Indian Village Crimes with an Introduction on Police Investigation and Congressions

The object of this collection of Indian'village crimes is not merely to interest the student of criminology and to illustrate the fascination and difficulties of police investigation and of the whole course of criminal adminitration in a large agricultural province but to try to throw some light upon the life and mentality of the ordinary Indian cultivator. [...] He seldom neglects to embark upon an exhaustive exercise of the art and has to fall back upon the characters of other mebers of the witness's family or the history of the various forms of litigation in which his ancestors were engaged with the family of the accused in order to show the 'enmity' of the witness. [...] The grant of a pardon is a matter for the discretion of the judge at the trial and depends upon whether the judge is of opinion that the Man has spoken the truth or sufficiently near it to deserve the concession. [...] The practice of making and of taking formal confessions and the side-issues to which it gives rise afford some of the most interesting studies in the administrtion of the criminal law and will repay the close attention of the reader. [...] From the mass of testimony documentary and otherwise and the complicated review in the judgment of the course of business it was clear that the judge was satisfied that a good many clerks in the post office in question had had a nibble at the fund and had falsified books and that the accused was a scapegoat.