MURDER OF A JUDGE 



dealt with and thus rendered incapable of continuing their 

 propaganda, the men would cause more serious trouble, 

 they were let off with quite inadequate sentences. 



The result of this lenient treatment became apparent 

 in due course, for the bomb-throwing, train-wrecking and 

 murder of officials, etc., which occurred later were practi- 

 cally all traced back to these original agitators in Nasik, 

 some of whom, it was found, had made it their business 

 to acquire the art of manufacturing deadly bombs while 

 they were in Europe, ostensibly engaged in studying for 

 examinations. 



Of the European officials murdered one was Mr. F , 



a judge, who, strangely enough, was remarkable for his 

 leniency to, and sympathy with, the natives, and was 

 actually shot in a native theatre where he had gone with 

 some other Europeans to witness a performance. 



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