Thread by @vjgtweets

Norwich Bulletin, 1918

The Hindu-German conspiracy is a pretty wild historical episode:

"TRAGIC CLIMAX IN TRIAL OF HINDUS"

"Ram Chand[r]a Shot Dead in Court Room at San Francisco By a Former Employee"

"MURDERER WAS KILLED AS HE PRESSED TRIGGER"

"Across the Room, Over the Heads of Attorneys, United States Marshal James B. Holohan Fired the Shot That Killed Ram Singh, the Murderer, Breaking His Neck-- Soldiers and Deputy Marshals Rushed to All Exits with Drawn Revolvers and Order Was Soon Restored..."

"The Trial, Which is of 32 Persons Charged With Conspiracy to Foment Revolution in India, Has Been Marked with Animosity Among Defendants"

"A sensational climax to the prolonged trial of thirty-two persons charged with conspiring to foment revolution in India was furnished today when Ram Chandra, Hindu publicist and revolutionist, was shot to death in federal district court by Ram Singh..."

"a former employee and fellow defendant. While Singh still pressed the trigger of his automatic pistol, he, too, was shot and killed by United States Marshal James B. Holohan, who fired across the room over the heads of attorneys"

"Belief that Ram Chandra had diverted to his own use proceeds from property which Ram Singh had turned over for use in the proposed revolution is said by federal officials to have prompted the shooting"

"Trial Seethed With Excitement"

"The trial since the opening has seethed with excitement and animosity among the defendants to such an extent that all were searched for weapons daily when entering court..."

"Ram Chandra rose and started across the room. Ram Singh also rose and raised his pistol and began firing. Ram Chandra staggered forward and fell dead before th witness chair with a bullet in his heart and two others in his body"

"At the same moment Ram Singh fell, Holohan, a man of great stature, had shot once with his arm high over his head, so that the bullet should clear nearby counsel. The shot broke Ram Singh's neck"

"At Singh's first shot, the courtroom was thrown into confusion, spectators, defendants, counsel and others in the room darted for over, overturning chairs and tables in their flight"

"Soldiers and deputy marshals rushed to all exits with drawn revolvers. Order was soon restored"

"The double shooting was the first in a San Francisco courtroom since Francis J. Heney was shot in the cheek during one of the graft trials ten years ago"

"RAm Chandra was perhaps the most widely jnown Hindu in America after the departure of his associate, Har Dayal, who jumped bail here when arrested on charges of violating neutrality and fled to Switzerland"

"Chandra got all the news he wanted for his paper from India and said he did it through copies of the Koran, marked peculiarly. Native censors would not touch these books, he said, and apparently nobody else understood the system"

"Chandra was 24 years old and was in Peshawar in the Punjab. He was educated in British India schools and did some newspaper work in India until 1907, when he was arrested for sedition"

"From India Chandra went to Japan and thence to Seattle, Washn, where he remained a year and met Har Dayal.He arrived here in 1914 and started his paper Ghadr. IN 1917 he was reported to have been deposed as editor but he kept on publishing a paper he called the Hindustan Ghadr"