The estate was now taken possession of by the agents, Goureeshunker and Seorutun Sing.

Seorutun Sing seized a Brahmin who was travelling with his wife and brother, and, on the pretence that he must be a relation of the fugitive Rajah, had him murdered, and his head struck off on the spot.

The wife took the head of her murdered husband in her arms, wrapped it up in cloth, and, attended by his brother, walked with it a distance of fifty miles to Ajoodheea, where Rughbur Sing was then engaged in religious ceremonies.

The poor woman placed the head before him, and demanded justice on her husband's murderers.

He coolly ordered the head to be thrown into the river, and the woman and her brother-in-law to be driven from his presence.