Show DETECTIVE wark RIC IN INDIA native police are not scrupulous in their methods A recently published boo on india tolls tells of a native detective whose methods were anything but scrupulous one important matter investigated was a robbery of about halt half a ot of rupees worth of 0 sliver silver ingots ingols about chrt was sent down on en cameta camels with an escort of fifteen armed men from rora indore dindore to keotah the escort was killed by dacoles dacoits and the silver taken isrl bershad Per shad the oriental sherlock teher ther loch lock holmes ras seldar major of 0 a native dative regiment made it his business to bring these men to justice and when asked in after years how bow he obtained his proofs remarked smilingly stroking his heard that it if a man was judiciously strung up spread ea eagle le wise bv his thumbs much useful information might be extracted and having no marks of ill treatment to show to the sahibo sahibs he generally held his tongue of a certain witness in this case he wrote that he had given awfully good evidence at tho the trial but as there was just a lettla discrepancy between this and his previous depositions before tho the political agent when the original files were wera called toi for by the higher court it would be better to omit this one and say it had been eaton eaten bv whits past |