RELIGIOUS REASON
INDIAN SOLDIER'S, CRIME
MURDER OF OFFICER
tJnlted Press Association —By Electric TeU» graph—CopyrlEb(Received 30th January, 2 p.m.) CALCUTTA, 29th January. At the court martial on Singh on ft charge of murdering an officer,^Captain Thompson, the prisoner declared that his protests against being compelled to eat and drink with Mazbhi Sikhs draft- ; ed from another regiment, Whom ha t regarded as untouchable had been un-'l heeded, and he decided to kill an r; officer and then sacrifice himself to. the!-: cause of religion which forbade hiing to feed with a lower caste. -~ He hadf served in the Army over seven year, and was still loyal. . The hearing was unfinished. ;
Singh, an n.c.0., shot Captain R. Jj.\ Thompson as he was reading on the \ verandah of his bungalow at Kirkee.jj One shot was fired point-blank-from a?, rifle and another Was fired at .'Mrs.!! Blake, wife of Captain Blake-of th«s--same regiment, who was standing be-| side Captain Thompson. The. bullet? narrowly missed her head. Singh then? went to a neighbouring bungalow, ap-»: parently intending to. shoot Captain.'? Peacock, but bolted-when' the alarm! was raised. The n.c.o. was believedS to have committed suicide in a river, * but later was arrested: '
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 24, 30 January 1933, Page 10
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