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Show HIMSELF THE VICTIM REMARKABLE OASE OF RETRIgU-TIVE RETRIgU-TIVE JUSTICE. - '" Murderous Indian Offlofnt Killed and Burled in Grave He Had Intended For Traveled ?ai His - Duty to P.cotecj. -' A story of traeh'MIi'iwed by poetic retiibittlMi Is tOUlJySft dispatch fiom l.ucknowto n IoiMli newspaper. newspa-per. Tho scone of tlia dcflm,i',nei la a llttlo village with a liotljair TKist a few miles from tho Indian city. Late In the e- -nlng a traveler, the storri goes, realizing thnt -ho could not reach I.ucknow beforjBM'k: and fearing the dan -rs of tho Toad, stop ped at the hotiso of the polltjo Inspector, Inspec-tor, a native official, and appJlod for m niti carryl-'g gcop-Hlirablo sum nf money," said hfl, "an-! ItrVlew of-tho of-tho dangers of thercountry I dbalre to hao your protetMn tiatll I ciin resume re-sume my Journey bl daylights The Inspector iwd littn welcome, gave him water nw food, flnnlly taking tak-ing him to a sleeping room, wlffro be left him alone. H As tho night wJre on tho traveler was stricken with sleeplessness;; Presently Pres-ently he heard voices n-nr Mi window win-dow and stra-To sohnds of labor. He got up ami looked out. His eyes; used to tho grertter darkness, of the room discerned two men, digging In a field at tho back t the Houso. IIe,strn!nnl bis ears to cf oh wfliat tbey wtw sa ing, and realized lif a few mohients that tljej were dlggln; a gravfe for htm. The) re lit a V ' with Ule in spector of pollre tolriiurder lilfli for his money and hide hlslbody away before da) light l" ' In panic h" stololhro"gh the lippse and crept out by n back. door. He dashed tlnough thvitlago as noiselessly noise-lessly as he could, and a mile or bo down the red climbed a tree where he sat In safety inithe shadow of "the foliage until daybreak camo. Than, as a patrol camo'Blon". he supped down to the ground and told his story 'tp the command lng officer. ! A'l hands returned to th village, and there tho first newa nat groeted -them was the mysteries disappearance disappear-ance of the nollotf. inspector. The patrol took up the search on now lines. The traveler located for them the grave that hadbeen intentlod to receive him. The Yecent disturbance of the ground vas evident. The soj-dters soj-dters opened tho firanch, nnd there was found the bodyjof the police In spector, horribly hadked. Tho arrest of '.tb mnn who bad been seen with hlnjjlfite the previous evening followed, and then the wholo case beenme slmpluV After arrunclng with Ids ncrn-., :;rig ti, plot to rob 'and murder t'io ttanler, the pollco Inspector In-spector started to TRot drunk while they wcio buty dlggfug tie grave. In this condition the (den struck him that he would go Inflml do the killing hlmfelf, and so Bkliit'lhe cream oft the booty Insterd of dividing evenly Stooping oer the hjld to grip his vh tlm by the tL'ont, hejinust hure fallen foiward and i sssed 'quickly Into n drunken slumL r. ',, When the two acqompllces ouMnir got the grave finished they,begHu ti wonder at tho Iiisne',tor8 fallui'1 i' turn u)i Th"y susriected that hi "-e oft drinking and thfly d'termln'1 t do the Job by thomselvos. Knit i!n the house, they armed theniflvi - ( with the Insp-'Ctor'Bjsaber, nnd crep ' jicy; Into the ronm attacked the nvin in ' the bed, llteially Jlacklng him . death. j 1 Tt.rm they struck n llv. to look 'n ' tho plunder and, discovering then mistake, hnd nothirfg" left to do but bury tho murdered ftan in the ginve I thev had dug. II ' |