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Show DETECTIVE WORK IN INDIA. Native Police Are Not Scrupulous In Their Methods. A recently published book on India tells of n native detective whose methods meth-ods were anything but scrupulous. One Important matter Investigated was a robbery of about half a lakh of rupees' worth of silver Ingots (about $25,000) that was sent down on eim-els eim-els with an escort of fifteen nrme 1 men from Indoro to Kotah. The escort es-cort was killed by Dacolts and the silver sil-ver taken. Isrl Pershad, tho orlen'al Sherlock Holmes, rnsseldnr major of a native regiment, made It his business busi-ness to bring these men to Justho at 1 when asked In after years how ho ob talnod his proofs remarked, smlllrp'y stroking his heard, that If a man v.ai judiciously strung up, spread eccle-wise, eccle-wise, by his thumbs, much useful In formation might bo extracted ni d having no marks of 111 treatment lo show to tho sahibs ho generall. Ii-mI his tongue Of a certain wltnesi In this case he wrote that he had "fi vt 'nw fully good evidence' nt tho tMi' but ns thero was 'Just a little discfi nncy' between this nnc his provlni'3 depositions before the political ngeni when the original flies uo callel 'oi b) the higher court, 'It would be lu ter to omit this ono nnd say It 1 n I been eaten by whito nnts ' " |