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 30 LIFE OF MR. MANOMOHUN GHOSE. being satisfied in his own mind that the man was in- nocent. The High Court quashed the conviction and ordered a new trial which was held at Alipur in the 24-Pergunahs, and poor Muluk Chand was then de- fended by Mr. Ghose for three days with the result that the prisoner was acquitted. Poor Muluk Chand still comes twice a year to Mr. Ghose with some presents and acknowledges his gratitude to him. CHAPTER VIII. ANOTHER PERSONAL ANECDOTE. It was in the year 1880, Babu Shyama Charan Sanyal of Santipur incurred the displeasure of the late Babu Chandra Shekhur Bannerjee, the then De- puty-Magistrate of Ranaghat for having attacked the judicial proceedings of the said Deputy-Magistrate in the columns of the Statesman, as its mofussil corres- pondent. Thus provoked, the Deputy-Magistrate one day arrested him, all on a sudden, in the Rana- ghat Railway Station, on the E. B. R., on a trumpery charge. The clever and shrewd correspondent Babu Shyama Charan wrote a letter to Mr. William Riach, the then editor of the Statesman, who wrote to us the following letter : — THE STATESMAN AND FRIEND OF INDIA 3 Chowringheb Road Calcutta, otk March, 1 88a Dkab sib, Shyama Chora Sanyal of Santipur was arrested yesterday at the Ranaghat Railway Station, as you may have heard. He ha3 sent me a letter, and blank paper signed by himself, and asked me to employ Mr. Manomohon Ghose on his behalf. I have seen Mr. Ghose, but as we are ignorant of the facts, Mr. Ghose can do nothing. We do not even know on what charge he has been arrested, whether on the old warrant, or for a new offence. Besides,