ADMIN I STR AT I ON R EPORTOF THE

MADRAS POLICE FOR I883.

THE chief even ts of the year were (1) the Kalahundiexpedition of the Parvati

p ur (Vizagapatam ) and Ganjam Police already n oticed by Governmen t in their

re view on last year’

s report as thoroughly sa tisfactory.

(2 ) The Kimedy Palace murder whichcreated inten se excitemen t in the Gan

jam District.

(3) The successful capture and prosecution of a n umber of Lumbady Dacoits

who committed n o less than 5 gang robberies in Kistna District.

(4) D acoity by a gang of Lumbadies an d Wodders in NorthArcot who seized

a n d bound the Ghat Con stable on the Synegoonta Pass and took possession of the

ro ad for 3 days, successfully traced after 3mon ths dogged perseverance.

(5 ) The all but en tire severance o f Police con nection withSalt.

A t the end of the year but 40 Policemen were employed by that D epartmen t ; in

T a njore 14, and in SouthCan ara 26 .

The peace has been well main tained in allDistricts althoughdisturbances in

con n ection withprocession s threatened, n one occurred .

In the Northern Districts the Hill tribes have been quiet, and Rumpahis re

ported to be perfectly con tented and happy. What might have proved a veryserio us dispute among theMahomedans at Kurnool was most promptly dealt withby the Superin ten den t (Major Hodgson ) aided by the Civiland Sessions Judge an

o nut of this case will be found m the District summary .

P olice Reserves,where they exist, have received close atten tion ; they are well

!drilled, of good physique and if properly armed withthe snider carbine would be

.very effective bodies of men , thoughnumerically weak. TheMalabar Reserve maybe cited as an example of this ; they would do n o discredit to any N ative Infintry“Regimen t .

The Ganjam, Vizagapatam , Bellary and Chingleput Reserves exist onlyin n ame;are so weak that the men are con stantly on duty and can rarely be drilled or

Military aid close at hand in Bellary perhaps this does

Ganjam and Vizagapatam it is otherwise ; in Chingleput,demands of many great festivals ,

Trivellore &c. , the small reserve is terribly over.

ever increasing escort duty ; some idea of this may be

formed from perusing the District summary.

Marine Police at coast Ports were abolished.

A z J a y y

Inspectors.—During the year 8 In spectors have been promoted to higher

grades, one Inspector N arain Sing reduced to Head Con stable, and In spector N ari

singarow reverted to Head Con stable, being un able to stand the climate of the

Maliahs . In spectors have on the whole worked to the satisfaction of the District

Officers .

Sub-Inspectors.— Sub-In spectorAbdulKhader, an old Sibban dy Officer who has

given very great satisfaction , has been promoted to 5thgrade In spector and placed

in charge of the BalligadaMaliah Reserve . Lakshminaraina , Ranganadharow and

Mukteswara Patn aik were enlisted for theMaliahs : Sub-In spector Jaggarow was

discharged and Sub-In spector Guriah reverted to a Head Constableship by order of

the In spector General of Police.

Head Constables .—This grade has been kept up to its san ctioned strength.

Withthe exception of a few Head Con stables forming Office an d Jail strength, all

have quahfied themselves by passing the prescribed ex amination for Station House

Ofiicers . Theyhave on thewhole rendered goodwork . The case of late 1stgrade Head

Con stableM. Appalasawmy calls for particular men tion . He was a well-behaved

and efficien t Head Constable in charge of Kemedy Reserve . In a mad fit of jealousy,he shot bothhis wife and himself dead on 23rd Jun e. KarriKristamma , a 4thgrade

Head Con stable in the BalligadaMaliahs, was sen tenced under Section 46 of PoliceAct to 12 mon ths

’rigorous imprisonmen t by the special As sistan t Agent on 24th

July.

Constables.—This rank of men has always been kept up to almost its san ction

ed strength. En listmen t of illiterate and un dersized recruits is but a rare in stan ce .

10 men were convicted by Crimin al Courts as stated 1n the early part of this report .

20men out of 30have come out successfully at the Station Ofiicers’Test.

Police P a tients in Hospita ls.—2078men were treated in PoliceHospitals against

1439 treated last year .

The following figures show the state of the District crime as compared with the

year 1882 .

Detected. Property lost. Property recovered .

There was therefore a con siderable decrease of crime for the year un der review

as compared withthe past year witha slight falling off in detection . The amoun t

of property lost is less for the curren t year and there is a small increase in the

percen tage of recovery.

Murder.—23 cases reported an d 9 detected this year against 25 reported and o

detected during the last year. One case in which Head Constable Appalasawmyshothis wife dead and committed suicide 1s shown as undetected . Out of these 23

murders a few require particular notice. The facts are as follows

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On the night of 20th July 1883, Ann apurn a Row Mahadevi, the wife of tlw

eldestMinor of Parlakemedy, very suddenly died . Previous to her death,n o signs

of her illness wereknown to any at Parlakemedy; even theApothecary there was n ot

sen t for. Early the nex t morning (the 2lst) N arayan a Gan tayet (on e who ex ercised

the highest influen ce in the palace though by virtue of his ofi ce he was a mere

Major D omo in the Establishmen t) sent word to the Sub-Magistrate an d In spectorRama Row to atten d the funeral. The unforeseen even t roused the suspicion s of the

Inspector, who was well aware that the deceased was on the worst term s with the

Gantayet an d o thers in the palace . He immediately sen t a message to the Gan tayet

asking him to delay the burning of the corpse un til his arrival a t the fun eral pyre

and wen t to con sult the Assistan t Superin ten den t,Mr. Young, who happened fortu

n ately to be in Kemedy a t the time. The Gan tayet took fright and hurriedly removed

the body to the burning groun d an d placed it on the pyre . In a few momen ts all

traces of the murder would have been lost, had it no t been for thein terven tion of Sub

In spector Lakshmin arayan a , who arrived just in time to stop the cremhtion ; the

an alysis made by the Chemical Ex amin er showed death to have been caused byarsenic . In spite of overwhelming difficulties placed in their way by conn ection Sat

the palace of this the richest and most importan t Z amin dary in the District, the

case was admirably worked out by the Assistan t Superin ten den t an d In spector Rama

Row an d en ded in the conviction of the Gan tayet an d his accomplices Kristn adoss

an d a n ative doctor,Mukhalingam; the two former being sen tenced to death an d

latter to tran sporta tion for life at the November Session s. At the trial of the case

a number of letters written by the deceased an d her sister to their father were put

in as eviden ce. In these, deceased frequen tly stated that she wen t in fear of her

life owing to the Gran tayet’

s enmity to whose overwhelming in fluen ce in the familyshe had objected ; these letters eviden tly the production of a brave an d resolute

woman , though melancholy, are most in teresting and vividly depict the terrible life

she must have undergone for the one year of her wedded life. The successful de

tection of this mo st atrocious murder is en tirely due to the indefatigable efforts

made during the period of 4 mon ths by the Assistan t Superin ten den t Mr . Young

and In spector Rama R ow .

On the 5thJuly as a child n amed Jagan n athamma was playing in the streets

of Itchapur, she was en ticed by one Mahalakshmiin to her house and strangled for

the sake o f her jewels valued at Rs . 40, the body was then thrown in to a cattle shed .

The accused, a young woman of was sen ten ced to deathby the Session s Court .

At Russelcon da on the 15th of Jun e one TalapalliKoormaya killed his wife by

beating her on the head witha stone . There was no apparen t mo tive for this crime;

the accused was acquitted on the groun d of insanity by the Session s Court . He is

n ow secured in the Lun atic Asylum atMadras.

The other cases of murder call for no special.n otice, the majority occurred on the

Maliahs where the people, who for a grea t part of the year are habitually drunk, attachlittle importan ce to the value of human life. Two cases of reported murder were

referred as false but n o orders having been received from theMagistracy regarding

them they are still classed as undetected .

Infanticide.—No cases of infan ticide were reported during the year.

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Inspection by“

District Qflicera—The Kemedy and Baliguda Assistant Superin

tenden ts visited all their station s. Two station s left unvisited by the Superin ten

den t in the main Division were in spected by the Baliguda Assistan t, who is

charge of two Divisions in the Superin tenden t’

s range for five mon ths in the year.

Genera l Rema rks—No disturbances have taken place on the hill tracts . On

the Baliguda hills there has been absolute tranquillity and peace . Messrs.MinchinBrothers were allowed to close their shops and as n o licences were issued permit

ting the soondies to manufacture, the natural consequencewasmuchillicit manufac

ture. The AbkariAct has been a dead letter in regard to allits importan t poin ts .

The n o ren t agitation ha s to a limited ex ten t penetrated eastward to the Sourah

hills, three villages of whichin the SerangoMut ta have for many months past persisten tly refused to pay rent to , or in any way recognize the authority of, their Bis

soyi. The ringleader was arrested on an Agency Warran t in November and lodged

in Berhampur Jailin the hope that this measure might induce the others to listen

to reason it had n ot the desired eifect an d as they still con tinued to stubbornlyhold out and would assign n o reason for so doing, it would have been . mere weak

n ess to give way to them any longer . In response to the request of‘ the Prin cipal

A ssistantMagistrate, a strong force of Police was m arched up from Kemedy to aid

those at Serango , the recalcitran t villages were surrounded and ca ttle driven off to

Serango to'

meet the just demands of the Bissoyi. Seeing the futility of resistance

the malcontents gava way and paid their lawful assessmen t.

The inadequacy in numbers of the Chatrapur Reserve has been so frequen tly

poin ted out that there is little more to add on this poin t. The strengthof the

Reserve is only 42 of all ranks which is quite in suflicient to meet the heavy de

mands on it. Men on their return from a long marchon escort duty are frequen tlyordered at on ce to proceed on other escort duty and they are much overworked .

As at presen t constituted the Reserve is no thing but an escort reserve and in a time

of emergen cy it would be impossible to rely upon having half a dozen men in imme

diate readiness. Owing to the Reserve being short-han ded, escorts have con stan tlyto be refused and inconvenience is thereby entailed on o ther departments.

His Excellency the Governor’s visit—The visit to this district of H . E . the

Governor was the chief even t at the commencemen t of the

year. He en tered the district by the Sitammapeta pass from

Purla Kimidy on the 19th February 1883 and visited the principal towns in the

district, viz, Paleonda , Parvatipur, Bobbili, Salur, Vizian agram , Bimilipatam an d

Vizagapatam . At all these places very large crowds congregated, and the neces

sary precautions were taken to preserve order. His Excellency left on the 28th

February.

Instruction Reserve-An Instruction Reserve composed of 30men drawn fromthe Superin tendent

’s Range an d the N arsapatam Sub-Division has been formed

this year at District Head Quarters. It will no doubt prove a valuable force should

occasion arise. The Parvatipur Instruction Reserve formed in 1881is in a. state of

efi ciency.

Healthof the Force—577 Police men were treated as in-patients during the

year,and 1418 as out-patients, in 4 PoliceHosPitals and 9 LocalFund Dispensaries.

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O f this number 12 died in Hospitals . Last year 540were treated as ia-patien ts,and 603 as out-patien ts and 14 died . Total n umber of deaths in the whole

Force during 1883was (19) nineteen . In 1882 twen ty-six In 1881 thirty

two

Force —The 48 surplus men at the beginning of the year, who came from the

abolished Salt Guards were absorbed, and a t the close o f the year the force n um

bered 27 officers an d 1205 men or 4 men short of the sanctioned strength.

Marine Police—As was noted in last year’

s report, a small force of 1Head

Constable and 10men was main tained from 1st January asMarine Police for passenger boats, at eachof the ports of Bimilipa tam and Vizagapatam . The public

did n o t appreciate the measure an d the Force was ordered to be abolished from the

15thSeptember 1883. Vide G . O . N o . 447 dated 6th September 1883. The to tal

cost of the Police at both Ports amoun ted to Rs.‘

1523-6-11, while the Receipts

came to Rs. 307-2-0.

Ofiicers.—Mr. Lushington , Assistant Superin tenden t, Narsapatam ,

having been

gran ted three mon ths’

privilege leave, his place was filled in a very satisfactorymanner byMr. C . E . B . P . Saunders.

,ToMr. Prendergast, the Assistan t Superin

tenden t, Parvatipur, three mon ths’leave was also gran ted and he was relieved by

Mr. W . B . Henderson on the 7thMarch. This promising young officer Was n u

fortun ately unable to fight the repeated attacks of fever to which oflicers in this

District are liable, and to whichhe rapidly succumbed, dying very suddenly on the

11thMay 1883.

Inspectors.—2nd Class In spector Gundubogula RamannahNayudu died at his

post on 29th April 1883. He had held charge of Gudary division for 17 years an d

7 mon ths and was well kn own throughout the GunpurMaliahs. His infl uence over

the khonds and souras was exceptional an d his loss is greatly felt. For his longand valuable services he received from the Supreme Government the title of Rai

Bahadur”in 1881.

3rd Class In spector KodiNarayanaswamiwas sen t to Balliguda as sub-Magistrate on 13thJanuary 1883, at the request ofMr . Goodrich, the Governor

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s Agen t,

at Gan jam . He return ed to the district on 18thOctober 1883.

3rd Class In spectorMr. W . A . Pascalwas transferred to Juggiapet in Kistn a

District, In spectorMr. C.M. West, relieving him as Store and Reserve Inspector

in December.

Head Constables.- European Head ConstableWhite, who was transferred to

Jeypore as an In spector on lst July 1881having broken down in health, reverted

to his old rank in this district in January 1883.

2nd Grade Head Con stable D adiNarayanaswami, who had passed the full Inspector

’s Test, was promoted to 5thClass Inspector and his services given to Jey

pore inMay 1883.

European Head ConstableMr. G . H . Payne, at the request of Mr. Tam er the

Governor’

s Agen t here, was tran sferred to the Agency Department on 7thJune to

be employed as Sub-Magistrate in Jeypore.

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372 person s obtained licences for 26 swords and 390firearms, of which54 are

flin t gun s and 50 are matchlocks. This is by no mean s a large number for so ex

tensive a district . It is hoped that nex t year more will be booked.

Crime—The following is an abstract of all offences again st the In dian Pen al

Code an d Special Laws. The figures for previous year are also given for comparison .

Property.

The followingis a sta temen t of Grave Crime for 1882 and 1883.

Cases . Person s. Pro perty. Cases. Persons. Property.

Murders

Ma o-dera—A short accoun t here of the 5 Cases may be in teresting.

On 4thJanuary 1883 two girls aged 7 and 8 years were collecting dried cow

dung a t a distan ce from the village . The father of one of them n amed AmhatiChin

niahfollowed them an d when they had come to a lonely place, he sudden ly poun ced

on the girl (Appammah) , who was n ot his daughter, threw her down , twisted her

n eck an d killed her. He then stole the jewels that she had on her n ose, ears an d

n eck, to tal value being Rs. 22-8-0. He threw the body aside in to the bushes, where

it was seen by the people searching for themissing girl, but there were n o traces of

how it came there . The offender was however traced solely from his daughter’

s ia

formation , an d was even tually convicted an d sentenced to be hanged . This occur

red in Venkummapet Village ofMakkuva Station .

On the l at February 1883 an other little girl 4 or 5 years old was strangled an dburied in the dry bed of a rivulet near Jannivulsa Village of Satur . When she was

1' N . B —Murders. In one case accused committed smc1de.

1 Other Robberies. One case and two persons were since convicted.

House-breaking . 1case With2 persons since convicted,in whichproperty worthRs. -0-0was recovered.

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missed, her people wen t scouting about for her and met one Ko ta Pydigadu comingup the banks from the direction of the very place where the body was shortly after

found, an d when they examined it the two earrings an d a nose ring valued Rs. 10

were missing. After carrying the body home they followed and caught Pydigadu ,

but the jewels had already been handed over to his mo ther-in-law Pydi, from whom

they were recovered on searching her house a second time. The two were commit

ted to the Session s, but the Judge acquitted them.

The third murder belongs to G . Division Chodaverum . In Karoka village of

Rajam Station a little child about 1} year old was left at home while his mother

wen t to the paddy fields for work . On returning home she did not fin d the child ,

an d a searchwas begun . The n ex t day (24thMarch 1883) the child’

s body wa s

found in a po nd withhis e ars cut, and the earrings worthRs. 2 were gone, as also

a string of copper pies worth As. 4. All endeavours to trace the culprits have

proved futile up to date.

The n ext ofien ce occurred in Pamulavoka village of Uratla Sta tion , C . Division .

One Ravada Yerra Appan n ahhad a married wife Chellamma , and a con cubine Jogee

the latter bitterly hated the former. One evening (6thSeptember 1883) she tookChellammahwithher for work in their field on the slope of a hill. They were seen

going together withbillhooks for the purpose of clearing away the overgrown weeds

and shrubs in the cultiva tion . N either of them returned, and the next day Chellam

mah’

s body was found ; it had its head punched witha stone and a cut resemblingtha t by a bill hook below the ear. The day after Jogee

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s body was found some

hun dred yards off with the throat out. There is n o doubt Jogee having murdered

Chellammahcommitted suicide.

The fifthmurder took place in Satyavaram village ofMadgole on the loth December 1883. IrrowthiYerikammah, a young woman of about 18years, who had n ot

been ailing from any sickness an d who had been seen in perfect health during the

day, was reported by her brother at 8 P M. . to have died . It was a kn own fact to

the n eighbours that there were frequen tquarrelsbetween the deceased andher bro ther

Arla Jogi, on accoun t of a concubine whom he had brought in to the house. On the

eveningin question also n ew quarrels broke out . Suspecting therefore she may have

died by the beating she received, the body was sen t for ex amin ation . TheMedicalOfficer certified she died of suffocation . Arla Jogiwas committed to the Session s on

circumstantial evidence, but was acquitted in February Session s of 1884.

Dacoities .-Five were committed this year an d all remain undetected . Parti

culars are as follows

O n the 25thJanuary 1883 a gang of Sowras who saw a dhoby in the morningtaking a load of dirty cloths to a tank to washwaited tillhe washed them all. An d

in the eveningwhen he was returning with the clean clothes, they stopped him, and

while two of them stood sen try over him with tonges, bows an d arrows, the others

carried away the clothes to the jungles. 5 Sowras were arrested withpart of the

stolen property who fully con fessed their guilt before the Gunpur Sub-Magistrate ,who committed the case to the Agen ts

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Court . There they withdrew their confes

sion’

hnd were acquitted on the charge of dacoity. The Agent however convicted

all the five for House-breaking as they admitted the clothes foundin their possession

belonged to a House-breaking case whichthey committed the same day, near the

same village. One was sen tenced to 5 years and the rest to 3years each. Their

arrest and conviction is therefore embodied un der the head of House-breaking.

An other case occurred on the 10thMarch1883. During night some robbers ,

about 5 in number entered in to the house of one Kon ada Vencatasawmy, struck him

an d carried away a large box con taining gold an d silver jewels and cloths worth

Rs. 860. The case remains undetected.

The third case.—AMarwariSahookar was travelling on a pilgrimage to Poores .

On the highroad near Thaloulsa of Jagan nadharajapuram Station , some stones were

thrown on his carts . He and his servants jumped out an d a fight ensued . The

Sahookar’s party were slightly in jured but succeeded in defeating their adversaries

who are said to have been seven in number.

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N 0 property was lost, nor was any at

tempt made to carry off the property. This case was first registered as an attempt

to commit dacoity, but there being apparen tly n o suchoffen ce in the Pen alCode, the

Section was altered to Section 395 I. P . C. , an d the casewas referred, as it was considered that the evidence did n ot establish the particular Crimin alin ten t, viz. , theft .

The Sub-Magistrate however ordered the case to be retain ed on the file. It occurred

on 13thMarch1883in CheepurupilliDivision .

The fourth case—On the night of 5th October 1883, a brahmin , MaddiralaSuryanaraina Roa , withhis family left Bimlipatam for Vizagapatam . About mid

night some six or seven robbers stopped the carts, struck him severely an d carried

away his property con sisting of gold an d silver orn amen ts and clothes valued

R s. Complain an t an d his party are un able to give any description of the

Dacoits, and as upto date the property has not been traced, the case remain s un

detected.

The last case occurred on the night of the 17th December 1883. A batch of

MaliahSowras came down to a village in the Plain s and attacked two person s watch

ing their paddy heaped on the threshing floor. They robbed them of their 2 sheets ,

6 cloths, a brass vessel and a plate. They wounded them in the scuffl e. After this ,

they rushed on to an adjacen t threshing floor watched by 3 person s, an d having beatthem hurting them with their tangies, they robbed 1sheet an d 5 cloths. The Sowras

at once retreated in to the hills. They have been now tracked, property has been re

covered and 5 of them have been arrested and are n ow under trial.

Culp able Homicides.—Of the 5 cases of this year 4 are convicted, (3in 1883an d

1in February 1884) again st 9 and 3 of last year. One of them calls for remarks

being connected withthe hill tribes of Gunpur. On the 9thOctober a deputation of

15 Khonds from 3 villages started to go to Rissem-Cuttack to pay their Dusserah

homages (in rupees) to their Rajah there. When they came to the outskirts of the

village of Cherangapad , some 70Khonds armed withswords and clubs wen t out an d

stopped them to settle an old grudge they had about certain lan ds. They were

beaten and cut severely and one of them was killed on the spot. In this case 20

Khonds were arrested and committed to the Govern ors Agen t’

s Court . 5 were sen

ten ced under Section 304 and the remainder 15 under Section s 148 an d 324 I . P . C .

Kidnapping.—Two cases of Kidn appingwere reported this year, an d n either of

of them were for immoral purposes, nor did they come quite within the mom of the

offen ce of Kidn apping. They were more marriage disputes an d the Sub-Magistrates allowed the parties to settle them according to caste customs.

Fabricating false evidence Section 196 I. P . C . Lingam Lakshmajee who se

n ame is conn ected withmany frauds and forgeries perpetrated on the Jeypore a n d

Madgole Z emindaries, an d who was already un der a sen ten ce of 8 years for som e o f

them was tried this year again for the offen ce. The case was committed to,the Ses

sion s Court where Lingam Lakshmaj l was sen ten ced to a further 4 years’rigorous

imprisonmen t . The securing of the n ecessary eviden ce in this case entailed m uch

patien t work on the Police particularly on the Head Quarter In spectorMr. S. P aul.

Acciden ta l dea ths and Suicides .—116 Suicides an d 615 acciden tal deaths w ere

registered this year. Of the latter 44 w ere from sn ake bites, 2 by bears an d 63 bytigers.

Accidenta l Fatwa — 538fires were registered this year , in which houses w ere

burn t, involving a loss of property to the amoun t of R s . During the tires

14 lives were lost .

Process Service—2462 Warran ts an d summon ses were served by the

Police during the year. This gives 123Warran ts an d 1787 Summonses for each of

the 20 Police men sanctioned for this district for Process Service.

The following shows the number served for the last three years.

Rewards.— 185 Police men were rewarded during the year, receiving Rupees

1633-2-11. Of this Rs. 31-9111-7 was for detecting salt cases, an d Rs. 336-7-4 for

Abkary cases . N o on e was rewarded by promotion . On e Con stable of N arsapa tam

Division received a reward of Rs. 25 for shooting a cheetah.

Guarding of Convicts—In the District Jail 683 convicts were guarded duringthe year, an d 302 in Parvatipur Hill Jail, an d short sen tenced prisoners in

subsidiary jails.

One escaped form Subsidiary Jail at Gajapathin agram an d was recaptured .

2 person s who escaped in previous years were recaptured this year . Altogether

20 escapes and 16 recaptures are registered this year.

The Reserve Force.-3O men are allowed for this district . 128 requisition s for

escorts were met during the year. Treasure to the amoun t of Rs. and opium

valuing Rs. -3z4 were escorted to differen t parts of the District. 178 prison ers

were also escorted by the Reserve bothin and out of the District.

inches of rain fell during the year ; the average rain-fall during the pre

vious four years was the prices of staple articles ofJaypore. food were consequently higher than in 1882.

9Fever and dysen tery were unusually prevalent throughout the year. The

strengthof the force on the 31st December 1883 was 396 men of all grades or 15

below the sanctioned strength; young men who ofier themselves for enlistmen t are

mostly illiterate ; muchdifficulty is con sequen tly experienced in filling up vacancies

in the different grades of Head Con stables.

At the close of the year 9 Head Constables were wanting to complete the

sanctioned strengthof officers of this class.

1In spector an d 101men (Head Constables and Constables) were fined duringthe year Rupees 5 and Rupees 84 respectively against 1In spector and 184 men

fined Rupees 5 an d Rupees 152-10-0 respectively in 1882.

1 Head Con stable and five men were struck off as deserters an d a like number

resigned on accoun t of ill health; 9 men were dismissed, 7 after conviction byMagistrate.

A 2md Grade Head Con stable was senten ced by the Agen t to six mon ths’

simple imprisonmen t un der Section s 201, 217 and 218 I . P . C ; his sen tence was

reversed on appeal an d he was subsequen tly re-in stated.

54Men, were enlisted during the year against 30in 1882. The recruitswere

chiefly Oriyas, illiterate and in ferior men as regards their physique an d general

fitness for Police duties ; this however is un avoidable, service on the Hills being byn o mean s popular.

During the year under review 15 men qualified for the post of Station House

Officers and 41men passed in the Con stables’Catechism.

The general con duct of the force has been satisfactory.

There were 308 admission s in to the Police Hospital at Koraput ; of these 204

were treated as in and 104 as out patien ts ; there were 14 deaths, six in Hospital

and 8 elsewhere ; the prevailing complain ts were ague and dysentery .

22 kn own depredators were re-convicted against 4 in 1882.

13prisoners escaped from the custo dy of the Police ; 12 were re-captured ; of

these 8were convicted an d 4 acquitted.

There was a marked increase in the number of grave cases registered ; 243

complain ts of a serious n ature having been reported against 190 in the previous

year ; in detection there was a slight improvement, 103cases having been brought

to conviction again st 64 in 1882.

18 Cases of murder were reported of which 3were detected and two struck off

as false ; at the close of the year 7 cases in which 12 prisoners had been arrested

were under trial. None of these cases call for special notice.

The fbllowing are the cases of Infanticide

A woman'

n amed Samara strangled her illegitimate child in order to escape

consequen t disgrace ; she was sentenced to two mon ths’rigorous imprisonment ; the

o ther case was of a similar nature an d was under trial before the Agen t at the end

of the year.

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Out of six cases of dacoity reported, 2 were detected and 3 struck off as false.

In the remaining case, 5 prisoners were awaiting their trial at the en d of the year.

Four Constables received a reward of Rupees 5 each for following up and

arresting 4 decoits in Bustar Territory ; having received in formation that the indi

viduals wan ted were residingin a certain village in Buster, they proceeded thither

and arrested them ; the Rajahof Buster made over one of them to their custody but

detained the other three on the groun d that they had committed certain offen ces in

his territory for which he had fined them Rs. 100 an d that until the fin e had

been levied he could n ot release them ; on the matter being represen ted officially to

the Rajah by the Special Assistan t Agen t, the prisoners were made over to the

custody of the Jeypore Police.

14 cases of Robbery were reported, 5 of which were detected ; 21prisoners

arrested and 15 convicted, 4 cases remained under trial at the end of the year.

Padhalo Naik, the Head man of the village of Popagam was presented by the

Agent witha gold bangle and a clothfor arresting 3men who had robbed a Bringary

N aick of Rs. 50 in cash; on the complainan t reporting his loss to Padhola

N aik, the latter at once collected a number of his villagers and marching at the

head of them followed up the robbers and arrested them . There were 201cases of

House-breaking by day and night with87 detected ; 215 person s arrested an d 164

convicted ; the value of property lost and recovered was Rs. and Rs.

respectively against Rs. and Rs. 423in 1882.

One case of Kidnapping was reported and detected ; the following are the parti

culars ; a party of 20 men from the Bustar Territory en tered the N owrangapoor

Taluq and carried off a young girl during the absence of her relation s from her

house, 9 of the accused were arrested and placed before the Agen t who sen ten ced

them to short terms of imprisonmen t.

84 cases of cattle liftingwere reported and 53 detected, 109 person s were ar

rested and 80 convicted.

The Police investigated 245 cases of ordin ary theft and took in to custody 317

person s, of whom 229 were convicted; in 1882 the number of ordinary thefts report

ed was 156.

290heads of cattle were killed by wild beasts agamet 240in 1882.

26 person s died from snake bite, 3person s bitten by snakes were treated with

liquor Ammonia , two successfully.

The following is a comparative statement showing the loss of human life bywild beasts

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were fin ed in a sum of Rupees 193-2-4 for difl eren t offences. 2 Head Constables

an d 161Con stables forfeited pay for absence without leave .

Police Officers convicted by Courts

a woman to ohtrage her

of Trust by a Servant Section s 408 and 109 I. P . C .

Receivin sto len property Sec 411 I P 0.

Assault co . 352 I . P . 0.

House Trespass Sec . 448 I P . C .

Guarding of Cen tral and District Jails.-The guarding of both the jails was per

formed satisfactorily . The daily average of prisoners in the Cen tral Jailwas

and in the District Jail 122-65 . No prisoners escaped from either of the jails.

Escapes—Six prisoners (one from Subsidiary Jail and 5 from other custody)

efl'

ected their escape ; four of them have been recaptured .

Suicides and acciden tal deaths

Sole mn . D an na.

12 18

Adults 29 717

Chlldren

Adults 9 32

Children 4 80

Total 51 144

Summon s and Warrants

In grave casesWarran tsIn petty cases

O f these 1205 were issued for n eglect of summons .

In grave casesSummon sIn petty cases

Warran ts an d Summonses making a total of pr o c e sses execs

and served by the Police.

Human beings killed by wild beasts .-Seven person s (6 males a n d o n e

were killed by wild bea sts during the year chiefly in Peddapore , R u m p a a nd

pilly Division s .

Ca ttle killed by Tigers and Cheetahs.— 587 Cattle as detailed belo w w ere kil

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by tigers and cheetahs in Bhadrachellum, Yernagudem, Peddapo r e , T ocuy a

Pittapur Division s .

Total 587

Tiger traps—There were 160 traps main tained in Rumpa Division a n d

beasts were killed in them .

Besides these, on e tiger, 7 cheetahs an d 8hyaenas were killed by Police by g“

snares and gun shots. A sum of Rs. 902-8-0 sanction ed on accoun t of rewards was

disbursed to the villagers and Police Ofi cers concern ed .

Kidnapping for immoral purposes ; D ragging ; D eaths from Ganja ; and Euro'

pean Vagrancy Act. Under these heads n o cases were reported during, the year.

Cattle poisoning

Cases.

139—Bullocks .

150— Cows.

16l—Calves .

59—Bufi'

aloes .

l 5—Sheep .

54—Goats .

7—Horses or Ponies.

l—Pig.

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Known D epreda tors—460 males and 17 females were registered as kn own de

predators, 46 males and 22 females as receivers of stolen property an d 381males

and 366 females as belonging to wandering gangs. 78 old offenders were convicted .

Grave crimes —The following statement shews the grave crime of the District

for 1883.

Crimes. Rem ake.

by night

Murders—Of 19 cases, 11 were detected and 8 undetected . A short accoun t

of eachis given below

I . Yaditha murder, Ramachendrapur Taluq main Division . The VillageMunsifi

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of Yaditha sen t a report to the Station House Officer ofMundapett, sta ting thata woman n amed MadesettyMaly complained before him that some body murdered

her son V encadu, aged 7 years, by cuttinghis throat on the 20thJan uary 1883and

threw his body into a chann el. D uring the investigation of the Police it was shewn

that defendan t Duthakula Sashegadu had committed the crime in con sequence o f

some enmity existing between him and the deceased .

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mitted the case for trial to the Court of Sessions where the prisoner was ac

quitted .

II . A petition without signature was received by the Superintenden t ofP olice

stating that on the 3lst January Defendan t Ravipoody Chinnammy caused abortion

to a w emam n amed Cheruvoory Pamatamah, murdered her by poisoning, stole pro

perty con sisting of jewels worthRs . 40-0-0 on her person , and secretly disposed o f

the body by burying it somewhere . From the investigation in stituted by the

Police, it appeared that the woman Pamatamahwas a widow and that she became

pregnan t through illicit in tercourse, and miscarriage was caused to her but it did

n ot seem that she had been murdered . It was supposed that she had joined some

pilgrims going to Benares . N o clue was obtained . The corpus delictin ot having

been established the case was referred but the Sub-Magistrate ordered it to be re

tained on the file till some reliable information was procured about the missingwoman .

III. Kotta MunjaruMurder, Cocanada Division .-0n the lothFebruary a per

son named P . Ramaswamy murdered his mistress Puddalamah, by striking herwith

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a pestle, because he Simpected that she had illicit in tercourse . The prisoner was

convicted by the Sessions Court and sen tenced to tran sportation for life.

IV . KovourMurder, Yernagudem Taluq, Sub-Division .-Ou the 23rdMarch

on e B . Subbadu caused the deathof his wife N arisy by cutting her throat with a

knife , having suspected that she had sexualin tercoursewith a man n amed Gungadu.

The prisoner was sen tenced to transportation for life by the Session s Court.

V . On the 3rd of June Defen dan t Boddu Sattigadu murdered one Rajan alaRamyyahby stabbing him witha knife on the chest in consequen ce o f enmity ex

isting between them regarding a bullock. The prison er was sen tenced to dea th

by Session s Court.

