The Malay policemen of Batavia are armed with a singular weapon — a pitchfork. It is not, strictly speaking-, a weapon at all, either of offence or defence. It is the policeman's aid. When at night he meets a drunken sailor, noisy and obstinate, the policeman puts tha fork round "Jack's" neck, and makes him walk along. That Jack m&y move along 1 willingly, the points of the fork are curved inward. If he tries to escape, or moves his head violently, he tears his neck. He may advance slowly, but move he must, and in the way the , propelling policeman directs.
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Clutha Leader, Volume V, Issue 218, 13 September 1878, Page 6
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