Books: Murder In India, Mar. 25, 1946

CALL THE NEXT WITNESS — Philip Woodruff—Harcourf, Brace ($2.50).

One morning Gopal Singh went out on the veranda of his house near the Himalayan foothills and handed his wife, Pyari, some women's dresses to hem. Said Pyari: "Isn't it enough that you should make your house a byword . . . must [you] bring your whore's clothes here? . . . Take back your filth!" Gopal Singh slapped her face. Screamed Pyari: "Why don't you shoot me? . . ." Half an hour later, Pyari was dead. Said Gopal's father: "We must say she...

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