VI. Chin toor Murder, Rekapilly Division , Main Division .—Ou the 25th o f

March,D efendan tMosume Paupudu caused the deathofhis wife Bojjiby throttling

her as she associated withaMussulman n amed Ebrahim Sahib. The prisoner was

convicted by the Governmen t Agen t of this District, and sentenced to transporta

tion for life .

V II. TeerumalayMurder, Peddapur Taluq, Main Division .—On . the sth of

July Defendan t Authay Vencatasawmy killed his wife by stabbing her witha knife,she being suspected of adultery . The prisoner was sen tenced to tran sportation for

life by the Session s Court.

V III . P alaco teMurder, Nursapur Taluq, Sub-Division .- Ou the night of the

29thJuly, Defendan ts N . Bramhayahand S. Veeraragulu murdered a woman n amed

Subby who was kept by bothof them, by stabbing her witha knife, as she tried to

a ssociate withanother man . The 1st D efendan t was sen tenced to deathby the

Session s Court, and the 2nd prison er was pardoned on being made approver. The

con viction was quashed by the HighCourt on appeal.

IX. SamparaMurder, Ramachendrapur Taluq,Main Divismn .—Ou the night

of 5thJuly, one Veeravilly Ramyyahkilled his wife by inflicting several woun ds o n

her person withan adze suspecting her of adultery . The prisoner was convicted bythe Sessions Court an d sen ten ced to tran sportation for life.

X . An naveram Murder, Peddapur Taluq, Main Division .

-Ou the 11th

August, Defendant Seemun tula Kan nigadu murdered aMussulman n amed Thatha

Sahib by cutting his throat witha knife . The prison er was committed to the

Session s Court where he was declared to be in san e and was Sen t to the Lunatic

A sylum at Waltair.

XI. Mulapurree Murder, Nursapur Taluq, LSub -Division .—On the 2oth of

August, Defendan ts Pen too Sahib andMeeran Khan caused the dea thof aMussulm an boy of 5 years age, by trampling upon his n eck, for the sake of silver orn a

men ts worth Rs . 8-3-0 which were on his'

person . The two prisoners were

sentenced to tran sportation for life .

XII. NursapurMurder, Nursapur Taluq, Sub-Division .—On the night of the

29thSeptember, a prostitute named Edega Venky was put to deathby G . Venca ta

sawmy, and three others who cut her threat in consequen ce of enmity existing be

tween the deceased and the 4thDefendan t . The four prisoners were committed to

the Sessions Court where they were acquitted .

XIII. PittapurMurder, Pittapur Main Division —On the night of the 27th

September, Defendan t Noyedu Subbaroydu murdered his wife by breaking her head

witha mill stone, having suspected that she had illicit in tercourse. The prisoner

was convicted by the Sessions Court and sen tenced to dea th.

XIV . PeddapurMurder, Peddapur Taluq,Main Division .—On the 6thOcto

he r,the body of a boy n amed N akka Lutchmudu was found on the road n ear Samul

co tah. From some marks it was supposed that he was beaten while grazing cattle.

The Apo thecary at Cocanada was o f opinion the boy died of co ngestion of the

brain . The Police enquired in to the case but n o clue was obtained.

XV . AmalapurMurder, Amalapur Taluq,Main Division .-Ou the 15thOcto

ber, Defenda n t Juttiga Ven ca taswamy, a p ariahby caste, stabbed his wife Venky, his

mother-in-law Nagy, a nd a man n amed K . Swamy Gadu with a knife . N agy had

refused to send his wife to his house when he asked her, and Venky did n ot ac

company him when called , and Swamy encouraged his mother—in—law n ot to let his

wife come to him . Of the three person s Nagy in stan tly died from the effects of the

wound while the other two recovered . The prisoner was sen ten ced to deathby the

Sessions Court.

XVI. Machaveram Murder,Ramachendrapur Taluq, Main Division ,

—TheVillage Curnum ofMachaveram sen t a report to the Police Station at Ramachendra

pur stating that Golugoory Venkiahin formed him that his son P utryahwas missingfrom 23rd September and must have been murdered an d buried somewhere secretly .

D uring the investigation of the Police some bones of a human being were found

buried in a tank, but sex and age were not known in Hospital. The case is still

under Police investigation .

XVII. Samulco ta Murder,Cocan ada Division , Main Division .

—On the 14thofMayM. Narigadu and two o thers struck one Boddu Ramudu with a stick in

con sequence of enmity and thereby Ramudu died . The three prisoners were com

witted to the Session s Court where they were acquitted .

XVIII. Pedamirum Murder, Bheemaveram Taluq, Sub-Division .

-On the

night of the 5th November, B . Kotadu caused the dea th of one Narsigadu by in

flicting wounds on his head and temple with a stick and robbed him of propertychiefly con sisting o f cash amoun ting to Rs. 34. The prisoner was sen tenced to

transportation for life by the Session s Court.

XIX . KumaradavumMurder, Yernagudem Taluq, Sub-Division .—Ou the 8th

September, a man n amed Subbayahmurdered his wife by inflicting wounds on her

person witha knife, suspecting her of adultery, and attempted to commit suicide bycutting his threat. The D efendant was arrested and while he was under treatmen t

in hospital at Tallapudy effected his escape. He is supposed to have drowned him

self ia the river Godavery whichflows past the village .

D acoities.—Teeny Dacoity, only one case ofDacoity reported during the year.

It belongs to main Division . Seven or eight robbers attacked a bandy man on the

highroad and after pelting him with stones robbed him of an earring worthRu

pees 4-0-0 and a cloth. The case is undetected .

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In a third case, three teddy drawers of Pedapulivarru Village, RepelliTaluq,being the paramours of the same prostitute, a D ommara woman residing in that vil

lage, were on bad terms owing to her special attachment to on e of them n amed

Vaka Lakshmigadu. Con sequen tly the two othersM. Venkatigadu and V . Subbaya

con spired together to kill him . While matters were so , a domestic quarrel arose

between Venkatigadu and his mother on the evening of 1stMay 1883. Hea ringthe quarrel Lakshmigadu ,

wen t there ; while with some others he was sitting in

fron t of Venkatigadu’

s house the defendan t Venkatigadu sudden ly cut the neck o f

Lakshmigadu witha knife called Geeta Katti from behin d .~ Attempt was made

by the by-standers to apprehend him but in vain . The deceased Lakshmigadu

expired a few minutes afterwards . The defen dan t was arrested by the Police

afterwards, and prosecuted before theMagistrate. The case was committed to the

Session s where the defendan t was sen tenced to deathbut on appeal the HighCourt

commuted the sen tence to tran sportation for life.

Culp able Homicide—The following cases are importan t. One M. Pen taya

warned his wife suspecting her o f ca rrying on an in trigue with an o ther man n amed

N . Peraya , n ot to go to his house . On the l6th September 1883 she sat nea r

P eraya’s cot under a tamarind tree . Pen taya on seeing this, grew angry and bea t

her . Peraya interfered and kicked Pen taya severely and he fell down and died .

The defendan t was arrested and prosecuted by the Police . The case was committed

to Sessions Court where he was sen tenced to 6 years rigorous imprisonmen t .

While shepherds M. Ramaswami, China Veeraswamiand K. Mattigadu o f

Rachapatnam, Gudivada Taluq, were fighting with one ano ther, one T .Matadawen t to separate them. Andula Gangadu who was withMattigadu beat him witha

fl at bamboo stick called Kavidibadda because hein terfered,Matadu was mortallywounded and died 9 days after . The defendan t was arrested by the Police and

prosecuted before theMagistrate, who committed the case to the Session s, where hewas sen tenced to 4 years

’rigorous imprisonmen t .

Infan ticide—None.

D acoities.— 7 cases occurred, 6 were prosecuted by Police. The Magistra te

committed 1 case to Session s Court. The Judge dismissed the case disbelievingthe iden tification of the prisoners by witnesses. 5 cases were tried in the Nalla

gonda AdalatMadatgar Sahib’s Court, N izam ’s Governmen t

,and were all convicted

in this year. The following are the details of the cases.

1. House dacoity.—TheMohatad of Karlapalem, Bapatla Taluq, reported at

the Peraly Station that on the 29thNovember 1883, robbers (6 in number) armedwith sticks, broke in to the house of L . Kristnama by making a hole in the wall

and beat him, his wife and mother-in-law and took away their jewels valued at

Rs. 56-14-0. All the robbers were arrested and prosecuted and committed to the

Sessions Court but were acquitted for want of evidence.

2 . Field dacoities.—While travellersKavalariMangamma and ValliSubbauna

were going in a bandy on 6thMay 1883 from Nekarikal, Nizam’

s Territory, to Ka

va lur,their village in Bezwada Taluq, they were attacked in the field of Bheema

varamin Jaggayyapeta Division near a hill called KonagiriMallayya hill” by a

gang o f 12 Lumbadies,armed withsticks and hatchets, beaten and robbed of their

property valued a t Rs . 126-6-9 and also that of Sriramulu, M. Sobhanadrithe

bandyman . Ghat Con stable No . 4329 Venkanna of Gavaravaram Station , who

happened to be near the bandies, the scene being close to his ghat challenged the

robbers; when they persisted,he discharged his loaded carbine at them, but missed ,when they overwhelmed him and inflicted severalwounds withhatchets on hisheadand back . S. Sriramulu, bandyman was also struck with hatchets . The dacoits

carried off the con stable’

s carbine, but it was found by Nizam’s Police in a bushin

Nizam’

s village Velidindi.”4 person s were arrested in this case with property

valued at Rs . 65-14-0 recovered . They having been prosecuted before the

Nizam’

s Court a t Nullagonda were convicted and sentenced to 4 years’rigorous

imprisonmen t eachby Adala tMadatgar on 12thFebruary 1884.

3. While complainan ts R acherla Venkanna and MamidiAppayya were goingwiththeir families from Jaggayyapeta to Lingagirion 30thJuly 1883, a gang of 16

robbers armed with sticks and hatchets attacked them on the way, beat an d

robbed them of their property valued at Rs. 314-6 0. 8 person s were arrested in

this case withproperty valued Rs. 211-8-0recovered . They having been pro secut

ed before the Nizam’

s Court at Nallagonda were convicted and sen ten ced . 6 de

fendan ts to 4 years’rigorous imprisonmen t each, 7thand 8thdefendan ts released on

13thFebruary 1884.

4. While complainan ts BavanasiKotayya of Jaggayyapeta , Gan apavarapu

Lingayya of Addanki,Nellore District, and his horse keeper were going from Jag

gayyapeta toMuktyala on 30thJuly 1883,a gang of 8 robbers, armed with sticks,

a ttacked them and beat and robbed them of their property valued Rupees 0-4-0 ;

7 persons were arrested in this case with the stolen property . They having been

prosecuted before the Nizam’s Court were convicted and sen tenced . 6 defendan ts

to 5 mon ths’rigorous imprisonmen t eachand 7thDefendan t to 12 stripes with

rattan on 19thFebruary 1884.

5 . While GummadiSriramulu of Yelamarriand Peda Padman abhudu and

Pottury D anayya of Golivepalli, Nuzvid Division , were going from Muktyala toJaggayyapeta withtheir empty bandies on 3othJuly 1883, a gang of 14 robbers

armed with sticks, hatchets and knives attacked and beat them and took their

property (gold-earringsan d cash) valued Rs . 34-4-0. 6 persons were arrested in

this case withproperty valued a t Rs . 26-6-0 recovered . They having been prose

outed before the Nizam’s Court at Nullagonda were convicted and sen tenced

eachto 2 years’rigorous imprisonmen t on 16thFebruary 1884.

6 . While complainan t Lascar Guravayya of 3lst Regimen t N . I . was going to

Hyderabad on 30thJuly 1883, a gang of 16 dacoits, armed with sticks,a ttacked

him on the way between Jaggayyapeta andMun agala , a t a river called ‘Garikipa tieru,’

beat an d robbed him of his property valued Rs. 56-0-0 ; 6 persons were arrested in

this case with property valued Rs . 8-4. They having been prosecuted before

the Nizam’

s Court at Nullagonda were convicted and sen ten ced . 6 defendan ts to

2 years’rigorous imprisonmen t eachon 16thFebruary 1884. They have still to be

tried for various murders and dacoities . In the above dacoity cases tried by

Nizam’

s Court 8 persons concern ed in receiving stolen property under Section 4127

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of the Indian Penal Code were also arrested and prosecuted before the same Court.

The following are the conviction s .

lst and 2nd defendan ts to 4 years’rigorous imprisonmen t each.

3rd an d 4th do . to 2 years’rigorous imprisonmen t each.

5thand 6th do . to 500 rupees fine in default to 1year’

s rigorous im

prisonmen t each.

7th and 8th do . released .

2 of the above convicted are also convicted in two other cases .

7 . While one N agaram Adin arayudu and 9 others were going to Gun tur

from N andigama on 20th N ovember 1883, 15 robbers armed with sticks a ttacked

them at D anubanda Ghati, N andigama Taluq, bea t a nd robbed them of their

property, gold and silver jewels, clo ths, and cash valued at Rs . 594-11-0. N o

clue was obtained .

A few lines about the detection of these dacoities may n ot be out of place .

Case N o. 2 occurred inMay, but n o clue was found . On 30thJuly cases N os. 3, 4, 5 ,

and 6 occurred . Local enquiry having failed , it was thought advisable to employ a

special In spector to work out these cases . Con sequen tly In spector K. Subbarayudu,

Bezwada Taluq, who had previously done well in detecting other cases of this description , was deputed to detect these cases. A s the crimes occurred near the borders of

Nizam’

s Territory an d from other causes, person s from that Territory were at on ce

suspected . The In spector left Bezwada on 9thSeptember 1883 and on 24thSeptem

ber learn t from the Kam am of Kakireni, Nizam’s Territory, that one V alu Brin jari

had been arrested by the Suriapet Amin Sahib and con fessed an d that if he wen t

therehewould get information ; but the Amin gave him no in formation ; he con sequen tlywen t to Head Quarte rs, Hyderabad , and there saw the SurdarMohatamin Sahib Z ulFaqir AliSahib, a friend of his, who gave orders to the Z illahMohatamin to render

him every assistan ce . Armed with this authority, he obtained a copy in Persian of

V alu’

s statemen t, whichhe got tran slated into Telugu . This gave him a grea t deal

of in formation as V alu had con fessed not on ly to a murder in Nizam’s Territory, a

D acoity withMurder at SivamOga ,Mysore Territory, but implicated his gang in ca se

N o. 2 and other dacoities. In spector got this statemen t on 17thOctober. V alu had

been arrested by the Nizam’s Police but absconded on 21st October ; the In spector got

information that V alu’

s gang was halted in the field of Alagadapa , DevarapalliTaluq

(Nizam’s Dominion s) and the same night at midnight started witha party consisting

of 7 Nizam’

s Police, 2 Sowars, 5 BritishPolice and some 50 villagers from Kan ama l

cheruvu and at about 5 A. M. of 22nd October arrived within a mile of the place where

the gang (Valu N aiek’e) was en camped . The gang was surrounded and 26 person s

(Valu N aick in cluded ) captured . A stick lost in case N o . 4 and the Con stable’s tur

band lost in case No. 2 and handkerchiefs belonging to this Con stable were found in

possession of this gang, The gang was captured 40 miles west of Jaggayyapeta an d

within 6 miles from Nizam ’s Police StationMiriyalagudem . The effect .

of the capture

of this gang will be n o doubt highly beneficial to the peace of this and other districts .

There are 4 notable gangs who frequen t the Anantapur, Bellary, Cuddapah Districts

of BritishTerritory, SivamOga District,Mysore Territory, and Nizam’

s Dominion sand Dharwar of Bombay. These are headed by

Gang 1. Hema Naick.

2 . Periya N aick .

3. V alu Naick.

The heads have allbeen captured except Periya Naick, who escaped from the cus

tody of theMysore Police and is now supposed to be on the borders of the Nizam’

s

D ominion s and the Bombay Presidency. N os. 1 and 3 are the chief gangs and

have combined together ; they committed the 5 dacoities in Jaggayyapeta Taluq of

this District and 10 Dacoities and 4Murders in the Nizam ’

s D ominion s and a large

n umber of Dacoities in theMysore Territory. Of these 4 gangs the n ames of 75 per

son s are known of whom 51person s have been arrested and the remainder are at

la rge. 24 of those were arrested by the Mysore Police at differen t times and 26 byour Police as shewn above ; the remaining one was arrested by the Nizam

’

s Police .

About 24 are at large. 9 of those arrested by the BritishPolice were cha rged before

the Nullagonda Court on the 8th N ovember 1883 and convicted and sen ten ced in

February 1884 . 8 of those arrested confessed to the dacoities committed in this

District .

Regarding the 7thDacoity committed in N andigama Taluq at D on aban da Chat

on 2othNovember, 2 other n otorious gangs are suspected , these are headed by 2 yan a

dies n amed

1. Chin ta Venkatachelam—Escaped from Central Jail Rajahmundri.

2 . Tumma Somadu—Formerly of N andigama of this District but now lives n earSingareniof Nizam

’

s Territory.

There are about 10 person s in these 2 gangs. They committed a house-break

ing in the Nizam’

s Territory 3 or 4 mon ths ago . The Nizam’

s Police surrounded

them ,but they escaped . Their females 5 women and 1boy were arrested with some

property lost in the said house-breaking case and some un claimed property, of whicha

bra ss pot and 3 revikas (bodices) have been inden tified by one of the complainan ts in

the D onabanda dacoity. These 2 gangs joined together about 10 days prior to the

D on abanda dacoity and are n ow wan ted.

Highway Robberies—2 cases were reported and 1 convicted . Detection 50 per

cen t .

R obberies —Out of 13 cases reported 3were convicted . Detection 23per cen t.

House-breakings .—320were committed, of which93or 29 per cen t. were detected .

In Masulipatam and Gun tur Town s 23 per cen t. were detected being in the former 4

out of 14 cases an d in the latter 3 out of 7. In villages 29 per cent. were detected

or 86 out of 299 cases. In 1882, 74 were detected out of 289 cases or 25 per cen t.

Thefts.—205 cases out of 759 cases were detected or 27 per cen t.

P roperty—The property lost in the above grave cases was valued at R s .

an d that recovered at R s . or 14 per cent. Including thefts Rs. were lost

an d R s. recovered or 19 per cent.

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Abkary.—157 cases

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of breaches of Abkary laws were prosecuted and conviction

was obtained in 117 . Detection was 75 per cen t.

Kidn appingfor immora lpurp oses—None.

Suicides—48males and 85 females committed suicide ; 30males an d 77 females

by drowning, 16 males and 7 females by hanging, 2 males by lethal weapon and 1

female by miscarriage.

Accidental dea ths—200males and 145 females died from accidenta l causes ; 150

males and 126 females by drowning ; 13males and 6 females by snake bite ; 37 males

and 13 females by other causes.

Fires —303 fires occurred, 1509 houses were burnt. Property valued at

R s. was destroyed . 5 lives were lost.

Crimin a l cla sses.—487 males and 6 females were registered as known depre

dators, 24 males and 9 females as receivers of stolen property, 67males an d 4 females

suspected person s, 968m ales and females as belonging to wandering gangs .

28 kn own depredators and 12 suspected person s were convicted during the year.

Tours—The District Superintenden t in spected all Station s in the Prin cipal

D ivision on ce and 7 Station s twice. He visited the Sub-Division Head Quartersthrice and 1 Station in the Sub-Division . The Assistan t Superin tenden t visited all

the Station s of the Sub-Division and 11 Station s twice and 2 Stations thrice.

Mr . Thomas, the Officiating Superin tenden t, left for Anan tapur District on 9th

June 1883. Mr. Fullerton assumed charge of the District on 30thJune 1883.

Village P olice—These appear to be employed on Revenue duty prin cipally, Police

duties being of secondary con sideration .

The chief even t of the year has been the visit of the Right Honorable the

Governor of Madras to this District in the mon th of July.

N ellore.His Excellen cy was met at Venketagiry by the Collector and

Superintendent of Police who escorted him to Nellore. Thence he returned toMadrasvia the Buckingham Can al, the Superin tenden t of Police proceeding withhim as far

as Striharikota .

In the matter of crime n othing significan t has occurred, and had there been no

recurren ce of floods nor visitation of cholera to chronicle, the year under review, like

the preceding one, might have been regarded as one of peace withprosperity.

Force—The force was 14 men below sanctioned strengthon the 31st December

1883.

In the mon th of N ovember the Salt Departmen t took over the guarding at Duga

razapatam , Kristnapatam, Iskapally, Pakala and Kanuparty Factories and now the

Police have been entirely relieved of all respon sibility in this respect. After this

tran sfer was effected 10 Head Constables and 46 Con stables had to be provided for.

Such as were fit for further duty were absorbed into the General Police force while

others were dischar

ged on pension .

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Casualties—There have been 243 casualties as follows again st 251in 1882.

(1) Resigned 31

2 ) Dismissed for misconduct 11

(3) Discharged on P ension or 56

1 In spector.

11Head Constables.

44 Con stables .

(4) Discha rged an other grounds

(5) D eserted

(6) Died

Of these 13, 8met their deathby Cholera .

Hospita l— 427 in-patien ts collectively were admitte d into the Nellore and

O ngole hospitals again st 372 of 1882 . The number of admission s at Ongole exceeds

that at Nellore . The Sub-Division is noted for guin ea-worm cases. There were two

dea ths in the Ongole Hospital and in Nellore 3 from Cholera .

D ep artmen ta lpunishmen ts—During the year 182 men of all ranks were fined in

the aggregate R s . 139-3-9, again st 1 Inspector, 1 Sub-In spector and 177 men fined

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R s . 98-12-4 in last year. The in crease in fines is due to the Superin tenden t havingin some special in stan ces inflicted heavy fines in lieu of suspen sion s as a specific

punishment. The latter mode of punishing men involves the temporary loss of their

services and is therefore con sidered objection able.

4thClass In spector D . Vydian adiahwas temporarily reduced to 5thClass for 3

m on ths owing to persistent dilatoriness in the performan ce of his Oflice work . Only8 Head Constables an d 35 Constables were reduced against 14 Head Con stables and

57 Con stables in 1882.

7 Head Con stables temporarily promoted for Salt duty were ordered to revert

to l st class Con stables at the close of the manufacturing season .

9 permanen t and 2 temporary Constables were dismissed ; of these, 3had beenconvicted as under byMagistrates.

2 under Section 44 of Police Act.

1under Section 380 Indian Penal Code.

P olice Ofiic

ers judicia lly convicted— 5 Police Ofi cers were convicted again st 10

in 1882. Only 3 out of the 5 were dismissed . The remaining two were retained as

they were found guilty on ly of assault. The Only case worthy of men tion is that in

which a Reserve Constable 654 Kodundaramiah was convicted of theft. He stole a

lea ther belt belonging to the Jailor and was awarded 15 days’rigorous imprisonmen t

for the ofien ce. He was of'

course dismissed .

P olice Ofiicers rewarded —13Police Officers, 1 In Spector, 1Head Con stable and

11 Con stables received money rewards amoun ting to Rs. 97 against 41in last year

with a total of Rs. 163-12-0.

7 Police Officers, 1Head Constable and 6 Constables were rewarded withpro

mo tions against 19 in last year.

4 Police Talaries received rewards amounting to Rs. 16 from the In spector

General.

The District Magistrate san ctioned rewards amoun ting to Rs. 43 to 8private

individuals for good service rendered in detection of cases and meritorious conduct in

rescuing person s from drowning.

Sta te of Educa tion —There were 197 enlistmen ts viz. , 1 In spector and 1 Sub

I n spector, 64 permanen t and 131 temporary Con stables. Of the 64 men enlisted for

the permanen t force, only 31 can read and write. Some difficulty is still experien ced

in obtaining literate men who an swer the required stan dard of physique and this is

likely to in crease owing to the Railway Works recen tly commenced in addition to the

Sungam project now in progress.

Jail.— 96 convicts were in confinemen t on the last day of the year again st 129

on the 3lst D ecember 1882 . One convict confined in a solitary cell escaped on the

night of the 7thDecember. The Head Con stable of the guard and one of the sen tries

were punished for their negligen ce.

Subsidia ry Ja da—There are 16 Jails of this description in the district as in the

preceding year.

318 prisoners were confined in them again st 443in 1882 .

N o escapes from Sub-Jails occurred during the year.

Other escap es.—19 person s escaped from the custody of Village Police men

again st 14 in the previous year. 18 of these person s were re-captured. The regula r

Police snfiered n o escapes to take place.

P rocesses. processes were served on persons again st on

person s in last year .

Of these processes on person s were issued in grave cases.

Violent and unn a tura l dea ths .—The subjoined tabular statement shows 553

suchdeaths to have been reported during the year.

Males.

CAUSES.

The 430 acciden taldeaths are sub-divided as follows

By drowning " I o n .

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leaves 3 murders un accoun ted for. In one of these 3 cases the prisoners were ac

quitted by the Session s Court, in the second they were released by the JointMagistrate for wan t of proper eviden ce, and in the third case no arrests were made.

2 of the 7 cases reported come under the head of ChildMarder . There were n o

poisoning cases. The following is a brief history of eachcase.

1. A powerfully built Yan ady of the Kota division , suspectinghis.wife’

s fidelity

murdered her and his daughter . He then roamed about in a state of fren zy from

field to field and murdered any one that happend to come in his path. A Village

Mun sifi and a Brahmin woman were killed outright while another Brahmin woman an d

a cowherd were so severely wounded as to have their lives endangered . He was sen

teheed to tran sportation for life.

2 . A man of the Comaty Caste aged 45 years was found dead in a well of

Etamukala Village in Ongole Division . The Police con sidered that the man had

committed suicide but the TaluqMagistrate wa s of a dfieren t Opinion . No clue wa sobtained .

3. A widow of the Shepherd Caste residing in PudiliDivision being un able to

support her n ewly born infan t strangled it. She was sen ten ced to tran sportation for

life.

4. A marriedMussulmanee living atMadirajugudur in Nellore rural Division

in a fit of temporary in sanity threw her daughter aged 7 years into a well and followedherself. This case remain s unavoidably undete cte d.

5 . OneMan thalapu Luchmiahand 2 others were accused of having murdered

a Pariahn amed Nursigadu in the Village of Chilakapad attached to Pamoor Station .

The remain s of the corpse were.on ly discovered a mon th or so after deathhidden

below three or four bandy loads of stones . The Police made strenuous efforts to

bringhome the crime to the accused and they were ably assisted by the Acting Join t

MagistrateMr.Moberly who made enquiries on the spot .

This officer was obliged to discharge the prisoners as the evidence procured was

n ot suchas to justify their committal on so serious a charge.

6 . One GongodiAukireddi aged 70 years was found dead on the pathleadingto An antavaram at a distance of about 4mile to the southof Kocherlakota village in

D ursidivision . The body bore distin ct marks of violen ce an d of having been slashed

by an axe . The murder was traced to on e GOngodiPolakka and her paramour Jinka

Chinna Paupadu . Deceased had been keeping this woman for many years but of late

she had deserted him for Chinn a Paupadu’

s sake. In order to carry out their illicit

in trigue without molestation this man and woman con spired together to killhim . The

axe an d their clothes were found covered withblood stain s and the Silver waist cord

worn by deceased at the time of the murder was produced by Paupadu . Bothprison

ers made a confession al statemen t before the Sub-Magistrate who visited the scene of

crime. The Session s Court disbelieved the eviden ce and threw out the case.

7 . The skeleton o of a woman n amed Lutchmukka with some cloths was found

lying on a by-path near Bullipallivillage in Kanigiry division and the ground

aroun d it was covered with blood. Enquiries by the Police led to the supposition

tha t the woman had been murdered by S.Yerekulareddy (Curnam) , Gumpa RamiahandL . Pedda Chennareddy who were last seen in her company and found quarrelling with

her about the paymen t of some money. The jewels worn on her person valued at 95

Rs. were missing. Yerukulareddy the let accused confessed the crime and pro

duced the jewels from a Nullah in which he had buried them . He implicated the

2nd and 3rd accused and their concern in the matter was to some ex ten t proved bycircumstan tial evidence. The Judge however acquitted the 2nd and 3rd prisoners

and sen ten ced the lst prison er to tran sporta tion for life. The woman was apparen tlystoned to deathafter being knocked down .

Culp able Homicide—A chuckler residing at Atmakur was committed on the

above charge for having struck an old woman of his own caste with a pestle in the

heat of quarr

el, an d having caused her death by fracturing a rib. The LocalHos

pital Assistant who made the p ost-mortem gave his evidence in a very un satisfactorym an ner, being apparen tly ign oran t of common poin ts in medical jurisprudence. The

witnesses for the defen ce proved tha t the deceased who was far advanced in years had

fallen down acciden tally on a ston e. Case was thrown out, the Judge remarking tha t

with the evidence before the Court the deathof the woman might as likely have re

sulted from accident as from violen ce .

Grievous Hurt—17 cases were red with 7 detected again st 14 cases in

1882 with9 detected . N one of these cases call for any special remark. There were

n o ca ses un der Section 328 I. P . C.

Kidnappingfor Crimina lp urposes.—No suchcases were reported in the District.

D acoity.—One case of the kind was reported from the Ongole division in which

3 travellers, one of them a woman bedecked withjewels, were beaten withsticks and

robbed of R s. 1-12-6 in ca shand jewels valued at Rs. 182-3-6 . These travellers were

a tta cked on the 15thSeptember about i“ of a mile to the Northof Ongole while goingfrom their village in AddankiDivision to Kundukur. The Police at first suspected

bricklayers residing in the western taluqs of the district who are in the habit of goingto G un toor to work in the indigo vats there, but subsequent enquiry proved this Opini

on to be erroneous. The crime was n o doubt committed by 6 Yerekulas of a gang fra

quen ting the Kistna District and when the Superin tenden t visited Ongole in Decem

ber the division al In spector promised to gethold of thesemen buthehas not yet effect

ed their capture.

Highway Robbery.—An aged Cumma caste man , a cattle trader by profession , was

returning to his village Biradavole in the Rapur Division with180 Rs. in cash. He

was attacked by 2 D ommaras at 9 o’clock A. M on the Nellore Rapur road and be

laboured most unmercifully withsticks . The old man struggled with his assailants

m ost man fully but was even tually overpowered and deprived of his property. Com

plain an t was under treatment in the Nellore Hospital for upwards of a month; 5th

Cla ss In spector Jeeven s Row worked up the case well for whichhe received a moneyreward from the In spector General. Bothoffenders were convicted by the Session

Court and sen tenced to 7 years’rigorous imprisonmen t each. The above was the

on ly case of the kind reported during the year.

O ther Robberies.—9 cases were reported with6 detected again st 6 reported

in last year with5 detected . In only one of these cases was violence resorted to when9

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Ca ttle thefts .—Of the 683 cases shown above, 55 are ca ttle thefts . Of these 25

were detected . In 1882, 45 ca ses were reported with13 detected . Out of 66 person s arrested for this type o f crime 45 were convicted and Rs. 413recovered out ofRs. 809 lost.

Ca ttle p oisoning.—3 cases of this n ature were reported with1 case detected

against 4 cases in 1882 with1 detected .

R eceiving stolen property.—25 cases were reported with15 detected an d 21per

son s con victed out of 37 person s arrested .

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The figures for 1882 are 26 cases re

ported, 20 detected, 34 person s arrested and 23 convicted .

Salt smuggling— 10 cases have been reported with6 detected, 16 person s ar

rested, and 10 convicted .

Salt thefts.—164 cases have been reported of which141 have been convicted .

169 person s were arrested and 161 convicted . Rs . 61-2-2 worth of salt lost was

recovered .

F alse cases.—410 cases were referred by Police suo motu, of which 405 were

ordered to be struck off. In 1882 , 462 cases were so referred, so that there hasbeen a decrease of 52 cases in 1883. Only on e person was convicted for preferringfalse complain t of robbery and he was sen ten ced to 6 mon ths

’rigorous imprison

m en t by the Head Assistan tMagistrate.

Cases prosecuted by Police and found fa lse after enquiry a nd tria l by crimin a l

Courts.—There have been 81cases of the kind again st 98in 1882 . Any decrease

however smallis satisfactory as it shows that the Police have proceeded withgreater

caution in making arrests and framing charges .

Village P olice .

— It is now 5 years sin ce the Village Police of this District have

been organized upon any thing like a system , but this system is still defective . The

m a jority of them draw a mon thly salary n ot exceeding 3Rs. and many of them n ot

m ore than 2 Rupees . The amoun t of their pay is said to be regulated by the amoun t

o f kist realized from the village . It would be better if the system obtainingin Kur

n ool District were to be in troduced here where an uniform rate of pay viz., R s . 4 is

given and the strengthof the Village Police is regulated by the amoun t of the eu

n ual revenue collection s. Withpay falling short of 4 Rupees a village Policeman

ha s n o alternative but seek other mean s of livelihood to the detrimen t of the discharge

o f his public duties.

In struction —The Superin tenden t inspected all'

the station s in the Principal

division (74) and 6 in the sub-division , 11of the above stations were visited on moretha n one occasion .

All 57 Stations were in spected by the Assistant Superintenden t and 10 of themmore than once .

