Show CRIMS OF INDIA ADEPTS IN CRIME m robbery almost be yond belief to step in where a government had admitted failure to pit all his energies and long years ot perilous work in a fight against organized crime was the task that commas lioner P both Tuc lier ot the sal ration army together with bis wife act himself when he undertook to reform certain notorious notor ioui criminal tribes in india the crims as the indian crim finals are called consist of entire tribes of natives some of whom are descended from the ancient rulers of india they live almost entirely by robbery and rapine there are about crims in india banded together in a secret society whose sole business Is to commit crime both anen and women take part in the robberies while their children arc employed as scouts and guides the crims use neither sword nor gun and invariably carried out the raids allea away from their own village then follows a general share out of the spoil which frequently represents a huge sum in one province 3 rupees were reported as stolen in one year of this only the odd were recovered occasionally a tribe will keep a regular gang of perhaps 30 young men to do the robbery for the whole tribe the remainder live as agri if one of the gang Is taken by the police his successor Is immediately named by the tribal chiefs if he hesitates tj go every woman in the tribe mocks him it Is a case of no robbery no wife one tribe specializes in jewel rob berbeg in india native women maae their cars their banks and invest their savings in jewelry this they hang from the lobes of their ears which are artificially enlarged for the purpose each member of this particular tribe has a razor edged blade strapped to bis forefinger and after creeping toward a sleeping woman he makes a neat put in her ear and relieves her of her jewelry so Is the cut and so hard the flesh that in many cases the sleeper Is not disturbed one of the difficulties was to in duce the calms to believe that a policeman was not necessarily a foe the ordinary calm Is adept at breaking into native houses whose walls are usually of mad or wattle he docs not force open the door cuts a hole in the wall |