They told him that Karim Khan seemed to answer the
description of the man named in the proclamation as the murderer of
Mr. Fraser; and he sent them with a note to the Commissioner, Mr.
Metcalfe, who sent them to the Magistrate, Mr. Fraser, who
accompanied them to the place, and secured Karim, with some fragments
of important papers. The two Mewatis, who had been sent to
assassinate Ania, were found, and they confessed the fact: the
brother of Ania, Rahmat, was found and he described the difficulty
Ania had to escape from the Nawab's people sent to murder him. Rupla,
the groom, deposed to all that he had seen during the time he was
employed as Karim's groom at Delhi. Several men deposed to having met
Karim, and heard him asking after Mr. Fraser a few days before the
murder. The two peons, who were with Mr. Fraser when he was shot,
deposed to the horse which he rode at the time, and which was found
with him.
Karim Khan and the Nawab were both convicted of the crime, sentenced
to death, and executed at Delhi, I should mention that suspicion had
immediately attached to Karim Khan; he was known for some time to
have been lurking about Delhi, on the pretence of purchasing dogs;
and it was said that, had the Nawab really wanted dogs, he would not
have sent to purchase them by a man whom he admitted to his table,
and treated on terms of equality.
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