Insp ectors‘sp eciallg distinguished.

—5thClass In spector Jevan a Row was special

ly rewarded for detection of a highway robbery, as already men tioned . 1st Class

I n spector Venket Row, who was employed on specialduty in connection withthe Ne1~

lore Registration Oflice forgery case, has again shown his usual zeal and energy.

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Liquor Amm onium—47 cases of sn ake bite were treated with this spiritl'

Police. 44 cases are said to have been treated successfully. I n 2 cases of

bite the person s are supposed to have recovered.

In 67 cases person s died of snake bite before any aid co u ld be render:

Police. The victims con sisted of 31men 17 women 13boys and 6 girls .

Gen era l Remarks.—In submitting this report the Superin tend e n t has much;

sure in statin

on the same satisfac tory footing and he is indebted to theMagist r a cy generallytheir cordial aid and cc-Operation in matters afiecting Police Adminis tr a tion .

A profession al gang of coiners hailing from Amroote, (Bera rs ) w as cap

witha complete set of in strumen ts for coun terfeiting the Quee n ’s Coin an:

members 5 in numberisen tenced to various terms of imprisonment by the

younger members of the gang are used as passers of the counterfeit

commence operations by offering to give 17 or 18 ann as in copper for a rupee

wards they disagree'

with the victim, the bargain is cancelled and a fa lse

given back instead of the good one.

Strength of Roma—The strength of the

313t December 1883was as follows

19 In spectors.

113 Head Con stables:

765 Con stables.

Total 899 of all ranks.

The sanctioned strengthfor the District is

19 In spectors.

3 Sub-Inspectors.

117 Head Con stables.

792 Con stables.

Total 931 of all ranks.

On the 3lst December 1883, there were 452Mahomedans and 426 Hindoos

all castes in the District Force.

Insp ectors and Sub-Insp ectors.—Only 9 Inspectors have passed the full féi‘

prescribed for their grade ; but all In spectors in charge of Division s have a fair knoW'

ledge of law and of their duties generally.

Head Constables.—All vacancies in this grade are reserved for passed andrel]

behaved men in the District Force.

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Casualties.

2 Dismissed .

4 Resigned .

3 Died .

3 Discharged as unfit for further service .

Withthe ex ception of a few old hands, all have passed the test laid down for

Station House Officers.

Constables.-As a body constables have done their work very fairly.

E nlistmen ts.

28 Con stables (Hindoos. )

Casua lties .

7 Dismissed .

27 Resigned .

6 Died .

3 D eserted .

4 Discharged as unfit for further service.

The large number of resignation s is owing to the men in this District, especiallyn atives of Kurnool Town , objecting to serve away from their n ative village.

School.-1 In spector, 1 Sub-Inspector, 3 Head Con stables and 43 Constables

were under in struction during the year in the Head Quarter School ; of these 1HeadCon stable and 11Constables remained in schoolon the 3lst December 1883. 2 Head

Con stables and 3Con stables passed Station House Officer’

s Test, and 29 men passed

Con stable’

s Test during the year.

1 Inspector completed In spector’s Test.

General feeling of p eop le towards P olice.—The gen eral feeling of the people

towards the Police is satisfactory.

Insp ection—Major G . R . Hodgson was the Superin tenden t . Mr. G . A . Stanley

Thompson was the Acting Superin tenden t up to the 7thof February, on whichdate

he was wounded by some Chen choos and had to be sen t to the GeneralHospital at

Madras for treatmen t and did not return to the District .

Mr. H . Persse took charge of the Sub-Division on the 1stMarch1883.

The Superintenden t in spected 6 out of 29 station s in the Sub-Division and 53out

of 67 stations in the main range ;

The Assistant Superintendent in spected all 29 stations in his range and with

the san ction of the Inspector-General14 station sin themain range whichthe Superin

ten den t had n o time to in spect before the end of the year, be having remained in the

Sub-Division from the 6thJanuary to the 12thofMay 1883 withthe ex ception of a

few days spent travelling backwards and forwards.

Health of the Force.—9 men died during the year, of these, 3 died in hospital.

7 men were discharged beingpronounced unfit for further service, 443men were

treated as in npatients and 361 as out-patients.

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Head Constables.

Under Section 44 of Police Act

D o . 223 In dian Penal Code

D o . 342

D o . 352

P rocesses—Police executed 952 warran ts and summon ses were served

during the year.

In addition to the above, 649 warran ts issued in default to obey summon ses

were also executed by Police .

The n umber of person s called to atten d Courts was Altogether crim e

was less, the number of processes issued increased from in 1882 to in

1883.

Cases referred byMagistra tes to P olicefor enquiry—121 cases were referred by

Magistrates to Police for enquiry an d all turn ed out to be false an d were ordered to

be struck off . In 1882 the number of cases referred for enquiry was-212 .

Cases referred as fa lse by P olice toMagistl’ates cases were referred a s

false by Police toMagistrates and of these 415 were ordered to be struck off . In

1882 the number of cases referred by Police was 423.

Murders —10murders were reported during the year . All were of an ordinaryn ature, 5 of these were committed for trial to the Court of Session s, ‘

of which4

were convicted and 1 acquitted . In only 2 , out of the 4 cases convicted, 2 offen ders

sufiered the ex treme penalty of the law . In one case the murderer committed

suicide .

R eported . Detected. Arrested. Convicted.

10 4 31 5

Two cases under trial on the 31st D ecember have sin ce been disposed of by the

Sessions Court ; in on e case four person s were tried and acquitted ; in the o ther

case six person s were tried, two were acquitted, two sentenced to deathan d two to

tran sporta tion for life.

The following are brief particulars‘

of murders reporte d .

1. One Govin tha Reddy raped his own sister when she was out watching a

field, he then tore pieces from her cloth, tied her han ds and feet an d strangled her .

The murderer in this case was sen ten ced to death.

2 . Wudda Subbadoo and two others, while un der the influen ce of liquor, hada quarrelwithWudda Nagadco and 2 others about some pork words led to blows

and Wudda N agedoo was killed witha club .

The offenders arrested in this case escaped from the custody of Taliaries while

the Constable in charge went to call coolies to carry the corpse .

The Con stable was prosecuted for handing over the prisoner to the Taliaries

and was convicted for n eglect of duty .

3. OneMishkin Saib deposed before the PyapaliDeputyMagistrate on 2nd February 1883 that Sun jiReddy and Jungum Reddy murdered his brother Kamal Saiband his concubine Boya Rangi on 2othSeptember 1882 and threw the bodies in to

the river whichwas then in fresh. No clue has been obtained in this case.

4. OneMathiga Hanumadu was carrying on in trigue withthe wife ofhis master Hussein Reddy for whichHussain Reddy and 2 others of his servan ts murdered

Mathiga Hanumadu and threw the corpse in a field . The 3persons concerned were

ested and committed but were acquitted by the Court of Sessions.

5 . One Chanchoc Nagedoo murdered his wife Buchy, because shewas unfaith

ful to him , by cutting her throat. This murderer is still at large.

6 . Mala Gooroovadu stabbed and killedMattiga Bungavadu because he would

n o t give him some mutto n whichwas being shared withothers. The murderer in

this case suffered the ex treme penalty of the law.

7. One Kumsala Subban na , while under the infl uence of liquor, killed his

second wife by hitting her over the head with a stick and was sentenced to trans

po rtion for life.

8. One N arammah, while returning after watching the fields ofhermaster,was

set upon by one Petha Oba Reddy and 3 others, who killed and robbed her of jewelsto the value of Rs. 180-0-0. The 4 accused in this case were acquitted by the Ses

sio n s Court in February 1884.

9. There are two factions in the village of Jumbulthinne ; one headed by theVillageMagistrate, the other by the Kurnam .

Several charges were brought by these factions again st eachother and the fol

low ers of the VillageMagistrate were heavily fined for rioting an d in order to bring

a fa lse charge of murder again st theKurnam’s party, some of the VillageMagistrate’s

party killed an old man . 13 persons were arrested belongingto theVillageMagistrate’sparty ; in this case 6 were committed to the Court of Session s, of whom 2 were ac

quitted, 2 sen tenced to tran sportation for life and 2 sentenced to deathin the Febru

ary Session s.

10. A mother killed:her child, full particulars of this will be found under head

In fan ticide.

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Culp able Homicide.—4 cases of Culpable Homicide n ot amoun ting to murder

were reported , but all turned out false on enquiry and were ordered to be struck off.

Kidnappingfor irmnoralpun-pasca

—No cases were reported during the year.

D mgging.—N o cases were reported during the year.

D acoity—12 cases, the same number as last year, were reported during 1883.

1in a house, 3 on highway and 8in fields. Only 3 cases or 25 per cent . were

con victed . In some the value of property lost was trifling.

Reported. Detected. Arrested. Convicted. Lost. Recovered.

12 3 15 5 73.

The followingare brief particulars of the dacoities reported.

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1. One Komaty Ramiah and 2 others of Con ampully in Serwell Taluq com

plained that about 50 Lumbadies armed withgun s and spears and carrying torches

broke in to their houses and by force carried off jewels &c . , werth Rs .-12-0.

N o clue has been obtained .

2 . One N agiReddy complained that while he was returning from Kothapetta ,PamiReddy and 7 others attacked an d beat him with sticks an d a sword and stole

Rs . 70in cash.

3. On e V ann a P apadu and 2 others complained that while they were grazingsheep in the jungle 8 Lumbadies

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attacked them withsticks and by force carried off

one sheet, one turban d, one axe, four sheep, an d 4 goats worthRs . 22-4-0. In this

case 10men were arrested , of these 2 were released by the committingMagistrate , 6were acquitted by the Session s Court and the Judge differing from the verdict of the

Jury as regards 2 prison ers, referred the case to the HighCourt, who sen ten ced the

two prisoners to 3 years’rigorous imprisonmen t.

4. One Sooray Pitchammah and SoorayMoosaliReddy complained that about

10 Erikalas attacked them,n ear N arayan apally, assaultedMoosaliReddy withsticksand by force carried off their jewels worthRs . 106-8-0. In this case on e person was

arrested but was acquitted by the Sessions-Court .

5 . One YeddoolaMoosaliya complain ed that while be was grazing his sheep in

the jungle 6 Lumbadies attacked an d beat him , took from him by force Rs. 4 in ca sh

an d gold ear-rings worthRs . 6 an d also carried off one sheep valued at Rs. 2 . N o

clue has been obtained .

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6 . One GollaMathadu and 5 others complain ed that while they were grazing

their flocks in the jungle, 8 or 10 Lumbadies attacked them withsticks an d ston es

an d robbed them of their property worthRs. 26-4-0.

In this case 3men were arrested but were released by the 2nd Class Magistra teof Cumbum .

7 One Sala Rungadu of Velgode an d 4 others of Kistn a District complain ed

that 12 Wuddars attacked them with axes, sticks an d sto n eswhile they were goingn ear Velgode an d robbed them of Rs. 890in cash an d jewels worthRs . 67-8. N o

clue has been obtain ed.

8 One Govin thugadu and another complain ed that while they were grazingsheep in the jungle, 6 Lumbadies attacked them , but with the assistan ce of villagers

who came to their help they drove them off an d pursued them, when about 20more

robbers join ed the first six and firing a gun frighten ed and drove off the shepherds and villagers.

9 VillageMagistrate Venkata Reddy reported that while he and 4 others were

travelling m a cart fromKurn ool, 9 or 10Wuddars pelted stones and robbed them o f

silver bangles an d cloths worthRs. 18 an d Rs . 18, in cash.

The persons accused'

in the case shown below being concerned in this case, theywere charged in bothcases but the Sessions Court ordered the withdrawal of N o .

10case after they have been convicted in the above.

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10 Village Taliary reported that one V enkatappa N aidoo an d his followers

weregoing along the Gooty road n ear the 13thmile stone, 12Wuddars attacked them ,

beat them with sticks and ston es, causing woun ds, an d carried off Rs. 300in cash

jewels worthRs. 969 .

In this case 5 men were arrested ; 2 escaped from the Subsidiary Jail, Kur

n ccl, an d 3were convicted , 2 of whom were sen tenced to 7 years’rigorous imprison

men t each, an d the other to 10 years’rigorous imprisonmen t .

11 Village Magistrate ofMahadavapuram reported that on e Thellum Baliah

and 5 others were going along the public road about a mile fromMahadavapuram ,

when 20 E rikalas suddenly attacked them with sticks, an d robbed Balieh of1118

cloths worthRs. 1-15 . N o clue has been obtained .

12 One Katakum Venkatramudu and 2 others of Kan agery Taluq, N ellore

District complained that 10 men a ttacked an d wounded them by throwingsto n eswhile they were passing on the High road and robbed them of Rs . in cash an d

jewels the . worth Rs . 39-13. In this case 6 men were arrested,’of these 5 were

pron ounced guilty by the jury but the Judge differing from the verdict referred

the case to the HighCourt who released all.

Ca ses rep orted and convicted—The following Table shows the number of cases

reported an d detected during 1883.

Cases. Persons. Property.

Remarks

C ases under I. P .

C ases un der other laws

Robberyi—5 cases were reported during the year, 1house, 1 highway, an d 3

in fields. 2 cases or 40 per cen t . were detected, against 9 or 60 per cent in 1882 .

Hon se-breakings.

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-144 cases, 9 by day, 135 by night were reported, of which 6

by day an d 27 by night or 22 per cen t . were detected.

86 person s were arrested of which43or 50 per cen t. were convicted .

Property worthRs. was lost, of whichRs. was recovered .

Cases of lurking-house trespass have not been included in the above.

House-breakings in Kurnool Town —8 cases were reported, allwere by night, 5

ca ses were detected.

7 person s were arrested and 5 were convicted .

Property valued at Rs. 59 was lost and Rs. 10 recovered .

In 1882, the number of cases reported was 16, of which5 were detected .

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Ca ttle thefts—17 cases were reported again st 35 in 1882 . 5 cases were

detected .

28 person s were arrested ; 11were convicted .

Cattle valued at Rs. 195 were stolen ; cattle valued at Rs. 17 were recovered.

Thefts — 447 cases were reported again st 450in 1882 ; 203 or 45 per cent.

were detected .

773 person s were arrested ; 391or 50 per cen t. were convicted .

Property valued at Rs. was lost ; Rs. was recovered .

Infa n ticide. Only on e case occurred during the year. A widow n amed MalaErrathy was confin ed of a boy, the mother an d her paramour threw the baby in to

a prickly pear bushan d wen t away. Subsequen tly the VillageMagistrate and othersfoun d an d rescued the child, but he died on the secon d day.

The two accused were convicted by the Session Court and sen ten ced to tran s

portation for life .

Genera lRema rks—Ou the 8thday ofMoharum, viz. , i. c., l0thN ovember 1883,

Kurn ool Town had a n arrow escape from a riot whichmight have turned out to be

very serious.

The followingis the brief history of what occurred

It appears that in Original Suit, N o . 153 of 1882, on eMarvady Luckajee got adecree again st Nizam Ka thooma Saib, wife of Gulam AliKhan Bahadoor Khandan ee

of Kurnool on thé l0thJuly 1882 an d on the 9thN ovember 1883, plain tiff through

his Vakeelgot the DistrictMun siff to issue an attachmen t warran t for certain articles

belonging to defen dan t, and among other things for a Pun jab” (imitation of

five fingersin silver) whichis con sidered sacred and worshipped during theMoharum .

On the 8thday of theMoharum , viz.,i.e. , lothNovember 1883, a HindooAmin of

the Court n amed Jolapurum Seen appa armed withthe warran t alreadyalluded to wen t

to attachthe Punjah he was obstructed andhe applied for Police aid. TheDistrict

Superin tendent on makingenquiries was satisfied that there was a very strong feelingon the subject and taking steps to preven t any breach of the peace he rode over at

once and consulted the DistrictMagistrate and under his instr uction s rode on an d

had an in terview with the District Judge by whose advice he wrote to the District

Munsiff who stopped the execution of the warran t till after theMoharum and n o

disturbance of any kind occurred.

To thoroughly realise the gravity of the situation , it must be remembered

that Kurnoolis 60miles from the nearest Railway Station , an d had a general riot

occurred in the Town ,about which there can be little doubt had the attachmen t

warran t not been withdrawn , it would have been hopeless to keep the peace with

the small body of Police available tillMilitary aid arrived .

However all is well that en ds well and the inhabitan ts of Kurnool have

good reason to be thankful that theMoharum of 1883passed off quietly .

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P olice Ofiicers and others rewarded—1Head and 1 Co nstable received a

reward of R s . 15 from Mr. A . Sabapaty Moodeliar of Bellary for detecting a

theft case which occurred in his house .

2 Con stables received reward of Rs . 18 san ction ed by the In spector Gen eral

o f Police and a 2nd class Con stable was rewarded by promotion to 1st Glass for

successful detection .

Sta te of Educa tion .-34l members of the Force can read and write ; of 88 enlist

men ts during the year 45 men can read and write .

Processes. warran ts an d summon ses were served by the Police

during the year.

Gra ve Crimes —Marder .—9 murders were reported and 3 detected this year

again st 10 repo rted and 2 detected in 1882 . 25 persons were arrested and 2 were

convicted ; o ne o f them fo r two murders.

Fakeerapahof the village Sogiin Hadagally Taluq disappeared on 17thOcto

ber 1883 his brotherMullapahwithsome of the Sogivillagers wen t to Bun dappah’

s

garden on the 7thN ovember 1883and there accused Bun dappahof the murder of

his brother Fakeerapah.

Bundapahin order to escape detection and to bring a coun ter charge again st

Mullapah an d his associa tes murdered his own wife Parvatamah and inflictedsome woun ds on his own body.

The 2md classMagistrate of Hadagally withthe In spector of Police proceeded

to the scene of crime an d saw the corpse of Bundapah’

s wife an d the Magistra tegoing in to a cow-shed observed some loose earth, had it dug up and found the

corpse of Fakeerapah.

Bun dapah who stood his trial before the Court of Session for the murder of

Fakeerapah, partially admitted the offence and was sen ten ced to death.

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In one of the undetected cases the murderer committed suicide.

One Bala Chowdapahen ticed and carried away his brother Chinn a Chowdapah’

s

con cubine from Raidroog. Chin n a Chowdapah who went in search of them foun d

them 1n the village of Chinn a Cowcoon tla on the 14th November 1883, but having

been refused the surrender of his con cubine, stabbed his brother Bala Chowdapah

witha chisel and then his con cubine, thus causing the death o f both. He himself

committed suicide by the same weapon on the following day 15th N ovember 1883.

Culp able Homicide—2 ca ses of Culpable Homicide were reported and one

detected against 3 cases reported and 2 detected in 1882.

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Sta te of Educa tion —231Members of the force or 445 per cen t. can read and

write, again st 212 or 437 per cen t . in the preceding year. 27 of the recruits

en listed during the year were able to read and write .

Sta te of Instruction .—83 men were instructed in the District Head Quarter

Schoolin cluding recruits, of whom 12 were can didates for Station House Officer’s

test, 4 of these passed the test, an d 5 remained under in struction at the end of the

year . 4 recruits passed Con stable’s test before being posted to Divisions. 2 Con s

tables passed the same test in Taluks.

1Head Constable passed part I of the In spector’

s test ; and I Sub-In spector

passed part II , and thereby completed the In spector’

s test .

District Jail.—There is no Jail at Anan tapur, all prisoners are sent to the

Bellary'Jail.

Subsidiary Jails.-There are e subjails in the District, in which10% prisoners

were confined during the year. Average duration of confinemen t of prisoners in

these jails was days .

E scap es—There were n o escapes from Police custody during the year . 2 pri

souers escaped from the custody of Village Police, but were re-captured .

P rocesses .-Exclusive of miscellaneous processes, were servhd by the

Police during the year, again st, in the previous year in grave cases,a nd in petty cases.

Violent and unna tura l dea ths.-The number of violen t and unn atural deaths

was 221during the year, again st 249 in the previous year : 60 were male, and 101

female adults 20 male, and 40 female children .

Suicides .—The number of suicides has fallen this year to 39 from 46 in the

preceding year : 32 (5 male an d 27 female adults) by drowning, 2 (1male and 1

female adult) by hanging, an d 5 (2 male and 3 female adults) by other causes .

Acciden tal dea ths .—There were 158 acciden tal deaths during the year, against

187 in 1882 . Of these, 98 (18males, 48 females ; 9 male an d 23 female children )met their deaths by drowning, 26 (9 males, 7 females , 6 male and 4 female children )by snake bites, 4 (males) by wild beasts, and 30 (12 males, 7 females, 3male an d

8 female children ) from other causes.

Acciden ta lfires —There were 166 acciden tal fires,in which 436 houses were

burn t, and property valued at Rs.-2-6 destroyed, and 4 lives lost, as again st

174 fires, with367 houses, and Rs. -14-8 of property destroyed, and one life

lost in 1882 .

Known D epreda tors and suspected p ersons.—There were 299 n ames on the Book

II on the 31st December 1883; of these 223 (222 m ales and 1female) were KnownD epredators, and 76 (males) suspected persons. The decrease from 344 1111882 18

owing to elimination by Inspecting Oficers of persons who were reported to have

given up criminal habits .

2 Kn own Depredato rs were re-convicted, an d 4 suspected persons convicted forthe first time. Two life convicts of the Lumbady caste named Kurrya an d Turkyaga

returned to the District from transportation in the middle of October 1883and were

directed by the DistrictMagistrate under orders of Governmen t to reside in their

respective villages under Police surveillance, but Kurrya disobeyed the order, and

suddenly disappeared on the 13thNovember 1883. He was subsequen tly found out

residing in a gang of Lumbadies in Hospett Taluq of Bellary District an d arrested

under the DistrictMagistrate ’swarran t by a Con stable deputed fromhere, an d brought

back’and placed before him on the 20thJanuary 1884.

WanderingGangs.-There were adult members ofWanderingGangsin the

District. Males and females In 1882 the to tal n umber was on ly

10members of Wan dering Gangswere convicted during the year . 1 of robbery,

4 of house-breaking an d theft, 2 of cattle theft, 1 of ordin ary theft, and 2 un der

Section 10.of the Crimin al Procedure Code.

Grave Grime—There has been a slight decrease (5 cases) under all heads of

grave crime, ex cept un der House-breaking, as compared with1882, and detection

has fallen from 32 per cen t., to 258 per cen t.

In 1882

In 1883

Mnrders.—There were 6 murders reported during the year, again st 7 in the pre

vious year. Of these, 3 were prosecuted, 2 were convicted, and the third wa s

thrown out for wan t of evidence.

In these 3 cases the victims were children . In one case a boy of 8 years w as

murdered for the sake of his ornamen ts wortha few Rupees . He was first choked

and then struck with a stone on his temples . Both hands were also cut off to

remove the wrist bangles. The prisoner in this case poin ted out the boy’

s corpse ,

gave up sto len property, and made a full confession o f his guilt both before the

Magistrate and Sessions Court. He was sentenced to death.

In another case a girl of 8 years old was murdered for the sake of her jewels .

A woman who lived in the n ex t house to that of the decea sed, and who was veryfamiliar withher, en ticed her away to a well outside the village, and pushed her in to

it after robbing her of her jewels. She con fessed her guilt to the VillageMagistrateand gave up the stolen property. She was sen ten ced to transportation for life.

In the third case, a woman was charged with having murdered her newly born

child, but its body was n ot discovered . The evidence of 2 boys tending cattle wen t

to show that the accused gave birthto a female'

child, an d immediately afterwards

left the place after con cealing the body of the child under some stones ; a woman of

the same village who passed by the place shortly after, deposed to having found the

body of the child under the stOnes, but, before the VillageMagistrate and Police

knew of it the body was destroyed by animals . The prisoner was acquitted as the

Court held that the evidence was insufi cient and unreliable.

(c) The conduct of the con stables, so far as the con viction s obtained again st

them in theMagisterial Courts can be accepted as a criterion ,shows an improve

men t, for n on e were charged with serious offences 1Head Con stable (4thGrade )and 7 Constables were punished under Section 352 I . P . C . (Assault) ; 2 under Sec

tion 223, (Negligen t escape) 1under Section s 342-352,(Assault and wrongful co n

finement) 1under the Railway Act, (travellingin the train without a ticket) ; 1underthe Jail Act, (supplying prisoners withforbidden articles) ; 1 under Section 448,

I . P . C . House trespass ; the man convicted in this case,who en tered a house ad

joininghis own to see his comrade’

s wife at night, was sen t to jail; all the other

offences were settled by fines. N one were punished by the Session s Court. So fa r ,

their behaviour wasmuchbetter than in many preceding years ; amongst them there

are steady and hardworking men,of their honesty and truthfulness who ca n

speak ; they are no better and no worse than the class from whichthey are recruited

(and-the n ame of the CuddapahDistrict Na tive stands by n o means highin SouthernIndia ) and the giving them a Governmen t dress and a little discipline does n ot suf

fice to materially elevate their moral standard and the only won der is that wielding

the power they do , in many in stances away from con trol and surrounded by igun

ran t and timid villagers, they do n o t'

abuse it more than they have don e.

(d) Throughout the year therehave been n o complain ts made, either directly ,

or indirectly, of the Police having tortured, beaten ,ill treated or threatened, accused

parties to induce them to con fess.

Departmen tal punishmen ts.

Fined

Degraded

Dismissed

Total. 219

The amoun t of fine levied , Rs. 84. Rs . 63in 1882 and 1883 respectively ; here

too the past year shows an improvemen t on 1882, a decrease of Rs. 21.

For absence without leave 4 Head Con stables and 145 Con stables were also

fined ; this ofi‘

ence frequen tly takes place under con siderable temptation when on

leave and when their holiday is about to expire, they are implored by their frien ds

to stay a few days longer”and unable to resist the suggestion and solacing them

selves with the refl ection that they will only lose their pay for the absence, they

frequen tly overstay the leave san ctioned .

Educa tion and School.—The number'

of illiterate Head Con stables is n ow

reduced to 4 ; an d there are 535 Con stables also un able to read and write whilst

124 Head Constables and 373 Con stables can both read and write or 497 readers

and writers again st 539 illiterate men of the recruits enlisted in 1883, over 50

per cen t are fair scholars ; this is almost as higha per cen tage a s we can expect

in a District like Cuddapah, where education amongst the masses is yet in its

in fancy.

During the year under review,1Head Constable and 12 Constables passed the

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thieves who pelted him with stones, when he fell down senseless ; n o sheep were

stolen ,and those who were wa tching the flock withGungadoo appearto have do n e

n othing towards arresting the thieves ; they, however, declared tha t they clea rly

iden tified on e of the thieves who struck Gungadoo witha ston e and this man w a s

subsequen tly arrested on their iden tification but was let go by the Sub-Magistra te .

Gungadoo died whilst beingcarried to the Civil Dispensary and before he could make

any statemen t ; it is believed that this tale about the thieves coming to steal shee p

was a pure fabrication and that Gungadoo was really killed by his comrades durin g

an altercation .

(e) Gungan a and 2 others slept near their sheep in the field at night Gun

gan a was severely woun ded by some one, and died in theMaddan apully hospita l ;un fortun ately no statemen t could be taken from him

,as he never recovered co n

sciousness after being beaten . 2 men originally testified that they witnessed -a

certain man making the attack on Gungan a , but to the surprise of every. one these

two witn esses in Court declared they kn ewand saw n othing, and so the accused

had to be set at liberty ; these two men were eviden tly bought over by Gungan a’

s

friends

(f ) Of the 4 cases in whichn o decided result was obtained , the first happen

ed in the fields o f Yellampully Village at night ; a man called Kondiah and some

o thers are said to have been attacked by thieves who beat Kondiahand robbed him

o f some old clo ths ; in this case also , it is supposed that the real murderers were

Ko ndiah’s companion s and that n o outside thieves caused Kondiah

’

s death,but n o

clue could be obtain ed to unravel the mystery.

(9) The concubine of a Con stable belonging to Korlacun ta Station in the

Roycho ty Taluq wen t during this constable’s absence o n duty to the jungles

to cut firewood ; she was subsequen tly found lying dead in the jungle withher ban

gles &c . stolen ; in this case too the Police failed to obtain any clue .

(h) This as well as (J. ) were in reality,crimes coming under Section 304,

I . P . C . (Culpable Homicide n o t amoun ting to murder ) but owing to the parties whocould tell the truth obstinately refusing to give any in formation , we have recorded

the offences under the heading of murder.

(i) Chen n appa , a member of a wanderinggang ofWadders, was killed during

the night and the co rpse was buried ; n o one would tell publicly what happened but

it is tolerably sure that he was killed by an other man of the gang on grave

and sudden provocation”

caused at finding the deceased having intercourse with

his wife .

(j ) In the middle of the day in the open village, an old woma n called Soob

amma was killed by blows inflicted by a heavy ha tchet ; after receiving the first

blow or at the time o f receiving it she was standing at the door-way of a weaver

caste man’s house ; she tottered in to the house and there fell dead in a pool of her

own blood .

The old woman’s son Bangaya stated that his mother has grossly abused a

wealthy ryot and money lender o f the Village called Eeswareddy and that after lis

tening to .thie abuse, as foul as abuse could be, levelled against Eswareddy and all

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belong to him for some time , Eeswareddy could stand it n o longer and so struck

the o ld woman down with the hatchet ; this is n o doubt n early the correct version

o f what to ok place but Bangaya could get n o one to support his tale and any wit

n ess who was supposed to be coming forward to assist Rangaya was at on ce induced

by the o ther side to hold his tongue ; when it is men tioned that this crime occurred

in the Prodda tore Taluq, that hot bed of lying, villany and deceit, it willn ot be a mat

ter o f wonder when it is stated that a tr00p of fa lse witnesses from all parts Sprungup n o t one o f them had really seen or know any thing but they turn ed up promis

cuously and o n quietly lettingit be known that they had come to give eviden ce for

Rangaya, they a t once got something and wen t off.

The Eeswareddy party denied the whole thing and !tried to make the Police

believe tha t Ba ngaya , the complain an t, had murdered his old mo ther publicly in the

middle of the day, so that he, a poor and frien dless man , might accuse the Eeswa

reddy family, between whom and himself there was a long standing and bitter

ha tred, of having committed the murder .

It is really doubtfulifE eswareddy himself did the deed ; he started an alibibut

tha t he or o ne of his numerous male relatives, when smarting under the venom of

the old woman’

s tongue, actually out her down there can be n o doubt ; but so strongw as the influence of this wealthy and powerful family, that n o t a soulin the hamlet

(Vengalayapully) where the crime occurred, would say a word against them, whilst

some a nd n otably the weaver in whose house the old woman fell dead and his two

little girls, who were manifestly tutored, positively declared that Rangaya killed the

deceased .

The Superin ten den t visited the village, the Head Assistan tMagistrate also

did allin his power, but n o evidence could be got either again st the Eeswa reddyfamily or to corroborate the wretched Rangaya

’

s story.

In the 20 cases of murder, 22 persons altogether were arrested of whom 12

or little over 55 per cen t were convicted.

Infan ticide—3 cases occurred, 2 were convicted and 1 was acquitted ; for

particulars of the last case, see para (b) under“murders .

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In the convicted cases, the mothers were bothwidows of Komotian d Fisher

man caste respectively ; they bothkilled theirillegitimate babies from fear of shame

at the ex posure that would follow on the birthof the children becoming known

the two widows were both sen ten ced to tran sportation for life .

D acoities.

— There were 13 dacoities committed in 1883including 1House

dacoity ; 2 cases were detected or per cen t this percen tage reads very badlybut there are certain circumstan ces whichmust be carefully weighed an d con sidered

before the Police working at this particular class of crime canbe fairly called poor

or even unsatisfactory.

Thus in the mon th of January 1883, a gang of 11Donga Dasariwandlu

committed 4 of these 13 cases in the course of some 6 days on highroads passingthro ughthe most jungly parts of the Cuddapah an d Sidhout Taluqs ; the whole

gang of 11 was after muchlabour arrested by the Police and the whole of them

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were committed to the Sessions in 3 out of the 4 cases as an example of the

ex treme un certainty o f juries it may be men tio ned that the weakest case o f the 3,

in the estimation of all who have any idea of the value of eviden ce was convic ted

whilst the other 2 whichwere certainly stronger cases were thrown out 5 ou t o f

the 11 were sen tenced to 5 years each thus the gang which had without the

shadow o f a doubt committed 4 o f our 13 cases was broken up .

Ca ses 5 a nd 6 —In the mon thof February, a gang, 10 strong, said to have

been Yerkalas broke in to the District from theMysore side and after committing a

dacoity in the Maddan apally Taluq made for the Vayalpad Taluq where 7 of the

gang a ttacked some men travelling in carts at night and robbed them of their jewelsvalued a t Rs . 169 ; the gang then disappeared .

Ca se 7 .—This District then had peace tillMay when a cart was attacked by 10

robbers n ear the Cumbum Taluq fron tier there was n o o ne in the cart besides the

driver,who ran off a bundle of new cloths valued a t Rs. 76 and a few condimen ts

,

onion s &c . were said to have been taken the driver ran to his employer’s village

whichwas only a mile off and told him this occurredit 6 P . M. on the 18thMaya nd n o report was made to the n earest P olice Sta tion , distan t on ly a. mile (butaway from the ro ad till 3 P. M. the following day the case has been kept o n a s

a dacoity but there are ideas abroad tha t the bundle o f new clo ths was stolen o r

lost from the cart and that to hide his neglect the driver made up this story.

