Such was the position when, on June 24, 1908, Tilak was arrested in Bombay on charges connected with the publication in the _Kesari_ of articles containing inflammatory comments on the Muzafferpur outrage, in which Mrs. and Miss Kennedy had been killed by a bomb--the first of a long list of similar outrages in Bengal. Not in the moment of first excitement, but weeks afterwards, the _Kesari_ had commented on this crime in terms which the Parsee Judge, Mr. Justice Davar, described in his summing up as follows:--"They are seething with sedition; they preach violence; they speak of murders with approval; and the cowardly and atrocious act of committing murders with bombs not only meets with your approval, but you hail the advent of the bomb into India as if something had come to India for its good." The bomb was extolled in these articles as "a kind of witchcraft, a charm, an amulet," and the _Kesari_ delighted in showing that neither the "supervision of the police" nor "swarms of detectives" could stop "these simple playful sports of science," Whilst professing to deprecate such methods, it threw the responsibility upon Government, which allowed "keen disappointment to overtake thousands of intelligent persons who have been awakened to the necessity of securing the rights of _Swaraj_." Tilak spoke four whole days in his own defence--21-1/2 hours altogether--but the jury returned a verdict of "Guilty," and he was sentenced to six years' transportation, afterwards commuted on account of his age and health to simple imprisonment at Mandalay.