret revolutionary society. Mr. Jackson was shot in December last, it is said in mistakefor a session judge who had sentenced a Brahmin named Sarvarkar for sedi tion. Tho persons arrested included Sarvarkar's brother (who was a law student at Bombay), and Orso, a native banker at Yeola (a town in tho Nasik district, 58 miles from Aurangabad). The banker is charged with financing a Deccan conspiracy. A mass of incriminating documents and enough pistols and ammunition to exterminate the English population ot th« distrtet were seized. At the trial tho police produced a document found on Kanare, saying that he had killed Mr. Jackson for acquitting a European charged with murder, and for oppressing the pcor. The document also stated that unless the work of administration were mado impossible, ' tho evils would continue unchecked.