Ca se 8.—In July, some 6 Soogalies a ttacked a man and two girls in broad day

light an d to ok away some petty orn amen ts valued at Rs . 11 this happen ed in the

Maddan apully Taluq an d just on theMysore fron tier, and the case was no t reportedto our Police for several days .

Ca se 9 .—This also occurred in the Maddan apally Taluq ; some 8 local

Mahomedans a ttacked the two complainan ts a t night on the high road near the

village of Angallu and robbed them of hollow silver bangles valued Rs . 3; the

complainan ts identified 4 men'

who were arrested but subsequen tly released , as n o

further evidence wa s forthcoming ; the defendan ts were probably drunk and the

dacoity is merely a technical one.

Case 10.—Ou 16thOctober, at day break, a string of carts was attacked on

the high road about 2 miles from Poramamillah in the Badwail Taluq ; some

Constables were in one of the carts and they, thoughn o doubt afraid to act

promptly when first aroused from their sleep, yet plucked up spirit when the gango f 10Yerikalas fl ed On e Con stable is said to have twice struck one of the robbers

with a sword 2 of the gang, to expedite their retreat threw away their bundles

by din t of great exertion the gang was traced out and surroun ded at night in the

wilds of the KadriTaluq; 7 of the 10 were arrested and 5 of the 7 have been

committed to the Sessions and the returns therefore show 1 case viz this one,as

pen ding.

Ca se 11.—Committed by SOOgalies and Yerikalas n earMahomedabad of the

KadriTaluq on the 6thDecember at 10 A . M. The gang 5 strong has long lived

by crime Daco1ty and robbery) in theMysore coun try and in the Maddan apally ,Voilpaud and KadriTaluqs of this district ; they are well known to the Mysore

xPolice from whichProvince they come all the gang have been captured but on ly3 o f them could be co nn ected with this case (the o thers as well as these 3 a re

con cerned inMysore cases ) and they were sen t up to the Sessions at Cuddapah

when 2 were convicted the jury acquitted the 3rd but the Judge eviden tly was

thoro ughly dissatisfied with the acquittal and remanded the man to jail pending a

reference to the HighCourt.

Case 12 .—Ou the 15th November on the Pulivendla high road , 9 miles from

Cuddapaha t dusk 8 person s armed with sticks attacked a cart a nd robbed the cccupan ts ofit of property valued at Rs . 253; the robbers were said to have resembled

Yerkalas but it is gen erally supposed that they are purely local thieves, Kapus

and Sudras, and efforts are still being made and will be con tinued till this gang is

roo ted out.

Case 13.

-Is in one respect the gravest as it is shown as a house dacoitythough the crime was actually committed in front of the house.

On the night o f the 25rd January 1883, a large Soogalee gang, said to have

been 200 strong but which probably amounted to 20 or even 15 at the outside,a fter committing a serious house dacoity in the Sirwall Taluq of the Kurn ool Dis

trict, was retrea ting towards the Cumbum Taluq through the limits of the Cudda

pahDistrict en route it came to a very small hamlet witha few huts called Soonka

lagaripully where two bro thers, wealthy ryots, wearing valuable gold bangles were

sleeping on co ts in fron t of their houses which adjoined one another ; the robbers

took the bangles but one armlet would n ot come ofi‘

a son of.the 1st or elder bro

ther hearing the noise came out from the house and took his father inside, at the

doorway o f which, these 3men with spears they had seized from the robbers kept

the gang at bay for sometime and so covered the retrea t of the femaleswho wen t outa t the back door carrying with them every thing of value in the house ; the robbers

came in to the house eventually and took away a brass pot and some cloths. Theythen tried to break open the door of another house but it resisted all their efl

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orts

a nd they wen t 03 ; had the gang been as strong as the complainan ts stated the

whole hamlet would have been looted ; this was a Soogaligang from the Hyderabad

coun try ; some members of it were subsequen tly captured by the Kurnool Police

and with those caught were found some of the cloths stolen in this case but the

complaina n t and his son obstin ately refused to iden tify either person s or goods ; the

Sub-Magistrate had the greatest difficulty to get one of the two to go to'

Cumbum ,

and all the way there, the son . who even tually was induced to go , said even before

seeing them that he was sure the things found were not his and that the men ar

rested were n ot the SOOgalies who had attacked him and his fa ther ; thus the Police

lost this case en tirely through the apathy and indifference of those who preferred

looking after their lands and crops rather than assisting in the conviction of a

dacoit gang.

General results are 12 ordinary dacoities ; convicted 2 only but the gangs who

were convicted in these 2 cases are certain ly to be credite‘ withhaving committed

at least 4 or 5 more of the 12 cases, whilst the Yerikala gang concerned in one

case and which‘

gang has long been a scourge to the district, is also about to be

tried at the Sessions Court.

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Looking at the results in Dacoity as you will, they show an improvemen t o n

many precedingyears ; in 1880, 1881, 1882 there were13, 14 and 15 cases respec tive

ly and n ot a case detected in any one o f the 3years ; in 1882 there were really o n ly

13 cases but the In spector-General

’

s Administra tion Repo rt by adding 2 robbe ries

under Section 397 , 398 made a total o f 15 the statistical form as then used is to

be blamed for this an omalous n omen cla ture , for suchas it was, since in n o way c a n

any robbery unless committed by 5 or more person s, be rightly designa ted dacoity”

as defined in the Indian Penal Code .

The occurrence of the House dacoity need excite n o apprehen sions that Gud da

pahis again about to become a“ House dacoity

”district . The rema rks abo ve

m ade, showing as they do that the on e ca se repo rted was o f a most exception al n a

ture, ‘

willit is hoped tend to allay any fears on this score.

R obberies.—22 cases were reported and 10were convicted a prisoner con cern

ed in on e of the cases shown as undetected died in the Maddan apully Hospital before he could be brought to trial from the effects of the wounds he received from

the complainan ts when robbing them of their property ; 27 person s were arrested

13were con victed and 1died before trial. Rs . wortho f property was lost a n d

Rs . 228worthwas recovered ; percen tage o f detected to reported cases 47 ; and o f

con viction s to arrests 40 ;[

of property recovered to property lost 14 .

Hoa se-breakings by day and by night— 16 cases by day reported o f which8 o r

50 per cen t . were detected 17 person s were arrested,12 of whom or 70 per cen t .

were convicted. Rs. 324 lost and 108 or 38 per cen t. recovered,

By night ; of 173 cases reported, 80were detected'

or 46 per cen t . of 171 per

son s arrested 126 or 74 per cent . were convicted the loss was Rs . recover

ed Rs . or 16 per cen t. withreference to the last percen tage it must be dis

tinctly remembered that the bulk of the property, shown as recovered un der Sectio n

411 I . P . C. in the statistics viz . ,Rs . was lost in house-breaking cases.

The most importan t case was the one which occurred in the house of a pen

sioned Tahsildar in the village of Pullempett in the mon th ofMay 1883; somegoldsmiths were working at the house preparing jewels for an approaching wed

ding, when a gang of Yerkalas came there and whilst they were selling and weigh

ing out grain to the house owner, they saw the jewel manufactory going on they

returned with the gang to their fixed abode in the V oilpaud Taluq an d 2 o f them

reinforced by some Yerkalas from the Mysore coun try, shortly afterwards paid

an other and a private (that is they did n ot come as a gang with ca ttle and grain

&c . ) visit to Pullempett and breakingin to the said house carried ofi'

jewels said to

be worthover Rs.

In July the Police hit up on the right clue, an d 2 men (Yerkalas) called Berin

ghy Ven catigadoo and Beringhy Soobbadoo were arrested in the Voilpaud Taluq ;

they gave up nearly Rs . 400 worthof property and recorded a full con fession be

fore theMagistrate criminating their associate s and showing to whom they had

sold jewels &c ; then by he gross n eglect of the P olice these 2 Yerkalas escaped}in the meanwhile the Mysore Yerkalas criminated by them were captured with

about Rs . 400 worthof property and ; 2 of them were convicted under Section 411

I . P . C. as receivers the 2 “run-away Beringhy

-wandalu” have again been caught

an d are going up to the Session s ; so this case as a House-breaking is shown as

pending, though2 persons concerned in it have already been convicted of receivingstolen property.

Altogether about Rs. 800 worthof property has been recovered it was a good

case to detect and the Police have certainly done wellin it ; the correct clue was

discovered too late and so the purchasers had melted down the bulk of the jewelsbefore the P olice were fairly at work ; stupidly the complainan t failed to men tion

anything about this Yerkala gang bringing grain to his house and weighing it out

there , when the jewels were all about ; had he done so , the case would have been

then and there detected , and the greater part of the property recovered . The

Police got a clue through informers and when the Yerkalas were caught the old

pen sioned Tahsildar bitterly regretted n ot having thought of suspecting them ori

ginally ; he threw the Police en tirely off the scent first of all by in sisting that some

local bad characters and no one else had committed the crime.

In the Town of Cuddapah there were 15 cases of House-breaking by night, of

which9 or 65 per cen t . were detected ; there were no cases by day .

Kidnappingfor immoralpurp oses—The complain an t in this case lodged his

complaint before the 2nd class Magistrate of Voilpad to the effect that the accused

had kidn apped his daughter withthe in ten tion of marrying her against the father’

s

co n sent by the time the case was sent to the Police for investigation , the accused

had run away and he has not yet been caught ; a woman who was accused of abet

men t in this case was arrested but she was discharged by theMagistrate. This was

the only case reported under this heading.

D ragging.—There were 2 cases reported ; the 1st occurred at Nun dalur in the

P ullumpet Taluq 2 men came in charge of a cart of indigo seeds from the K011

kun tla Taluq of the Kurnool District to Tangatur in this district ; they delivered the

seeds and were journeying homewards, when they were accosted a t Na ndalur by a

stra nger, who after finding out from them where they belonged to and the errand on

which they had come, told them that he lived in a village n ear their home and that

he had come to these parts to see his mother-in-law ; he asked them for a drink of

water and then offered them some white flour whichhe said was very good and

whichhis mother-in-law had given him ; they partook of it and recollected nothingmo re till they found themselves in the Chitvel dispen sary ; they had nothing to lose

an d n othing was stolen from them ; their dr agging friend evidently thought that

they had the indigo seed money about them but he was disappointed ; the Police

foun d them lying in a state of stupor and some two or three days elapsed before theycould give any account of what had happen ed ; the description they then gave of the

m an who gave them the flour was useless for all purposes of iden tification ; suspicionat on ce fell on Chappide N arrainasawmy, who was convicted by the Nellore Sessions

Judge in a similar case in 1881 but got off on appeal to the HighCourt ; this man

was thought too to have drugged some more people in the Nellore district soon after

his release from jail there in the other case N arrain asawmy lives not far offNunda

Iur ; however he established an a libi; and the real culprit is still unknown ; datura

seeds, as in the 2 Nellore cases, were the narcotic poison used.

Another case happened in the Town of Proddatur ; a prostitute n amed Seshes

was the complain an t ; her tale was that two men , whose n ames she gave, asked her

to have in tercourse with them , that she con sen ted and told them to come at night ;

tha t they then gave her some toddy to drink and wen t away ; that sometime after

wards she fell quite intoxicated, but recollected seeing the 2 men in her house at

night ; that when she woke on the following morning she found her jewels gon e ;2 others who partook of the toddy became senseless before she did ; the 2 men

a ccused by her were subsequen tly arrested, but they were released after enquiry by

theMagistrate the 2 accused left the village that night and went ofi by train , so

the woman’

s accoun t of what happened was probably true ; the men had a goo d

start an d hid themselves away an d before they could be ferreted out they had dis

posed of the jewels .

Ca ttle thefts .—36 cases reported . 17 or 47 per cen t. detected 41 arrests were

made and 31 conviction s or 75 per cen t . followed ; property lost was valued at Rs .

that recovered at Rs. 591 or 58 per cen t .

Ca ttle p oisoning.

-Of the 2 cases reported, 1was detected and of 3 person s

arrested, 2 were co nvicted .

Ordina ry thefts .—Section s 379, 380and 381—596 cases o f theft were registered ,

o f which295 or 49 per cen t . were detected ; person s were charged in these

cases, of whom 658 or 44 per cen t . were convicted, Rs . represen t the value

of the property lost; Rs . (or 28 per cen t. ) that of the property recovered .

R eceiving stolen prop erty.

—Rs . represen t the value of the property foun d

on people convicted of receiving stolen prOpert the bulk of it was lost in the

House-breaking cases.

Total results in all cases, bothcognizable and n on-cognizable, under Penal Code

a nd Special and Local Laws—Thoughno report would be complete without a grand

total of all suchcases, yet it is manifest that the working of a Police force cannot be

fairly measured by a stan dard where all cognizable and non-cognizable cases are

mixed up, as in many in stan ces n o Police action has been called in to use at all,

whilst in many others, it has only been partially employed ; more particularly must

the Police be held irresponsible for the poor percen tage of conviction s to arrests in

sucha mix ed catalogue of crimes, where cases are compromised . &c . by parties con

cerned an d where warran ts have been issued and people compelled to appear on the

sworn affidavits of complainants, whose complain ts on fullinvestigation have utterlybroken down .

The totalis cases conviction s, 44 per cent; person s arrested ,

summoned and compelled to appear, of whom or 33per cen t. were punished; the

loss of property is valued at Rs. the recovery is or 248 per cen t.

P risoners escap ed.—There were no escapes from the District Jail, notoriously

un safe thoughit is ; 2 got away from Subsidiary Jails and were re-captured. 5 ran

off from other custody and 3 were brought back ; in addition to the above, 1man

who effected his escape from a Subsidiary Jail in 1879 and 2 from other custody in

1882 were re-captured .

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The Judge differed from the Jury in 3 cases and referred them to the High

Court and the prisoners were convicted ; one of them was a Torchlight Dacoity, the

other two were ordin ary Dacoities .

In one case the Judge was for acquitting the accused but the Jury found themguilty and the HighCourt agreed withthem .

It willbe seen from this that we had a hard fight to obtain the three conviction s

out of four in Dacoity.

Acciden ta ldea ths —673 cases were reported of which528 were by dro‘wning, 72

sn ake bite, 4 by wild beasts and 69 from other causes again st 803 of 1882 .

Snicide.—64 cases occurred during the year of which 42 were from drowning,

19 by hanging, one from poison , an d 2 by dangerous weapons again st 100in 1882 .

Ta liaries .— 43 Ghaut posts have been Opened during the year on dangerous road s

an d they have been guarded by 50 Taliaries on a salary of Rs . 4 per men sem . An

other 50 Taliaries would be of immen se good particularly as this district is the ho t

bed of wandering gangs . One of these men gave information which enabled the

Police to catch the dacoits in the act of committing a torch light dacoity. He re

ceived a reward of Rupees 10 for this .

Wa ndering gangs .

—Much atten tion has been paid to the local and‘

wandering

gangs which in fest the District and good progress has been made by the force

generally in the knowledge of these'

gangs . The con sequen ce has been much less

crime since July.

The DistrictMagistrate has given us great assistance by in sisting upon Village

Magistrates keeping a Stranger’

s Registe r in our worst Division s. This has n ot yet

got in to thoroughworking order but fair prOgress is being made .

Inspection .— All station s in the main range have been visited once and some

station s oftener by the Superin tenden t and all but 3 station s in the Sub-Division s

have been visited by the Assistant Superin tenden t . Inspectors have itenerated fairlyon the whole.

Village authorities .

— The communication between the General Police and the

Village authorities has improved immensely and is fast gaining ground .

There was one instan ce this year already of a Village Taliary sending a petition

complaining of the good work done by him being overlooked .

Saperintenden t a nd Assistan t Sup erin tenden t.—Major Blax land was in charge of

the District till 15thMay 1883 andMr. Stevenson took charge on that date . Messrs .

Agar and Sullivan werein charge of the Sub-Division during the year.

Punishmen t— The Black mark system was brought in to full force during the

last half of the year . This system reduced the number of punishmen ts under head

fines. The number fin ed was 106 again st 232 of last year, 12 were reduced and

4 dismissed under the Black mark system . The amount of fines last year was

R s . 226-5-1 and this year R s. 120-9-8.

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The following is a statement of Rainfall an d prices of

Chingleputstaple fOOd grain s for the past year .

.In the middle of the year cholera made its appearan ce first in Ootramullur

Division on 19thJune an d next in Ponnary Division on 28th September, the extreme

N othern an d Southern Division s, and gradually extended itself in both direction s

throughthe other Division s of the District causing 293 deaths amongst the inhabit

an ts as shewn below ; none in the force fell victims to this epidemic, although 2

were seized .

Small pox and measles were also prevalen t here and there .

Fever at Coon athoor en tirely disappeared this year .

The Snperin tenden t.-The year commenced with Colonel R . H . Cunlifie, as the

permanent Superin tendent of the District . He took furloughfor six mon ths on Janu

ary 13thand Colonel Lys officiated as Superin tenden t till 18thMay when he also

left the district to be Pay-Master of Pen sioners atMasulipatam . He was relieved by

Ma jor Blaxland, the presen t Superin tendent, who was posted permanently to the District on 14thJune, as Colonel Cunliffe retired on pen sion .

Insp ectors.— In spectorMr . Luxa joined the Salt Departmen t on promotion .

In spector Khristnyahfrom the Office of the In spector General was exchanged

with the former Head Quarte r In spector,M. VinayagamMoodeili.3 Inspectors ciz.

_

1) Babooballi N ainar, (2)Moorgasa Moodali, (3) Ann assawmyMoodaliwere invalided by the Medical Board ofMadras and pensioned .

In spector Mr . Saun ders was appointed Acting Assistan t Superintenden t in

May an d remain s so still.

Salt In spectorMr . Desilva was transferred to NorthArcot District at his ownrequest on reduction .

In spectorsMessrs . Saunders and Cameron passed the lst Part of In spector’s

Test held in December 1882, and In spector W . H . Daines passed 3rd class Test in‘

Tamilin July 1883.

The Force.—After the completion of the salt arrangements the reduced strength

of the force was as shown below on the last day of the year.

In spectors

Sub-In spectors

Pst G . Head Con stables

2nd G . Head Con stables

3rd G . Head Con stables

4th G . Head Con stables

l st class Constables

2nd class Constables

3rd class Con stables

R eserve E scortsz—The following escorts were supplied .

To Tahsildars

Accountan t General

Treasury Dy.

Bank“

ofMadrasSuperin tenden t of Stamps

escorting the totalvalue of Rupees in clusive papers . )

To The Chief Ofiice

The Commissioner of Police

The Superin tenden t of Jails

Superin tenden t of Prisons

Superin tenden t Lun atic Asylum

against 176 in 1882 . Besides which18 parties were sent to preserve order duringfeasts within and out of district at the following places .

1 Palavaram Ooroos

1 Tirvamoor Feast

1 LittleMoun t Roman Catholic feast2.

Tirvellore Feast

1 Trivettur Feast

1 Streepermatore Feasts

3Moun t Foot Races Moharrum, Roman Catholic

Feast "

4 Guindy Races

1 Govern or’s visit to Con jeveram

1 Tirputty Feast

316 men were sent during the year to the Ordn ance Butts to keep order and

to warn passengers.

The demand of men for this duty was greatly on the increase this year. One ortwo calls were not complied withfor want of men and the small Reserve of 43men

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The prices of the staple articles of food were lower last year than the average

of the previous 5 years.

Form — The Force was main tained at its full strengthin all grades, vacan cies

of one Head and two Con stables only'

being kept to meet possible diminution in the

strengthof the Jail Guard which is calculated on the number of convicts in the

District Jail. The Police Guard of 1 Inspector, 4 Head Con stables an d 35 Con

stables employed in the Salt Factory atMerkan am was .withdrawn . The Inspector

joined the Salt D epartmen t and the others were absorbed in to the Regular Force .

The services of 2 Head Con stables a nd 14 Constables employed as Special preven tive

Salt Guard were also dispen sed withon 17th February . An addition of strength of

1Head Con stable an d 4 Con stables for a N ew Police Station at KotacOOpum in V illu

puram Taluq was san ction ed during the year.

Enlistmen t was stopped during the greater part of the year as Salt Con stables

withdrawn and tran sferred to Salem District had to be absorbed . 22 Recruits were

en listed towards its close. There were at the end of the year 579 men of 10

years’service and upwards, and 482 of over one year

’

s service and under 10 years

Table showing the actual strengthand distribution of the Force on 3131; December 1883.

Hea lth—There are two Police Hospitals in the District one at Head Quarters ,Cuddalore and the other at Trinomalai. 237 Police officers were treated in the above

Hospitals, 215 as in , and 22 as out-patien ts, as shewn below . The number of

patients treated in 1882 was 302 . The prin cipal diseases from which men suffered

during the year were as usual fever, ulcer, rheumatic affection and bowelcomplain t.

There mere 9 deaths during the year again st 12 in 1882, two in , and 7 out of

Hospital; of these 6 were from Cholera .

The Police at Trin omalaistill occupy the female ward in the Civil Dispensary

paying ren t for the same pending the con struction by LocalFund Board of a separate

Ward for the Police. This is n ow almost, if n ot quite, completed.

The new Police Hospital at Tirukoilur sanctioned by Governmen t in the year

1881 is n ow under con struction by D . P .W . and will probably be completed in

1884-85.

18 Con stables were invalided during the year, 17 on pen sion and one with

gratuity.

A good deal of Cholera prevailed throughout the District almost all the year .

In sp ections—The Superin tenden t visited and in spected every station in his

range also several station s in the Assistan t Superin tenden t’s Ra nge.

The Assistant Superintenden t in spected all the Stations in the Range.

Educa tion —During the year one Sub-In spector and 59 men have undergone in

struction in the Head Quarter School. This Sub-In spector namedMir Husain Sahib,

en tertained on 8thAugust, passed the lst part of the Inspector’s Test held on 1st

December last.

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One In spector completed the In spector’s Test, and two Sub—Inspectors passed in

the 1st part of the In spector’

s Test.

One Head and 22 Con stables passed the Test prescribed for Station House

Officer .

Of Police Officers present on 3lst December, 767 or nearly 71 per

cent . can read and write .

Conviction of P olice Oficers .—One Head Constable was convicted under

Section 161 (Bribery) . 3 Con stables under section 223 (Allowing the escape

of prisoners) and 2 Con stables under section 352 (Assault) byMagistrates .

One Sub-In spector and 1 Head and 3 Con stables of Tindivan am Division

were. tried by the Session s Court under Section 330 I. P . C . but were acquitted

by the Session s Judge withthe following remark

In spite of the array of respectable witnesses who support the defence as to these

(13. e. complain an ts) n ot having been taken to the Police station at all, I must

express my belief that they were so taken an d their story about.

their beingtortured by the Police is substan tially true . The accused Police officers were

acquitted and discharged from doubt as to whether they were the indivi

dual perpetrators of the torture and n ot because the offence was n ot be

lieved to have been committed .

”

From the enquiry conducted by the Superintenden t of Police in this case,

it a ppeared that the elder Con stables had held en tirely aloof from the edem a

a nd the most active culprits had been quite young Police Officers.

It would appear from this that the older members of the Force had realized

how thoroughly extortion of confession is reprobated by their superiors, an d

further that the battle again st it must still be main tained in the education of

the n ew blood that join s . The idea an d practice are unquestionably con sidered

justifiable and expedien t with the populace from whom they are drawn . It

m ay be interesting also to note that during the trial in the Session s Court the

Judge asked a witness (a Known Depredator) whether he had ever before heard

of case of ill usage similar to that under enquiry and he replied that he had n ot.

Statemen t showing the number of Police Officers punished by Magistrate s,&c . , during the year 1882

-83.

Rsnanxs.

1Head Co nstable for 161I . P . C . by As

sistantMagistrate.

3Con stables for 223I. P . C . 1by Join t and

the rest by Sub-Magistrate .

Constables for 352 I . P . C . by S

trate.

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Dep a rt menta l P unishmen t—Of the whole strengthon 3lst December, 325 men

or 30 per cen t, were punished during the year. 12 by dismissals, 44 reduction ,269

withfine, the amount levied being Rupees 144-7-3.

The amoun t volun tarily forfeited by members of the Force for absence

without leave wa s Rs . 90-6-8,

Romania —156 Police Officers were rewarded during the year, 4 by pro

motion and 152 by money. 1 In spector, 2 Head Con stables and 7 Constables

received Rs. 95 from the In spector-General for good service in detecting cases .

One Con stable received Rs . 10 from the In spector-General of Jails for re-cap

turing an escaped convict, 97 Police Ofi cers received rewards from the Salt

Departmen t, 24 received rewards from the Collector and 19 from the AbkarryRenter for seizing liquor, &c . , smuggled from FrenchTerritory.

1st Class Con stable Parthasarady N O . 211 attached to the Superin ten den t’

s

Office received Rs. 10 reward from the District Magistrate for his gallan t

conduct in jumping in to a well 9 feet deep and at the imminent risk Of his

own life (being un able to swim and en cumbered with his clothes) saving the

life of a little boy who was drowning. This Con stable’

s good conduct has

been brought to the n o tice of Governmen t with a view to the same being com

municated to the RoyalHumane Society.

118Police Officers received reward for seizing differen t articles smuggled from

Fren chinto EnglishTerritory in 1882 but n one during the year under review,hen ce

the decrease 111 the total amoun t and number Of Officers rewarded . This is owing to

the import duty on most articles having been abolished in 1882.

E soapes.— 3 convicts escaped from the District Jail. One at night from an Open

shed in the Jailwhere he had been kept withCholera patien ts and two from working

Gangs, two of these have beenre-captured .

13prisoners who escaped from Sub-Jails and other custody were all re-captured .

Of 9 prisoners who escaped from other custody 4 were in charge of Con stables

and 5 of Taliaries at the time of their escape .

One prisoner who escaped from custody in 1877 was re-captured during the year .

The number Of convicts in the District Jail On 31st December was 207 against

174 on that date in 1882 .

39 convicts were tran sferred from this Jail to Cen tral Jails during the year.

Sayer Collections—The import duty on almost a llgoods having been abolished

in 1882, the Sayer Collection s were very small.

The annexed statemen t shows the amoun ts collected at Sayer Stations duringthe past two years.

Miscellaneous.

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3!against 202 in 1882 . 98 cases or 57 per cen t . were detected . 191 person s

were arrested of whom 162 or 85 per cen t. were convicted against 178 arrested

and 134 or 75 per cen t. convicted in 1882 .

Of 202 cases reported in 1882, 84 or 42 per cen t. were detected .

General Remarks .—Lt .

-Colonel Jenkin s, the perman ent Superintenden t left

the District on 18 mon ths’Furlough to England in the beginning of April 1883,

and was relieved byMajor (n ow Lt.-Col. ) Chrystie.

His Excellency the Right Honorable the Governor visited the District in

the beginning of August, an d remain ed 3 days at Cuddalore.

Conduct of the P olice.—The conduct of the Police has been on the whole

good and does not call for any special notice.

Acciden ta lFin a — 256 Acciden tal Fires were reported in which765 houses and

15 straw heaps were burn t and property valued at Rs.-6-11. was destroyed .

Although the number of fires was more than that in 1882 the amoun t of

property destroyed is muchless.

6 person s were burnt to deathin the above fires viz. 1 female adult, 2 male

and 3 female children .

Short-sen tenced prisoners—863 short-sen tenced prisoners were imprisoned in

the 18 Sub-Jails and Lock-ups in the District during the year, the average duration

being 12 days The number imprisoned in 1882 was 930.

Sta temen t showing the works of construction undertaken during the year 1883.

DEPARTMENTAL.

Of cases un der Special and Locallaws we have for 1883 a total of with

or per cen t. detected .

There has been a great increase in the number of cases reported bothunder

Penal Code and Special and Local laws during the year.

The following form shows the crime committed during the past two years.

Comparative returns of ofl'

ences reported under Indian Penal Code and Special

and Local laws during the year 1882-83.

OASI S Parsons.

to!cases under Indian Pen al Code

Increase

Mur der—6 cases of Murder were reported during the year, all of which were

committed to the Session s but on ly 2 cases resulted in conviction.

A brief accoun t of the cases detected is given below .

No . 1D etected—In this case the 3 accused were brothers living in the village

Of Pelan thoray in Virudachellam Taluq. They were convicted of having caused the

deathof one Vasoodava Padiachy under the following circumstances.

There.

had been a constan t disputebetween the deceased and accused about a piece

of land cultivated by the former. On the 4thNovember when the deceased and his

brother with a party of cooliw were working in this field, the 3 accused witha

number of coolies came there also and began to work. The deceased objected to thisbut the accused persisted an d a quarrel en sued in whichthe 2nd and 3rd accused

seized the deceased by his arms while the first gave him a violen t blow on his head

witha weedinghoe inflicting a serious wound from whichhe fell down sen seless and

died the same night .

The first accused was arrested the same day, the 2nd and 3rd absconded into

Salem District but were arrested within a fortnight .

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There was eviden ce that the accused wen t to the field prepared to use violence.

thN '

cB '

Eh,

g“ The Virudachellem TaluqMagistrate committed them to the

is use as en te u n

331111531t

ffiflfifmbé S

essmn s Court for,

Culpable Homicide but the SesSions

Murder " WM, the a dm mgudge foun d the fiist accused guilty ofMurder and sen tenced

“at!“ Fifi!” t W“ “ d“ him to tran sportation for life, an d the remaining 2 to 10 days’

tion , and, sen tence1mwill:

to 10Fm tn nflwrrigorous imprisonmen t for assault .

N o . 2 . D etected—In this case the victim was a brahmin lad by the name

R aman uja Iyengar aged about 16 years of Paranghiyore in Trikoilur Taluq who was

murdered by two of his own caste people.

About 2 mon ths previous to the murder the deceased’s mother had brought a

charge of mischief and assault again st the accused resultingin their conviction bythe TaluqMagistrate of Tirukoilur.

This appears to have annoyed them so much that on 19thDecember in revenge

they killed the deceased , their enemy’s only son . They induced on e of their friends

to bring the deceased to a place adjoining the village pagoda and he was there beaten

and stran gled to death. The accused carried the body and hung it up by a cloth

tied round the neck to a beam of a vacan t house close to the scene of crimeintendingthereby to make it appear that deceased had committed suicide.

All the 3 accused were arrested and committed to the Sessions, 2 charged with

Murder and the 3rd withabetmen t.

The first . two were convicted ofMurder and sen tenced to deathand the 3rd

acquitted by the Session s Judge.

Of the remaining 4 cases acquitted by the Session s Court, a short account

is added .

N0. 1. This case occurred at Pudupetty, a hamlet of Virudachellam , on the 15th

January 1883. AMussulman lad about 20 years of age was the victim .

On the night of 2lst December 1882 the first prison erhavinggone out to witness

a certain play on his return home at a late hour found the deceased withhis wife.

He beat him severely and turn ed him out of his house .

Some days after, the let prisoner plotted withhis own brother-in—law ( 2nd ao

cused) , another friend Runganl (3rd accused) and one Palany (a prostitute) to bringthe decea sed to an out of the way place afta night fall and killhim . Accordingly

on the night of 15thJanuary ,the 3rd prisoner took the deceased to the house of the

prostitute and at his suggestion deceased wen t withher to a field at a short distance

from the village. The 3 accused followed shortly afterwanis and caught the deceased

and threw him down and strangled him . They then carried the body an d suspended

it by a rope tied round its neck to the bran chof a tree in the n eighbourhood .

The case was first reported as suicide but as it appeared very suspicious the

corpse was sen t for PostMortem examin ation , and theMedical Officer certified that

deathhad been caused by foul play. Eviden ce as already n arrated was obtained and

the accused arrested .

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No. 4 . A boy named Ragavulu aged about

.

6 years, the brother of one

Balambal a dan cing girl, attached to Trin omalaiTemple was poisoned witharsenic

on 27thSeptember under the following circumstan ces.

Balambal had been in the keeping of the 2nd prisoner, one Lutchmana Dasaria

Native Physician , some time previously, but some of her jewels had been missed and

she suspected him of stealing them,so would have nothing further to say to him . In

con sequen ce of this he appears to have attempted to poison her.

One Soobramanian (1st accused ) came to Balambal’s house on the preten ce of

purchasing vegetables he obtained these and left some plan tains and Sugar which

he told Balambal she might have . She and 4 other members of her family partook

of the same and shortly afterwards became violently ill. They were all taken to

the CivilDispen sary an d treated and all recovered except the boy Ragavulu. The

Chemical Ex aminer found arsenic in deceased’s viscera , also in his vomittings and

purgings and in those of other members of the family who had suffered .

Soobramanian was taxed withthe offence the same evening, and admitted

having given the plan tain s and sugar to Balambal at Lutchman a Dasari’s

~

request

not knowing that any injury would result . There was corroborative eviden ce show

ing that the two accused had been in con sultation together shortly before the

poisoned food was handed over to Balambal, also on other minor poin ts.

Bothaccused were committed to the Session s.

The judge in acquitting the prisoners made the following remark .

It is to be feared there has been a failure of justice in this case and if so it is

due to the let accused having been put join tly on his trial along with the 2nd ac

cused . AlthoughI cann ot attribute much blame to the committing Magistrate inthe matter, it certam is very much to be regretted that he did not see his wayto discharge the lst prisoner and bind him over to give evidence as a witness

again st the other prisoner .

