INDIAN MURDER STORY.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXI, Issue 12061, 4 January 1907, Page 2

INDIAN MURDER STORY.

WOUD-BE MURDERER HIS OWN yicnM. The Cawnpore correspondent of the Indian Daily Telegraph, Lucknow, sends the following extraordinary story of murder in the Etah digtrict. A traveller by the Grand Trunk Road, who had t\f o bags of money with him, was benighted, ana halted at an outlying police station for safety. He entered the thar^ a an( j asked the sub-inspector in charge to let him rest there, as he feared to^ continue his journey with his money on. account of dacoits. 'The sub-inspector > av c him '•per mission, and provided him. with •» charpoy, or pallet bed, advising him to place his bage under his; heaij.

The traveller had lain down when he heard the aub-iB' 3 pector and his subordinates planting to murder him and share the mo'jey. The officer directed some of his men to dig a grave large enough to hold the charpoy and the traveller, while he went to take his evening meal. Both parties having gone on their respective errands, the traveller slipped out with his money bags and climbed a shady trpp. The sub-inspector returned, and finding •l'« wan gone lay down on the charpoy md went to sleep. The gravediggere also returned, and waited for the subinspector, but as he did not appear they decided to despatch the traveller, who, aa they thought, was asleep on the charpoy. Securing their officer's sword from his quarters, they stole upon, the aleepcr

in the dark and killed him as he lay. On searching for the money bags untfer his head, however, they discovered that they had unwittingly made the sub-in-spector the victim of his own plot. They then hurried off with the charpoy and the remains of the cub-inspector and his sword and placed these in the ready dug grave. The traveller, hidden in the tree, had seen all this, and through fear could not Bleep. Next morning a European police officer happened to pass the tree on an official visit, and the traveller hurried down and detailed the entire occurrence to him. The officer took the traveller with him to the thana, where the murderers were identified and secured. The e;rave was opened and the murdered subinspctor's body found. The parties concerned have, the correspondent says, been sent up lor trial.