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Show f M DETECTIVE WORK IN INDIA. , mk Native Police Are Not Scrupuloui In KJ H Their Methods. H A recently published boo'.c on India K, "fl tfHIs of n native dotoctlvo whoso mcth- Ir HJ odi worn anything but scrupulous. 1 BJ One Important matter Investigated At was a robbery of about half a lakh of : - Bj rupoon' worth of silver Ingots (about iS 125,000) thct was sent down on cam- flj el with an oscort of flfteon nrmod men from Indoro to Kotah. The es- H eort was killed by Dacolts and the all- flj , vor taken. Isrl Pershad, tho oriental flj Sherlock Holmes, rasseldar major of H native regiment, mado It his busl- fl obhs to bring theso men to Justlco and flg when asked In after years how ho oh- flj Ulned his proofs remarked, smilingly flj ltroklng his heard, that If n man was BJ Judiciously strung up, Rproad-eaglo- II wlso, bv his thumbs, much useful in- fonnatlnn might bo extracted and B having no marks of Ill-treatment to fl show to tho sahibs ho generally hold tils tonguo. Or a certain wltuosi in fl , this case ho wrote that ho had "given H 'awfully good evldenco' at tho trial, tfl but au thoro was 'Just a little dlscrop- H aiicy' botweon this and his previous fl depositions boforo tho political agent, B when the original (lies wero called for fl' by tho hlghor court, 'It would bo hot- B tor to omit this ono and say It had 'fl toon eaten by white nnls.'" |