| Show DETECTIVE wark IN INDIA native pol ce are not scrupulous in the r me cods hods A recently published boo on india tells of a native detective chose meth were anything but scrupulous one important mattel investigated was a robbery of about halt a ot rupees worth of silver ingots about tatt was sent down on cam els with an escort of fifteen armed men from dindore indore to keotah the es cort was 1 billed by daco ts and the sll ver taken isri bershad the oriental sherlock holmes ras seldar major of a native regiment made it his busl ness to bring these men to justice and when asked in after years how he ob his proofs remarked smilingly stroking his heard that if a man was judiciously strung up spread eagle wise bv his thumbs much useful in formation might be extracted and having no maras of ill treatment tc show to ohp sahibs he generally held his bongi e of a certa n witness in this case he wrote that he had given awfully good evidence at the trial but as there was just a little ancy between this and his previous depositions before the pol agent when the files were called for by the higher court it would be bet acer to omit this one and say it bad been eaten by white ants |
