Life of Ahmad — Page 550
DR. CLARK DRAGS HIM INTO COURT as 550 That decided it in my mind at once that he had no intention of going to the C. M. S. Mission to kill Dr. Clark. If he had that intention, he would not have gone first to the American Mission. Those are the reasons that convinced me that this case was false, and it seemed to me that had Abdul Hamid’s admission at Beas been genuine, there seems to be no reason why, having admitted the important fact that he had come to kill Dr. Clark, he should have withheld the details. It is significant that the majority of those details came to Prem D a s and Abdur Rahim, all members of the mission. Of course there was no alternative for me but at once to discharge Ghulam Ahmad and end the case. ' In his judgment delivered on August 23rd, 1897, he wrote: 'So far as Dr. Clark’s case is concerned I see no grounds for binding Ghulam Ahmad accused to keep the peace, nor for remanding the case to the Police and he is therefore discharged. ' Maulaw i Sher Ali B. A. , (born 23. 11. 1875) who was present at the hearing of this historic case, speaks of it from his personal knowledge in the presence of Col. Douglas at a meeting in London, as follows: 'Dr. Henry Martyn Clark said, in the course of his statement before the District Megistrate, that he had no idea of instituting any cirminal