MURDER AT A TRIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 166, 11 July 1918, Page 3

MURDER AT A TRIAL.

The great trial at San.' Francisco of 32 persons on charges of conspiring to foment a revolution in India ended yesterday (says tli© Ntew York correspondent "of The Times om April 24), amid a fusillade of shots, with the murder of Ram Chandra, a Hindoo publicist, by Ram Singh, one of his associates, ind the death of Ram Singh, at the hands of Mr .James B. Hc-lahan), a United 'States Marshal. • The public prosecutor, Mr John W. Preston, had finished his closing argument-, and the judge, after announcing hi-? intention of charging the jury at a later hour, had left the beinch. The •poctators and lawyers rose to leave the •curt. Ram Singh" rose also, drew a revolver from his" pocket, and fired a I succession of shots at Ram 'Chandra.who staggered forward and' fell dead •it the foot of the witness chair with a bullet in his heart and' two others in his body. A second later Ram Snugh /fell dead from a well-directed shot. \v-h.i-:h Mr Holahan. a man of giant stature, iircd above the heads of th= snectatoiw and lawyers. The exits ot the court were immediately blci 'ked by soldiers, and the judge liurried back to the bench and ordered all the prisoners to be taken to the cells. ( After the bodies of the two Hindus had been removed the judge charged the jurv, who returned' a verdict of guilty against 29 of the 32 prisoners.