"WHITECHAPELLING" IN INDIA.

Evening Star, Issue 7860, 18 March 1889, Page 4

"WHITECHAPELLING" IN INDIA.

The annals of nineteenth century crime can hardly furniph a more shocking example of the terrible atrocities some human fiends are capable of committing than that revealed ty the latest accounts from India. A Native named Nathu Sahib, whose mother is a European, it appears, has exercised a terror over the people in tho district of Tebri Raj for Borne years past, which in no way adds credit to tho arrangements for suppressing crime in the locality. Nathu commenced his career in crime by seriously maltreating his mother. He armed himself with a rifle and a long knife ÜBed by the Natives, and committed a series of murders, which for heinousness will bear comparison with the Whitechapel atrocities. On two Natives refusing to comply request, be murdered ttting his throat and shot the other de«ps, « the next day he murdered a woman'Mvho refused to give him assistance, and shot two other men dead who interfered. He subsequently murdered and seriously wounded Bevera! pilgrims, one of whose hands he cut off. He then shot the man dead. The police now considered it time to interfere, and succeeded in arresting Nathu, who was sentenced to five years' imprisonment and ordered to pay 20,000 rupees for his misdeeds. The inadequate punishment was brought under the notice of the Commissioner for the district, who rightly refused to sanction such a judgment, and for the safety of the inhabitants of the district it is to be hoped the law which Nathu has so fearfully outraged will be fully vindicated.