CAUGHT BY A MONKEY.
STRANGE MANNER IN WHICH A
MURDERER WAS CAPTURED. A murder is reported to have been committed some way off Wynaad, in which a monkey detected the murderers. It appears that a juggler with bis wife, a goat and two monkeys were attacked by two Moplahs, who killed all except the male monkey (which escaped), and buried the bodies in the jungle. The male monkey took its station upon a big tree, watched everything, and when a constable passed by the animal made after him, laid hold on the man's, leg and dragged him to the place where the bodies were buried. The bodies were exhumed, after which the monkey showd the way to a hut which the murderers had entered. Not finding them, the animal took the constable in another direction, and suddenly ran at full speed and seized a Moplah, who was going to bathe, near a tank, bv the neck and waited till the constable arrived. This led to the detection of t!... murderers, who have been brought to Calicut.—Singapore Free Press.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9325, 30 March 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)
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