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One case which was tried and acquitted in 1882 was re—tried by order of the

HighCourt and convicted, the prisoner being sen ten ced to death, during the year .

D acoities.—10 cases wore reported during the year, 4 in houses, 4 on highways

and 2 in fields. Of these, 4 cases viz. 3in houses and 1in field were committed to

the Session s but all released.

A short accoun t of the cases brought to trial and acquitted by the Session s Court

is given below .

Torch light House D a coity.— No. 1. This case was committed at Agram of

Tindivan am Taluq in the house of one Soobroya Oodiyan on 8th July 1833by a

gang of more than 20 robbers who were said to have smeared charcoal over their

faces . Some of the robbers stayed outside the house throwing stones in difi'

eren t

direction s to preven t people from coming to the complainan t’

s assistan ce, while

others efl'

ected their entrance in to the house by getting over the roof, from which

they pulled some thatch and lighted the torches brought with them . They then beat

the complainant and other inmates of the bones and eventually carried away the

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jewels worn by the complainant’s sister, besides several other things that were in the

house all amoun tingin value to Rs. 293.

10 Persons whom the.

complainan t professed to identify were arrested and

placed for enquiry before the Join t Magistrate who released 8 for want of sufficien t

evidence and committed to the Sessions the remaining2 persons, withwhom a jewelsaid tohave been taken in the case was also found .

One of the men arrested by the Police admitted having taken part in the com

mission of the dacoity and poin ted out the places where the robbers had blackened their

faces and provided themselves with sticks on their way to the scene of crime, also

showed various traces left by the robbers at those places. He was admitted as’

an

approver by the JointMagistrate but the Judge disbelieving the evidence acquitted

the prisoners.

House Dacoity.—No. 2. This case occurred at Chembalakurichy in Viruda

Chellam Taluq, the robbers about 8in number forced open the back door of one

Ramakristna Iyer on the night of the 8thSeptember 1883 and after burning some

straw to give them light beat the complainan t and his wife withsticks. One Baboo

Reddy who was sleeping in the house went out followed by some others and

succeeded in arresting one of the robbers, but'

the other robbers rescued the captured

m an and got ofi taking with them a box containing jewels and other things valueda t Rs . 131.

The VillageMoonsifi’s report containing the names of 6 of the robbers whom

the inmates of the house had iden tified being previously well acquain ted withthem ,

reached Virdachellam before noon the next day and a jewelworthRs. 24 taken inthe dacoity was recovered in the house of one of them .

These 6 were committed to the Sessions Court but there acquitted

House Dacoity.—No. 3. This case occurred on the night of the 30thNovember,

property worth Rs. 378was lost. A gang of about 20 robbers came to the house

of the VillageMoon sifi' of Kullakurchiin Oolundoorpett Division , some of them got

over the roof and Opened a door’

by which'

the remaining robbers entered and beat the

inmates of the house and carried off all they could find. 5 persons were arrested of

whom 4 were committed to Sessions. Jewels taken in the case were found concealed

in the houses of 3 of them who were also identified to the Judge’s satisfaction by the

inmates of the house. One had made a confession before a VillageMoonsifi. They

were nevertheless acquitted .

Field Dacoity.—No . 4 . In this case the cornplainant one Joghee Guruvan was

living camped withhis pigs outside the village of Anapakam in Tindivanam Taluq,and was known to be in possession of some money realized by the sale of his pigs .

A gang of about 10 person s entered his shed armed withsticks on the night of

26thOctober, and after beatingthe complainan t and his wife deprived them of their

property amounting to Rs. 128, principally cash.

The complainant, while the robbery was going on . ran off to the villagewhich is

half a mile distant from his but and reported the matter to the Village Head mention23

1threshing floor a short distance fromMortandy, a village 4miles northof Pondicherry,were attacked by a gang of about a dozen men at midnight while they were asleep .

They were severely beaten but only a copper vesselworth 8 annas is said to have

been taken .

On the following morning one of the Brahmin s died from the in juries he hadreceived . This case having been committed close to Pon dicherry (where complai

n an ts ran at once after the crime) was taken up by the Fren ch authorities in the

first instance. Subsequently the scene of the crime was ascertained to be within

English territory and the case was tran sferred to this District .

N o clue was ever obtained . From the facts of the,

case it is doubtfulwhether the

assault was not committed by some hostile party of Brahmin s rather than by bona

fide”robbers .

It is to he remarked that one field robbery and all four highway robberies were

cbmmitted close to the Frenchboundary and were probably the work of robbers who

D Iharbour in French territory. It is likely also that the two

P uddiachees Sid Kullars House dacoities in Villipuram and Tindivanam Taluqs were80 m for am.

committed by Frenchsubjects.

Season, prices, condition of the District and efiect on Crime—The prices of all

articles of food were muchlower than in former years . A sea

Tanjore.

son of plenty has had the cfiect of reducing the crimes against

property.

The generalhealthof the District especially in the latter part of the year has

n ot been good . Cholera commenced on the 15thJuly and deaths were regis

tered upto 31st December and there was a great increase in January 1884. Small

pox an d fever were also prevalen t, but when masses of liquid filth are allowed to

collect and remain stagnan t in the middle of populous towns , as is especially the

case in the golden Lotus Flower Tank at Kumbakonam, disease and deathare scarce

ly surprising results .

General remarks on the sta te and p opularity or otherwise of the Force—ThePolice of Tan jore District are fairly popular, probably as popular as Police men can

ever hope to be . Bribery is rife in the District so muchso that it is only surpris

ing that more cases are not reported again st the Police. When suchcases do occur

it is with the greatest difficulty that any really reliable eviden ce can be obtain ed

for a conviction .

The District Force has generally been up to strength during the year under

review . Enlistment wa s almost en tirely stopped owing to the large number of salt

Constables who had to be absorbed . There remain only 2 Head Constables and 8

Constables at Vedaraniem Factory to be absorbed, no fewer than 98 salt men havingbeen merged in the General Police during 1883. There is little doubt that the ser

vice is popular, but the District does not produce a very tall or robust class of.

men .

Convictions against P olice 0fi‘icers.—4 Con stables were convicted during the year.

Two of them were sen tenced to one mon th’

s rigorous imprisonment and 10 Rupees

fine eachfor extortion by the Town Sub-Magistrate of Negapatarn . Another was

senten ced by the Vedaraniem Sub-Magistrate to pay a fine of Rupees 20 for

{5negligently allowing a prisoner to escape. The fourthman , was by the Negapatam

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TaluqMaagistrate sentenced to pay a fine of Rs . 5-8-0 for travelling by Railwaywithout a ticket.

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Eficieney, qualifica tion and genera l conduct of Police—The work has on the

whole been wellperformed con sidering that the District is short-han ded (thoughno t

under sanctioned strength) , that there are no village Police as in other Districts and

that the VillageMagistracy have till quite lately con sidered that assisting in the preven tion and detection of crime and keeping lists of strangers was no part of their

business. It has been proposed to raise the strengthof the District Force by 110

men whichwill bring it up to its former number in 1871, in whichyear a reduction

was made. Without making any allowan ce for Station Guards; special duty, leave,

sickness and other casualties, the number of Police men at each station is never in

excess of the number of beats to be go ne daily and often is under and thus the most

imp ortan t of Police duties cannot be thoroughly performed .

Out of men in the Force can read and write and of the remainder

the majority will be pensioned in the present year.

The conduct of the Police cannot be said to have been very good . 14 were dis

missed, 46 were reduced, 29 were suspended and 86 were fined Rupees 81-11-5 .

D uring the latter half of the year the Black mark system was enforced in stead of

fining.

Instru ction—39 Con stables were under instruction at Head Quarters in theStation House Officer

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s class, of whom 23passed the Test and drill and were grant

ed certificates.

26 Recruits were also passed out, after undergoing examination .

D acoity.—Nine House Dacoities were reported in 1883 as against 13in the

previous year and unfortunately one only of these was convicted, two others are

committed to Sessions in 1884 an d in one committed at Ammanichatram in the last

week of the year, there is a fair chance o f dewction . Of Field Dacoities there were

none but of Highway 4 as compared with l in 1882 .

The tota ls skewing

1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883.

Rep . DetJ. Rep . Detd. Rep . Detd. Rep. Detd. Rep. Detd . Rep. Detd.

27 10 30 12 15 8 15 4 14 3 13 L

In none of the 13cases which occurred in 1883 was much violence used and

thoughtorches were lighted in one or two of them at the scene of crime to enable

the robbers to see what they were about, they can scarcely be called torchlight

dacoity in the old acceptation of the term.

Of the above dacoities the first occurred in April at Thiagasamoodram near

Papan asani. The complainan t awoke in the night and found some'

fifteen person s

collected in fron t of his house attempting to break in . He called some of his n eigh

bours and the Dacoits decamped, without actually breaking in to the house, takingaway withthem 2 cloths and a white handkerchief whichwere on the pial. Some

Police of the adjoining Division saw 3 suspicious looking persons early in the morning on the banks of a river and stopped them. They had withthem an axe, a sack,

and two cloths. They were arrested and implicated two others in their confessions .

At the Sessions 3got 5 years’rigorous imprisonment each and the others were

released .

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cattle being stolen . 10 person s were named, and 8 were arrested . The ear-ring

wa s recovered, and an approver was taken , but the case was acquitted at Sessions .

All the parties concerned were kullers, and the Court was crowded withlocal bad

characters and frien ds of the accused as the casew as an important one to them , viz. ,

whether the kaval fee could be levied withimpunity or not, and violence resorted to

in case of non-complian ce .

Two cases of assembly for dacoity were reported, on e at Porayur an d the other

a t Arasalar Bridge n ear Kumbakon am,the former case was convicted . 2 person s

received 4 years, 2 two years, and on e 5 years. The latter unfortunately broke

down , the Shh-Magistrate refusing to send on , con sidering the evidence in sufficien t.

R obbery.—There is a con siderable improvement under this head . There were

11 cases in 1881, 8 cases in 1882, and there have been 3cases on ly in 1883 (2 house

a nd one pettyhighway) of these 1house robbery was detected.

Thefta—Cattle thefts have greatly fallen from 179 in 1881, and 153in 1882 to

108in 1883, and the detection has improved from 51 per cen t. in 1882 to 56 per

cen t. in 1883.

Ordinary thefts have fallen from in 1881, an d in 1882 to 979 in

1883. The detection is in the same proportion as in preceding year.

House-breaking.—This is the crime of the Tan jore District, and itis satisfactory

to record a decrease of 68 cases reported in 1883 as compared with1882 and of 139

as compared with1881. The detection whichwas as low as 18 per cen t. in 1882,

has reached 279 per cent. in the year under review, an in crease of 10 per cen t.

Mwiden—There were 4 cases reported"

during the year. Of which2 were con

victed as against

The particulars are as follows

1st . A boy of 13years of age was kidnapped on 22nd January 1883 at Thiaga

rajapuram, by a n eighbour one Pethaperumal taken to a neighbouring village and

murdered, as ex tern alin juries showed . There could have been n o motive for the

murder, except the taking of the gold bangles and ear-rings which the boywore . The body was foun d in the canal with the ears cut . Pethaperumalwas sus

pected and his house searched, an d a bloody knife found .

The case went to Session s, and the Judge acquitted for want of an eye-witness

to the commission of the murder.

2nd. This was a murder of a new born illegitimate child immediately after its

birth on 7thMay 1883at Tirtorapundi. The woman was put before the TirtorapundiApothecary who after some delay gave a certificate that she had n ot been recen tlydelivered . The Police doubting this, sen t her up to a neighbouring Apothecary at

Man argoody,Mr. Johns, who certified that she had been recently delivered, and a

midwife who attended her admitted the fact, whichwas further corroborated by the

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The strengthof the Force was 811and admission s in to Hospital from all causes

amoun ted to 272 . Ague, Rheumatism, bowel affection s and cutaneous diseases

were the prin cipal maladies which came under treatmen t .

There were on ly six admissions from venereal ailmen ts . The average of in

patien ts was 31daily . 107 cases were trea ted as out-patien ts .

N o deaths occurred amongst the patien ts treated in the Police Hospital.

There were 11 deaths from various causes amongst the men .

Grave Crime has been slightly in excess of the previous year an d detection has

n ot been quite so good as to make it satisfactory . Every means has been adopted

and the best ability that the District affords has been employed .

9 cases of Dacoity were repo rted during the year, 8 of whichwere House Dacoi

ties ; 3have been detected and on e is n ow under trial. In the previous year there

were 7 cases with4 detected .

8 out of 30 person s arrested were convicted in 1883, while 16 out of 26 arrest

ed were convicted in 1882 .

Rupees worth of property was lost in 1883 again st 843in the previous

year. There were n o cases of a specially serious type during the year . The his

tories of these cases are given separately.

The Kullers of Tanjore, Trichinopoly and PudoocottahTerritory are the chief

D epredators in the Southern Taluqs of the District while the Koravers from Salem

and SouthArcot make raids upon To ryore, Perambalore and Woodiarpoliam Taluqs .

3 cases of Robbery were detected o ut of 11 cases reported in 1883 again st 2

cases out of 7 in 1882 .

5 cases ofmurder were repo rted in 1883 one of whichwas detected again st 3

in 1882 with n o detection .

8 cases of Culpable Homicide were reported of which3 were detected against

on e case in 1882 which rem ained un detected .

The following is a Comparative Statemen t of Grave Crimes for 1882 an d 1883.

Cases. Property.

Crimes.

Murder—Ou the 18thMay Sengamalam , a girl aged 6 years and daughter o f

one Coopoosamy Pillay, was reported to be missing an d on the following morningher

body was foun d near the n ew bathing Ghaut in Than athan am . The Police receiv

ing in timatio n of the same repaired at on ce to the spo t an d made en quiries . The

absen ce of a greater part of the jewels worn by the deceased and presen ce of

marks on the abdomen an d left eyebrow led the Police to believe the cause

of deathto be suspicious. The Medical Officer to whom the corpse was sen t for

Postmortem Ex amin ation did n ot state clearly whether deathwas caused by drown

ing or disloca tion of the n eck . On subsequen t enquiries being made two girls viz.

V eerayee an d Ruthn am of Jaffer Sahib Street said that some 4 days previouslythey on their way to GoriTank to fetchwater, saw a woman seated on the pial of a

Bramin’

a house with a girl by her side , that on their return the woman an d child had

disappeared , that subsequen tly they wen t to Soon dra Doss’

Tank when they saw

the woman an d child going in the direction of Elephan t Tank Street, and that

they could iden tify the woman . Con stables were sent in every direction for the

missing woman , but to no avail. The deceased child’

s father ex erted himself to the

utmost to ferret Out the murderers but without success .

On the morning of the 15thJuly, Agelandam a girl aged about 10 years and

daughter of one Mottay Odian was missed from her abode . The girl’s mother

and others m aking a search for the girl, one Ammakutti stated that the girl was

seen going to the west of the Village in company with a woman n amed Thyal.

Thyalwas at on ce suspected an d soon after arrested with some jewels in her pos

session an d han ded over to the Village Mun siff. The Police, receiving a report to

the above effect from Village Mun sifi‘

, at on ce proceeded to the spot and made en

qu mes .

Thyal con fessed that herself an d two others n amely Karoopen and Maruthanwere perpetrators of the girl

’

s murder . Karoopen was also soon secured . He

volun tarily produced some of the jewels worn by the girl an d stated that they were

given to him by Thya lwho wan ted him to mortgage them for her . The houses of

Karoopen an d Maruthan were searched but n o property was found . Maruthanabsconded from the village . The deceased

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s body wa s discovered in a bush with

marks of violen ce before the place was poin ted out by the accused Thyal.

Thyal’s con fession was recorded before the lo calMagistrate and four days after

her first statemen t she stated that she an dMaruthan on ly were the perpetrators of

the crime an d ex cluded Karupen who pleaded n ot guilty before the Magistratesaying that he only assisted in mortgaging the jewels as requested byher .

The Sub-Magistrate however committed bothof them to the Court of Session s .

Thyal was convicted an d sen tenced to be hanged and Karupen was released, the

HighCourt commuted the sen tence of death to tran sportation for life .

Maruthan was also subsequen tly arrested and committed to the Court of Session s but released for wan t of sufficien t eviden ce .

D acoity—About 30 robbersbrokein to the house of oneAngamootoo Chetty, beat

the inmates severely an d carried away property worth Rs. 580. 3 men Non jan ,Maroothamoothoq and Verappan ofMungalam were arrested on iden tification of the

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On the night of the 8th August, about 15 dacoits en tered the ho use of one

SengarapahReddy, lighted portion s of the tha tchof the ho use (pulled f o r the purpose}

bea t the inmates, seized the wife of the said Reddy an d took off he r g o ld an d silver

jewels worthRs. 101. A few.

o f the robbers remained in the stree t p e ltin g stones

to keep off assistan ce . N o brass vessels, &c . ,were touched . Police e n q uiry showed

tha t the crime had been committed by the wan deringkoravers of the S a le m District

N o clue was obtain ed .

At about midnight on the 2nd September 1883 about 30 d a c oits armei

with clubs an d spears en tered the house of o n e Saminada Pillay by clim bin g o ver th

roof, bea t him a nd o thers in the house and took the jewels, vesse ls ,c lo ths its

worth Rs. 577 . The P olice go t in fo rmation that on e Thoplan K o n a n o f Kat

poleam village was concern ed . Thoplan ,on being arrested , con fe s s e d his gum

a nd delivered some stolen property and implicated one Kasy Iyen an d 30 o thers as

his accomplices, 8no f them were arrested and put o n

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trial before the Magistrate,

seven were discharged for wan t of eviden ce a nd the remaining on e c o m m itted t

the Sessio n s, where he wa s sen tenced to one year’

s rigo rous imprisonm e n t .

O n the night of the 30thD ecember 1883 about 30 dacoits broke in t o the boss

o f on e N arrain Chetty using burning thatchpulled out for the purpose a s lights, beat

him an d o thers an d carried away jewels &c . ,valued Rs . 319 .

The Police enquired in to the case but n o clue was obtained till rece n tly .

A wealthy Reddy is the ringleader. 16 arrests have been made,

o n e per

son confesses a nd will be made approver. The Reddy is n o doubt the p romotf.‘r

of all the D acoities in the neighbourhoo d .

About 20 or more men armed with sticks and slings attacked with lighted

torches the house o f oneMo o thoocarooppa Acha ry, a goldsmith ; about 10 men

wen t in side the house a n d a ttempted to break Open the door of the ro om where'

in the female inmates foun d refuge. But as the robbers threaten ed to se t fire to

the house if the door were n ot opened, the complain an t’

s wife and mo ther-in -la'

open ed the door an d surren dered themselves an d allowed their jewels &c . ,to be

taken . Meanwhile Qadir, a mahomedan , on e of the robbers an d a resident

of the village, on the in formation ofMaroothay, a lad of twelve years of age , andan

inma te of the house climbed up to the Paran ayin the n orth room and brought down

a wooden box con taining jewels &c . an d cashRs. 25 . The inma tes were n ot hurt

but were ordered to hold their peace .

Qadir and 8 o thers were arrested , but only four were iden tified and placed

before theMagistrate . The four accused were committed to the Session s, two were

convicted and sen ten ced to five years’

rigorous imprisonmen t each, an d two 80'

quittted .

The complain an t in this c eis a receiver of stolen property and has been brought

over by a n o torious dacoit o f aroopore Village of Trichin opoly Taluq who is the

ring-leader, con sequen tly the complainan t has been doing all he could to frustrate

the endeavours of the Police .

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The great an nualYagadasy festival at Sreerungam commenced on 3othDecem

ber 1883, and closed on the 19thJanuary 1884, the principal day was on 8th Janu

ary 1884.

The gathering of Pilgrims at the shrin e this year was estimated about

again st in 1882 . These figures are much below those of the past years

owing probably to the out-break of Cholera , of the existen ce of which timely n otice

was published in the District Gazette.

Sanitary Police arrangemen ts were as usual very satisfactory. There were

twelve cases of cholera again st36 in previous year, 9 cases proved fatal; one Con stable

of the Chittore party who come to preserve order duringthe festivalwas a victim to

this disease.

There were no accidents of any kind during festival and every thing went off

very quietly. Seven cases of theft were reported witha loss of property valued a t

Rs . 362. 85 Rs . worthof property recovered . 9 persons were arrested of which8

were convicted .

An ex tra force of 9 Head Constables and 92 Constables came from other Dis

tricts to assist the Police of this District during the festival.

TheMoharam festivalwent on very quietly.

Processions were conducted under the personal supervision of the DistrictMagistrate and Superin tendent of Police.

Fairs are held in forty different places in the District and average attendance ateachis about 729 persons.

General Remarks—No Crimin al prosecutions were ordered by the Superinten

den t during the year and no charges were entertained again st Police Oflicers with

out the intervention oithe Police.

Withreference to G . O . No . 1746, dated 3othOctober 1882 therehave been no

ca ses in whichwomen were found guilty of murdering their infant children .

As usual wandering gangs passing from one place to an other are carefullywatched and a weekly return is sen t by In specto rs to the Head Quarter Office .

The number of Police Ofi cers who received Salt rewards during the yearwas 3.

The amoun t of reward received by them was Rs. 243-2 .

Constables sanctioned for Railway Platforms, perform their duties vigilan tly .

Village P olice—Taliaries are gen erally available to assist the regular Police

within the limits of their villages ; they are n ot n ow employed on Revenue duties .

The late orders of the In spector-General regarding Taliaries have been circulated to

all In spectors in the District .

Season —The rainfall amounted to 3806 inches, theI adura

average fall for the last 5 years is

Strength—The sanctioned strengthof the District for all services was,

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Inspectors

Sub-Inspectors

European Head Constables

N ative Head Con stables

Con stables

The actual strengthon the 31st December 1883was,

Sub In spectors

European Head Con stables

N ative Head Con stables

From the san ctioned strengthnine Con stables should be deducted , the Jailer

being at the close of the year less the budgetted strengthby this number . From

actual strength twelve Constables not in the budget supplied on paymen t must be

ducted, the actual number of vacancies on the 31st December 1883 w as there:

twelve.

Castes—The force consists of the following castes

Christians.Mohamedans. Brahmins. Rajputs . Hindus rm .

0 O l C U U 7 2 1l

19 290 2 761 4

Total”

Percen tage of the strength

of the

Recruiting—106 men were enlisted during the year . Police service isit

”?

becoming more popular, no difficulty was experien ced in filling up vacancies,

educated men , and in physique fully up to the required standard ;

Education —Of the Force con sisting of 22 Inspectors, 4 Sub-Inspectnrssl

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Head Con stables an d 951 Con stables, the In spectors, Head Con stables, and

Con stables, or per cen t . of the en tire force can read and w rite.

School—The undermen tioned men attended the Head Quarter School.Sub-Inspector 1

Recruits 106

Men received from Division s for Station56

House Oflicers’Test

Of these ;

71recruits passed the prescribed test for Constables.

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(a ) On the morning of the 26th October 1882 between 6 an d 7 A. M. ,4 tra

vellers going from Tuticorin were attacked on the Pallamcottahroad 3miles from

Tuticorin by a gang of 6 or 7 men and robbed of jewels and cloths value Rs . 64 .

(b) On the 27thDecember 1882 the Thasildar of Sunkara Nin ar Covil when

travelling in a bandy from Palamcottahto Nungan eriwas attacked near the third

mile stone from Palamcottah by a.gang of 7 men an d robbed of a pair of diamond

ear-rings and other property valued at Rs . 372.

(c) On the 23rd February 1883, a man withhis family in a coun try cart tra

velling on the road between Edasewel an d Covilputty was attacked by 7 men an d

robbed of property value Rs. 145 .

(d.) On the night of the 3rdMay 1883, a Bombay Parsee merchant travellingin transit from Tin nevelly to Travan core was attacked eight miles from Tinnevellyby a gang of 7 men and robbed of a watch, currency n o tes and jewels value Rs. 732

the same night and n ear the same placeMr. Brown a coffee plan ter also in a tra n sit

was attacked and robbed of curren cy n otes and Travan core Chukrams value Rs . 64.

Inspector Bartels, lst Grade Head Con stable Christian , 2nd G rade Head Go n

stable Subramonya Pillay and some selected Constables were detailed to work at these

dacoities. V aluable in formation was obtain ed from an old approver as to the forma

tion of the gang and it was shortly after ascertained that a silver watch and some

currency n otes robbed in Tinn evelly had been purchased by one Ramalingum ChettyofMadura , also that other property had come in to the hands of receivers in the

Madura and Tirumangalum Taluks. For some days the Police failedin laying han ds

on any of the property. On the 18thJune they wen t to the village of Pusariputtyshowed property lists toMuthukaluvan Chetty an d Chockalingum Pillay of that vil

lage, the former gave up a gold ear-ring, two curren cy n otes and a pair diamon d ear

rings (the stones in whichwere subsequen tly ascertained to be immitation , only false

diamonds had been palmed ofi on the Chetty) whichhe said had been given him in

discharge of a debt by V eeramputty Angan , Kirukan , Vellian Andy Theven an d

o ther Cullun s, he further said that Vallian told him the ear-rings were the Tinnevelly

Tahsildar’

s. Chockalingum gave up a broken gold ear-ring whichhe said hehad go t

from Vallian . A comparison of the property withthe lists showed that the gold ear

ring belonged to dacoity (a . ) the no tes to dacoity (d . ) the diamond ear-rings to da

coity (b. ) and the broken ear-ings to dacoity (c. )

VeeramputtiAngan was n ow arrested ; he confessed stating that he, Cuttian ,

Kirukan ,Mayan di, Cuttoomoothoo Angan , Canayo A ngan had gone by train to Tuticorin committed dacoity (a . ) an d returned by train from Covilputti; corroborative

evidence of this con fession was obtained by examining the Railway Station ticket re

gisters ; Cuttiyan was n ex t arrested and also con fessed . Kirukan on being arrested

denied participation in dacoity but con fessed to dacoity (d . ) said he had mort

gaged the n otes to Mutukalmeen Chetty, that Vellian , Cuttian Iyen Andrachan ,

Nulla Curamban , Peria Karupen and Can ayo Angan had gone with him by .train

from Teruparangundum to Tuticorin , walked from there to Palamcottahand commit

ted dacoity his statement gave close details, the truths ofwhichon enquiry were

fully confirmed.

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On the 9thJuly the leaderVellian and his cousin Andrachan were arrested, theyd e nied all knowledge of the dacoities. On the 13thJuly Vellian ofierred to disclose

e verything, he was taken before a Magistrate an d gave full particulars of dacoitieshe also admitted having joined in several other dacoities. Vellian

g ave up a w atch, the ear-rings con taining the realdiamonds and some silver whichhe

s aid were the coin s melted . This property (ex cept the silver) was identified and thec onfession of Vellian corroborated in every particular.

By the Slst July, withthe exception of Canaya Angan who is still at large, the

w hole of the gang was arrested .

Owing to the complainan t in dacoity n ot identifying his property, the

prisoners were dischared.

In cases (d.) Vellian was admitted as an approver.

In case (c. ) the prisoners were acquitted .

In the other cases,

Cuttian is sen tenced to 7 years’tran sportation .

Kirukan 24

Mayandy 7

CattuMutu Angan 8

Alican Angan 8

Andrachan 14

Cuttian Iyen 10

Iyan colum Paria Carupen 10

N ulla Curumban is acquitted .

Thus this Cullan Gang has been effectively disposed of, so far from their own

villages they thought that the crime might be committed withimpunity, bright moon

light nights were chosen , n o weapon s were carried, previous to the commission of a

dacoity, stout sticks were cut or purchased . If resistan ce was offered the dacoits

did not spare their victims, Cullan s are so muchin the habit of leaving their own

villages in parties to seek work on cofiee plan tation s that several being seen together

ordin arily excites neither suspicion nor remark,in n o crime is there so muchdifficulty

in procuring evidence as in highway dacoity but little credit (and rightly ) is given

to iden tification fortun ately a Cullan has no hon or ; on cein the hands of the Police

he will inform again st frien d or relation with equal facility, the difi culty not unfre

quen tly arises of extricating his last made enemies,'

these he is tolerably certain to

throw in .

Other dacoities—5 cases were reported during the year .

These 5 da coities are not of a serious n ature.

A man watching a pady crop in theMadura Taluk was beaten , some of the cropwas carried away.

A wandering gangwas attacked and robbed of cooking vessels and other pro

perty of trifling value, this is a counter complaint to the charge of a house dacoity

already alluded to.

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One case of land dispute which the Police refused to take up on the groun d tha t

it was o f a civil n ature wa s en tertained by theMagistrate who enquired into it an d

discharged under Section 209 C . C, P .

A woman watching crops in the Pariacolum Taluk states she was robbed of her

jewels, this is a false charge but the order to strike it off was n ot received up to the

close of the year .

The other is the'

ca ttle dacoity already alluded to .

R obbery— 8cases were committed (including 1

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case taken up direct byMagistrate an d discharged by him under Section 253 C. C . P . ) of which4 were detected .

Of 16 person s arrested 7 were convicted, of Rs. 428lost Rs. 111were recovered .

Of the 8 cases 2 were in dwelling houses with 1 detected 3 On highways with2

detected an d 3 other robberies withone detected .

In 1882 there were 10 cases committed with4 cases detected .

Ca ttle Theft — 282 cases were reported an d 12 cases of previous year were

brought un der enquiry, in 101 cases detected 281person s were arrested and 125 per

sons were convicted ; of Rs . lost, Rs . were recovered .

There ha s been a steady an d marked decrease in this

crime as will be seen from the figures given in the

margin .

Cattle theft nex t to dacoity has been the bane of theMadura District, the majority of the cattle lifters are from the Cullan s of Tirum angalum Taluk , muchhas

been done to put down this crime, con stan t Police vigilance supported byheavy punish

men ts on the part of the magistracy will n o doubt in time eradicate it .

Kidnappingfor immora lpm'

p oses.—1 case reported during the year, 3 person s

w ere arrested , an d 2 convicted .

The particulars of the case are, that Sangam an'

s daughter aged 11 years wa s

en ticed away by his sister an d taken to her house where she was m arried by her

son by tying the Thales . Bothof them were convicted under Section s 363 an d 366

I . P . C . by the Session s Court , an d sen ten ced to six mon ths’

simple imprisonmen t

an d six mon ths’

rigorous imprisonment respectively .

D rugging.— 2 cases were reported during the year, 1was followed by murder,

the particulars of this case are as follows

On the 23rd December 1883, the corpse of V enkatasasha Iyengar a lias SawmyIyengar of Pariacolum , was found floating in Cepaulsamutheram tank in Dindigul

Town ; his legs above the knee were tied together with a cloth. From enquiries

made it was ascertain ed that deceased was a trader dealing in carpets and cloths in

Periaco lum . On 2lst December 1883he left that place in a cart having withhim

four or five hundred Rupees whichhe was taking to Madras to purchase goods, A

pen sioned school master . an Asary female withtwo children , and a stranger, said to

be a Brahmin from Cochin , accompanied deceased in his cart as far as Amainaikn ore

Railway Station . There the stranger gave to Sawmy Iyengar some milk and sugar,

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In sp ectionL—The Superintendent of Police has visited all station s in hisRange ,also 11 stations in the Assistan t Superintendent

’s Range.

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The Assistan t Superin ten den t visited all stations in his Range except 9 owing

to frequen t changes. and the Sub-Divisionhaving been left for some time without an

Assistan t Superin tenden t these station s were left unvisited .

Snb-Division .—The undermen tioned Officers were in charge of Sub-Division

during the year.

Mr . J . F. Sullivan .

Mr. P .Miller .

Mr . H . E . Sullivan .

Mr . G . A . S. Thompson .

Mr. E . Gadsden .

Season and P rice—The year has been a prosperous one ;

the prices of food grain s uniformly low .

Towards the close of the year cholera foun d its way to Tinnevelly apparen tly

fromMadura,first appearing in Virudupatti, but quickly spreading over the whole

District, leaving its marks in Tinnevelly, Srivaigun tum and some of the larger

Town s . The Force did not escape 12 of all ranks being attacked ; out of which

n umber, I regret to say, 6 succumbed to the disease.

Tinnevelly.

Sta te of the Force—The strengthof the Force has been maintained, and no

difficulty is experien ced in obtaining suitable recruits .

Dismissals and rresigna tions .—5 Con stables were dismissed, and 9 resigned .

In sp ectors .-The general conduct of In spectors appears to have been satisfactory,

but they have all more or less failed miserably in the detection of grave crime .

Snb-Insp ectors .—3 are alloted to this District, of these 1is still at Head Quar

ters an d will shortly be sen t to take charge of a station : 1 acting for an In spector

on leave, shows he has a fair knowledge of his work and the other one has been tran s

ferred to Salem .

Head Constables and Constables.-The officers of bothgrades have on the whole

behaved well, but seem quite unable to comwith theMaravers. Few indeed have

done anything brillian t in the way of detection .

Fines and forfeiture of p ay.—The fines for the year amoun ted to R s. 92-5-7 .

The Black mark system has been worked and an swers well. Forfeitures of pay for

absence without leave amoun ted to Rs. 83-3-2 .

