APPENDIX III 

 DHINGRA'S DYING SPEECH AND EXECUTION 



As Reported by the "Daily News/' i8th August, 1909 



Dhingra, the Hindoo murderer of Sir Curzon Wyllie and Dr. Lalcaca, 

 was executed yesterday morning at Pentonville. 



A copy has been placed in our hands of the statement which he drew up 

 before the murder, intending it to be read as if it had been subsequently 

 drawn up. To this document the prisoner referred in the course of the 

 trial, but it was not given to the public. We may add that a copy has 

 been for some time in the possession of certain of Dhingra's compatriots. 

 The statement is as follows : 



" I admit the other day I attempted to shed English blood as an humble 

 revenge for the inhuman hangings and deportations of patriotic Indian 

 youths. In this attempt I have consulted none but my own conscience. 

 I have conspired with none but my own duty. 



" I believe that a nation held down by foreign bayonet is in a per- 

 petual state of war, since open battle is rendered impossible to a dis- 

 armed race. I attacked by surprise ; since guns were denied me I drew 

 forth my pistol and fired. 



" As an Hindoo I felt that wrong to my country is an insult to God. 

 Her cause is the cause of Shri Ram, her service is the service of Shri 

 Krishna. Poor in wealth and intellect, a son like myself has nothing 

 else to offer to the Mother but his own blood, and so I have sacrificed 

 the same on her altar. 



" The only lesson required in India at present is to learn how to die, 

 and the only way to teach it is by dying ourselves. Therefore I die, and 

 glory in my martyrdom. 



" This war will continue so long as the Hindoo and English races last 

 (if this present unnatural relation does not cease). 



" My only prayer to God is may I be reborn of the same Mother, and 

 may I re-die in the same sacred cause till the cause is successful, and 

 she stands free for the good of humanity and to the glory of God. — 

 Bande Mataram." 



At the police court, it will be remembered, Dhingra claimed his right 

 to commit the deed as a patriot, and at the Old Bailey he denied the Lord 

 Chief Justice's power to pass sentence upon him. After one of the shortest 

 trials of a capital charge on record, lasting hardly an hour, he was found 



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