Fort Wrangel news., 1898-06-15
METHODS OF INDIAN CRIMINALS.
Robbery by the Use of rruRs Re-
 duced to Il Fine Art.

duced to Il Fine Art
 Judging from q passage In an inter- esting report on the police administra- ton of the central provinces. which has just been issued, 1t would appear that while introducing Western methods of government into Asia We have also brought into the East some of the choicest growths of Western cline. It Is recorded that at khandwa guileless cooly employed on the waterworks was accosted by Il friendly fakir, who ex- ment rupees were like The unsuspect- ing innocent handed over couple of specimens to the fakir, who deXterious- ly substituted false coins for them when handing them back. Surely this Is an Oriental version of the old famil- far confidence trick" which Is played in various forms in the purlieus of Lon don every day. But in this instance the eooly was able to turn the tables on his deceiyer. He did not discover the fraud for some time after. and when he found he had been duped he lay low and said nut1in." One day he again met the faklr, who this time asked for change for rupee. He promptly seized the holy man and gave him into custody, and a false rupee being found in the faklrs possession he was deprived of his liberty for the space of two years.
 But the pages of the criminal records of the central provinces also contain examples of numerous crimes which are peculiar to the East. For instance, at Jubbulpore recently q man felt high ly indignant at the severe treatment he had received at the hands of his land lord. Accordingly he seized his own child by the legs. and dashed IL on the ground, killing it instantly. in the be lief, it Is supposed. that It's blood would be on the head of his persecutor. Such appalling attempts to secure revenge by vicarlous sacrifice are. happily. un- known to the Western world nowa- days.
 Dacolties. of course. form a promin- ent feature in the report. and In at least two instances clever captures of dan gerous gangs were effected by the po- Ice. Robberies after administering drugs. though by no means unknown in Europe. are practicei in q far more sys- tematie manner ill India. One particu- larly daring offender was brought to justice in the central provinces last year. He "wandcred about the district poisoning people right and left" and afterward relieving them of their be- longings. His usual method was to strike up an acquaintance with q tray eler, and surreptitiously 10 introduce drugs into the food. His most bare faced exploit was carried out right in the center of the market place at Hin ganghat. where he lrugged three men with dhatura and got clear away with their valuables
 The llinganghat outrage, however, was his last. for his career as poiSoner came to an end directly afterward in a remarkable manner. In his disguise of respectable traveller he had driven around the Wardha district in q cart drawn by pair of bullorks. After the robbery in the market place he appears to have concluded that he had accumu- ldifN tuOu@l Sl''llN u N NilldlA h4ill III retiring into private life. and he disap- peared. leaving his cart behind him. A constable drove the conveyance round the district seeking the owner. While on his wanderings he came to a place called khapri. and as he was passing through il woman rushed out of house and declared that the bullocis helon ged to her husband. The consta- hle diScreetly retorted that they now belonged 10 his uncle. and quietly went to an adjacent railway station and tel egraphed to his inspector. who came by the next train. By a singular coinci- dence the poisoner joined the same train at waYside station and on alighting at the point nearest his na- tive village he was recognized by the inspector owing to a curious bracelet he wore. He had the proceeds of the robberies in his possession and his wife's innocent exclamation will cost him fourteen years imprisonment.- Times of India.
 Bucksaw for Banker.
 Herman Kaulla, a bookkeeper em. ploynJ bv n AIpridian Strppt iObhinp