SECRET SOCIETY MURDERS.
A sensational trial was held at Arrah, India, when some Hindus who were alleged to have committed a political dacoity in a temple in Behar and to have murdered a priest and a servant, appeared in Court. Nobody was arrested at the lime, but blood-stained clothes were discovered in a well. Four Hindus suddenly disappeared shortly after the murder, and the police failed to trace them until a man., arrested in connection with a conspiracy case, heard at Delhi, made a statement to the effect that the Behar murder was committed by a secret society. Another man was arrested and confessed, and a third man who was pardoned gave evidence at the trial. He said that the gang, after the murders, failed to open the cashbox of the temple, and, becoming nervous, hid their . clothing and iledj,
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 151, 27 June 1914, Page 5
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140SECRET SOCIETY MURDERS. Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 151, 27 June 1914, Page 5
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