ASSASINATION IN SOUTH KENSINGTON:
An excerpt from “INDIAN FREEDOM FIGHTERS IN LONDON (1905-1910)”
by Adam Yamey
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“At about 2 pm on the 1st of July1909, Madan Lal Dhingra left his room and made his way to the Fairyland shooting range in Tottenham Court Road. It was here that he had been visiting two or three times a week to practice shooting with his Browning Colt automatic pistol. On that day, Madan Lal was in good form. At 5.30 pm, he fired twelve shots at a target eighteen feet away and hit it eleven times. He returned to his room at Ledbury Road at about 8 pm, changed, left in a cab dressed in his usual clothes and a blue turban. He was carrying an invitation to an event being held by the National Indian Association at the Jehangir Hall at the Imperial Institute in South Kensington.
Miss Beck, the Association’s secretary, met Madan Lal at about 10.30 pm at the party and asked him how he was getting on with his studies. He replied that he had completed his course at University College and was planning to take the Associate Member of the Institute of Civil Engineers examinations in October before returning to India.
At about 11 pm, Madan Lal engaged Sir William Curzon Wyllie in conversation. Soon after beginning to speak, Madan Lal raised his arm and fired four shots into Curzon Wyllie’s face, neck, and eyes. He fired two more shots, one of them killing a bystander, an Indian man in evening dress, a physician, who fell backwards and died later at the nearby St Georges Hospital. Then, Madan Lal put his revolver to his temple and squeezed the trigger…
Sir William Curzon Wyllie had been an important colonial official in India and then the aide-de-camp to Lord George Hamilton, who was Secretary of State for India …”
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