THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 19, 1940
REAL LIFE DETECTIVE TRIUMPHS
CALCUTTA GERM MURDER SENSATION
Amarendra
Chandra Pande, 21,, been rubbed into the skin, and that with a heavy interest in a rich ances- the rats had died of the plague. tral estate, died of the plague in Calcutta on Dec. 4, 1932. Deaths of
PRICK OF A NEEDLE
This brings us to the final scene in
that kind are so common in that part | this melodramatic story from real of the world that nothing was thought | life.. It was Towrah Station in Bom- of it at the time. The young man was ill for only five days. After he breathed his last the body was quick- ly burned and the ashes buried.
Ordinarily this would have meant the end of the case, but certain re- latives recalled the fact that the dead man and his stepbrother, Benoyendra, had numerous disputes concerning the estate and an investigation was order- ed. Many persons participated in the inquiry, but the chief credit seems to have belonged to a detective named Shivapada Majora.
It was a long and tedious piece of police work, but in the end it was solved with the assistance of a pair of spectacles, two white rats and hypodermic syringe.
SPECTACLES ON NOSE
a
months before
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bay, a place that was always crowded. The trusting Amarendra was making his way through, this place when he felt a sudden pricking of his arm. He thought nothing of it at the time, but continued on his journey to Pakaur., He returned the next day and was
NAZI MASS OFFENSIVE
PREDICTED
London, Jan. 14.
The
a
taken seriously ill with a fever. doctors who were called in found a mark on his arm which they were unanimous in declaring came from needle and a hypodermic syringe.
That prick of the needle was his death sentence. It had come about by the injection of plague bacilli at the thronged railway station. What he told the physicians concerning the incident played a leading part in the germ murder case
which was to be of India between before the courts two and three years. It was a long- drawn-out case, with the accused man fighting every inch of the way.
In the next three months Hitler will throw the entire weight of the German Army on the Western front in an the stepbrother. Two of them were Three doctors were indicted with endeavour to break through acquitted on the ground that they the allied lines, Lord Milne were innocent of any deliberate declared in the "Sunday witness was produced who said that Chronicle" to-day.
It seems that some his death the victim
was presented with a pair of new spectacles by his stepbrother. He returned them with the statement that they did not fit.
By
A
A mass offensive is the only way for the Fuehrer to over- come his difficulties, Lord
· Milne added. If he waits too
GEORGE BARTON long, he will lose his chance.
Benoyendra declared that this was all nonsense. It is averred that he placed them on the nose of Amarendra and forced the bridge down so firmly that the intended victim said: "It felt as if a vein in my head had burst." It is claimed that tetanus serum had been smeared on the bridge of the spectacles.
Soon after this he developed symptoms of lockjaw, but a physi- cian was called and Amarendra re- covered. This was certainly suspicious, but it was insufficient evidence with which to go into a court of law, so the tireless detective continued his inves- tigations, going to Bombay to follow - the movements of the suspect."
There Majora found that research was going on continually at the Haff- kine Institute to find cures for dis-
Lord Milne does not believe that Hitler will refrain from attacking the neutral states if it is in his' interest to do so.
Nothing can save the Fuehrer and his regime except a military victory and it must therefore be expected that Hitler will try to achieve one, the writer said.
It must also be expected, Lord Milne concluded, that Germany should fight, according to the time-honoured Ger- man tactics of concentrating a maxi- mum force at a decisive point of the enemy front.--Havas.
CANADA IN THE WAR
the
London, To-day, Seventeen cities and towns are re- presented among 25 officers of the Army Co-operation Squadron of Royal Canadian Air Force, selected as the air force component of the First Canadian Division, Canadian Active
eases and poisons. The stepbrother had been there to obtain serum, but only qualified practitioners were per- mitted to take it from the Institute. At this point a physician from Calcut- ta appeared on the scene. He obtain-Service Force. ed the cultures by saying he was ex- perimenting with a cure for bubonic plague. Later It was found that he had been in close touch with Benoyen- dra.
It will be recalled that a squadron of the Canadian Royal Air Force is already in training in Britain.-British Wireless.
Next 0 bird dealer in Bombay Quarantine restrictions imposed by brought the information that the step- | the Government of the Netherlands brother had bought two white rats from him. Evidence was produced to show that the stomachs of the rats had been shaved, that the serum had
Indles against arrivals from Hong Kong on account of cholera have been removed.
wrongdoing. The physician who had obtained the cultures in Bombay was convicted on the ground that he had conspired to bring about the death of
The stepbrother
Amarendra,
GAMBLING
GUNMAN FROM HONG KONG
Wong Shu-cheng, a former partner of the Yung Yuen Gambling House off Bubbling Well Road, who was recently arrested in Hongkong and sent to Shanghal, was brought before the First Special District Court and charged with murder, attempted murder and instigating a murder. Judgment is ex- pected to be delivered this week.
It was alleged that in March of last year Wong made an abortive attempt on the life of Kao Ching-ken, a close follower of Chang Kong-mel, Wong' partner in the gambling business. Per- sonal hatred was said to be the rea- son of the attack in which Wong him- self was said to have fired several shots, wounding the victim seriously.
Wong and his men were
so deter- mined to get rid of Chang that they
again waylaid him in Titeng Road · some time after the first shooting and killed him. He was also alleged to have yet plotted another murder. that of Chang Hsin-mel, brother of his first victim, but he failed to carry
out the plot. When Shanghal proved
too hot for him Wong went to Hong- kong where he was eventually arrest- ed. Several other men connected with was Wong's gang have previously been
sentenced.
doomed as being directly responsible.
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