THE DEATH SENTENCE
INDIAN’S DRAMATIC DECLARATION, (By Telegraph —Press Assn. —Copyright.) DELHI, February 17. “ May every drop of my blood sow seeds of freedom in every home in India,” were the words with which Gopi Nath Saha, a 19-year-014 Bengali, received sentence of death at the High Court sessions at Calcutta. Saha was charged with the murder of Ernest Day, a European, in broad daylight in the heart of the European quarter of Calcutta by shooting him. Accused admitted the crime and expressed contrition for having killed Day, who was a friend of the Indians, in mistake for the Commissioner of Police.
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Southland Times, Issue 19174, 19 February 1924, Page 5
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102THE DEATH SENTENCE Southland Times, Issue 19174, 19 February 1924, Page 5
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