The Archive · 1930

A Tragic Story

How an accident led' to serious foting here was described in the course of the trial of the British Lance-Corporal Cummings, who was rntenced to-day to 18 months! shooting two children at the Kai Gate on May Lance-Corporal Cummings was cleaning his ridle when, as a carriage the with a Sikh woman and her two of children were passing, the gan went off, with tragic consequences, the two children being killed and the mother wounded.

An angry mob gathered and seriously threatened the sin ish troops who were with Lance-Corporal Cammings, They were compelled to fire and, as a consequence: m of the crowd were killed ai nine wounded Reuter

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