AN INDIAN OUTRAGE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2544, 3 July 1909, Page 5

AN INDIAN OUTRAGE.

A HINDU STUDENT’S CRIME.

•PROMINENT BRITISH OFFICIAL AND NATIVE DOCTOR SHOT DEAD

oKiTicn Prims Association-—Cop’vrigiit. (Received July .2, 11.20 p.m.) BOMBAY, July 2. After a musical at-home at the Imperial Institute last night, an Indian .student, armed with two loaded revolvers, shot Sir William, Hutt Curzon Wyllie, Political A.D.C. to the Secretary of State for India, dead. He also shot Dr. Lacaca fatally. Dr. Lacaca. was a native of- India, a Parsec, and was lately resident at •Shanghai. He died almost immediately.

(Received July 2, 10.20 p.m.) , . LONDON, July 2. The assassin had a card bearing the name. Dhinagri, and the address Rayswater.

Mr. D. Thorburn, who witnessed the crime, made the following statement to the “Daily Mail” : “The square "landing between the hall and the staircase. is used as . a smoking room. 1 here saw Sir William Wyllie apparently conversing with a student wearing a pale blue turban. The latter drew a revolver and fired, four shots rabidly 'into Wy’.lie’s head. The muzzle was near the latter’s face -when the student 'Tired a fifth shot at him as he fell. A -sixth shot struck Dr. Lalcaca, who was three yards distant, in the breast. 1 rushed at the assassin, and another man also sprang upon him. We seized the assassin, who struggled, wrested one hand free, placed the revolver to his own head, and /pulled the trigger, which -clicked harmlessly. A crowd gathered, and a doctor pronounced Wyllie dead. ’A stately woman ascended 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 said quite quietly, ‘lt's my husband. Why •was I not with him? I had left him a few minutes before to fetch a cloak. He was following when the assassin -engaged him in conversation.’ ”, Krishnavarma, in yesterday’s number of the “Indian Socialogist,” wrote: "‘Political assassination is not murder.” [Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Hutt Curzon • Wyllie, K.C.1.E., C.1.E., C.V.0., was born in 1848. He. had been political A.D.C. to the Secretary of State for Intfta since 1901. He., was -educated at Marlborough and ‘'Sandhurst. He joined the 106th Regiment L'.l. as ensign in 1866; entered the Indian Staff Corps in 1869; joined the 'v)uclh Commission in 1870; transferred to the Political Department in 1879; served in Beluchistan under Sir Robert Sandeman during the Afghan War in 1879-80; accompanied General Sir Robert Phayre’s force to the relief of Candahar. 1 Decorated in recognition of above services. Was Military Secretary to the late "Right Hon. W. P. Adam, Governor of Madras, 1881; and Private Secretary to- Mr. Hudleston, afterwards acting-Governor; had held -successively the appointments of Resident in Natal, Governor-General’s Agent in Central India, and GovernorGeneral’s Agent in Rajiputana. In 1881 he married Katharine Georgiana, daughter of D. F. Carmichael, late of the Madras Civil Service.]