GAOL AT LAST
INDIAN PLOTTERS. SENTENCED
THREE YEARS’ TRIAL ENDED
(U.P.A. by Elee. Tel- Copyright)
CALCUTTA’, Jan. 1.0
After a trial lusting'-three - .years and costing the Government ,0120,000 28 men, including three Britons, were sentenced at Meerut for a conspiracy •to wage war against the King. Over three hundred witnesses were examined.
The trial disclosed that some of the accused, with the aid of largo suan* of money from Russia, fomented strikes among Indian railway and jute mill workers, which were intended to he preliminary to the establishment of a movement to overthrow tho Government.
One man. was sentenced to life transportation, and fivo to 12 years. The other sentences range from 10 to three years.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GIST19330118.2.50
Bibliographic details
Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11836, 18 January 1933, Page 7
Word Count
116GAOL AT LAST Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11836, 18 January 1933, Page 7
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Gisborne Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in