Punishmen ts byMagistra tes and Com te—6 Constableshavebeen prosecuted un

der Section 223, I . P . C ., of whom 3were convicted, and of these 3, one has been

released on appeal.

Rw anda—3men were promoted by the Superintendent forwork donein the detection of cases and 7 rewarded by the In spector

-General of Police on the Superin

tendent’

s recommendation . The rewards amounted to Rs. 30.

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E sca e from other custody.— There were 15

,escapes from o ther custody, of

which the Police were respon sible for 9, and the village authorities for 6 . The Police

were duly punished .

Suicides .—150 person s committed sxfl cide ; 41males, and females 109 .

Acciden ta l dea ths acciden tal deaths were reported, as classified below

328 by drowning.

22 by sn ake bite .

13 from falls from trees .

3 crushed by walls falling on them .

18 by lightning.

5 from in juries from fire .

3 crushed by stones.

1 gored by a bullock.

2 taken by sharks .

D ea ths from wan t and cap osure.

-None reported .

Fires—There were 671fires involiring the loss of houses and 142 straw

heaps valued at Rs .-8-7 .

Kn own D ep reda tors and Susp ected Characters .— 778 males and-2 females are

registered as Known Depredators and 208males as suspected persons .

23 Known Depredators, and 1 Suspect .were convicted during the year .

R eceivers of stolen property.—There are 30male and 1 female receivers known

to the Police.

Houses of bad rep ute.— 9 Toddy shops, 26 gambling houses and 25 houses in

whichproperty was disposed of, are watched as houses of bad repute.

R esults in all ca ses under I . P . 0. cases under the Penal Code were in

vestigated during the year ; convictions followed in 977c ases, a cquittals in 334, and.

were otherwise disposed of. At the end o f the year there were 52 cases

pending,”of which43were beforeMagistrates, and9 before Session s Court .

persons were arrested in the above men tion ed cases, of whom were

convicted ; were under-trial beforeMagistrates, and 344 before the Sessions

Court at the end of the year .

I . D acoity.-Dacoities in houses.

There were 3 reported, one of whichwas with torch light, and of these 1was

detected , of 8 persons arrested 2 were convicted, an d of Rs. 860 worth of propertylost, Rs . 31worthwas recovered .

II. In Highways.-8 cases were committed on Highways, but only one case

was detected, 31persons were arrested and 4 convicted .

The property lost amdun ted to Rs. and that recovered to R s. 68. We are

indebted to theMadura Police for the detection of this case which was skilfullyworked by InspectorMr. Bartels.

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On iden tificatio n by the complain an ts 6 of the robbers were traced out an d

placed before Sub-Magistra te who releasing 1 of them committed the o ther 5 to

the Court of Session s which acquitted them all as the Jurors considered the charge

was n o t established again st them .

2 . Complainan t a pen sioned Priva te n amed Sankaralingum Pillaiof Tinn e

velly Town an d 3 others travelled on the night of the 11th Februagy in a tran sit

bandy towards Tenkasiwhen they had reached a distance o f a mile and a half from

Tin nevelly, some 15 robbers who were in ambuscade by the road side attacked the

complain an ts with sticks and c arried away from their possession property valued a t

R s . 44, 3 of the robbers were traced out on iden tifica tion and placed before the

the Taluq Magistrate, who discharged them for wan t of sufiicient evidence . The

DistrictMagistrate differing with the TaluqMagistra te ordered that they should be

committed to the Sessions COurt to stand their trial and accordingly they were com

mitted .

In the trial the Jurors found them not guilty and the Sessions Judge released

them .

3. One P ul Subban of Virabandipulikolem and an other KandasawmiChettyof Parasuramapuram Village when returning to their houses on the night of 22nd

February after a trading excursion were a ttacked an d bea ten with sticks by 8 rob

bers who had been lurking n ear the road, and ready cash&c . amoun ting in value to

R s . 14-0-0, carried away from their possession .

On iden tification corroborated by other evidence, 4 of the gang of robbers were

traced out an d charged before the localSub-Magistrate who after enquiry discharg

ed them con sidering the eviden ce insufficien t to warran t their committal to the

Court of Session s .

4. Complainan t Karuppiof Uppaliyanoor Village attached to Sattoor Taluqtravelled in a cart on the night of the 23rd February 1883 with two males (includ

ing the bandy driver) an d 3 females towards Tinnevelly for the purpose of their wor

shipm'

ng some deity. As she was decked with jewel— some robbers (6 in number )who were cognizan t o f her movemen ts waylaid her in the limits of Edaseval station

and attacked her and her 2 companions and carreid away from them jewels—8m.

valued at Rs. 151-10-0 after beating them allwithsticks .

5 of the assailan ts were traced out an d charged before the localMagistrate whoun der con sideration that the evidence was not sufi cien t discharged them .

5 . Complainan t Sub-In spector Srinivasa Row . The Sub-In spector was in

charge of Palamcottah Division . Some Maravers and others who had ill-feelings

again sthim were watching his movemen ts and when the Sub-In spector on the night

of 24thMarch1883, went on pa trolduty, accompanied by Con stable No 656 Sankar

appa Na1k they were waylaid and attacked by about 8Maravers and Pariahs withsticks and stones. The Sub-In spector and the Con stable did their best to defend

themselves and the Con stable woun ded one'of the Dacoits on the hand witha sword

he was carrying. During the fight the robbers managed to obtain possession of and

carry away the bundles of records and other thingswhichwere in the Inspector’s cart .

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They afterwards sorted these bundles throwing away the records and appropriatingto themselves the person al property con sisting of 1 cloth and 4 Rs . in all valued at

Rs . 4-8-0.

6 of the offenders were traced out on identification an d charged before Sub

Magistrate of Palamcottahwho, considering the eviden ce adduced was not sufficien t

for their commitmen t to Session s Court, released them all.

6 . While one Kistniengar of Nunguneriand 7 o ther passengers consisting of

5 males and 2 females were travelling on the night of 5th April 1883 in a tran sit

bandy from Palamcottahin the direction of Nunganeri, about 11robbers who were

collected by the road side for,the purpose of committing depredation stopped the tran

sit, unyoked the bullocks an d threatened the passengers to make over what theyhad with them and accordingly the said Kristniengar and 3 others delivered the

jewels 850 . they had with them and the robbers let them proceed without using

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vio

len ce. The total value of jewels &c . carried away on the occasion amounted to Rsr

84-0-0.

One of the robbers was traced and found in possession of 8.Railwaybag, a vessel

and 2 cloths whichformed a part of the property robbed from the above Kristniengar

and charged before the TaluqMagistrate . He committed him to the Session s Court

where in the trial, the jurors found him n ot guilty, he was released by the Session s

Judge .

7 . While complain an t Permal Naik of Tiruthangal village and 3 others of the

same village were travelling in a cart from Virudupatty towards their village on the

night of the 19thApril 1883 about 6 thieves came an d sn atched away from their

charge cashRs . 6-8 beating one of them with a stick, but leaving the others alone

The case remain s undetected .

8. On the night of 3rdMay 1883Mr. Brown , an European and coffee plan

ter of Travancore .and Jafi'

er Hussain Saib, a Bombay man who came on a trading ex

cursion , were going in transit bandies from Palamcottah towards Travancore when a

band of robbers numbering between 10 an d 16 who were lurking near the plane, at

ta cked them and their servan ts with sticks an d carried away from their possession ,

by using violen ce, property con sisting of currency n otes, watches, cash and clo

things valued at Rs . 740-7-0. The 2 assailed stated that they could iden tify the rob

bers an d no clue was obtained in this District althoughit was known that the ofi'

ence

was committe d byMadura kallars . In the in terim , some in formation was obtained

byMadura District Police In spectorMr . Bartels that theMadura kallars were the

real offenders who committed the offen ce and that they had possession of some of the

property robbed in the case and in Dacoity cases of the year

1882 No . 152111, 14+ and 39 I of this District. The In spector

succeeded in tracing out the ringleader n amed Valliyan who

confessed the commission of the ofiences and n amed his comrades 6 in number and

disclosed the places and persons who had kept the property on pledge . Of the per

son s named by the approver 5 were arrested an d placed before the DeputyMagistrateofMadura District, withproperty found in this case and other cases of 1882 . In the

trial before the Sessions Court ofMadura District the offenderswere sen ten ced as fol31

m of Palamco ttah Rural.f of Eda sewel.I of Tuticox-ia .

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lows -1st and 2nd prisoners to 14 years’tran sportation each; and 3rd and 5th

prisoners to 10years’tran sportation each; and 2 released , one of them being approver.

1. Field D acoity.-When complainantsMuthusawmy Pillaiand another female

V ellaiyammal of Nelapatam village were returning to their house from Palamcottah

bazaar in the evening (about dark) of the 12th January 1883, about 8 thieves whowere lurking near the bye

-path, attacked them and carried away from theirpossession

gold jewels &c. valued at Rs. 38-0-0 after beating them with sticks . The assailed

person s named 8 robbers as their assailan ts . They were arrested and iden tified . The

Sub-Magistrate of Palamcottahon enquiry committed the8 offenders to Session s Courtwhere in the trial the jurors not being of Opinion that the offence was established

against them they were acquitted by the Session s Judge.

R obberies.—7 cases were reported 4 convicted ,

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10 persons arrested, 10 convicted .

Rs. 794 worth of property lost and Rs. 38worthrecovered .

1 On the night of l0th January 1883at 10 P . M. 3 person s en tered in to the

house of One Subbu Naiken by forcibly Opening the back-door an d when attemptingto steal the bullocks that were tied in side, one of the inmates named Subbammal

raised an alarm and tried to in tercept the robbers who, however succeeded in carryingaway the animals (valued at Rs. 60-0-0) after severely wounding her with sticks .

The case remains iundetected .

2 . Complain antMenatchia female ofMelathiruthangal complained that when

sleepingin her house on the night of 28th July 1883, 3 thieves en tered and drag

ged her out ofher bed and stripped her of her jewel valued at Rs . 36 after cutting

one of the lobes of her ears . The offen ders were traced out and charged before the

D eputyMagistrate who convicted and sen tenced them each to one year’s rigorous

imprisonmen t and 2 of them were fined 20 Rs. in addition .

3. When one RamasawmiSastriof Elathur, Travancore territory was return

ing to his village from Veeragaralampudur in a cart with a companion , 3 robbers

attacked them, and uhyoking the bullocks robbed them of property valued at Rs .

373 6-7 after use of violence. The case remain s undetected .

4. A female named Piramu of Kulladacurchiwhen gathering fuel with3 other

females in the jungle near Singampatty Z emin Hills was attacked by a robber who

after having beat and _

cut one of the lobes of her ears, carried away jewels valued a t

R s . 38. The offender was traced and charged before the Head Assistan tMagistratewho convicted and sen tenced him to 8mon ths

’rigorous imprisonment. The jewels

robbed were recovered from the robbers’

possession .

5. Complainan t Muthusawm y Cone when watching his sheep-pen with two

other persons on the night of 27thJune1883, was attacked by 3robbers and robbed

ofhis ear-rings, cloths and a few sheep in all valued at Rs. 31. On iden tification

made by the complain an t, 3 robbers were arrested and charged before the Join tMa

gistrate who convicted and senten ced 2 of the prison ers to 8mon ths’rigorous impri

soument and fine of Rs. 25 eachan d the other, to one years’rigorous imprisonmen t.

6 . Sawmy Iyengar ofAlwartirunagariwithan other Lutchamana Iyengar when

returning from Travancore to their native place in a cart were attacked by 3robbers

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Ca ttlep oisoning—One case was reported and it remains undetected . 2 person s

were arrested an d released .

D rugging.-Two cases are reported and remain undetected . The particulars of

each are given below .

1. Letchimiammal ofMayapuram was said to have given some piece of mango

to one Ramakrishnen , a boy of 10 years old who about an hour afterwards, began to

vomit 6 times an d then recovered . The CivilApothecary to whom the boy was sen t

was of Opinion that the result of vomitting was from worms . The vomitted matter

was sen t to the Chemical ex aminer by the TaluqMagistrate . The Chemical exami

n er found in it some min eral poison called Saviram”in Tamil. The case remain s

undetected for wan t of eviden ce to con n ect the offender withthe crime .

2 . One Saravan aian d other 6 members (of his family and relatives) took theirmeals at 7 P . M. on 1st August 1883 and soon after became in sensible . After ad

ministering certain medicines, they recovered. N 0 one was suspected of having in

ten tionally administered drugs .

Ofi'

ences rela ting to coin —5 cases were reported and 3 convicted .

The only one deservingnotice occurred in Sankaran ainarkoiland is as follows

It was stated in an an onym ous petition referred by the Taluq Magistrate that

one Sankara Subbu Ausary and 9 others of Sankaranainarcoilwere manufacturinglead into Queen ’

s Coin and buried them in a certain place. On examining the spot 18

coun terfeit full rupees were found buried , the place being the back ground of the

house of the above Sankara Subba Ausary . This place being accessible to outsiders

and there being faction m the village an d n o direct evidence being obtained to co n

n ect the person s stated 1n the petition withthe offen ce, the case remains undetected .

Ca ses tried by Sessions .- 57 cases were tried by the Session Court and convic

tions were Obtain ed in 36 cases . 199 person s were tried an d 87 convicted .

Cases referred byMagistra tes to P olice. cases were referred by Magistratesfor Police enquiry, of which 70were found to be false.

Cases prosecuted by P olice and found fa lse after trial. -86 cases with225 per

son s were prosecuted by the Police and foun d false byMagistrates after trial. This

is a considerable decrease on last year, when the numbers were 144 and 522 respec

tively.

Vagrancy Acti—No cases reported under this Act .

Insp ection by District 0fiicers.—All the station s in the Superin tenden t

’

s Range

were inspected, severalof them more than once . The Superin tenden t also in spected

13 Stations of the Assistan t Superin tenden t’

s Range. The inspection of the Sub

Division by the Assistan t Superintenden t was complete .

Season and price.-The rain fall for 1883 was 385 inches, again st an average

Salem.

of 34 1 for the 5 preceding years, and the prices of food grain

were comparatively lower than in 1882.

Vizagapatam , 1 European Head Con stable, 3 Head Con stables and 26 Constable

died during the year .

P olice p a tien ts in Hospita l.— 421Police Ofi cers were treated as in-patientst

Police Hospitals and other Dispen saries, and 222 as out-patients . The number1.

men who died in Hospitals was 10.

Salt Thefts — 9 cases of Salt Theft were reported ; all of which were detected

Nine person s were arrested, all of whom were convicted .

.Processes issued byMagistra te—The following table shows the processesissusé

by theMagistracy in different cases .

In addition 69 Searchwarran ts, 460 Distress warran ts, 812 Reman d warrant.

and miscellaneous processes were issued during the year.

Convicts guarded in Cen tralJail.-The average number of convicts guarded

the Cen tral Jailwas

Escap es from Cen tra lJail.—There were no escapes from the Cen tral Jail.

Subsidiary Jails .—There are 16 Sub-Jails in the District. The total numbami

convicts confined in them during 1883 was 560, the average duration of confinement

being days.

E scap esfrom Sub-Jails.—NO escapes from any of the Sub-Jails during theyea

r

E scap es from other Custody.-27 person

s escaped from other custody of when

21were re-captured .

Suicides.—The subjoined table gives details of suicides showing a decreased

as compared with1882 .

There is the usualpreponderance of female Suicides over males.

Accidenta lDeaths—The following statement gives details of acciden tal death

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In 1882, of 15 cases reported 8were detected . The detection has slightly fallen

off this year . The per centage of person s convicted shows a slight improvemen t this

year. The Dacoity that occurred in Womalore deserves some special men tion .

On the night of the 2nd of October a gang of about 15 dacoits entered in to the

houses of one Chinnia Mullien and Kistn a Chetty of Mullappanoor attached to

N angavally station ,wounded the inmates very severely and plundered property valued

a t Rs 256-4—0. 15 of the gang were subsequen tly arrested and placed for trial before

the 2nd class Magistrate of Womalore. One of the prison ers died while under

enquiry and the remaining 14 person s were committed to the Session Court seven

of the prison ers were convicted to 7 years’rigorous imprisonmen t an d 5 to 5 years

’

rigorousimprisonmen t and 2 were acquitted . The conduct of theH ead con stable was

reprehensible and he has been dismissed . The In spector also was reduced for sus

picious conduct in con nection with this case.

Robberies—The following statement shows the number of robberies as compared

with1882 .

Robberies .

How e-Breakings .-The number of House-breakings for the year was as follows .

In 1882, 413 cases were reported and 135 of them were detected . A comparison

of the figures of this year will show that there has been a con siderable decrease in

this class of crime. On the night of 29th September 1883,a gang of 7 koravers

entered the h0use of one Varadiengar of Venkatanaikampoliem by opening the door

in the back and made away withprOpertyworthRupees 16-14—0.

The complain an t and the beat con stables hearing some noise gave alarm and

pursued the thieves who pelted stones at them .

Sub-Inspector Meyyu Iyengar with an other con stable followed them and

succeeded in arresting oneMunian of the gang who con fessed and implicated 6 others

of whom 2 only were arrested. The 3 prisoners were convicted by the Session Court

to difieren t terms of rigorous imprisonmen t and tran sportation .

Ca ttle theftsr -A comparative Statemen t of cattle thefts for the last 4 years is

herewithsubjoined.

were struck ofi ; of the remaining 4 cases 2 were ordered to be retainedon trRegister {or wan t of sufi cien t grounds for referring, and 2 were co nvicted

Ca ses p rosecuted by P olice a nd found fa lse after tria l.— The number ofa s

prosecuted by the Police and found to be false after enquiry and trialby CDEL

Courts, was 73 again st 215 last year.

Itinera tion .-There are 49 Station s in theMain Range, all of them havets .

visited by the Superintenden t of Police. There are 55 Stations in the Sub-Divine.

and the Assistan t Superin tenden t of Police has inspected all of them .

Superin tenden t has also visited 13 station s in Assistan t’s Ra nge .

Arms Act—40 cases were reported under the Act out of which31weredetecte

132 person s were arrested, of whom 119 were convicted .

Cholera —This epidemic made its appearan ce towards December 1882, aud'

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continued more or less since. We have lost 2 European Heads, an d theWlir

another, an d among the N a tive Con stables 1Head and 17 men .

The site of the office has been condemned by the presen t and late CivilSurge:

for its gen eral unhealthiness. Most of deaths referred to above occurredin «ii»

compound a nd its immediate neighbourhood . A special report is being forush.

on the subject.

Sp ecia l—Out of 6 East Indian lads sen t from Chief office for en listmentind

Special Force, 5 resigned within a short period of their entertainmen t and were:

loss to the Force.

The remaining lad has served steadily on and given satisfac tion by his attent :

to his duties and general good conduct.

Season .—The rain fall during the past year has again been good , thoughit

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late in coming ; the dry crOps began to wither,and when

rain set in , it was so heavy and con tinuous, tha t crops on!

a ccoun t also suffered ; but on the whole there has been a fair average out-tut

the actual rain fall for the past year was again st for the pasti

years—marketshave been well supplied . Cholum has been slightly dearer tha

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year. Cumboo about the same as last year. Baggy has been cheaper.

Coimbatore

Strengthof Force.—At the close of the year the Force was up to its full

a"

tioned strength; viz. 939 of all ranks exclusive of 15 Taliaries, who a re separatff:

en tertain ed .

The following statemen t shows the grades as they stood at the close of theyear.

Extra men are muchrequired for Coimbatore Town .

Inspectors

Sub-Inspectors

Chief Con stables

1st grade Head Constables

2nd

3rd

4th

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On the 31st December 1883, the strengthof the Force in cluding 24 recruits

and school at Head Quarters (Coimbatore ) stood as fo llows

Inspectors

Sub-In spector

Chief Constable

lst Grade Head Con stables

2md do . do.

3rd do . do .

4th do . do .

lst Class Con stables

2 nd do .

3rd do .

(Ja sua lties.

—Were as follows

Con dimt of the Force—4 Police men were convicted by Magistrates again st onein 1882 . Particulars as follows

Under Section 223, I . P . C. Under Section 352, I . P . C .

1. 6 mon ths’Simple Imprisonmen t. 1Fined 6 Rupees.

1. 1Mon th do . 1 Fin ed 1 Rupee.

Edaca tlan .—Number who can read and write stands as follows

Able to read an d write

Un able to do

11 Constables passed through Head Quarter School Coimbatore ; 5 passed

Station Ho use Oflicer’

s Test, an d 6 more were un der in struction .

Acting 3rd Class In spectorMr. Franks passed Part I of In spector’s Test.

Crime—The statemen t herewithattached shows the state of crime for the past

5 years . Crime on the whole has been light ; 1Murder 1 detected again st 2 in 1882,a lso detected an accoun t of the murder is given , as conviction was obtained with

out the murdered man’

s body being actually found . On the 28thN ovember 1883,it was reported a t the Police Sta tion Kotagirithat Maistry Shaik Ismal of theKendonee Estate near Kotagirihad been missing for the last 10 days, or sin ce the

18th N ovember ; and it was supposed he might have been murdered ; it was this

great delay in reporting the man’

s absence to the Police, whichen abled the perpetra

tors of the crime to make away withthe body. On the report reaching In spector

Franks , he, with his usual promptness at once wen t to the spot, and sen t in

formation to Chief In spector Shortt who proceeded to the scene, very energeticallywo rked at the case ; he with the assistance kindly given by the neighbouring

plan ters, (on e of whomMr. Hawes, the Superintenden t of the Kendonee offered

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a reward of 50 Rupees for the finding of the body ) made several careful but

in effectual searches for the body . The case was committed to Session s. The writer

T hyriem an d Cooly Permal were con victed and senten ced to be tran sported for life .

The Court made Ponnoosawmy theMaity an approver ; but theMaity changed his

s tatemen t,a nd was put back for tria lby the Session s Court. Maity Pon n oosawmy’

s

first statemen t whichwas no doubt true, is entered here, as it gives allparticulars o fthe case.

I have worked asMaity. I was last in the service ofMr . Hawes at Curzon

estate, and left service about 2 mon ths ago . Since then I lived with my co usin

writer Thyriem on the Kondanee estate, situated about 2 miles from Curzon .

On Saturday, about 20 days ago, I came into Kotageriin the evening to see myfather, Chinniah, who is in the service o fMr. Sherman . Next day (Sunday) thewriter, maistry Sheik Ismal an d some of the coolies of the estate came in to Kota

gerito purchase provision s . The writer an d the maistry wen t to the Arrack Shopand dran k a good deal during the day. Some of the coolies driving a bullock

laden withrice, dzc. went on in advan ce in the a fternoon . The writer, maistry,

cooly Permal and myself started about 5 P .M. These men had liquor with them ,

an d drank on the way. The maistry and Permal were quarrelling on the way .

The maistry also abused the writer using filthy la nguage. On getting to the

Vickypullum tree about 3miles from Kotageri, while it'was getting dark Permal

and the maistry came to blows, an d Permal kn ocked him down . The maistry fell

a short way on the right hand side of the Road below Vickypullum tree . The

writer thereupon picked up a stone (the one n ow shewn me) and struck the

maistry two or three blows on the back of the head , the writer did n ot go any dis

tan ce for the stone . It was ha ndy on the spot . The maistry was lying on his face

at the time. The writer in striking the blows said you Gainona ttee bada va youare always giving trouble On the estate, kick him well and killhim .

” Maistry whowas very drunk on receiving

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the blows cried out hiho lmy life is going,”I saw

a

l

good deal of blood fl ow . I became very afraid . I said n othing. I had no idea

sucha thingwould be done. Permal did not strike the maistry after kn ockinghim

down , the maistry died from blows given by the writer. The writer an d Permal

thereupon dragged the body eachholding a leg down the Hill a little distan ce, an d

placed the body behind a largerock, so as to be out of observation from themain road .

The writer an d Permal held a con sultation down below , I did n ot hear what they

said . I remained above much frighten ed . The writer and Permal then came up

to me, and the former said, it is too late n ow to go to our estate,it is dark an d

cloudy, we better go to the Tea Estate below , and remain for the night in En ock

’

s

house. We accordingly wen t on the pathway leading to Warwick”

; Permal car

ried the bundle belonging to the m aistry con taining curry-stuff, &c to“Warwick ,

”

just above Enock’s house . I hailed out to the inmates. lt is a roughish road .

On receiving a reply, Permal said bring a lan tern ,it is dark , we can’

t see the road .

A Can arese cooly brought a fire brand and led us down . We found Enock was

away, but his fatller an old man n amed John was there . He asked us why we had

come so late . The writer said it was late an d dark so we could not go to our

Estate, and came for shelter for the night. The writer and Permal were rather

drunk, but did not stagger about much. The writer also told John in reply to the

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question , why we had come so late, we brought the mussalman m aistry withus , he

was drunk an d gave a good deal of trouble on the road so it became late , we have

left the maistry lying asleep on the road above. John said n othing to this . He

did n ot suggest that the maistry sho uld be looked after, or people sent to carryhim

down to the house. John gave us all some food, after taking food Enock arrived

fromMettapolliem . En ock brought some Arrack withhim and gave some to Thyriem . Enock is n o relation to us. He is a Protestan t Mission Christian . We

are Roman Catholics . The three of us slept in the same room as the old man John .

Very early the followmg morning (Mon day) Thyriem awoke me and said “ it is

getting late let us go on . Permal was awake then . Theyriem awoke John and said

we are leaving. John said very good . The writer said to me a s we came o n to the

main road an d were passing the Vickypullum”tree where the maistry had been

beaten , remain here . Permal placed his bundle n ear me , an d bo th wen t down to

the rock, where m aistry’

s body was lying. I then again saw the body, the man

was quite dead . He was lying on his face withhis han ds ben t towards his chest .

He had his jacket and trousers on , ex cept that the waist string of the trousers had

broken,and the trousers had slipped down to his knees . The writer removed the

trousers by drawing it over the legs . In trying to remove the jacket, the writercould n ot take it off, as the a1ms were bent up and stiff, he had the1efore to tear

the jacket down the back, and pull the sleeves inside out over the arms. The wri

ter tore the turband'

ln three pieces and placed on e piece above the Vickypullum”

tree, and two pieces below . The head of themaistry was covered withblood . There

was a severe gash behind the head, ex tending quite across . The n aked body of

the maistry was then dragged down the Hill, the writer holding one leg an d Per

mal the other . I saw them go down about 60 yards , a fter that they were hid from

my view , by the byushwood . I remained near the Vickypullum”tree . The wri

ter and Permal returned about "2‘ or an hour after. I asked the writer where theyhad taken the body to . The writer told me to mind my own business . We all

three then turned homewards . The maistry’s bundle was carried by Permal. The

writer said by removing deceased’s clothing and leavingit about the place, it would

be supposed that a tiger had killed an d carried the maistry away. On arn'

ving at

Kondan ee”writer sent the bun dle o f the maistry to his wife Hoosain Bee, and

sen t word that the maistry had not come back withhim, and tha t he may be lyingdown drunk on the road, and to take rice and coffee and go in quest

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ofhim . Hoo

sain Bee wen t and came back saying she could not fin d him . The writer then

sent Permal. Permal returned in a very short time saying he also could not find

the maistry. After this the writer frequen tly warned me n o t to say a word of what

had happen ed, as trouble would come of it. Permal said the same. On Thursdayfollowing the writer sen t me to Kotagerisaying,

“

go an d see if the Police kn ow of

the case and find out”what people are saying. I came to Kotageriand as n o body

said a word to me I return ed to Kon dan ee an d told the m iter so . The wri

ter has been m a great fright sin ce. He could n ot eat or sleep .

”

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O ne dacoity of sheep by Cooroombers who drove off a flock occurred ; they were

all recovered by the promptness of the Head Constable, thoughthe Cooroombers got

away.

House-breakings 14 with9 detected, 643 per cen t. again st 11, with4 detected

36 4 per cen t .

, in 1882 .

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A very bad case occurred towards the end of the year, in which a Head (

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as

ble committed House-breaking, and then attempted to prove other personsgm

it. For his ofien ce he was sen tenced to 14 years’tran sportation in 1884. A:

case will most probably be commen ted on by theMagistracy it m ay be as v'

men tion it here. He was quite a young man belonging to a respectableit

family. A few years ago he was charged withhaving committed a.House-hm

but was acquitted . It’

wa s generally supposed that he was quite in n ocent x

affair and on very strong recommendation s, the Superinten den t with the know

of Colonel Hearn enlisted him as a lst Class Constable. Subsequen t to his

men t, he for a long time behaved uncommonly well, passed the Sta tion House

cer’s ex amination and did suchgood service in arresting some offen ders, whor:

Police, at the Station s in which the offences occurred, could not arrest, thathe

promoted to a 4thGrade Head Con stable, and sen t to Palghaut, where he com

the offences for whichhe was punished . It was an unfortun ate day for the c

the Police that saw him enlisted . 7 other notorious house—breakers were cox

withhim in the same case, and there are others concerned in it who when

will certainly follow him to jail.

A 1st Grade Head Constable was senten ced for wrongful confinemen t, &0.

ing the year to 2 years’and 2 months

’rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs.

under Section 352 and 343 of the Pen al Code, by the Acting Special As sistant

gistrate, but his sen tence was reduced to 6 mon ths, and a fin e of Rs. 200. Asa

the Police have behaved well.

Good Service—25 Police officers were rewarded by the In spector-Gene

Police withRs. 177 for good service in detecting cases, and 265 Police officers

ordered rewards amounting to Rs . in cases under the Abkarry A ct .

Educa tion —1European Head Con stable and 3Constables passed theS

House Officer’s test and drill, and 64 Con stabb s passed the Con stable

’

s test.

of the Con stables enlisted were taken 011 towards the end of the year, and m

them have since passed .

There are a large number of Constablesin the Divisionswho have passed St

House Officer’s test in previous years .

Healthof theforce—506 Police oflicers were treated as in-patien ts and35

out-patien ts in Hospitals, as again st 492 in-patien ts and 353out-patien ts i111

4 deaths occurred in the Hospitals, and 37 men died at their houses.

Jails and Escap es.-The Central Jail at Cannanore, an d the District Jailat

out were successfully guarded , n o escape occurred . From the District Jail at

cherry one escape took place, but the prisoner was speedily res captured an d pum

There were in all 778 prisoners in these 3 jails on 3let December 1883.

In the Subsidiary Jails prisoners were guarded of whom 3 effected the

escape. 2 of them were re-captured, but one is still at large witha reward offer

for his capture . 11 person s esfiaped from the custody of the Police, as against15

1882, 10were re-captured . All public and private treasure was safely escorted. Tl

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Amongst the worst of the cases of murder reported are the following

(a . ) A Tien cut down his daughter-in-law aged 13, at Chowghaut witha knife

in a fit of passion , because she refused to cook his rice, and spoke impertinen tly to

him . His little daughter aged 21} years seeing what had happened ran crying out of

the room , and he followed and murdered her also. He was senten ced to death.

b. ) An European murdered hiswife andher aun t very brutally witha hatchet at

Wa

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dakan cherry. His wife had left his house to attend on her aunt who was illwith

fever . As soon as the aun t had recovered the murderer wan ted his wife to return to

his house, but she refused to come on acount of his ill treatmen t, and her aunt

a rranged a divorce . This en ranged the murderer so that be determined to murder

them bo th, and armed witha hatchet he went to their house an d murdered them in a

very cruelmanner. After committing the murder he ran in to the jungle and hanged

himself.

(c. Another horrible murder of a wife was committed a t Kollengode . The

murderer a Tien , n early severed his wife’

shead from her body witha hatchet, besides

in flicting several other fearful,wounds. She had. left him and gone to live with a

Moplah, who was sen tenced to undergo six mon ths’rigorous imprisonment for com

mitting the adultery . When theMoplah returned from Jail, she was going to marryhim , and to preven t this the murderer committed this fearful crime. He was sen

teheed to death.

(ch) At Cannanore a dreadful murder occurred. A Tier woman who was

living withher uncle became pregnan t, and her uncle in sisted on her telling him who

her lover was . As she refused to tellwho he was, he took a teddy knife, and hacked

her most cruelly withit. She lived just long enoughto reachthe Hospital. The

murderer was sen ten ced to death.

(a . ) Another horrible murder occurred n ear the Kolathur Station . A Tien

murdered his wife and daughter most cruelly witha knife. The cause for his doingso is doubtful, but it is supposed that he was under the impression that he was not

the father of the child, and therefore murdered bothmother and child . After com

mitting the murder he attempted to hang himself on a tgee, but the rope broke and

in failing to the ground, he in jured his spine and could not move and was there

arrested .

The other cases that occurred were bad enough, but these are almost the worst

of them .

N 0 cases of infanticide by mothers were reported.

Culp able Homicida—4 cases were reported of which 2 or 50 per cent . were con

victed. In 1882 , 8 cases occurred, of whichMr 50 per cent. were detected.

D acoities.—2 cases of House Dacoity only were reported, and bothwere detected . Of the 18 person s concern ed, 13were arrested and 11 convicted . Neither of

the cases call for any Special comment.

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319 differen t members of the Force passed under medical treatmen t-during the

year viz. , 144 in Mangalore Police Hospital and 175 a t Local Fund Dispen sa ries in

the District. The corresponding number in 1882 was 289, o f whom 132 were treated

inMangalore Police Hospital. In UppenangadiTaluq, fever was un usually prevalen tand severe and in many in stances kept ofte n returning up to the close of the year.

