Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-12-04
Strange Story Of Attempted Robbery
and Murder From India.

and Murder From India.
A story Of treachery followed by
poetic retribution is told in a dispatch
dated October 16 from Lucknow to a
London newspaper. The scene Of the
occurrence Is little village with a
police post few miles from the In
dian city.
Late in the evening a traveller, the
story goes realizing that he could
not reach Lucknow before dark and
fearing the dangers of the road stop
ped at the house Of a police inspector,
native official and applied for shell
ter for the night.
II am carrying considerable sum
Of money" said he, and in view of
the dangers of the country desire to
have your protection until I can re-
sumo my journey by daylight"
The inspector made him welcome,
gave him water and food. finally TAX
ing him to a sleeping room, where he
left him alone.
AS the night wore on the traveller
was stricken with sleeplessness. Pres
emily he heard voices near his window
and strange sounds Of labor. He got
lup and looked out. His eyes, used to
the greater darkness Of the room.
discerned two men digging in a field
at the back Of the house. He strain
ed his ears to catch what they were
saying, and realized in few moments
that they were digging grave for
him. They were In plot with the
inspector Of police to murder him for
his money and hide his body away
before daylight.
In panic he stole through the house
and crept out by a back door. He
dashed through the village as noise-
lessly as he could, and a mile or so
down the road climbed a tree where
he sat in safety in the shadow of the
foliage until daybreak came. Then,
as a patrol came along. he slipped
down to the ground and told his story
to the commanding officer.
All hands returned to the village,
and there the first news that greeted
them was the mysterious disappear
ance of the police inspector. The
patrol took up the search on new
lines. The traveller located for them
the grave that had been intended to
receive him. The recent disturbance
of the ground was evident. The SOL
diers opened the trench. and there
was found the body Of the police In
spector, horribly hacked.
The arrest of two men who had
been seen with him late the previous
evening followed, and then the whole
case became simple. After arranging
with his accomplices the plot to rob
and murder the traveller, the police
inspector started to get drunk while
they were busy digging the grave. In
this condition the idea struck him
that he would go in and do the killing
himself and so skim the cream of
the booty instead Of dividing evenly.
STOPPING over the bed to grip his vic
tim by the throat, he must have fall
en- forward and passed quickly into
drunken slumber.
When the two accomplices outside
got the grave finished they began to
wonder at the inspectors failure to
turn up. They suspected that he was
Off drinking and determined to do the
Job themselves. Entering the house,
they armed themselves with the in
spector's sabre, and creeping into the
room attacked the man In the bed.
literally hacking him to death.
Then they struck a light to look
for the plunder and. discovering their
mistake, had nothing to do but bury
the murdered man in the grave they
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