INDIAN MURDER.
THREE DOCTORS TO BE TRIED. Stories reminiscent of the days of the Borgias were told at an inquest which ended in three well-known Calcutta doctors and another man being committed for trial. Benoyendra Pande, a members of a wealthy family of landowners, and Drs Bhattarchaiya, Bhattarcharjee, and Dhar, the lastnamed holding London degrees, -are charged with conspirnrcy to murder Pande’s stepbrother, Amarendra. It is alleged that two attempts were made to murder Pande’s step-brother On the first occasion a pair of infected pince-nez were pressed on his nose, causing tetanus, but he recovered after treatment. Then, while he was standing on a crowded railway platform, he was pricked with a pin on which plague baccilli, obtained from Bombay, had been placed. One of the doctors, it is alleged, then gave a false certificate, setting out the cause of death as pneumonia, instead of plague.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 157, 4 June 1934, Page 8
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146INDIAN MURDER. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 157, 4 June 1934, Page 8
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