EDITOR WOUNDED
r OUTRAGE IN CALCUTTA
ASSAILANTS ESCAPE
Frets Association—By Telegraph—Copyright
CALCUTTA, September 28. (Received September 29, at 10 a.ra.) Sir Alfred Watson, editor of the Calcutta ' Statesman,’ was shot and wounded by terrorists while driving in a car around the Maidan, a big, open space in the European quarter, this evening. His assailants opened fire from a car which drew alongside Sir Alfred Watson’s car in a lonely part. Sir Alfred Watson was injured in both shoulders His secretary, Mrs Grose, was injured in the hand, and the Sikh driver was wounded in the right shoulder None of the wounds is believed to be serious at present. The assailants escaped in the car, which was unlighted and has not been identified.
HOT CHASE BY POLICE
TWO COMMIT SUICIDE.
CALCUTTA, September 28. (Received September 29, at 11 a.m.)
Two of Sir Alfred Watson’s would-be murderers drank poison and died when they found the police hot on their heels in an outlying suburb.
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Evening Star, Issue 21220, 29 September 1932, Page 9
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