A strange story of a murder com ced under peculiar eireumstanc tainly proves that truth is sometimes stuger than ott, curred in the Sialkot The story oes Uae)" three Zemindar brothers conspired to rob a merchant who came to their well to drink water. The unsuspecting victim was received with great hospitality by the brothers who offered to accommodate him for the night, an invitation which the merchant' accepted with gratitude. It is alleged that two lof the brothers Tate at night began digging grave in which to bury the merchant after they had killed kim while the third went out for some food.. But the merchant, who had strange premonition that he was not safe, could not sleep and last he rose from his bed and hid up a tree. 'The third brother, returning, found the bed empty ans thinking that his brothers had Finis ved their tusk, lay on the bed and awaited his brothers' return, but soon fell asleep. When the brothers returned they stealthily approached the bed where they thought that the merchant was sleeping and murder-Jed their own brother." When they searched his clothes they were sur prised to find only a rupee and on a closed examination of the fea-{tures of the-dead man they found to their consternation that they "had. killed their brother. When' the police arrived later the merchant who was still on the tree narrated the story with the result that both brothers were arrested.
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