The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-11-22
A VICTIM OF HIS OWN PLOT.
Treachery of Police Inspector Prov
ed a Fatal Boomerang.

A story OF treaChery followed by
poetic retribution is told in a des-
patch dated October I6 from Luck
now to London newspaper. The
scene of the occurrence is a little
village with a police post a few
miles from the Indian 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, stopped at the house of
the police inspector, a native Off
cial, and applied for shelter for the
night.
q am carrying a considerable
sum of money" said he, land in
view of the dangers of the country
1 desire to have your protection
until I can resume my journey by
daylight"
The inspector made him wei
come, gave him water and food,
finally taking him to a sleeping
room, where he left him alone.
AS the night wore on the travel
Ter was stricken with sleeplessness.
Presently he heard voices near his
window and strange sounds of
labor. He got up and looked out.
His eyes, used to the greater dark
ness of the room; discerned two
men digging in field at the back
of the house. He strained his ears
to catch what they were saying
and realized in a few moments
that they were digging a grave for
him. They were in a 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 the back door.
He dashed through the village, as
nOiselessly as he could, and a mile
or so down the road climbed a tree
where he sat in safety in the
shadow foliage until daybreal;
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 greet.
ed them was the mysterious disap,
pearance 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 re-
cent disturbance of the ground
was evident. The soldiers opened
the trench, and there was found
the body of the police inspector,
horribly hacked.
The arrest of two men who had
been seen with him late the previ-
Gus evening followed, and then the
whole case became simple. After
arranging with his accomplices the
plot to rob and murder the travel.
Ter, the police inspector started to
get drunk while they were busy
digging the grave. In this condi-
ton the idea struck him that he
would go in and do the killing
himself, and SO skim the cream off
the booty instead of dividing
evenly. STOPPING over the bed to
grip his victim by the throat, he
must have fallen forward and pass
ed quickly into a drunked slumber.
When the two accomplices out
side got the grave finished they
began to wonder at the inspectors
failure to turn up. They sus-
pected that he was off drinking and
they determined to do the Job by
themselves. Entering the house,
they armed themselves with the
inspectors's sabre, and creeping i'll
to the room attacked the man in
: bed, literally hacking him to
. death.
Then they struck light to look
for the plumber and discovering
their mistake, had nothing left tc
do but bury the murdered man ii
the grave they had dug.-New
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