Show A GIFTED ACTOR who was enabled to draw the pensions of the soldiers A regular personification of deceased pensioners has been discovered at the station of Da poolie this is a delightful healthy place in the district of eatna jirl about five miles from the sea at au elevation of six hundred feet it was the residence of veteran who had been pensioned after doing good service in 1337 8 an anonymous petition brought to light the distressing fact that the pensions had been drawn k ng after the decease of the real incumbents and that there was besides an original scheme by which pensions still duo to survivors had been intercepted and were in the main enjoyed by money lenders in the bazar and by the native clerk the department says the saturday review A long investigation tollow cd in which the military authorities were all but baffled but by the skill of an englishman in the ordnance department and of an intelligent parsee books were seize fl rolls were inspected and it was found that one bannak who had originally been intended for the army had been in the of dressing himself up as a pensioner and drawing allowances this enter individual from his photograph and from the letter press must had a lively sense of humor lie was sagacious enough not to personate more than two pensioners on the same day one in the morning and one in the evening except on spatial occasions when he appeared avo times ibisi military salute was admirably given and he subsequently related just pride how lie had managed to draw the allowance of the suh badar major and of sirdar bahadur lor four years of course this gifted actor had got his own commission every time the sharpness of the english superintendent in detecting a serious of interpolations in the native account books would have done credit to the best officers in scotland yard |