INDIAN MURDER TRIAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 223, 26 January 1911, Page 5

INDIAN MURDER TRIAL

PISTOLS SEX'i> FROM LOXDOX. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Bombay, January 24. Savarkar, the Indian, who was arrested in London and deported to India, is now being tried on a charge of aiding in the murder of Mr. Jackson, collector at Xasik, in December, 1!)00. The prosecution states that Savarkar, through the agency of a cook employed at India House, a boarding-house in London for Indian students, sent 50 Browning pistols to India in a box, which, by means of a false bottom, evaded the Customs. One of the pistols was given to Jackson's murderer.

Mr. Arthur Mason Tippetts Jackson was shot dead by a native at the native theatre in Xasik at a quarter £> ten o'clock in the evening. Mr. Jackson was accompanied by two ladies and Mr. Jolly, assistant collector. The assassin was Annnt Lnxman Kanare, aged eighteen, of Ratuagiri. He was educated at Aurangabad. He rose and shot Mr. Jackthe back. The latter, turninii, received several additional shots in the chest from a Browning automatic pistol. Death was instantaneous. The culprit, who was immediately seized, stated that he had resolved to avenge the sentence passed at the Xasik Sessions in the previous June upon Ganesh Damodar Sarvarkar of transportation for life for seditious writing. Before going to the theatre Mr. Jackson was entertained at an evening party prior to leaving for Bombay to act 'as a collector there. _\asi'k had been a hotbed of sedition for a long time.