Last Sunday evening a daring attempt was made at Calcutta
to assassinate Sir Andrew Fraser, the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal. Sir Andrew Fraser was about to take the chair at a lecture by Professor Burton, of Chicago, when a student named Chowdbury, aged nineteen, rushed forward, pointed a revolver at him, and twice pulled the trigger. Fortunately, the cartridges missed fire. Mr. Barber, the secretary of the local Y.M.C.A., and the Maharajah of Burdwan behaved with great gallantry, pushing Sir Andrew Fraser out of danger and grappling with Chowdhury. On Monday evening Sub-Inspector Bannerjee, a well-known Bengali detective, was shot dead in Calcutta by unknown assassins. Bannerjee was the detective who traced Bhakai, the man who threw the bomb at Mrs. and Miss Kennedy. It seems that the native population of Bengal are terrorised by the Anarchists, and dare do nothing to help the police. On Tuesday one of the murderers of the informer Gossain was hanged. After the execution a thousand students, barefooted in sign of mourning, gathered at the ghat where the body was cremated. The attempt on Sir Andrew Fraser's life was the fourth that has been made. Such crime is particularly cold- blooded, as he has long been distinguished by his intense sympathy with Indians.
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