ANARCHY IN INDIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14103, 3 July 1909, Page 5

ANARCHY IN INDIA.

A COLD-BLOODED MURDER. SIR WILLIAM WYLLIE SHOT DE \D. NATIVE STUDENT'S CRIME. By Telegraph.—Press Asrociatioa.— . . (Received July 2, 11.20 p.m.) -•'-- - Calcutta, July 2. After a musical At Home" at the Imperial Institute, at Bombay, last night, an Indian student, armed with two loaded revolvers and a dagger, shot dead Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Hutt Curzort Wyllie, political aide-de-camp to the Secretary oL State for India, and also fatally wounded Dr. Lalcaca, a Parsee lately resident at Shanghai. The assassin had a card bearing the name of Dhinagri, with an address at Bayswater. Mr. -D. Thorburn, who witnessed the tragedy, has made the following statement to the representative of the London Daily Mail: " The square landing between 'the hall and the staircase at the institute was used as a smoking-room. Here 1 saw Sir William Wyllie, apparently conversing with a student wearing a paleblue turban. " Suddenly the latter drew a revolver and fired four shots rapidly into Sir William Wyllie's head. A fifth shot fired as he was falling struck Dr. Lalcaca, who was standing about three yards distant, in the breast. "I rushed at the assassin, and another man sprang at him. He struggled desperately, and wrested one hand free. He placed the muzzle of the revolver against his own head and pulled the trigger, but it clicked harmlessly. " A crowd gathered around, and a doctor, who was one of the a,t the institute, pronounced Sir Wm. Wyllie dead. Just then a stately woman ascended the staircase and exclaimed, 'Poor fellow.' As she looked at the Englishman's body she knelt down, and said in a horror-stricken tone, but quite quietly, ' It's my husband. Why was I not with him? I had left him a few minutes before to fetch a cloak, and he was following when the assassin engaged him in conversation.' "■;■■-.

Sir William II Curzon Wyllie,-who was in his 61st i yea., was a son of the late General Sir "William Wyllie. 0.C.8., and was'educated, at Marlborough and Sandhurst. He joined the 106 th Regiment Light Infantry as ensign in 1365, and entered the Indian Staff Corns three years later. In 1879 He was transferred .to the [Political Department, and served in iJeluchistan under Sir Robert Sandeman during the Afghan war in 1879-80, and accompanied General Sir Robert Phayre's force to the relief of Kandahar. He was military secretary to the late Right Hon. W. P. Adam, Governor of Madras, in 1881, and subsequently he held the appointments of Resident in Nepaul and Governor-General's agent in Central India and Rajnutnna. In 1901 he was appointed political aide-de-camp .to the Secretary of State fop India. He married in 1881 :daughter of Mr. D- F. Carmichael, ol'trlo Madras Civil Service. ;' "NOT MURDER." POLITICAL ASSASSINATIONS. (Received July 2, 11.30 p.m.) London, July 2. Shijamaji Krishnavarma, whose campaign against British rule led to his being struck off the roll of British barristers, wrote in yesterday's number of the Indian Sociologist, of which he. is editor, that political assassination was not murder.