THE DAILY PROVINCE APRIL 14, 1915 SIKH WAS KILLED BY EXPLOSION AT NIGHT ------------------- Dynamite Outrage on Third Avenue, Kitsilano. ------------------- Mutab Singh Murdered and Two Compatriots Injured. ------------------- Search for Two Hindus Seen in Vicinity Just Before the Explosion. ------------------- Outrage Regarded as a Continuation of the Komagata Maru Feud. ------------------No one has as yet been arrested in connection with the dynamiting outrage in Kitsilano last night, when Mutab Singh was killed outright and Deelepa Sing and Payhan Singh were seriously wounded, although the detectives were at work all night in an effort to locate two Hindus who were seen running away from the vicinity of the explosion moment before it occurred. The house at 1748, third avenue west, in which Mutab Singh and his companions were sleep at the time, was totally wrecked, while a dozen houses in the vicinity were badly shaken by the shock of the explosion and hardly a single pane of glass remains whole in the neighborhood. Following the murder, several weeks ago, of Rattan Singh, a member of the Bela Singh faction in the Sikh community and the open statements that other murders would follow, the authorities are of the opinion that it is a continuation of the ready resulted in the violent deaths of many persons connected directly or indirectly with the Komagata Maru. THE DAILY PROVINCE APRIL 14, 1915 A Friend of Bela. Mutab Singh, it is stared, was a warm friend of Bela Singh, as were also all the men who were resident in the dynamite house. Last night, the retired to bed early in the evening, and were all asleep before 11 o’clock, when without warning, a terrific explosion occurred beneath the northeast corner of the cottage, directly under the room in which Mutab Sing was sleeping. Several stick of dynamite must have been used as the whole front of the house was literally blown into match wood while earth and rocks were hurried for a distance of hundreds of yards. The house in the immediate vicinity rocked and shook down in the neighborhood was blown out. Great stoned crashed through the fronts of novella of the house opposite the devastated residence. Men, and women with little children rushed out into the street in their night clothing, only to hear the horrified shrieks of the wounded wrecked building, in the darkness to tell the extent of the damage, and fire brigade with a powerful searchlight that the police, who had arrived from C substation, under the direction of Sergeant Murdock MacLennan, could organize a systematic search of the ruins. Removed from Ruins Deelepa Singh and Payhan Singh were the first to be removed from the debris, while the six or seven other East Indians who were sleeping in the house were found in the ruins, but they fortunately escaped injury. Several of them were clinging to an iron bed in the upper storey of the building. The police ambulance arrived a few moments later and the injured men were rushed to the General Hospital, where it is thought they will recover. Just before the explosion, two East Indians were seen running along Third avenue, and it is suspected that they were the men who placed the dynamite bomb under the house. The charge must have been a large one— THE DAILY PROVINCE APRIL 14, 1915 too large for the work for which it was intended experts in powder work declare, for the greatest force of the explosion went downward and tore a great hole in the earth, shattering a great granite boulder which served as a portion of the foundations. The rocks and debris of the building were hurled with awful force across the street. One rock went right through a house occupied by East Indians, while another boulder crashed through a residence and knocked the base board of the front room away from the wall and against a woman who was sitting on a chair nursing an infant. A little table which was in the front room of the wrecked house was thrown fifty feet in the air and fell again on the roof, where it remains. The mattress of the bed on which Mutab Singh was sleeping was blown in atoms and the felt filling is scattered around the vicinity. Murder Not Unexpected. The body of Mutab Singh, who was a foreman at the False Creek Mill, was horribly dismembered, and it was some time before it could be gathered together. It was removed to the T. Edwards undertaking parlors, where Coroner Jeffs will hold an inquest. Before he left for the Orient several weeks ago, Dr. Raganath Singh informed the authorities that there would be more murders, as he had learned that an attempt would be made to exterminate all the friends of Bela Singh as well as Bela Singh himself. Today Walaite(?) Ram, a Hindu, will appear in the Police Court on a charge of carrying offensive weapons. He, it is alleged, attempted to draw a revolver on Bela Singh about ten days ago, but was overpowered by Bela Singh and several of his companions and was carried to the police station, where a plentiful supply of ammunition was found in his pockets. It is stated that a seditious publication printed in California is being circulated amongst the East Indian colony, in which the murderer of Inspector THE DAILY PROVINCE APRIL 14, 1915 Hopkinson is extolled, and in which Jaget Singh, the man alleged to have been the murderer of Rattan Singh, is praised for his work. It is thought that this publication is having the effect of inciting the Hindu revolutionists in this city to further deeds of violence. The paper was refused the privileges of the mail(?) shortly before the death of Inspector Hopkinson, but it is still being brought into the country. ------------------(Photograph) The dynamite bomb which last night exploded in the home of Mutab Singh, at 1748 Third Avenue west, was placed under the corner of the house directly behind the fence post shown in the picture. A bed in which one Hindu was sleeping is shown in the ruins of the upper storey, while a table which stood in the front room can be seen on the roof at the right corner.