THE INDIAN UNREST.
FOURTH ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINAIJS bIR A. 11. LiSTm-FivASKat. REVOLVER MISSES FIRE. BX EUCTBIC TELIOKAPB. —COPXBIOHT. raa ihuxbd ruEsa AdtiociATMiM. CALCJJTXA, Nov. 9. Professor Burton, of Chicago University, .was about To give & lecture at Oventon Hall, Northern Calcutta, .when a Bengali youth, afterwards giving the name of Boy Chowdhury. rushed forward and thrust a revolver .within . six inches of the Xieut.Governor (Sir A. H. Leith-Fraser), and pulled the trigger. Twice the revolver missed fire. The youth was disarmed.. Meanwhile, the Maharajah ot JBurilwan had stepped forward, shielding SUr A. H. Leith-Fraser. This -the fourth attempt on Sir A. Leith-Fraser'B life. The newspaper 'Englishman' con; , Jiiders that the anarchist propaganda ib\ deeper and wider than anybody has supposed. UNDER UNREST IN INDIA. Received November 10, 8.5 a.m. CALCUTTA, Nov. J). Chowbury is a student in the Scottish Ascmbly'B Institution and the son of a pleader. Chowbury implicates two other students in connection with the attack upon Sir A. H. Leith-Fraser.
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Mataura Ensign, 10 November 1908, Page 3
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161THE INDIAN UNREST. Mataura Ensign, 10 November 1908, Page 3
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