He galloped off as fast as he could towards the British border, about twenty miles distant, attended only by a few mounted followers, some of whom he sent off to Bulrampoor, to bring his family as fast as possible across the border to him.  The rest he ordered to follow him.  His followers and those of the murdered banker fled before the Nazim’s forces, which had been concentrated for this atrocious purpose, and both their camps were plundered.  Before the Rajah fled, however, the murdered banker’s son-in-law, who had been left in the camp, ran to him with a small casket, containing Ramdut’s seals, the bond for the eighty thousand rupees, and the written pledges given by the Nazim and commanding officers of corps, for the banker’s and the Rajah’s personal security.  He mounted him upon one of his horses, and took both him and the casket off to the British territory.

It was now about midnight, and the Nazim took his forces to the towns and villages upon the banker’s estate, in which his family and relatives resided, and in which he kept the greater part of his moveable property.  He sacked and plundered them all without regard to the connection or relationship of the inhabitants with the murdered banker.  The property taken from the inhabitants of these towns and villages is estimated at from ten to twelve lacs of rupees.  As many as could escape fled for shelter across the border, into the British territory.  The banker’s brother, Kishen Dutt, who resided in the British territory, came over, collected all he could of his brother’s followers, attacked the Amil’s forces, killed and wounded some forty or fifty of his men, and captured two of his guns.  The body of the banker was discovered two days after, and disinterred by his family and friends, who counted the twenty-two wounds that had been inflicted upon it by the three assassins, and had it burned with due ceremonies.

The Nazim’s agent at Court, on the 18th of November, submitted to the minister his master’s report of this affair, in which it was stated, that the banker was a defaulter on account of his own estate, and those of the other landholders for whom he had given security—­that he, the Nazim, had earnestly urged him to some adjustment of his accounts, but all in vain—­that the banker had disregarded all his demands and remonstrances, and had with him five hundred armed followers, one of whom had fired his pistol at him, the Nazim, and killed one of his men—­that they had all then joined in an attack upon the Nazim and his men, and that, in defending themselves, they had killed the banker.  On the 19th, another report, dated the 16th, reached the minister from the Nazim’s camp, stating, that the banker had come to his tent at ten at night, with his armed followers, and had an interview [with] him—­that as the banker rose to depart, the Nazim told him that he must not go without some settlement of his accounts; and a dispute followed, in which the banker was killed, and two of the Nazim’s followers were severely wounded-that so great was the confusion that the Durbar news-reporters could not approach to get information.