CRIME IN INDIA
MEDICAL OFFICER MURDERED.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.)
, (HEUTER'S TELEGRAM.) (Received 3rd October,, noon.)
SIMLA, 2nd October.
Captairf Baker Jones, of the Indian Medical Service, was assassinated near Loralai by a Waziri tribesman. A message; f rom Poona says that Hasrat was sentenced to two years' vigorous and six months' rigorous imprisonment, the sentences running consecutively. Mohami, undergoing a sentence at Yerrowca Prison, bribed a warder to carry a letter from the pi-ison to Syphan Russpol, who accepted the bribe. He was sentenced to three months' rigorous imprisonment on each charge. Throughout the trial Mohami employed obstructionist tactics. Before and during the delivery of the judgment he created a scene after being carried into Court by two European warders.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 81, 3 October 1923, Page 5
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120CRIME IN INDIA Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 81, 3 October 1923, Page 5
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