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Brother Last Dies in Prison

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 6, 1911

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 88, No. 27.

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Brother Last Dies in Prison

WORD comes from North India that an old native, Brother Last, our only Sabbath-keeper in the Panjab district, died in prison as the result of injuries inflicted when incarcerated. He lived in a section where Mohammedanism prevails, and being accused superstitiously of causing the death of a mother and child in the upper rooms of the same house where he lived (although they both died from natural causes), he was bound by several Mohammedans, and turned over to the police with the untruthful tale of his crime. The police beat him in such an inhuman manner that five days later he died in his cell. He was not even permitted the services of his wife, who begged of them to release him, as she saw that he could not live. He was buried by the prison authorities.