SEDITION IN INDIA.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13536, 12 October 1907, Page 5

SEDITION IN INDIA.

A P^EWCTION. By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. (Re^iredCOct'obßKlS','^.46 a.m.) CALCUTTA, October 11. lijjjoa^ei te- : prevoj[t disturbances on j the anniversary of the of Ben^fpcfeM^^i^W^Wed a | "pr^la.hn^d" &se&>tf%nd mee.tingi are prohibited. , , , , - ?"?'. ■', ■U""-' • >' l TOi^'^ENTE^CED Tj^DfcATH. By Eleeta-ic., Telegraph*— Copyright. •^^WDiraY/'October 11. ; George Tofft has been, found guilty and^£nireneW' ftr'de'attf Tf or' ni'urdering Maud Fletcher at Juig£29th last. --1 .* .sk .«. l I (Evidence given at the inquest on the Quirindi tragedy~dtsclosed~an atrociously cold-blooded crime. The evidence of -MfesYFlsteher's mpthjp* should; that Tdff]b .decoyed ,-*tljW girl folajnei^bburing house and thrashed her severely. The mother witfcfffiKS Jfcmily waited outside her residence awaiting her husband's return, he hjkyin£LpgQne for the police. j^ol^sp£<ea^p[^^|ni The women and chijifrenTlH£iJ^B a^paddock of wheat. 'isfi^?&sJsipT then^and put his gun on top or a wire fence. The family all got through the- fence. The mother hung on to Tofft, and said, '•Foi'j God'jS • sake don't shoot %my child!" He leaned the gun on the tdp wires and fired. at the daughter Maud, who was crying. She fell, crying out, "Oh, mother!" Tofft rushed through the fence and started "belting into" Maud with the gun as she was lying down. The girl was only sixteen years of age. Tofft afterwards confessed the crime, saying it was committed under the influence of drink.) The misery of headache is quickly banished by Steams' Headache Cure, which promptly cures all kinds of headaches, and neuralgic pains as well. No one should be without it. 1