ECHO OF BOMBAY DRAMA.
ATTACK ON A PRINCESS.
MAHARAJAH INVOLVED. ASKED TO JUSTIFY HIMSELF. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received 7.5 p.m.) A. and N.Z. LONDON, Jan. 23. The Daily Chronicle says Sir John Simon, K.C., recently visited India in connection wit.fi the Viceroy's demand upon the Maharajah of Indore that he should justify himself before the Indian Princes in view of the conspiracy io kidnap Mumtaz Begum. Sir John and Sir Patrick Hastings, K.C., will probably he counsel for the Maharajah if lie appeals to a commission of his fellow Princes. They have advised that there is no evidence to associate the Maharajah with the conspiracy. A precedent lor an appeal to the Princes is the trial of the Maharajah Gaekwar Baroda 50 years ago as a sequel to a poison case. Mumtaz Begum was the central figure in a conspiracy to kidnap her last year. She was attacked as she drove through Bombay and the assailants killed her escort. The Begum (Princess) had formerly been a dancing girl in the establishment of the Maharajah of Indore.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19235, 26 January 1926, Page 9
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176ECHO OF BOMBAY DRAMA. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19235, 26 January 1926, Page 9
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