INDIAN SENSATION
A MURDER CHARGE. 0 s~ Telegraph—Press Association—Copy rich! (Received Marcli 12, 11.6 p.m.) CALCUTTA, March 12. A sensation has been caused in the High Court. a jury or six Indians and three Europeans acquitted a student named Roy' on a charge of murdering ' Inspector Ghose, by 6 votes to 3 and acquitted him of the murder of a spectator by 6 to 4. They were unable to agree on the question of the culpable homicide of the spectator. The judge ordered a re-trial. The defence argued that Roy’s case was prejudiced by the police publicly giving rewards to witnesses of the crime for the capturing of the accused whom the police styled a murderer. -
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8680, 13 March 1914, Page 5
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116INDIAN SENSATION New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8680, 13 March 1914, Page 5
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