ANALYSIS OF CASES.
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Serial
No.
Province.
Name of witness.
Number
of
witness.
Name of criminal.
Nature of the crime.
Reason for ascribing the crime to
hemp drugs.
57 Berar
K. A. Baki
36 Not given
A bairagi murdered a woman
while intoxicated.
No reason given.
58
Do.
Mr. O'Grady
6 Ambrose
The servant assaulted the
witness when he dismissed
him.
The man made this excuse.
II.—Cases in which the records were examined by the Commission.
Serial
No.
Province.
Name of witness.
Number
of
witness.
Name of criminal.
Witness's view of the case.
Result of examining the records.
59 Bengal
Mr. Ward
89 Not given
A smoker suddenly murdered
a vendor because he would
not supply him with more
ganja.
In an altercation the vendor
"first struck the accused with
a split bamboo; and it was
then that he wounded him
with his knife," which he had
in his hand as he had been
eating fruit.
60
Do.
Do.
Do. Isahak Shekh
2. A ganja-smoker
cruelly
treated his child.
While
under trial and on bail he
hacked at his wife and father-
in-law and killed another
man who came to their
rescue.
The man cruelly treated his
child on trifling provocation.
He determined to kill his wife
for giving evidence against
him, and killed a man who
came to her rescue. There is
no mention of ganja.
61
Do.
Dr. Crombie
104 Kailash Chandra
Mallik.
"A Bengali Babu, as the
result of a single debauch
in an attack of ganja mania,
slew seven of his nearest
relatives in bed during the
night, made a rapid re-
covery, and never again ex-
hibited signs of insanity."
The Sessions Judge found that
"for years prisoner has been
peculiar in his behaviour.
After his wife's death [six or
seven years before this occur-
rence] he was quite mad for
a month; and since his mo-
ther's denth again he has
been behaving like a man
bereft of his reason." The
murder was committed on the
evening of his mother's
Shradh; and the man's in-
sane statements after the
murder showed that he had
the idea that the family were
helpless without the mother.
62
to 64
Do.
Mr. Marindin
16 Three cases
No particulars were given by
witness; but he mentioned
the cases as illustrating homi-
cidal frenzy attributed to
hemp drugs.
All three were cases of insani-
ty. In the first case there is
doubtful mention of hemp
drugs. In the other two there
is no mention of these drugs;
but in one of them (the third
case) there is mention of
liquor.
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&
66
Assam
Mr. Dalrymple Clark
14 Two cases
The witness after consulting
his subordinates examined
the records of seven cases of
this character and found two
in which there was mention
of ganja.
He gave their
names without details; and
they were sent for.
In both cases the accused were
ganja-smokers.
But the re-
cord in each case indicates
that the offences cannot be
attributed to that drug. The
one was a quarrel between
some smokers. The other
was a case of wife-branding.
67 Do.
Dr. Mullane
19 Ramchandra Puri In 1885 a religious mendicant
murdered a guest in the
middle of the night appa-
rently while under the influ-
ence of ganja.
The record suggests the same
view as the witness holds.
68
Do.
Do.
Jadu Murha
2. A man was charged with
committing murder in the
Dum Duma bazar under
ganja delerium. The wit-
ness does not remember de-
tails.
2. This man wounded several
people. He used to drink
liquor and take opium. He
never took ganja. The Judge
found that he had not had
any intoxicant.
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