RELIGIOUS RIOTING
HINDUS AND POLICE MAGISTRATE FATALLY STABBED (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph— Copyright) CALCUTTA, 28th March. Iniidus among a crowd of 5,000 made incisions in their .inns, legs, and thighs into which, they thrust hooks attached to ropes, and dragged effigies of Marianimon. the Hindu goddess of smallpox. Ihe police vainly endeavoured to prevent self-torture, hut were fiercely •stoned. A police officer fired a revolver at the crowd killing two and injuring many. ■' The mob later fatally stabbed a magistrate and inflicted scores of wounds on a police inspector, finally stabbing linn in the eyes.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 29 March 1934, Page 5
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