Show A GIFTED ACTOR who was enabled to draw the pensions of the so idlers A regular person personification fi cation of deceased pensioners has been discovered at the station of Dapo Da poolie olic this is a delightful healthy place in the district of Ratna giri about avo five miles from the sea at an elevation of six hundred feet it was vas V th the e re residence id C n CC of veteran who had been pensioned after doing good service in 1857 8 an anonymous petition brought to light the distressing fact that the pensions had bad been drawn long after the decease of the real incumbents and that there was besides an original sel scheme leine by which pensions still due to survivors had been intercepted and were in the main main enjoyed JOY ed by money lenders in the bazar and by the native clerks of the department says the saturday review A long investigation followed in which the rv au thorl ties were all but baffled but by the skill of an englishman in the ordnance department and of an intelligent parsee books were seized rolls were inspected and it was found that ono one bannak who had originally been intended for the army had been in tile habit of dressing himself up ip as a pensioner and drabin drawing the allowances this enterprising individual from hiti photograph and from the letter press must have had a lively sense of humor he was sagacious enough not to personate more than two pensioners on the same day clay one iu in the mornin morning and one in the evening except on special occasions when he c appeared appeared five times his military salute was admirably given and he be subsequently related with just pride how he had mana managed ed to draw the allowance of the suh sub badar 7 major and of sirdar bahadur for four years of course this gifted actor had got his own commission every time the sharpness of the english superintendent in detecting a i serious of interpolations in the native account bool books s would have done credit to the best officers in scotland yard |