Birley : District Magistrate of 24-Parganas who committed the accused in the Alipore Bomb Case to the Sessions Court.
... accused were produced before the Commissioner of Police and on the next day Mr. L. Birley, the District Magistrate of Alipore (24 Parganas District) by a written order took up the case himself... "Several of the accused persons made detailed confessions and statements which were recorded by Mr. Birley. Mr. Birley inquired into the case and examined 222 witnesses and committed the accused to ... 32. Sushil Kumar Sen 33. KhudiramBose.159 "These people are all accused of organising a gang for the purpose of waging war against the Government by means of criminal force. (Sd.)L. Birley,. 19.5.08" 159. In the second batch there were nine persons. The total number was, then, forty-two. Page 293 "The trial of both the batches commenced before Mr. C.P. Beachcroft... Dharani Nath Gupta, Nagendra Nath Gupta, Hem Chandra Sen, Debabrata Bose, Nikhileswar Roy Moulik, Bijoy Chandra Bhattacharya and Pravas Chandra Dev were acquitted. "Thus the enquiry before Mr. Birley occupied 76 days and the trial in the Court of Sessions took 131 days. It will be seen hereafter that the appeal in the High Court was heard during 47 days and the reference by a Third Judge for ...
... the actor's declamation, tone or postures go against his directions, Norton felt a comparable loss of temper...." 13 V. Mr. Birley, the magistrate: "If Mr. Norton [the government counsel] was the author of the play, its protagonist and stage manager, Mr. Birley may well be described as its patron. A credit to his Scotch origin, his figure was a symbol or reminder of Scotland. Very fair, quite... e to match, else one had to be sceptical about the economy of nature. But in this matter of the creation of Birley, probably the Creatrix had been slightly unmindful and inattentive. The English poet Marlowe has described this as 'infinite riches in a little room' but encountering Mr. Birley one had an opposite feeling, of little riches in an infinite room. Finding so little intelligence in such a... us, bored with the farce of a case, started to talk among ourselves, Mr. Birley would snap like a schoolmaster; in case people did not obey he would order everybody to keep standing and if this was not done at once, he would tell the sentry to see to it. We had grown so accustomed to the schoolmasterish manner that when Birley and Chatterjee had started to quarrel we were expecting every moment that ...
... k, Mr. Kingsford, in his evidence before Mr. Birley said with a breezy statistical complacency: I was Chief Presidency Magistrate, Calcutta, from August 1904 to March 1908. I had to try many sedition cases.... I acquitted as many as I convicted. The preliminary trial, a protracted affair, went on from 19 May to 19 August, when Mr. Birley framed charges at last and committed the accused... vicissitudes which affected different people in different ways, the trial laboriously dragged itself to a conclusion. Mr. Birley had examined 222 witnesses, and recorded the evidence or statements of several of the accused, including the approver. On 19 August, Mr. Birley framed charges against Sri Aurobindo and the others, and the case was now to go to the sessions. Notwithstanding the silencing... from Australia, from America - and the bureaucracy felt isolated from civilised opinion and was left to fend for itself somehow. Meanwhile the preliminary trial started in Alipur before Mr. L. Birley, the Officiating District Magistrate, on 19 May, a fortnight after Sri Aurobindo's arrest. Bail had been refused to the accused, and all if them were charged under Section 121-A, 122, 123 and 124 ...
... his Grey Street quarters. The first phase of the trial took place at the court of L. Birley, the District Magistrate of Alipore, and it lasted from 19 May to 19 August 1908. "He seemed to be a credit to his Scotch origin," Sri Aurobindo wrote in Karakahini, and went on to give a lively description of Birley. "Very fair, quite tall, extremely spare, the little head on the long body seemed like little... ice of Scotland seemed to lie frozen on his face .So tall a person needed an intelligence to match, else one had to be sceptical about the economy of nature. But in this matter of the creation of Birley, probably the Creatrix had been slightly unmindful and inattentive .... Finding so little intelligence in such a tallish body one indeed felt pity." He then had a dig at the Administration. "Remembering ...
... was brought down to Calcutta and placed before Mr. Birley on the 11th when he made a statement. The case for the prosecution is that Sudhir was a member of the conspiracy, and this is sought to establish by proving his connection with the garden, and the Jugantar Newspaper, and also with Seal’s Lodge. According to his statement before Mr. Birley Sudhir was a pupil at the Khulna Zilla School which... has not been handcuffed. (Madras Newspaper Report — English, 1908, p. 297/2) Statement of Sudhir Kumar Sarkar of May 11, 1908 ( The statement of accused aged about 18 years, made before Mr. L. Birley, Magistrate of the 1st Class, at Alipore on the 11th day of May 1908, in the English Language .) Sudhir’s confession : Q: Do you wish to make a statement to me? A: Yes. Q: Do you understand... but offering no explanation. In the court of Sessions he refused to give any oral answers, but relied on a written statement, which in no way explains how he came to make his statement before Mr. Birley. Though he did withdraw his statement I agree with the Sessions Judge that there is no reason to suppose it was other than voluntary, the cross examination of Inspector Shamsul Alum having failed to ...
... was thirty-six. On 19 August, Mr. Birley, I.C.S., the committing Magistrate, committed the accused to Sessions Court. Page 470 It was very dull going for the prisoners, and tiring besides. They were supposed to keep standing all day long, and day after day. How could they? If bored with the farce of a case some started talking among themselves, Birley would at once order all the prisoners... one of the arrested young men. But Barin, Upen, Ullaskar, and some other senior members of the group made a full confession after Page 471 their arrest, which was taken down by L. Birley. In fact Barin's statement is quite a document. Chivalrous Barin, as the leader, sought in his confession to bear the whole blame on himself and exonerate his colleagues. The others, however, kept ...
... the Government who were making out that he was the kingpin, the root of all this evil! People were bewildered as much as they were shocked and grieved. The Alipore Bomb Trial commenced before Mr. Birley, District Magistrate of Alipore, on May 17, 1908. This was the preliminary trial. Altogether forty-two persons had been arrested of whom three were released for want of sufficiently incriminating evidence ...
... suicide by shooting himself so that the secret of the party might not leak out through him. On 8 May the house of Subodh Mullick at Banaras was searched. On 17 May the case was brought up before Mr. Birley and on 18 May the case was officially begun. Sarojini issued an appeal for funds for the defence of Sri Aurobindo : "My countrymen are aware that my brother Aravinda Ghose stands accused of ...
... indicated that the last sentence should be placed before "Mr. Beachcroft", changed "magistrate" to "Judge in the Sessions Court", and wrote: ] The preliminary trial (a very long one) took place before Birley, a young man unknown to Sri Aurobindo. Beachcroft was not "magistrate" but Judge in the Sessions Court. In his dignified statement to the court, Sri Aurobindo pointed out that it was perfectly ...
... on youth, 198; bureaucracy's reactions, 199ff, both Virgin and Dynamo, 200 Bhavani Mandir Scheme, 288ff Bhutto,ZulfiqarAli,713 Binyon, Laurence, 32, 35, 44, 70, 695 Birley, L.,313,314,324 Birth of Sin, The, 169, 169-72 Birth of the War-God, The, 91, 92ff Blunt, Wilfrid, 242 Bose, Bhupal Chandra, 65,222 Bose, Jogendra (Sri ...
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