The Archive · 1935

TOMMIES CHARGED WITH MURDER SPEciAL 10 THe Nine. HERALD

Jubbulpore, Sept. 14 The magistrate here to-day committed to the sessions for trial sixteen privates of the Ist Battalion King's Regiment (Liverpool) in connection with a Tecent raid on a village in. Benda.

Three men are charged with the murder of a villager, three others. with assault, one with arson, and the remainder with rioting.

The magistrate said the intention of the party was to "smarten up" the village, and it was indicated that] when they started out they had no Intention to kill—Reuter.

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