GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF THE CRIME.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12257, 3 July 1909, Page 5

GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF THE CRIME.

A DRAMATIC SCENE

STORY TOLD BY AN EYE-WITNESS

" POLITICAL ASSASSINATION IS

NOT MURDER!"

Received July 2, 10.50 p..m

LONDON, July 2.

The assassin bad a card bearing tbe nama "Dhinagri" and the address "Bayswater."

D. Thorburn, who witnessed the assassination, made the following statement to the " Daily Mail" :—

'"' I was on the square landing between the hall and the staircase, used as a smokingrrcom. Here 1 saw Lieut.-Colonel "VVyllie apparently conversing with a student wearing a pale blue turban. The latter drew a revolver and fired four shots rapidly into Lieut.-Colonel Wyllie's Lead. The muzzle waS-henr' his face when he fired a fifth shot at him. As ho 101 l a sixth shot struck .'Dr. Lateaca, who was three, yards distant, in the breast; I rushed at the nt-sasein, ar»d another main sprang; tj ray assistance. We seized the . f.ssassin, who struggled, wrested one hand free, placed the revolver at his own head, and pulled the trigger, which clicked harmlessly. A crowd gathered, and a doctor who was summoned pronounced Lieut.-Col> Wyllie to be head. A stately woman fiscended the staircase and exclaimed 'Poor fellow!' As she looked at the Englishman's body she knelt down. Four wounds disfigured him. Then, horror-stricken, she eaid, quite quietly, ' It's my Nhusband. Why was I not with him ! I had loft him a few minutes before to fetoli a cloak, and he was following when the assassin engaged him in conversation.'." '■■-~.

Krishnavarma, in yesterday's number of " The Indian Socialogist," wrofe: — "Pclitical assassination is not murder! J>

(Lieut.-Col. Sir William Hutt'Curzon Wyllie, K.C.T.E., C.1.E.. C.N.0., has held the position of A.D.C. to the Secretary of State for.lndia tince 1901. He was horn at Cheltenham, England, on October oth,«1848, and was the youngest son of the late Geneml Sir William Wyllie,. G.C.B. His wife .(whom he married in 1881) was Kntherhie GeorgiJina. daughter of D..F..> '.Ca.rnMV.hsel. late, of the Indian Civil Service..-; Sir William was educated r.t 'Marl Tip"/ iifjh and Sandhuret. joined the.-KPtb iv«<*iai.e.rit Light Fnfnniry as eiisijn i;i ]3<V>: entered the Indian St;>ff C^ry^ ?]\'^^s ; vjojn£d..j;he Oudli Coroimgfion in t'B/U; was 'transferred to thy Pr.l'ti- nl Department in 1879; served hi Deluchistan under Sir Robert Sandeman during the Afghan war of 1879-80; and accompanied General Sir Robert PhayreV,force to the relief of Candahar. Fqr.these services he was decorated. Afterwards he Avas .Military Secretary to the Jaie ; .Rt. Hoii. W. P. Adam, Governor, f /)Jf |fladvas, in 1881: and Private Secretary to Mr Muddleston, afterw.ards, acting Governor. He has held successively, the appointments of Resideiit,hi 'Nippl. Gover-nor-General's Agent in.'.C^ritral 'Tridin, and Governor-General's'1 Agent, in Rajputana.) ''^ ~'"';,•'■; '.'•'.