Life of Ahmad — Page 544
DR. CLARK DRAGS HIM INTO COURT as 544 Ahmad as under Section 114. (For details see Kit a bul Bariyya. D iy a ‘ul Islam Press, Qadian, January, 1878). The news of the issue of the warrant spread 'fast' and the scribes and the elders looked forward eagerly to seeing Ahmad as alight handcuffed from the train at Amritsar. They gathered every day at the station, waiting for him. Fain would they, if they had the chance, 'spit in his face and buffet him and smite him with the palms of their hands, saying, Prophesy unto us, thou Promised Messiah: who is he that smote thee?' But it was not to be. God thought better of Ahmad as and would not suffer him to be humiliated at the hands of his enemies. The warrant was never served on Ahmad as. On the other hand, the District Magistrate realised his own mistake; because he had no jurisdiction outside Amritsar. Therefore the case was transferred to Gurdaspur on August 8th, 1897. The then District Magistrate of Gurdaspur, Capt. M. W. Douglas (now Lt. Col. C. S. I. , C. I. E. , retired Chief Commissioner of the Andaman Islands) told me in London, in 1936, that Dr. Clark 131 saw him one morning and asked him to try Ahmad as for sending a youth to kill him. Col. Douglas said to Dr. Clark: 'This is, of course, a very serious case and it should go to the police for enquiry, and for subsequent committal to the sessions. ' But Dr. Clark said: 131 He was probably the adopted son of the Rev. Robert Clark—a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, being 28th Wrangler in 1850; he started the Amritsar Mission in 1851, and died on May 16th, 1900.