Insp ectors—Nothing note-worthy to remark regarding any In spectors an d Sub

In spectors.

Head Constables.— Two Head Constables were dismissed of whom on e had been

prosecuted and co n victed (alongwith a Potail and sun dry ryo ts) o f theft and ex to r

tion ; 8 other Head Con stables were degraded, four perman ently and four temporarily.

Constables.— 7 Constables were convicted during the year viz.

, 3under Section

223 I . P . C one un der Section 380, one under Section 417, on e under Section 352

and one under Section 44 of Police Act. 5 Con stables in cluding 3 of the above

were dismissed and 18 reduced viz. , 16 perman en tly and 2 temporarily. 11Con s

tables resigned, on e Constable deserted and 17 Constables were discharged on pension

Rw an da—Four Constables were rewarded, two by promotion an d two by money

grants for good service in the detection of cases . Two other Con stables also received

between them a reward of Rs. 5 from theMilitaryauthorities for arresting a deserterfrom the 33rd Regiment N . I .

Mnrders.—Numbered 14 in 1883again st 16 in 1882 ; of 8cases tr

ied by Session s

Court 6 were convicted and two acquitted owing to the in sufficien cy of eviden ce. In

n o undetected case was robbery the object of the murder.

One detected murder was a case of Infan ticide. A girl of 19 being suspected

of infidelity and turned out of door by her husband and having no home to go to

jumped in to a well withher 10mon ths old child . The girl was taken out alive but

the child was drown ed, the girlwas sen ten ced to tran sportation for life under Section s

302 and 309 I . P . C., but the sen ten ce was reduced by Governmen t to one of rigor

ous imprisonmen t for three years.

D acoity—

.No case of Dacoity occurred during the year.

House-breaking.—Numbered 111 against 111in 188’ 15 cases committed by

day 96 by night ; of the former 10and of the latter 41were detected .

20 cases of House-breaking were committed inMunicipal limits and 8 detected,value of property lost being Rs. 550 recovered Rs. 74.

In the latter part of April, an outburst of house-breakings by l

night took place

whichaccoun ts for an in creased number of house-breakings in 1883. Between 9th

April and 2ndMay 8 cases occurred, of these only one committed on night of 25th

Aprilwas detected but there-awakened vigilan ce and a temporary increase of the

small town force restored matters to their n ormal state . In 6 of the 7 undetected

cases of these 8, unidentifiable property on ly was stolen and in all7 undetected cases

out of Rs. 197-12-0worthof property lost, only Rs. 21 worthadmitted of any iden

tification .

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D ea ths and Suicides.— Suicides numbered 67 in 1883 again st 33in 1882 . The

n umber in 1882 was ex traordinarily small. The numbers in 1881and 1880 were

respectively 58 and 66 , the reports of suicide cases are always carefully scrutinized

and care is taken that the near relatives of the deceased are examined . One case of

deathby excessive drinking was reported . No case of deathfrom actual neglect,

exposure or wan t was reported, but as usual thebodies of strangers, to the n umber of

15 , apparen tly co olies returning sick from Mysore and Coorg were found at or n ear

the sides of the highroads leading from the ghauts .

Acciden tal Fires n umbered 436 with loss Rs . again st 387 with loss

Rs . in 1882 . Five lives were lost in differen t fires .

Sessions Ga ses.

Referred Cases—The number of cases referred by magistrates to Police for in

vestigation was 340, of which222 was struck off on Police report . The n umbers

of cases similarly referred and struck off m 1882 were respectively 456 and 260, of

the 340 cases referred in 1883 there fell under cogn izable section s, 238.

525 cases were referred by Police for the orders of the magistrate and 518

struck off. In 1882 cases referred an d struck off numbered 589 an d 567 respectively .

A s usual the vast majority of_

referred cases were cases in whichdistinct person s

were accused, cases too which either were ex aggerated assaults or the like involved

disputed rights, the settlemen t of whichshould have been sought in the Civil

Courts . In stan ces of absolutely groundless and altogether malicious complain ts are

n o t n umerous and hen ce the difficulty in seeking or obtaining sanction to prosecute

un der Section 211 or Section 182 I . P . C .

P rocesses .

— The number of processes issued in grave cases was 7,889 and m

petty 6,429 again st 6,339 and."

1,346 respectively in 1882 .

Op era tion of VillageMagistra tes .

Persons.

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POLICE Esranmsm w .

D ISTRICTS .

Chief Office of the Inspector Generalof Police

Madras City PoliceDeputy Inspector General of Police.

398 33

a“

.

Total

Deputy Inspecto r General of Police.

Nellore

Kurnool

Bellary

Cuddapah

Deputy Insmctor General of Police .

Include.Marine PoliceinMadras (4 Ofioere and 141men ) and Taqiore (12 men ) . MarineG odavariDistricts were withdrawn .

1' Cole. 6 end 7 include 1Commissioner, 1Deputy and 1Assistant Commissioner of Police.

(a ) Clerks and (Mice servant (n ot Police Oflloers) .(b) Ofice Establishment 62 (11clerks and 51servants) , horse-keepers and grass cuttersM.81. Boatmen and Tindslll

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71 (not Police Officers.)

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11 (b) . The following statement gives the strengthand co st inclusive of cloth

ing &c . , of the Punitive Police employed in Salem and Trichinopoly for 1883-1884

underMadras Act III of 1882. Column 4 shows the recoveriesmade from the inhabi

Number.

A. r.

Salem 41,566 9 9

Trichinopoly 3 3

12 . The following tablegives thePunishmen ts inflicted departmen tally and thenumber of resignation s . These were most numerous in the Cen tral Range inwhich

22 4 per cen t of the force were punished and 200 resigned . Forfeiture of pay fo r

absen ce without leave was most frequent in Malabar, Nellore, North Arcot an dTan jore .

D epartmen ta l s ishmen ts during 1883.

RANGES arm DISTRICTS.

Bellary

The Nilgiri, Coimbatore and SouthCanara districts were worked exclusively

on the Black mark System, no fineswhatever beinginflicted except for unauthorized

absence from duty.

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Comparing this withthe previous year we find in reference to the more heinous

of Police offences as follows1882 .

Extortion 17

Hurt to ex tort Confessmn 8 7

In con nection withinformation and evidence. 20 8

15 . men were en listed during the year in clusive of men for temporary

employmen t on salt duties whose services were dispen sed with at the en d of the

m an ufacturing Season , in cluding these men 878 were dischargad . Nearly half of

the whole force are 10 years service and upwards out of

Men appear to be taking their pen sion directly it becomes due, and n o doubt

this is in great part owing to the ceaseless work en tailed on them . Beat, Escort,

Wandering Gang duty, Jail duty never end for the Policeman tillhe gets a pen sion

or a gratuity for premature decay.

520men took pen sion 460 resigned and 336 died in harn ess . Desertion s were

89 but there were fewer dismissals than in 1882 by 106 men whichis satisfactory.

The following is a list of casualties.

Discharged on Pen sion

D o . withGratuityResigned

Dismissed

Discharged

Deserted

Died

Total

Includes-men enlisted for temporary salt duty:

16 . There were 109 appeals made to the In spector-Generalin con nection

withpunishmen ts inflicted by District Superintenden ts again st 128in preceeding

year ; details are given in the following table .

Table“

showingthe nu mber of App ea ls received in 1883.

D ISTRICTS

Chmgleput

Sout Arcot

Total

f This was the case of one 8. Bamalingum F1llay late 4thGrade] Head Constable No. 345 of the Tinnevelly Pohce

who was ofi‘

erd a place under G. 0 . 5thDecember 1888 J. D . (Mic) but dechned 1t.

157

Educa tion of the fin es on the 318! December 1883.

Includes 1Marian Superintenden t and 76 Seriem ts.

Total

18. The tables

in the margin show

the instruction im

parted at Plead

Quarters Schools

and. results .

17 . The State of

education is given in

the two f o llo win gstatements. 70 per

cen t . can read and

write, being 1 per

cen t. better tha n

1882. 24 Police odi

cers passed Inspec

tors’Test.

The number ofilliterateHeadCon stables

has again decreased .

1881 1832 1883'

105 90 82

These men are n o t

employed in charge

of stations, but on'

jail and Treasure

guards and in Re

serves.

percen t . of the

whole force passed

through s cho 01

(mostly of course

recruits) 758passed

the full test requir

ed for their respec

tive ranks.

40

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The NilgiriDistrict is not n oticed as only 1case was committed and detected .

The greatest number of murders occurred in Ganjam, 23.

In accordan ce withthe instruction of Government in their review on the report

for 1882, the Acting In spector-General communicated withthe other Provinces and

a scertained that in the Lower Provin ces of Bengal cases of murder in whichsuicide

has followed, are return ed as undetected , the same practice obtains in the N orth

West Provin ce and the Pun jab.

33. The n umber of Dacoities reported was 154 again st 152 o f the previous

year, the following statemen t shows where there was an increase and decrease

Comp a ra tive Sta tement of D a coitiesfor 1882 a nd 1883.

South Canara

34. These cases are classified as regards locality thus.

Cla ssifica tion of D acoities.

In Houses, 85a ,

In Fields &c.,

On Highwa 8 dsc.’

1883y

170

N orthArcot had 17 cases and 3detected, Tan jore 16 cases 4 detected, Cuddapah13 and 2 detected, Coimbatore 13withthe large number of 11 or 84 6 per cen t. de

tected, this is exceptionally good. Malabar had 2 cases bothof which were prose

cuted to conviction .

In NorthArcot a series of Highway Dacoities were committed by the same gang

(Lumbadies and Wudders) and the Po lice under the direction of special In spector

A liD o st Khan Bahadur succeeded , after a careful painstaking searchof 3 mon ths

duration ,in securing the culprits and a conviction by the HighCourt to whichtribun al

t he cases were referred by the ActingJudge, Chittoor, who disagreeingwiththe Jurv

desired to acquit the prisoners.

These are the cases to which allusion is made in the Opening paragraphof this

report and their detection reflects the greatest credit upon the In spector an d those

who worked withhim. The Superintenden t of the District had despaired of ever

getting the gang which had, immediately after the Dacoities broken up this

is an instance of the value of Special Agen cy in Dacoity cases . The Lumbadies be

10nging to the gang were traced throughMysore and finally run down in the Ananta

pur District, that home and hotbed of Lumbady Dacoits .

The Acting District Judge did not believe the feat was possible, he was under

stood to have remarked that the Lumbadies could not have come from sucha distance

and 3months was too long for the dete ction of the gang. The Jury however had

more experience and convicted and their Opinion was endorsed by the HighCourt .

The Synegoonta andMOghuliGhats, in NorthArcot have been safe and free since

these convictions.

Cuddapahin like manner'

sufi'

ered from the excursion s of one gang who commit‘

ted four of the cases reported, the gang went by various n ames. Some victimscalling them Dongadasavandlu, others Yerkalas, Soodras, Wudders, the only agree

ment being that the gang was composed of person s fo reign to the District. The

Superin tendent was speedily in the saddle and the Police of the 4 N orthern Divisionsraised and all afoot, un til the gang was discovered and captured on the in formation

of a ferryman who had put the gang over the Kurnool CuddapahCanal. They stated

they came from the Kistna District.

Conviction followed and the District has had rest. A House D acoity in this

District was committed by a gang of Lumbadies from the Nizam’

s Territory, some

of whom were afterwards captured by the Kurn ool Police. They get little propertyin this case for the door of the house ofi

'

ered strong resistance and the women of the

house had time to secure all the valuables and escape with them by a back door.

The whole of the cases in Cuddapahwere committed in January and February.

In Tan jore the kullers of Pooducotta territory are not so readily captured for

various reasons for whichour Police cannot be blamed ; of 16 cases 4 have been

detected ; Tinnevelly 12 ; 2 detected ; Madura 10; no detection .

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Districts.

37 . The following Criminal classes committed 126 out of 154 Dacoities.

Lumbadies or Soogallies, Yenadies, Yerkalas or Koorchas, Wodders, Pariahs,Boyas, Kullers,Maravers, Pullers .

38. There is again a decrease under thehead of Robbery of 24 cases chiefly inBellary and Kurnool. 418 per cent. of cases reported were convicted, and 55 per

cen t . of person s accused, while only 173 per cent of property lost was recovered,

these results are not as good as in 1882 .

R obberies.

Districts.

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The first 12 Districts on .the list are above the general average, 10Districtsare

below it and one is average (SouthArcot No.

The heaviest District is Vizagapatam with562 cases, after it G an jam rw'

th51“

cases, Tan jore next with 435, in these districts detection is under the averagv

The NiligiriDistrict heads the list having gone up from 12 in 1882 . SouthCam

has risen from 4thto 2nd . Cuddapah from 15thto 3rd . Jeypore from l6thto4d

N othArcot from 10thto 5th.

Vizagapatam has fallen from 5thin 1882 to 15th. Kurnool from 11thto 221m.

while Trichinopoly has dropped from 2ud to 11thon the list.

The number of person s convicted in these grave cases was or 49 for ere

100 offences, in the previou s year wehad convicted , o r 51for every 100offence

so there is a slight falling off, due to arrests in dacoity cases being largely in excess

of convictions.

The Police were more successful than in 1882 in dealingwithCattle Thefts

bothin preven tion and detection . cases were reported again st andiii

per cen t. of cases detected, as again st 42 . While 66 3 per cen t . of person s arrestel

were convicted, against 641 of previous year.

The loss in 1882 amount ed to Rs . recovery to Rs . Comparei

withRs. and Rs. during the year under review .

These figures show a small but satisfactory improvemen t con sidering the ditt

culties surrounding this phase of Crime. The Southern Districts head the list. as

usual,Madura leading with282 cases .

Bellary with66 7 and Jeypore with639 per cen t . , of cases convicted to reputed

show the best results in that respect, while Nilgiris, Godavari, SouthArcot, TanJfirt

SouthCan ara , N orthArcot follow withdetection above the average .

45. A statemen t of cases of cattle poisoning is here given , the results being

about the same as in 1882 .

178

47 . 5613caseswere referred byMagistrates for Police inquiry under Section s

Cases”w ed A m A.

155 and 202 Crimin al Procedure Code, of these 4112 were

Page Mand vi» struck off the file as false, in 1882 the figures were an d

4711respectively ; the decrease is therefore 949 cases .

Malaba r heads this list with1071cases, Godavarifollowing with923, all other

Districts far below these figures. Vizagapatam , Tanjore and Gan jam come nearest to

them with451, 447 and 431cases . Fewest cases were referred to Police by theMagistrates in Trichinopoly Bellary Anantapur Madura Kistn a

Tinnevelly Nilgiris The Police con sidered cases reported to them

to be false and reported them to Magistrates for orders (Section s 157 and 173

Criminal Procedure Code, ) withthe result that were struck off the file, in

480 cases theMagistracy considered the Police not justified in their conclusion s .

Here we have also a satisfactory decrease from cases in 1882 .

The greatest number of cases were referred by theMadura Police Malabar Godavari SouthArcot (836 . E xclusive of Nilgiriand Jeypore Dis

tricts Bellary referred fewest cases Regarding cases prosecuted by the

Police and found to be false after enquiry or trial by Criminal Courts, there is a verysatisfactory decrease on the preceding year.

The figures are as .follows : in 1883, cases, in 1882, cases ; differ

en ce 887.

Godavariheads this unenviable list with375 cases followed byMadura with268,and SouthArcot with 244.

Ex cluding the Nilgiris and Jeypore with2 .and 1eachwe find the best results in

respect to careful Police inquiry in Vizagapatam (4) and Coimbatore (5 ) after them

Ganjam (32) andMadras City48. The Highand Session Courts tried cases and convicted in 766, or 671

per cen t. , as again st cases tried , and 818 or 641 per

cen t . in 1882 . Fewer cases were put before the Courts, but

more conviction s were secured .

Appendix A, page lv.

Coimbatore comes first with868 per cent of conviction s, then Chingleput with

853 andMadras City with82 8. Of person s put befope these Courts 531per cen t .

were convicted. Madras City shows the best result in this respect with867 per cen t.then NilgiriDistrict 75 per cent . and Vizagapatam 743 .

SouthArcot, Kistna andMadura give theworst results. 10 districts are above

and 13below the general average.

49. The Chingleput, Tinnevelly and Anan tapur Superintendents did not a tten d

any Sessions. They did n ot con sider their presence n ecessary,

Appendix ‘A' Page km

allother Superin tenden ts attended, some very frequen tly others

sumciently often .

50. The amoun t ofinspection performed by Deputy In spectors-Generalisgivenin the following tables. Of 41Offices and Head Quarters 34 were inspected , The in

spection was least complete in the Cen tral and Southern Ranges where a change of

officers took place.

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In 14 Districts the in spection was complete and in 9 Districts the Superin tenden ts were specially active in moving about among their station s, these were .

Major Wilton Cuddapah.

Major Hole Malabar.

Major Hoskin s Godavari.

Lieuten an t Colonel Chrystie SouthArcot.

Lieuten an t Colonel Coningham an dMr. Agar Tinnevelly.

Mr . Bagshawe Tan jore .

Lieuten an t Colonel Kilgour Madura .

Mr . Sullivan N ellore .

Lieutenan t Colonel Blair Coimbatore .

In Ganjam one station on ly was unvisited, in Jeypore two, in An an tapur four,in Trichinopoly three, and in SouthCan ara four.

A ssistan t Superin tenden ts of Police every where completed the in spection of their

Sub-Divisions except in No rthArcot where 3 sta tion s were neglected and Madurawhere owing to the unavoidable frequen t changes of Assistan t 9 Stations were nu

visited, for some time the District was without an Assistan t.

On the whole it will be seen that inspection has been much more complete than

in 1882 when 59 station s were unvisited, the n umber this year being 25 (9 in Madura Sub-Division ) . In An an tapur the Acting In spector-General

’

s in spection of the

District in terfered slightly and so also in Trichinopoly whichwas in spected by theIn spector

-General. The Station s unvisited in South Canara were Salt Guards an dthe Superin tenden t was occupied with the Deputy In spector-General

’

s inspection and

visit of His Excellency the Governor. Many Station s in all Districts were in spectedmore than once .

List showing the n ames of sta tions not in sp ected in eachDistrict during 1883.

Anan tapur GoodibunduAmarapuram

The Assistant Superintendent states that owing to 2t and l orderly being down Withcholera

and the rest Withfever was unable to visit these 3

1'The Superintendent of Police states that owing tofrequen t changes and the Sub-Dm sron having beenleft for some timewithout an Assistant Superintendent these 9 Stations were left unwanted.

1Ths Superintendent of Pol’

oe states th 8SouthCanara : Hernadi Guards

.

would have been viiiited in Octobrre

bn t tsha

d:

t'lie v

isitIof E ltonxéenexl

tine Governor and the

spa y nspcc r one a 1: tion otherengaged him during thatmonth.

W m oo»

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Ma nagemen t of the Force during the Ca lendar year 1883.

N0. WHO lu vs Lnrr 1‘l Foacn

EDUCATION1111111110 run Ynnn.

D ISTR ICTS

Madras Cn y.

Jeypore.

Kistna .

Total

18 Nellore

1-3 Total

6 Madura

2 4

Supen ntendent or Officers of higher rank.

Includes men enlisted (001 25) for Temporary Salt duty and discharged (Col: 32) after theManufacturing Season .

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Sta tement of Ojfences reported a nd of P ersons tried, convicted and acquitted

NOMENCLATURE OF OFFENCES WITH CHAPTER

AND SECTION OF THE

PENAL CODE.

Osm an.

VI. Secs. 121to 130

the Army and 181to 140Ofi

‘

enees a'

n stgax

VII.Navy

14300 145, 149 to151, 157, 158

Unlawful assembly

the p ublicOfl

'

ences inst882

VIIItranquility

147’ 148’ 152Bioting, t o.

By public servants

161, 170a 171 Relating to public servants

ity of public172 to 190

servants

193to 200 False evidence or suborna tion, &c., of

pa

201to 229 Offence; against public justice

231to 254 Offences relating to coin

235 to 263 O ffences relating to stamps

264 to 267

269 to 278 Ofl'

ences affecting public health

Ofl'

enoes afl'

eoting safety

Offences sweating convenience

Ofi'

ences affecting decency and morals

}Keeping lottery office or publishingproposals for lottery

Total

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of eachOfi'

ence in the Districts of theMadras P residency during the year 1883.

no rm ; m s Acqmrrsn orru n. rucrunwe s cs a se sn Convwrsn.

" some as ru u rn n u n.

vious t an s.

'l‘

sm srn aan .

El lu mmn UNDER TRIAL.

Before SessionsBefore 11385" and n h Reru n s

100 “

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of eachQfl'

ence in the Districts of theMadras P residency during the year 1883.

Acqurrrsn Durn Escsn n onmcnunmo on D ISCHARGE!) Cosvxcrnn. Ban u xmo usnaa ram .

PEND ING IN AF I'I R TRIAL.

Pa n'

mus YEARS

Ben u s.

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[APPEN D IX

Classified Sta tein en t of D a coities for the year ending 3lst D ecember 1883.

ON Hl WAYS AND THOROUGHFAR ES

TOTAL .ho . or Cu t s in wm cn

P sorss '

rx was near.

Cases. Person s.

DISTRICTS.

5 6 7 8 9

Madras City

Total

SouthArcot

Nilgiris

South Canara

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m"

rczn nsta nces of loca lity for the yea r 1883.

THAN FIVE PERSONS.

o s H le n wu s AN D Tnono t c nm s ss TOTAL.

Property P roperty. Persons

D ISTR ICTS

Madras City.

Kistna .

Total.

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C la ssified Sta tement of House-breakingfor the year ending 3lst D ecember 1883.

BY DAY.

TOTAL .ho . or CASES m vmon

P xorzRT! was Losr.

Cases Persons .

DISTR ICTS.

13

Jeyp ore

Total

N ellore

Kurnool

So uthArcot

Total

Madura

South Cana ra.

Total

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Sta temen t of Cases referred by and toMagistra tes underof a s fa lse, and of casesfound to be

UNDER Sscn o x s

lat Class 8rd Class.

D ISTRICTS.

Cases.

Madras Cxty

Kmtna

Total

Nellore

SouthCanara.

Total

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ADMINISTRATION REPORTor THE

MADRAS TOWN POLICE

F O R T H E Y E A R

1883.

O n the Slst D ecember 1883, the strength of the Con stabulary, Foot andMarine, was as

fo llow s

899

E x clusive oi

8 Sowars.

1 Driver, Prison Van .

40 Horsekeepers.

40 Grasscutters.

10Marin e Police Ofiice Establishmen t.61 Boatmen , Catamaram men , R ollWriters, &c.

The sanctioned strength on the same date was 899 Foot Police of allranks. The increase

o f 10 men as compared with the previous year is thus accoun ted for. The 4 P eons of the

Hackn ey Carriage Establishment not being legally competen t under the n ew Criminal P rece

d ure Code to execute processes, the difiibulty was met by their being appoin ted Police Con stables

by G . O . N o . 843, dated 22md March 1883, J. D . ; 4 Con stables were sanction ed to furnish a.

guard over the Government Secretariat in Fort Sain t George, and 2 Constables were supplied

to private individuals under Sections 13 and 14, Act XXIV . of 1859.

TheMarine Police Force was 3below sanctioned strengthat the close of the year, because111 view of its impending disbandmen t it was n ot considered expedien t to fill up vacancies.

C asualties. 2. The casualties during the year were as follows

Dismissed

Resigned

Tran sferred

P en sioned

D eserted

Discharged withgratuityDied

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3. The numbers fin ed, degraded and suspended, were as

Fined, &o.

18 fined in

207

Besides the above 47 men forfeited pay for absence without leave. The number of men

departmentally punished is slightly in ex cess of the figures for 1882.

11men were crimin ally prosecuted as follows

2 for ex tortion , Sec. 384 I . P . C., 2 for preferring a false charge, Sec. 211 I . P . C., 1

for fraudulen t possession of property, 1 for receiving unauthorised fees, 3 for using criminal

force, Sec . 352 I . P . C ., 1.for omitting to appear in obedien ce to a Summons, Sec. 174 I . P . C .,

and l for crimin al trespass, Sec. 447 I. P . C. Allwere convicted and the six first mentioned

were dismissed the Force.

924 men can read andwrite. One Sub-In spector passed the 1st Pa rt of Police Inspector’s

Test examination one Serjean t and one Sub-In spector completed thePolice In spector

’s Test examination 5 9 Constables passed the Station

House Ofiicers’Test, and 45-the Constables

’Test.

Seven ty additionalcarbin eshave been issued for the use of the Reserve, &c., andmore atten

Am m m t and Drill.tion is being paid to the drilling of the men of the Reserve Party

and of those employed on the various guards. The men of the

Town Divisions need setting up, but their duties are so heavy that it has been found impossible

to do muchin this way.

17 Constables were rewarded for good service, one by promotion“ N d"

and 16 by money rewards, amounting in the aggregate to Rs. 76.

a.processes were served in grave and in petty cases

,

The numbers in 1882 were and respectively.

Besides the above 705 processes were issued under theMunicipal Act.

42 fires occurred involving a loss of property valued at Rs. 916. Two liveswere lost,

but there was n othing else in connection with these occurrences

calling for specialremark.

First convictions;752 persons were convicted for the first time under Chapters

XII an d XVII . I . P . C. The figures for the past three years are

given below.

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in ’“ m firm by the12. The subjoined statement shows the results in theft cases

B lahm by old ofienders tried by the High Court

m by13. The following statement gives the results in house-break

ings by old ofienders tried byMagistrates

Pumsnum 'rs.

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clim The total number of cases reported un der the Penal Code were

as against for 1882, being an in crease of 513 cases as

detailed below

Un lawful assembly

Contempts of the lawful authority byPublic servan ts.

Ofl en cel rela ting to coin

afl ecting safety

afl eoting conveniences

MurderAttainpted suicide

Buying or selling a minor for the pur

pose of prostitution

Cattle theft

Extortion , other cases

Robbery withhurt

Receiving or habitually dealing

Crimin alin timidation

resultingin dea th

Criminalintimidation

Rioting

Ofieuces by public servants

False evidence, h .

Of en oes again st Public Justice

Do . relating to weight. andmeasures

affecting public health

relating to religion

Attempt at murder

Culpable Homicide

Con cea lment o f birthby secret dis1of dead body

Hurtwithaggravatingcircumstances.

Hurt, other cases

Wrongful restraint

Kidnapping

Theftwithaggrava tingcircumstan

Mischief, other cases

Ofiences relating to marriage

Defamation

P assing to a review of grave Ofien ces

Of 8 cases reported, six were convicted an d one dismissed by

Magistrates. In the other case there was not sufi cien t evidence to

justify the prosecution of the accused persons.

Murder. Four cases reported

On 14thApril 1883 the body of a male child about 14 days old was found fl oating in a

tank in Royapooram . There were no ex ternal marks of injury, but examination proved that

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ii-gcases of House-breaking by night

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In 3 cases the loss was over Rs 500.

14 do .

15 do .

31 do .

14 do .

27 do .

52 do

between 100 and under 500.

d 50 100.

do 10 50.

do . 5 10.

do 1 5.

no propertywas lost.959 571 716 673

Of 577, cases reported , 53 were detected . Of773 perso

us arrested, (IE were convicted. In

this crime there has been an improvement bothin the percentage ofTheft.

detection and in the proportion of convxction s to arrests

Property lost

Property recovered .

In Theft the property lost

In 12 cases was above R s. 500.

26 do . between 500 and 100.

25 do . do . 10 50.

149 do . do . 50 10.

108 do . do . 10 5 .

314 do . do . 5 1.

325 do . under Rupee 1.

Of 8 cases reported, 1was discharged byMagistrates, 4 were conForgery victed by the HighCourt, and 3 are shown in B Form as otherwise

disposed of.’

The only case of any specialin terest from a P olice point of view was an attempt to obtain

mon ey by forgingMa jorMajor’s name.

Mr. Upshon , the Reserve Insp ector, as the work of one D’Silva, a man who, after a long course Of

successful forgeries was at last run in”

had lately been released from Jail.

Directly the case was reported, it was recognised by

an d senten ced to 7 years’tran sporta tion in 1876, andwho

Owing toMr. Upshon’s prompt measures the ofience was

brought home to D’

Silva, who was convicted by the High Court and sentenced to 10 years’

transportation .

The total N o . of offences under this hea d dealt with by Magistrates during the year was

against the preceding year, there being a decrease ofSpec“ “ d Local Laws.

cases as shown below

Ofl ences.

Army Act, See . 156 of 1881

Canal and Perry Act I of 1870Con tagious Diseases Act XlV of 1

“

Hackney Carriage Act III of 1879Luna tics Act XXXVI of 1858

Merchant Beamen 's Act I of 1859Mutiny A ctRailway Act IV of 1879Stamp Act I of 1879

A}?

fi

N

Q

H

l’O

b

G

l—ih’

Ofl ences.

Jails Act (Madras) V of 1869Municipal Acts X o f 1865, III cf

m

1871 and V of 1868 "

Poli

l

ce

s

Act

"

(by others) XXIV of8 9

Police A ct VIII of 1869 (Madras

XII of 1875Press Act XXV of 1867

B —Con tinued .]

Released without trialMagistra tes

Unlawful assembly

II

The subjoined statement'

shows the details of persons released

by without trial byMagistrates under the Penal Code and Local Laws

without Police action .

Special and Local Laws.

Ofl enocs against publicjusticeDo . afl ecting public health

Do . afiecting safetyBurt withaggravating circumstancesHurt, other cases

Wro ngful restraintCrimina l force or assault

BapaAttempted ra

Criminalmisappropriation

Crimin al breach of trust

Chea tm

Misohi , other cases .

House breakingCriminal trespass. other cases

F0186 17Criminal breach of con tract and service

Ofl ences relating to marriage

Criminalin timidation , resulting in death

Do . other cases

Night cases.

The divisional details will be found as usualin the Appendix .

There has been a decrease of cases under this head .

It will be observed that in

the H . Division almost all the person s arrested by the Police were convicted byMagistrates,while the general average for the whole Town is 986 per cen t.

Inquests.

Public Houses.

Sixteen inquests wereheld by the Police in cases occurringwithin

the limits of the Town but beyond the Coro ner’s jurisdiction .

Return of shops licensed by this office during the year under

Act V III of 1867.

HOtels o n e c a n s ee s o .

Refreshment R ooms, Beer and Wine Shops

Colombo Arrack Shops

Puttai s ee a s .

Teddy Shops

Opium and intoxicating D rug Shops

EatingHouses

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D uring the year ending Slet D ecember 1883, licen ses were

Am “A“granted unde; the Indian Arms Act XI of 1878 a s fo

llows

Licen ses to tran sport A rms, Ammunition and Sulphur in British India

D o . to import do do in to the Port ofMadrasD O . to export do do by sea from the P o rt ofMadra sD o . to man ufacture an d sell Arms, Ammunition an d Sulphur

D o . to keep an d sellArms, Ammunition and Sulphur

Do . to possess Arms, &c . ,

for protection

D o to go armed on a journ eyA

D o. to expo rt Gun-powder, Dyn amite and Detonators for bon a fidc

blasting purpo ses

D o . to export A rms in to N a tive States

D uring the year 799 person s were prosecuted for breaches o f

the provision s of theHackn ey Carriage Act, 790 persons being convict

ed an d 9 acquitted .

Hackney Carriage Act.

The receipts from Fees, &c ., amoun ted to Rs. -2-0 an d the expenditure to Rs .

-11-2. MAR INE POLICE .

The disbursemen ts am oun ted to Rs. -12-2, an d the receipts to Rupees -11-0,

showing a deficit of Rs .-1-2 .

The details are given below

Dissunssussrs .

1883 April

August

N ovember

December

1884 January

February

March

Total receipts as above

Disbursements as above

And clothing for the year

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Ages of those admitted duringtheyear.

Under 16 years

From 16 to 40 years

D o . 40 to 60 years

Above 60years

PREVIOUS OCCUPATIONS.

Sailors

Soldiers

Grooms

Clerks

Mechanics andRailwayEmployeeCarpen ters, Shoe-makers and others of simila r

occupations

Other professional occupation s

N o occupation

EXPENDITURE .

Removalfrom BritishIndia under Section XVI 14 3

Clothing and Rations 5 0

Eswblishmant n o us e a n a s s s e a 5 5

8 8

ColonelW . S. D rover, Commissioner of Police, who died on 12thJuly 1883, was succeeded byColonel T . K. Guthrie on 19thIdem .

On Colonel Guthrie’s appoin tmen t to act as Inspector-General of Police,Major Cox was

appoin ted to act as Commissioner and assumed charge of the office on 3rd September .

Ma jor D . Homing was in charge of the D eputy Commissioner’s Ofiice until 2nd May, when

having been appoin ted to act as Assistan t In spector-General, he delivered charge toMr. S. D .

Simpson , Acting D eputy Commissioner. Mr. Simpson was in charge of the Commissioner’s

Ofi ce in addition to his own duties from 9th to 18thJuly 1888." “ u i

Minu s Ponies (Signed) H . W. H . COX,

COI I ISSIONBB’B Orrlcs, Acting Commissioner of Police.2nd April 1884.

