Show DETECTIVE WORK IN INDIA I 1 Native Police pollee Are Not Scrupulous In I Their Me Methods hods A recently published boot boos on India tells of a nat native ve detective whose methods methods meth meth- 7 were anything but scrupulous One Important matter Investigated I was a robbery of about half a of rupees' rupees worth of or silver ingots about that thet was sent down on cams cami camels cam cam- i lt a els cIs s with an escort of fifteen armed J f 7 Y me men from Indore to The escort es es- 0 cort corn was killed by Dacoits and the silver silver sil sll I ver ver taken Isrl Isri the oriental Sherlock Holmes major of ofA ofa I a A I a native regiment m made de It his business bustness bust busi ness to bring these men to justice and r f when asked in after years how he obtained ob ob- r R 1 tallied his proofs remarked smilingly f stroking his heard that if a man was fi F Judiciously strung up spread eagle r I wise by bv his thumbs m much ch useful Information information In in- e formation n might be e extracted and having no marks marIes of treatment Ill to 1 show to the sahibs he generally held heldt t t Ms Ills tongue Of a certain witness In Inthis Inthis t this case he wrote th that t he had given awfully good evidence at the trial Ett 1 but as there was Just a little e discrepancy discrepancy ancy between this this' and his previous depositions before the political agent when the original files were called for foi forby V by the higher court It would be better bet ter to omit this one an and say it had hadt t- t 11 t been eaten by white ants ants II |