CRIME IN INDIA.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 257, 23 July 1908, Page 8

CRIME IN INDIA.

.The present unrest in India, lends painful interest to tho.following extract from a letter from a correspondent of the " Guardian" in Madras :—" You remember reading 'Confessions of : ii Thug?' . Incredible as it may goem.vtho system is apparently being revived in Mysore by a'gang of murderers,'using up-to-date . methods. This gang have hired houses in various parts of Bangalore, but mainly in the Ulsoor neighbourhood. In the compounds of tlieso houses they .havo dug graves all . ready for their victims. They have inveigled youths wearing jewellery into the houses for gambling, then-, chloroformed them,, cut their throats, and buried them, having of oourso relieved them of all valuables first. Somo eighteen youths havo been 'missing,' but their relatives- received letters or telegrams from them saying they wore going -to try their fortunes in Burma or Ceylon, etc. TJieso letters and telegrams have turned out to be bogus. Tho conspiracy was discovered owing to a youth who had been chloroformed, and was having his throat , cut, coming to beforo tho operation was over. Ho escapod, and then tlio case was brought-to light and investigation made. One or two of tlio gang confessed, and actually took the magistrate to tlio ■ various houses, and pointed out the graves, which, on examination, revealed' Lh<> corpses of the [missing youths t ,{