NANA SAHIB'S CAPTURE.

Colonist, Volume V, Issue 470, 25 April 1862, Page 3

NANA SAHIB'S CAPTURE.

The news of Nana Sahib's capture is confirmed. The Times of India gives the following account of this event :—

By far the most important item of news carried by the present mail to Europe is the announcement that the miscreant Nana of Bithoor was captured a few days ago at Kurrachee, when on the point of embarking from that port. Some difficulty seems to be experienced in identifying the prisoner, and the conflicting evidence upon the point will be found fully detailed below. The capture was preceeded some days by a rumor in Kurrachee that the Nana was making his way down the valley of the Indus in the guise of a Hinglagee, purposing to make for Dvvarka from either Sonmeanee or Kurachee, and to proceed thence to Zanzibar or Muscat.

• We submit to our readers the following details, which may be relied on. It was decided by the authorities to liberate the person apprehended as the Nana, when Mr. Nugent Sullivan, apothecary in charge of the general hospital, learned from one of the patients under his care that the Nana was known to him, he having been in his employ at Bithoor for a long time, and having parted from him just before the mutinies broke out. Mr. Sullivan immediately put the man in a dooly, and accompanied him to the place where the prisoner was confined, when a number of Purvoes and others were presented to him, and he was called on to state if the Nana was among them. After a minute examination he declared that the miscreant was not there. Subsequently, another batch, among whom was the apprehended man, was brought forward, and he at once singled him out, declaring that he was the ' Nana of Bithoor.' He was thereupon questioned and stated that he had served the Nana, eaten of his salt, and seen him for some years regularly every day ; he could not be mistaken. 'That man was the Nana of Bithoor.' Mr. Sullivan had his patient carried off to the hospital, and by four o'clock in the evening Mr. Ingle, the deputy magistrate, the Foujdar of Kurrachee, and a number of others, came up to the hospital with the prisoner, and it was proposed to question the sick Poorbeeah again. Mr. Sullivan suggested that the prisoner should be disguised as a Purvoe, to make assurance doubly sure, which was done, and the sick man was brought out to meet the party : he was asked if the Nana was there, and, looking around, immediately pointed out the man, declaring ' That man is the Nana of Bithoor and the adopted son of the Bajerow. I would recognise him in any disguise.' A bystander observed, 1 The Nana has a hole on the top of his ear.' •If bo,' said the Poorbeeah, * that man must have it for here is the Nana ! look for yourselves.' The ear was examined, and the hole was there. After this we can only say Mr. Sullivan deserves the highest credit for the tact, zeal, and energy he has displayed in the matter; were it not for him the Nana would now have been free, and the bird lost after it had been caged. Should the reward promised by governraent

be granted, Mr. Sullivan, in our opinion, merits the lion's share of it.

• We told our readers not to be startled if the Nana were among us in Kurrachee undiscovered. We now tell them that the murderers of tho Jennings family, Mogul Beg and his accomplice were a few weeks ago apprehended and identified beyond dispute in Upper Scinde,and sent up for trial to the Punjab authorities. This information we withheld, fearing ir. would scare away the Nana, whom we expected down.'