CHAPTER XI.

MODERN POLICE (_continued_): INDIA.

The New System Compared with the Old--Early Difficulties Gradually Overcome--The Village Police in India--Discreditable Methods under the Old System--Torture, Judicial and Extra-Judicial--Native Dislike of Police Proceedings--Cases of Men Confessing to Crimes of which they were Innocent--A Mysterious Case of Theft--Trumped-up Charges of Murder--Simulating Suicide--An Infallible Test of Death--The Paternal Duties of the Police--The Native Policeman Badly Paid.....312