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The Liberator
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
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The London Times reports a series of brutal murders during the Punjaub revolution: a prince and his family slaughtered, the assassin killed by the victim's son, and a child placed on the throne under Vizier Ajeet Sing.
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'There is something wholly appalling in the series of murders, or rather slaughters, through which the revolution in the Punjaub has been effected. A minister conspires for the death of his master, and employs a ruffian ally to execute it. In the space of about twenty-four hours the Prince is killed, cut to pieces, and his head paraded on a spear through his metropolis. All his sons, (one of them only born the previous evening,) his grand children, and his son's wives, are also 'attacked and killed,' or 'brought out and murdered.' The assassin then proceeds, apparently in the most gratuitous and cold-blooded way, to murder his own employer, and is in his turn beheaded with some of his associates, by the son of his last victim, his body cast into the bazaar, his head exposed in front of the city. Finally, a child of ten years old an alleged brother of the late monarch, is placed upon the throne, under the Viziership of the last and least culpable of this series of butchers, the executor of justice upon the assassin of assassins, Ajeet Sing.'
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Punjaub
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prince killed and cut to pieces, head paraded; all his sons, grandchildren, and son's wives attacked and killed or murdered; assassin murders his employer, then beheaded with associates, body cast into bazaar, head exposed; child of ten years old placed on throne under viziership of ajeet sing.
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A minister conspires for the death of his master using a ruffian ally. In twenty-four hours, the Prince is killed, cut to pieces, head paraded through metropolis. All his sons (one born previous evening), grandchildren, and son's wives are attacked and killed or brought out and murdered. Assassin murders his own employer, then is beheaded by the son of his last victim along with associates. Ajeet Sing, executor of justice on the assassin, becomes Vizier to a ten-year-old alleged brother of the late monarch placed on the throne.