INDIAN TRIBESMAN
VICARIOUS VENGEANCE
DELHI, 20th February. A young Mohmand, a fanatic who attempted to murder Captain Barnes, Assistant Commissioner of Charsadda, was arrested and tried the same day, J and hanged the next day in the Peshawar Gaol. The man took a letter, ostensibly an application of some sort, to Captain Barnes at his bungalow and tried to shoot him, whije he was reading it.
The accused admitted the- offence was in revenge for the death of his uncle and grandfather, who were killed during operations against the Mullah, Adda, by British troops"' fifty years ago.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 44, 21 February 1931, Page 7
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