Finding on their return that Ania had escaped, they offered high rewards to the two brothers if they would assist in tracing him out; and Johari was taken to the Nawab, who offered him a very high reward if he would bring Ania to him, or, at least, take measures to prevent his going to the English gentlemen.  This was communicated to Ania, who went through Bharatpur to Bareilly, and from Bareilly to Secunderabad, where he heard, in the beginning of July, that both Karim and the Nawab were to be tried for the murder, and that the judge, Mr. Colvin, had already arrived at Delhi to conduct the trial.  He now determined to go to Delhi and give himself up.  On his way he was met by Mr. Simon Fraser’s man, who took him to Delhi, when he confessed his share in the crime, became king’s evidence at the trial, and gave an interesting narrative of the whole affair.

Two water-carriers, in attempting to draw up the brass jug of a carpenter, which had fallen into the well the morning after the murder, pulled up the blunderbuss which Karim Khan had thrown into the same well.  This was afterwards recognized by Ania, and the man whom he pointed out as having made it for him.  Two of the four Gujars, who were mentioned as having visited Karim immediately after the murder, went to Brigadier Fast, who commanded the troops at Delhi, fearing that the native officers of the European civil functionaries might be in the interest of the Nawab, and get them made away with.  They told him that Karim Khan seemed to answer the description of the man named in the proclamation as the murderer of Mr. Fraser; and he sent them with a note to the Commissioner, Mr. Metcalfe, who sent them to the Magistrate, Mr. Fraser, who accompanied them to the place, and secured Karim, with some fragments of important papers.  The two Mewatis, who had been sent to assassinate Ania, were found, and they confessed the fact:  the brother of Ania, Rahmat, was found and he described the difficulty Ania had to escape from the Nawab’s people sent to murder him.  Rupla, the groom, deposed to all that he had seen during the time he was employed as Karim’s groom at Delhi.  Several men deposed to having met Karim, and heard him asking after Mr. Fraser a few days before the murder.  The two peons, who were with Mr. Fraser when he was shot, deposed to the horse which he rode at the time, and which was found with him.

Karim Khan and the Nawab were both convicted of the crime, sentenced to death, and executed at Delhi, I should mention that suspicion had immediately attached to Karim Khan; he was known for some time to have been lurking about Delhi, on the pretence of purchasing dogs; and it was said that, had the Nawab really wanted dogs, he would not have sent to purchase them by a man whom he admitted to his table, and treated on terms of equality.  He was suspected of having been employed on such occasions before—­known to be a good shot, and a good rider, who could fire and reload very quickly while his horse was in full gallop, and called in consequence the ’Bharmaru.’[16] His horse, which was found in the stable by the Gujar spies, who had before been in Mr. Fraser’s service, answered the description given of the murderer’s horse by Mr. Fraser’s attendants; and the Nawab was known to cherish feelings of bitter hatred against Mr. Fraser.