ATTEMPTED HIGHWAY ROBBERY

The Burtollah Police are on the lookout for a gang of budmashes who attempted to commit a daring highway robbery and seriously injured a shopkeeper named Bhusan Chunder Sadhukhan.

It is reported that the shopkeeper was returning on Saturday evening from Narcaldanga with a purse containing Rs 560 in cash and G.C. notes, when the budmashes, who were evidently following him, struck him down with lathi blows near the Karbela tank and seized the purse, a piece of string attached to which was tied round the man’s writs.

The thieves in cutting the string inflicted several wounds on the arm of the shopkeeper, who lost consciousness. Several people came on the scene before the gang were able to secure the purse and they fled through a dark lane. The injured man was removed to the Medical College Hospital.

TRAGEDY IN MADRAS HOTEL

Madras, July 29

Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy were found dead with bullet wounds in their heads in their room at the Hotel Dangelis, Mount Road. Inspector Moss found the lady lying in a pool of blood with a letter in her hand stating that since they were married they had experienced a lot of difficulties.

Lying near Mr. Kennedy’s body was a six-chambered automatic pistol one-chamber of which was empty. There was only a two-anna piece in his coat pocket. It appears that both of them put their heads in line and Mr. Kennedy discharged the bullet, which passed through their heads. At the inquest a verdict of suicide was returned.

A SMART ARREST

The Taltollah police made an arrest on Sunday evening which resulted in the recovery of over Rs 3,000 stolen from the house of a European. It appears that Mr. T. Elk, residing at Royd Street, was at the races on Saturday when he received a telegram stating that his wife was ill at Darjeeling. He hurried home at once and got his things, together to proceed to Darjeeling, but missed the mail and returned home.

Next morning he missed his box containing Rs 3,000, some clothes and children’s toys. The same evening a constable of the taltollah thana doing duty at Nilmony Halder’s Lane saw a coolie trying to cash a G.C. note for Rs 100. He arrested him and on searching him, found Rs 2,900 in notes. He took the man to the thana, where he said that he was employed in a certain European firm and had stolen the money from a box which was in the gharry. Enquiries were taken up and the house of the accused was traced, when the rest of the property was recovered from his box.