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100 Years Ago | 25 March 1919

On this day a century ago, these were some of the news items The Statesman readers got to read about India and the world.

100 Years Ago | 25 March 1919

TRAM CAR AND LORRY COLLISION

A collision between a tram car and a lorry took place at the crossing of Kidderpore Road and Ochterlony Road on Monday afternoon, resulting in the controller of the tram car being smashed and the driver being severely injured. The man was removed to the Campbell Hospital in an unconscious state. It appears that the tram car was proceeding along Kidderpore Road, north to south, moving slowly, when a motor lorry belonging to the Union Jute Company, driven by a European, passed in front of the car and struck the controller. The force of the impact carried the front car right off the line, while the trailer kept the track, the two tram cars forming a right angle. The motor lorry, which was carrying bales of jute, was slightly damaged. The driver of the tram car was unable to jump out in time and was extricated by several Europeans who were in the car. A European nurse who happened to be passing by rendered “first-aid,” after which the driver was removed to hospital in a motor ambulance.

BOARDING HOUSE TRAGEDY

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On Monday the Coroner held an inquest on the body of H.J. Miller, aged 55, a European who was found dead in his room in a boarding house in Mangoe Lane with a rifle lying by his side. The medical evidence was that death was due to gun shot wounds. The deceased, a retired Permanent Way Inspector on the Eastern Bengal Railway, retired to his room without having dinner, and soon afterwards the report of a gun was heard from the direction of his room. When the others of the house entered his room, he was found dead in a chair with wounds, under the chin and on the back of the head. The hearing was adjourned.

AN INCOME-TAX BILL FOR MYSORE

BANGALORE, MAR 24

There was an interesting and lengthy discussion today at the sitting of the Mysore Legislative Council over the new Bill to introduce an income tax in Mysore State. Dewan Bahadur J.S. Chakravarty, Financial Secretary to the Government moved that leave be granted to introduce the Bill. He urged the necessity for imposing the tax. More money was needed in the interests of efficient and progressive administration, and it was not a measure of financial necessity only but of financial justice also. Of the three non-official members who supported the motion two, including Dewan Bahadur R.P. Puttannachetty, qualified their support the latter stating that effect should not be given to the measure at the present time, and the former urging that the whole amount realised should be ear-marked for educational purposes. The discussion was not concluded when the Council adjourned.

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