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TELEGRAPIL SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1936.

MONDAY, October 5 to. FRIDAY, October 9.

Comprising a Selection of Entries received in The Amateur Photographic Competition conducted by

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Remarkable Case Of Raja's Son Who Was

Disowned By Wife

IDENTITY ESTABLISHED

AFTER 28 YEARS Hearing Lasts 32 Months:

1.500 Give Evidence

"I find that the plaintiff is Ramendra Narayan Roy, the second son of the late Raja Bahadur Rajendra Narayan Roy · of Bhowal."

W WITH this finding by Mr. Pannalal Bose, officiating District Judge of Dacca, ended a case, one of the | most remarkable in Indian legal history, which began about 32 months ago and in which no fewer than 1,500 witnesses were examined.

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The plaintiff in the case is a man who, according to the judg- ment, was given out as dead in 1909. He is popularly known as the "Bhowal Sannyasi."

He claimed one-third share in the extensive estates of the late Raja Bahadur Rajendra Narayan Roy, yielding an annual revenue of about Rs. 8,000,000 as his second son, Ramendra Narayan Roy.

The chief defendant was Ran! Bidhavati Devi, who contested the "Sannyasi's" case and said that her) hasbaid Ramendra Narayn Roy. the second Kumar, dled in Dar- jeeling in 1909.

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Pininuff alleged that in April 1900 he, with his wife, brother-in-law and others, went to Darjeeling for change. While there he suddenly fell ill and in the course of medical treatment he became unconscious due, he alleged to administration of 8. certain poisonous drugs on May 1909.

Taking him to be dead, he said, he was carried to the cremation

TOO OLD TO DANCE

London, Sept. 26.

That he might have accelerated his death by dancing wis the suggestion ninde at the Inquest on a 74 year old man named George Smith at Gateshead last week,

Hla partner at the time said Smith was dancing so rapidly that she became dizzy and asked him to slow down.

A minute or so later Smith gave a cry. His eyes becaste glazed and he dropped to the floor.

A doctor said that death was due to compression of the brain and haemorrhage, which might have been accelerated by exertion of the heat of dancing.

Army (of 12 Cats) For War on Tristan's Rats

A small army will teave England in the middle of this month to fight the plague which is reported to be threatening the existence of the community on the loneliest Island in the world, Tristan da Cunha, 2,000 miles from Capetown.

Tivelve cats the army will be the only (and non-paying) passengers carried in Adrian Seligman's barqueniine, Cap Filar, which is starting on a 30,000-mile vayage round the world.

It is hoped that, after a time, the cals, hardy, farmyard speci mens, may breed in wild state. They would then malúply freely ・・ and form a permanent menace to the islander's enemics. almost certainly Tristan will

provide one of the most ideal hunting grounds in the world, and, if the cafe are 'true to their species, they will be in a (feline) sportaman's paradise.

Incidentally they may also be doing valuable service to the men, women and children in the British Empire's far-dung outpost-—=RS allics in war, and, as friends in the peace of the hearth,

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ground that night but ovino "THERE'S AN HB COMING OFF THE ICE IN A MINUTE P

and rain he was left in the eremation ground uncared for. When the rain and storm had subsided the atten- dants returned but they found him missing.

Alter regaining consciousness plaint! found himself in the com- pany of some пада вадnyasis (wandering holy men) but he had Tife. Jost recollection of his past He wondered nearly all over India with these mendicants in the garb of a wannyasi for about 11 years. REGAINS MEMORY

After this period one day he sud- denly regained his memory and knew all about his past lie. He then left the sannyasis and went to Daten in the cold weather of 1921.

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The defendants alleged that plaintiff was not the Second Kumar f Bhowal who had died at midnight on May 8, 1009 in Darjeeling in the presence of Col. Calvert the then His Civil Surgeon of Darjeeling. body, they sald, was taken to the cremation ground the following morning and burned to ashes and the shradh ceremony duly performed.

The chief defendant, Srimati Bibhabati Devi, contended that the plaintiff was a sannyasi named Sun- dardas Naga, a disciple of a Hindu holy man from the Punjab and not her husband.

THE JUDGMENT

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packed The court room was capacity and its approaches thronged with large crowds when Mr. Bose proceeded to deliver judgment.

The judgment comprised 522 fools- cap pages and in summing up the judge remarked that he had consider- ed the whole evidence in the caso with the utmost care and the very nble

orgumenta of counsel on either side had missed, he believed, nothing materint that could be urged for and against the identity of the plaintiff. Everybody concerned was fully sen- sible of the gravities of the issue and the difficulty of some of the questions that prose in the suit.

On the question of identity a great deal night te inconclusive but a single feet may be fatal so that the case required the closest scrutiny and inquiry and as much precisim as it Was rassile to oitain.

HONEST WITNESSES

The judge believed the direct evid- ence u port of the identity. It was the evidence of honest men and women of a ranks and conditions of life, including nearly all the relations and among them the First Rani and Second Rani's own aunt and her own cousin.

The witnesses included a great many men "of education and position, gravo elderly men whom one would not suspect of romance, who were na afraid of ridicule as anybody, who had nothing to gala or lose and who the could not possibly mistake Kumar." It was impossible that they would commit perjury to support on impostor.

But even this body of evidence need not rest on the credibility of the witnesses alone. It had satisfied every possible test.

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There would be a decree declar- ing that the plaintiff was Kumar Ramendra Narayan Roy, the second of the late Raja Rajendra Narayan Roy of Bhowal and direct- ing that he be put in possession of an undivided one-third share of the property in sull. The share w now in the enjoyment of the first other defendant Jointly with the defendant's possession over rest. This decree was made parte against defendant No. 2 and In contested against the rest. The plaintify would get his cant from the contesting defendants with Intercal at 6 per cent. per annum.

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