Show CRIMS OF INDIA ADEPTS IN CRIME in robbery almost beyond belief to step in where n government had admitted failure to pit all his energies and long years of perilous work in a fight organized crime was the task that commissioner F booth tucker of the salvation army together with his wife set himself when he undertook to reform certain notorious criminal tribes in india the calms as the indian criminals are called consist of entire tribes of natives some of whom arc descended from the ancient rulers of india they live almost entirely by robbery and rapine there are about calms in india banded together in a secret society whose sole business Is to commit crime both men and women take part in the robberies while their children are employed as scouts and guides the calms use neither sword nor atin and invariably carried out the raids miles away from their own village then follows a general share out of the spoil which frequently represents a huge sum in one province rupees were reported as stolen in one year of this amount only the odd were recovered occasionally n tribe will keep a regular gang of perhaps 30 young men to do the robbery for the whole tribe the remainder live as agri culturists it one of the gang Is taken by the police his successor Is immediately named by the tribal chiefs it he hesitates to go every woman in the tribe mocks him it Is a case of no robbery no wife one tribe specializes in jewel robberies in india native women make their ears their banks and invest their savings in jewelry this they hang from the lobes ot their ears which are artificially enlarged for the purpose each member ot this particular tribe has a razor edged blade strapped to his forefinger and after creeping toward a sleeping woman he makes a neat cut in her ear and relieves her of her jewelry so Is the cut and so hard the flesh that in many cases the sleeper Is not disturbed one of the difficulties was to induce the crims to believe that a policeman was not necessarily a foe ordinary calm Is adept at breaking into native houses whose walls are usually of mud or wattle he does not force open the door he cuts a hole in the wall |