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5. The Assistan tMagistrate says that he was n o t dissatisfied with the working of the Police in

his taluq and that he fo und that every man of the force felt that the eye of the Superin tenden t was o n

him. He remarks that while the Sta tion Officers in the PanrutiDivisio n were kept up to the mark theothers were left very muchto themselves. Thoughpraising the PanrutiInspector fo r the supervisio n

of his men he at the same time poin ts out that there was a grea t tendency in this division to return as

suicidal or acciden tal alldea ths whichcould n o t be otherwise explained witha view to have a clea n

register. He thinks tha t the abkarry rewards have a bad effect on the Police.

6. I agree withthe AssistantMagistrate withrespect to his remarks on the ten dency in the Pan

ruty Division to account for all dea ths, the cause of whichis doubtfulin such a way that they may n o t

sta nd as undetected against the police. There is still room for impro vement in defl ation a nd itis hoped

that with the constan t supervision whichthe police have been lately undergoing better results will be

obtained in future . All the importa nt cases tha t occurred during the year have been so fully noticed

by you that there is no thing left for me to say. The only case with rega rd to which I would make a ny

remark is the Tiruvannamalaim urder case. The Session Judge remarked in his judgment althoughI cann ot attribute muchblame to the committingMagistra te in the matter, it certain ly is very muchto beregretted tha t he did n ot see his way to discharge the 1st prisoner and bind him over to give evidence

as a witness against the other prisoner. This remark seems to me somewha t un fair fo r I fail to see

how any blame can be attributed to the committingMagistrate when we co nsider wha t the Judge has

recorded in an other pa rt of his judgmen t viz I was at first inclined to think it” (the statemen t of the

first accused ) could”be taken in to considera tio n as eviden ce against the 2nd accused and ad

vised the Assessors not to exclude it from their consideration .

” I regretted very much that the 2nd

prisoner in this case escaped the punishmen t he deserved and I wen t thro ugh the who le reco rds to

see whether I could find anything to justify my attempting to have the decision revised but I was n ot

able to find any thing that I could hope to succeed in having considered by the HighCourt in a light

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eren t from tha t in which the Judge had .

7. The annual return of the operations of theMagistracy is herewith forwarded .

I have &c .,

(Signed ) A . CRUICKSHANK,

D istrictMagistra te.

N o . 259.

D ISTRICT Pou ca Ormcs,

Can e Cnxnsussasn

29thMa rch1884Withreference to the D istrict Magistrate and Assistan t-Magistrate’s gen eral remark that the

Police of P an rutiDivision display a grea t tenden cy to return as Acciden tal or Suicidal a ll

deaths which could not be otherwise explained, with a view to have a clear Register”the under

sign ed has the honor to remark that a few cases occurred in which the cause of dea thwas obscure, an d

these are classified according to suchindicatio ns as co uld be ga thered . Close enquiry was held in such

cases. D o theMagistrates think that without any evidence in the appea rance of the bodies or other

wise they should be shewn as“Murders”

2 . The undersigned is convinced that if this point were gone into in detail there is on ly one case

over which the slightest failure could be a ttributed to the Police. In this case there was certain ly n o

eviden ce whichin a trialwould have established that deathhad resulted from foul play the P o lice be

lieveit was from n atural causes. The papers in this case were sen t to the Inspector-General o f Po lice

withreference to the remark made by the District-Magistra te on Inspecto r Parthasara dy Iyengar .

3. The matter willhave the close attention of the undersigned .

4. The undersigned concurs tha t Abkarry Rewardsare undesirable except for the regular Preven

tive Police.

(Signed) GEO. CHRYSTIE III -COL ,

Superinte nden t of Police, SouthArcot.

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this, o f course, means a loss of reven ue to them and it is difficult to arrangeit Arrangemen ts are be

ing made to raise prices in P udukota to the British Standard .

4. The average n umber of convicts in the Cen tral Jail was o nly 562, very muchbelow the u sua l

strength. Large numbers had been drafted off to o ther jails on accoun t of the serious mo rta lity in 1882

The health o f the jailis n ow excellen t and the n umbers will, I presume, be filled up again gradua lly

5 . The establishmen t of the Punitive Force has , I consider, had a most salutary effec t o n the quie t

o f the Town . A t the same time it is, of course, a most unpopula r m easure, and I trust, before lo ng

tha t the good sen se of the community may assert itself an d enable us to abo lish the force. I have frequen tly, when talking to peo ple a t Srirangam , hin ted a t the possibility o f es ta blishing a similar fo rce in

tha t Town in the even t of religious animosity spreading to a da ngerous ex ten t, and I think the exampleofTrichinopoly has had a good effect on its neighbour.

6 Withregard to the Srirangam festival, a n o tice in the District G azette on ly would , I fea r havehad little effect in keeping pilgrims away. I sen t the n o tice to every District in the Presidency a nd a lso

published it in the prin cipalMadras papers.

7. I am writing these n o tes at Twagudy and am sorry to say that the Po lice huts have no t pro

gressed so rapidly as the Superin tenden t a n ticipa ted . The foun da tions o n ly have been dug. The c o n

tractor, however, is on the spot and seems to be pushing on the work .

8. As regards grave crimes, conviction s have n o t been altogether sa tisfacto ry. but I am n ot pre

pared to say tha t this is the fa ult o f the Police. In one case, the Kuttur Rape an d Culpable Homicide

case, which, I believe, was in the main true, the facts a lleged were of sucha ho rribly bestial character

a s to be almost incredible, and I cann o t help thinking that this to some ex tent in fl uen ced the judgmen to f the Sessions Court in acquitting the prisoners. There was probably a grea t dea l o f ex aggeratio n . In

the Asaviran kudikadu case in which the Sessions Judge remarked on the plucky conduct of the V illa ge

Karn am , I have given orders for getting a gold bangle with a n inscription made a nd hope it will soo n

be ready. The other crimes do n ot call for any special rema rks .

(Signed) HENRY SEWELL ,

DistrictMagistra te.

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N O. 230.

Mantras D ISTR ICT Micrsrau s’

s OFFICE

25thMa rch 1884.

From 0, S . CROLE’

,E sq. , DistrictMagistra te ofMadura ; To the Sup erm

tendent of P olice, Madura .

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I have the hon or to return the Police Administratio n R eport for 1883 received on the 2dtb ultimo .

The usual statemen ts of the Criminal operations of theMagistracy in their original and appellatejuris

dictions accompanying.

2 . I am constrain ed to repea t the remark made last year, that in spite o f the favora ble" characterof the season , the year under report does not show that steady decrease inR ainfall.

30 29 grave crimes which characterized the years previous to 1882, while the per3806centage of detection has been falling off. This will be seen from the figures

Grave Crimes given in the margin .

Yea r. N umber Percentage

1881of cases. of dete ction . 3. Subjoined is a statement compiled from the return s received from689 27 4

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the Subordin ate Magistrates of the D istrict, showing the number of cases

disposed of by 1st Class Magistrates during the year under report. This isuseful, as illustrating the increase in the number of cases of more than ordinary importance.

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o f salt brought by them for consumption during the voyage. It appeared to me that such prosecutions were harshand unnecessary in the interests of the Salt Revenue. The question assumed a.

graver aspect as the Head of the Salt D epartment—the Commissioner—was o f a difieren t Opinion . TheBoard of Revenue, to whom the matter was re ferred, declared the procedure adopted by the Sa ltCommissioner to be unnecessary and objectionable in its vexatious ann oyan ce of the travelling public .

A few instances o f prosecutions in similar cases by the Salt D epartmen t were since n oticed by me, an dthe reason seems to be tha t the in structions of the Board of R evenue conveyed in their P roceedings o f

17thN ovember 1883, No . do n o t appear to have been promptly communica ted by the Commissioner to the Subordin ates of the Salt D epartmen t. A circular will, however, be issued on the subjectfo r the information of all

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1882 1883.figures given in the margin . This is due partly to repeated circulars“ issued

223 83 from this office warningMagistrates against the abuse of the power, which

a District 0mm“, N o . 2 of the law gives them to m ake such reference, and partly to a change in the

law as in troduced by Act X o f 1882, whichtakes away the power of reference

from Third ClassMagistra tes a nd requires o thers to record their reason s

when referring a case to the Po lice. I would again call atten tion to the orders issued on the subjec ta nd would request you to bring to my n otice any case of unnecessary reference to the Police as I can

n ot bnt con sider it a resource of lazyMagistra tes unwilling to take the trouble of examining complain

ants properly.

D o. 16 of 1883.

11. I cannot understand how cases can be referred as false under Section 169, C. P . C . As regards

the 68cases in which it is stated tha t n o orders have been received from

Magistrates, I have n o mean s of finding out in whose court they are shown

as pending. The Quarterly lists of undisposed of cases used to be sen t by you, and whichacted as a

salutary check both on the Magistracy and the Police, have no t been sen t for the 3rd and the 4th

Quarters of the year under report. Most of these cases must have been since disposed of, and I requestthat arrangemen ts may be made for sending such lists for each Quarter without fail.

Cases referred by Pohce.

12. In the previous years no systematic method had been in troduced for the protection of public

GeneralRemarkshealthand property during the ChittraiFestival, when people from all pa rts

of Southern India congrega te in the Town ofMadura. In the year under

report special arrangements were made for the purpo se. These precautionary measures were rendered

doubly necessary owing to the presence of cholera in the District. While n oticing with approval the

cc-operation of the Police with the measures thus inaugurated, I am glad to remark cholera di1n o t

break out during the Festival.

13. The year under report also marks the increase, which the Town Police force obtained to its

strength, on a recommendation made by me on a fullinvestigation of the requiremen ts of the Town

[G . 0 . dated 9thJanuary 1883, Judicial Departmen t] . The Inspecto r-General subsequently objected

to this increase as being in excess of the wan ts of the Town , but on further represen ta tions made inmy letter embodied in G . 0 . dated 25th Jone 1883, No . 1684, Judicial, the G overnmen t came to

the conclusion that n o reduction was necessary. I take this opportunity of requesting that fo r the

reasons assigned in the concluding part o f my letter above referred to, the suggestion therein made o f

establishing some species of sub-stations in the Town o fMadura may receive attention .

14. I may also mention that a recommendation was made during the year for the establishmen t

o f Police Stations at Pannaikadu and Periya r in the Lower Palnis ; and I trust that my proposals willmeet with the early sanction of Government.

15 . Advan tage was taken of my tour last year in the two great Z emindariof Sivaganga an d

Rema nd, and in Tirumangalam,Melur, Dindigul, and Periyakulam Taluks, to inspect the Police Stationa t importan t places.

16. I may here observe that since writingmy letter to Governmen t dated 25thAugust 1883, No .

640, I have had ampler opportunities of observing the working of the New Code of Criminal Procedure

[Act X of 1882] with reference to Section 495 C . P . C ., and they confirm me in my view submitted in

connection with the question of prosecutions by Station House Officers and finally accepted by

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Property Property Persons Persons

lost . recosed . arrested. convicted.

(a ) D acoity in houses Rs. 860 Rs . 31 8 2

D o . on Highways R s. Re. 68 31 4

(c) D o . in fields Rs. 38 . R9 . 7 8

U nder robberies 4 cases were detected out of 7 reported, 10 person s convicted out of 10 arrested ,

and Rs. 38worthof property recovered, out of R s. 794 worthlost.

Under house-breaking by night I find as follows

Cases reported 278 Cases detected 64.

Persons '178 Persons convicted 89.

P roperty lost 1 . Rs. P roperty recovered Rs.

Under murder, out of 8 cases reported on ly one case was detected—in two cases the suspected

m urderers committed suicide. There was one conviction to 13arrests .

III. TheMaravan seems to be the lord of the D istrict, an d the answer which I invariably get fo rbad detection is that theMaravan is too strong for the P olice. The Village Talaiyari does n ot give

sufficien t aid, he is con tinually reported absen t withthe village head, and ofte n I have no doubt on

o ther than his legitimate duty. I am endeavouring to correct this .

IV . The number of (a ) suicides males 41, females 109 and of (b) acciden tal dea ths, of which328are set down as by drowning are, I think, too heavy I do n ot think that sufficien t atten tion is given byP nnchayatdars (Inquest Jurors) , and have issued orders on the subject.

V . I presume that the Constable charged with n egligen tly sufi'

ering a convict to escape from the

Subsidiary Jail at Kokarakulam an d released on appeal, will be reinstated .

V I . I have received every assistance from the o fficers of Police and given them allin my power.

(Signed ) A. J B. ATKINSON ,

Tmnsvsmx D ISTR ICTMacisraars’s OFFICE, Acting DistrictMagistrate.

CAMP Turicoam, 25th February 1884.

There is no doubt as remarked by the DistrictMagistrate, that detective ability in Tinnevelly is

greatly wan ting. There are, however, several difficulties which the Police have to co nten d with. N ear

ly all the Taliyaries areMaravers, and sympathize withcriminals of the same class. The KudiKavil

(private watch) system finds favour in all wealthy villages. Most of the villages are divided in to fan

tion s. The KudiKa vilgars are with few exceptions Maravers addicted to crime. They are brought

from n otorious villages with the osten sible object of pro tecting property in villages where frequen tly

there are n o criminals save themselves, but with the real object of robbing the persons withwhom their

employers a re at feud. TheMarava. clanship is strong. The n ame “Maravan ” is a by-word in the District, and the best Police Oficers are (from the reluctan ce of villagers to say a word against person s

whom they apprehen d would wreak vengeance later on ) often thwarted in their en deavours to bring

crimes to light. In one thing the Police have been successful ; D acoities of a bad type—formerly rife

in the District—have been put down . Maravers now resort to the more difficult, and ( to them ) safer

crime of House-breaking. The Village Police system in Tinnevelly requires to be remodelled, and

established on a firm basis . N othing can be more unsatisfactory than the presen t system .

l4ikMarch1884.H . E . CONINGHAM,

Ag. Dy. Ineptr. Gent , Southern Ra nge.

S A L E M D I S T R I C T .

No . 318.

N otes on the Police Administra tion Rep ort of the Salem District.

Para.3. P olice Constables on ce resigned the service should not again be taken up.

According to Police return .

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3. In crease to Town force. The Inspector-General will no doubt, as he has admitted the neces

sity to be very great, increase the Town force.

4. In regard to education , I would remind you of an old proverb that one man can take a horse

to water but 10 can n ot make him drink. The supporting element of a pial school is the children"

at present these are wan ting, for the Paren ts do not send them .

3 O n the whole I am able to say that the Police had worked well and steadily throughout the

I have &c .,

(Signed ) G . D LEMAN ,

DistrictMagistra te

N I L G —I R I D I S T R I C T .

N o . 443.

D ISTRICT Msc lsrasrs ’s Orrlcs, N il-6 1m,

Ootacamund, 22nd I‘hbr'

ziary 1884.

From L . 13. B urrows E squire, the DistrictMagistrate of Nilgiris,To Lieutena nt Col. Blair, Sup erintendent of P olice, Coimba tore.

Withreference to your letter No . 131: dated 19thinstan t, I have the hon or to return the Adminis

tration report for this .District for 1883-84 with the fo llowing remarks.2

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I fully recognize theimportance‘

of the poin ts to which the two penultimate paragraphs of the

report refer, namely the urgen t need o f freshSta tio n Houses a nd stillmore o f freshbuttingin the Sou th

E astWainad and other parts of the District, and I hope that the next year'

willsee the most necessa ry

of these wan ts supplied .

3. I notice with satisfac tion the improved averages of detection of crimes and co nviction of crimi

n als, whichthe comparative return shows and hope that the improvemen t willbe con tinued .

4. In conclusion I would draw your atten tion to the fact that the prisoners Thyriem and Pera m a l

convicted of murder by the Additio nal Sessions Judge Nilgiris in January last were sen tenced to pen a l

servitude for life and not to be hung as sta ted in the report.

I have, die .

(Signed) A. G . CARD EW ,

for DistrictMagistra te.

MA L A B A R D I S T R I C T .

No . 1737.

N ote to the P olice Administra tionR ep ort of 1883

1. The report o n Police Administra tion for 1883 received from:the Superin tenden t of Police is

herewith forwarded though the D eputy Inspecto r-General, Southern R ings, to the Inspector-Genera l

together with the statements showing the operatio ns of CriminalCourts.

2 . H a rden—Under this head there was a satisfactory decrease o f l l cases as compared with the

preceding year In severa l of the owes the murderers were husbands and the motive for the crim e

w as jealousy. D etection was good and on ly one case remaining un detected at the end of the year.

Similarly decrease is also perceptible under culpable homicide.

3. D acoity.—Two cases on ly were reported during the year against 3in the previous year. D e

tection was good and convictions were obtained in both cases . The Superintenden t of Pohce

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Gnmsoor Taluq do . do .

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Gumeoor Tq. do. do .

Surade do . do .

Chioaoole 3rd do do .

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REVISION .

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NAME OF THE COURT.

DistrictMagistrate’s Court

Prinl. Asst.Megt’s ,

Genl. Deputy

.ppea l a nd Revision , in the District of Ganj am,for the year 1883.

NUMBER OF APPELLANTS AND PERSONS CONCERNED IN CASES FOR REV ISIO.

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NUMBER. OF A PPELLANTS AND PERSONSCONCERNED IN CASES FOR REV ISION .

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NAME OF THECOURT.

Dist.Msgte’s Court

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zud ClassMagistrate Golgonda

do . Salur

do . Bobbili

do . Palakonda

do . Parvatipur

BenchMagistrates of Vizagapatam .

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NAME OF THE COURT.

DistrictMagistratePrincipal Assistan tMagistrate.

Senior do .

Asst and Temp . Dy MagistrateDepy.Magistrate Vizlanagaram2nd ClassMagistfate Port Ofi ce,

Vizagapatam

2nd ClassMeastrate Golgonda .

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std do . Gajapa tinagaram

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in the District of Vizagap a tam, for the year 1883.

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COURT .

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Principal Asst.Magistrate 4 82

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Asst .Magistrate &Tempetary Dy .Magistra te 4 39

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NUMBER 0! APPELLANTS AND PERSONS CONOEBNED IN CASES FOB REVISION .

Fox Ten n.

i.Mi [APPEN D IX

STATEMENT No . VI .

PA RT I .

Sta tement showing the business of the Crimin a l Courts as Courts of Appea l a nd Revision ,in the Vizagap a tam Agency for the year 1883.

IN CASES FOR REVIS ION .

D IsPoslm cs .

Referred .

NAME OF THE

COURT .

Agent to the Govern

Bavision

A ssistan

Assistan t

V IZ AGAPATAM, (signed) E . C. JOHNSON,4th June 1884 For Ag. Agent to the Governor.

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t showing the n umber and genera l result of In quiries and Tria ls of Cases in Courts of

NUMBER

Foe Ingmar cs Tam .

OF THE COURT.

I Division

Division,

n BenchHegteanch do .

oh fi .

STATElii.

us es o r W ITN B’SSRS

N nn nnn or Wrrx sssss N13!“ “ a“ “f l-m om

mscnss eso u rns Exum u'n o 1~

En m s sn ox .

NAME OF THE COURT .

DistrictJoin t do .

Heed Asst. do .

Ag Tressy. Dy . Hegte.

Gen l Duty Dy . do .

Assistan t do

Specia l lst ClassMsgte .

Amalapn r TalukDo Sher.

Sher.

Yeleswaram do .

Coccn ed a Division

N sreepur Bea Customs Sup t .

Pittapur Division

Rajahmn ndry BenchMagteEllore Ben ch do .

Coconada Ben ch dg.

i The Sub—Magistra te reports that. Rs. in the 3td an d Rs. 2-10-0 in the 4thquarter we-e spen t .

Om en , Cocomms ,

Genevsm Disrmcr Meets-ran t s}1sthMa y 1884.

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NUMBER. OF A PPEA LS AN D APPLICATIOBS F0?REVISION .

Fo s TR IAL.

NAME OF

Ag. Treasury Dy.Magistrate .

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Appea l and Revision , in the District of Godava ri, for the year 1883.

NUMBER OF APPELLAN TS AND PERSONS CONCERNED IN CASES FOB REVISION.

For Tu sh.

n iv (Arrs smx

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PART I .

Sta temen t showing the business of the Crimin a l Courts a s Courts of Appea l and Revision ,in the District of Godava ri, for the year 1883.

N UMBER OF A PPELLANTS AND PERSONSCONCERNED IN CASES FOR REV ISION .

s posso or.

Referred.

NAME OF THE

COURT.

General Dn ty Dy

Ag Treasury DyMagistrate

(Signed) W. S. FOSTER,

District I agu tra te.

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Sta tement showing the number a nd genera l result of Inquiries a nd Tria ls of Cases in Courts of

NUMBER

For INQUIRY on Ten n.

NAME OF THE COURT .

DistrictMagistrate

Joint Magistrate 6 116

Head Assistan tMagistrate

General D eputyMagistrate

Temporary DeputyMagistrate 40 208

All Sub-Magistrates ,889

Guntur Bench

Bender Bench

Escaped

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N o . IV .

Crimin al Origin a lJurisdiction, in the District of Kistn a, for the year 1883.

PERSON8.

W305 : Cu t e we an memes» or nunmo mu Yn n .

Convicted.

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Sta tement showing the number an d genera l result of Inquiries and Tria ls of Cases in Court: rj

D ISCHARGED WITHOUTEXAMINATION .

NAME OF THE COURT .

DistrictMagistrate

JointMagi-trate

Head AssistantMagistrate

General DeputyMagistrate

Temporary DeputyMagistrate

All Bub-Magistrate

Gun tur Bench

Bender Bench

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53 NUMBER o r APPEA LS AND APPLICATIONSFOR3 REV ISION .

b0M Fo r: Tau n.

NAME OF THE COURT.

14 3

72 Appeal

General DeputyMagistrate 34 2

Temporary DeputyMagistrate 25 2

4 App ea l and Revision , in the District of Kistna , for the year 1888.

NUMBER OF APPELLANTS AND PERSONS CON CEBNED IN CASES FOB REVISION .

For.Ta rn .

XXXH

STATEMENT No . V I .

PART I .

Statemen t showing the business of the Crimina l Courts as Courts of App ea l and Revision ,

in the District of Kistn a , for the year 1883.

NUMBER or A PPELLANTS AND PERSONSCONCERN ED IN CASES FOB REV ISION .

[A p p znmx

s rosnn or.

'

8 Referred .

it eh E

NAME OF THE COURT . is'

10 8 80 5 24 28

Join t Magistrate 42 0 14 8 18 86

Head Assistant Magistrate. 12 34

Gen eral Deputy Magistrate. 29 2

.Temporary Deputy 38 10

(Signed) w. AUSTIN ,

Ag. DistrictMagistrate.1

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Sta temen t showing thenumber an d genera l result of In quiries and Tria ls of CasesinCom”;

For. Inqmnr on Turn .

N et Reman der brought to:

[AME OF THE COURT.

riot MagistrateE P . Part

Part

d Assistan tMagistratePart 2

stan tMa '

strate

na l o B. Canal

do. Naidupett

ore TaluqMagistrateSher. do .

ar Taluq do .

Sher. do.

ur Taluq do .

Sher do .

iaknr T. do.

in Sher. do.

ali Taluq do .

i. Sher. do .

do .

do .

do .

do

do .

do .

do .

do .

do .

do .

do

do .

do .

do .

do .

do .

do .

do .

do .

tMagistrate

D .—Continued .] xxxv

No . IV.

Crimina l Origin a lJurisdiction , in the District of Nellore, for the year 1883.

OF PERSONS.

Wacal Ossas was : msro san or nuance rna Yn a .

Convicted .

PART

Sta temen t showing the number an d genera l result of Inquiries and Tria ls of Ca ses in Courts of

DISCHARGED AFTER D ISCHARGED WITHOUTEXAMINATION . EXAMINATION .

NAME OF THE COURT.

DistrictMagistrateE . P Part

JointMagistrate 115 11

Part

AssistantMagistrate 66 7Special do . B . Canal

Dy. do . Naidupett

Nellore TaluqMagistrate

w

m

q

m

ms

w

w

w

Gndur TaluqDo . Sher.

Bapur Taluq12 Do . Sher .

18

14

15 Kavali Taluq16

17

Jul

i

n

o

19 Kandahar T.

20 D o . Sher

21

22 Do. Sher.

23 Ongole Taluq24

25

26 Polar Sub

27

29

31

88

84 Nellore Town

85 Do. Bench

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NUMBER. OF APPEALS AND APPLICATIONS FO R

Foa TRIAD.

NAME OF THE COURT.

1 DistrictMagistrate 16 16

2 Join tMagistrate 28 21

3 Head A ssistan tMagistrate 14 14

4 Assxstan tMagistrate 5 5

Dy .Magistrate of Naidupctt 27 25 2

-Continued.] xx xix

ipeala nd Revision , in the District of Nello re,for the year 1883.

NUMBER OF APPELLANTS AND PERSONS CONCERNED IN CASES FOR REV ISION .

For: Tam .

80

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PART I .

Sta temen t showing the busin ess of the Crimina l Courts a s Co urts of Appea l a nd Revision,in the D istrict of N ellore for the yea r 1883.

NUMBER OF A PPELLANTS AN D PERSONS "1

CONCERNED IN CASES FOR REVISION .

DisrosnD or .

isNAME OF THE g

o

COURT.o s 35S “c!

gfig .5s.. m

"

3'

3“its 0

‘

5

33 E: g g E;

H ei s t g as s e s -r i 5<1 83 8 <2 to a. z o o a o G: 0-4

36 I37 38 39 40 41

DistrictMagistrate

JointMagistrate 70 9 361

Head AssistantMagistrate

Assistan tMagistrate

Dy.Magistrate of Naidupett

(Signed) J.

District w ..-em .

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Fox Ingmar on Turn .

NAME OF THE COURT.

1 DistrictMagistrate

2 Head A ssistantMagistrate.

3 DeputyMagistratd’l’yapali

4 DeputyMagistrate Cumbum

5 Temporary D eputy Magistrate{

7 Sher . 8rd do

D y. Tahr. 2nd do . Payap

9 Tahr 2ud do .

12 BenchMagistrates18 Tahr. 2nd do .

Cumbum

0 These were con cerned in one case along with other; and eats ed. Th

regularly, hence no corresponding entry of cases in 001.12 .

P e cm W t the others W“ “ POM01”

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DISCHARGED AFTER DISCHARGED WITHOUTEXAMINATION . EXAMINATION .

NAME OF THE COURT.

1 DistrictMegistrete

8 D eputyMagistrate Pyapali

4 DeputyMagistrate Cumbum .

5 Temporary D eputyMagistrate

6 Mr. 2nd ClassMagistrate Patti

7 Sher. std do. do .

8 do . Pyapali

9 Tnhr. zud do. Romul

10 Sher. std do . do .

11 Dy. Tehr. zud do . Kurn ool

Town

Konuoon,to.May 1884.

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N o . IV .

Crimina l Origin al Jurisdiction , in the District of Kurnool, the yea r 1883.—(Concluded .

ensue IN WHICH THE ACCUSED lu vs:COMPLA INANTS WERE

hO'

l‘APPEARED .

ORDERED TOPAYCOMPENSATION UNDERSECT ION 250

OF THE C . O. P .

REMARKS.

Accused absconded end proclamation issued.

1‘ Accused absconded end werruut issued.

Received under Seo .

’

849 C. P C.

I The remaining 2 cases were transferred

is of the zud ClassMagistrate, Pyapa li.

Received under Sec 849 C . P.

572 797

(Signed ) W H G LENNY,DistrictMagistrate.D—12

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Sta temen t showing the business of the Crimina l Courts as Courts of Appea l and Revision ,in the Dis trict of Kurn ool, for the yea r 1883.

— (Con cluded

NUMBER OF APPELLANTS AND PERSONSCONCERNED IN CASES FOR REVISION .

D lsrosn n or .

NAME or THE “

g3COURT.

2‘5 ,U E 151:

"i e 5 s So z: a» 0 cv 0

u’

8 2 u a,0 g.

3O

a

g3 g 5 35 ft 3 5

's

«2 4 03 c. z

42 l43 44 l45X461

DistrictMagistrate

Heed Asst. Megistrut

DeputyMugte. Cumbum.

Deputy Hegte. Pyapali.

Temporary Dpty.Magte.

Revision

D is'

rnu'r Msc xsrsu n

'

s Om ct, (Signed) W H . GLENNY,

Kuss oo r, 6thMa y 1884 DistrictMagistra te.

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Magistrate{the Peace

m 0Magistrate.

agistrate Bel larygis trate Raidrng

Magistrate Adoni.

{heristadur do.

ByMr. ”58“

hefistadar do

nhalliTshr

{heristadar

iTahsildariheristadar do .

Tashildar .Magletheristadar do

do.

such do.

sh Sub-Magistrate .

Tahsildarheristadar do .

b uilder Magistrate .

heristadar do .

bebilder Magis trate .

Ibex-istadas do.

Ben ch do,

moor Sub

—Continued.]

iminal Origin a l Jurisdiction, in the District of Bellary, for

PERSONS.

Wn osu Cases wsnn msrosnn or nunme rm: Yuan .

Co nvicted

O n regular trial.

21

District Magistrate

Assistan tMagis trate Baitin gDeputy Magistrate Adoni

Hospett TahsildarMagistrateDo . Shefistadar do .

Sheristadar do .

Do. Sheristadar do .

KudlighiTahsildarMagin rateDo. Sheristadar do.

Bellary TahsildarMagistrateDo . Shmihtadn do.

Do . Town do .

D o. Bench do.

Emir-cg Tahsildar Magis trateDo . Sheristada r do.

Alur Tahsildar MagistrateDo . Sheristedar do .

D o . Sheristadar do :

Do. Bench do .

Yemmiganoos Sub -Magistrate

Ba nn er Maom as rs’

s Orn c s.

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[IE OF COURT.

t.Magistrate Appeal.

asistt n t.Magistrate

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PART I .

rat showing the business of the Orimin a l Courts as Oou

in the District of Bellary, for the year 1883.

IN CASES FO R REVI S ION .

Dleroexn o r.

Referred .

[aw

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iminal Origin a lJurisdiction ,in theDistrict of Anan tapur, for the year 1883.—(Continua l )

BBONS.

Wn osn Cm ; " as huma n or nuance ra n Ynu .

PART

Sta tement showing the number and genera l result of Inquiries and Trials qf Cases in Courts of

D ISCHARGED WITHOUTEXAMINATION .

NAllE OF THE COURT .

a

DistrictMagistrateDo .

Hd .Asst.Mogte,PenukondaD o .

Dy.Magistrate, GootyDo .

Tempy. Dy.Magte Anantapur'

D o.

Shr.Magistrate do .

Bench do . do .

Penukonda Tq.MagistrateDo . Shr. do .

Dharmavarbm Tq do

Do . E xt . do .

Hindupur'I q do.

Do . Shr. do .

Madaksiro Tq. do .

Do . Shr. do .

Gooty Tq. do.

Do. Bhr. do .

Tadpatri Tq. do

Do. Shr. do .

Usavokonda Sub-Magistratedo.

Kslhytndm‘

g do .

Bnkkspatnsm do.

Om en,

ANAN‘I‘APUI s

'

rmc'rMsemm n

’s

lothKay 1884

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—Continued.]

p eel and Revision, in the District of Anantapur, for the year 1883.

NUMBER OF APPELLANTS AN D PERSONS CON CERNED IN CASES FOR REVISION.

Fox Tan a .

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NUMBER OF APPELLANTS AND PERSONS

CONCERN ED IN CASES FOR REV ISION .

Dmrosnn or.

Referred.

NAME OF THE COURT.

tions

rejected

DistrictMagistrate

Read Assistant Hagen-ate.

DeputyMagistrate,

Tempora ry Deputy Magta

(Signed) N . A. ROUPELL,

DistrictMagutrcte.

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NUMBER

Foe INQUIRY on Tam

NAME OF THE COURT .

I'

oin t MagistrateHeed Asst. do .

I‘

empy. Dy . do .

CuddapahTahr MagistrateJamma lmadngg

l Tahr. do.

h

Proddatoor Tehr.

Do . hr .

Pulivendla Tahr.

D o . Shr

Badwail Tahr

D o . Shr.

111 do

Pelait

CuddapahBenchMagistrate

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Crimina l Origin a lJurisdiction , in the District of Cuddapah, for the year 1883.

OF PERSON8.

W308: Cass-s was : marcean or nu rse rs : Yn a.

On regular trial.

days

during

which

each

PART

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Nur s es o r W ITNESSESN ousm or WITNESS“

D ISCHARGE!) wu'uou'r

mscnu san ar ms Exaxmau on

NAME OF THE COURT .

CuddapahTehr. d:

do .

do .

Kadri f'

CuddapahBenchMagistrate.

Orn cz,

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Sta temen t business

NAME OF COURT

D istrict Magistrate

Join tMagistrate Appea l.

Head Asst .Magistrate

Genera IDnty Dy Magistrate

Temporary Dy Magistrate

Total

Grand To tal

Crimin a l

REVISION .

Fos. Ten t.

12 13 14

PART

10 .—Con tin ued ] lx xi

N o . V I .

App ea l and Revision , in the District of Cuddap ah, for the year 1883.

NUMBER OF APPELLANTS AND PERSONS CONCERNED IN CASES FOB REVISION

Foa’I‘au n.

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NUMBER OF A PPELLANTS AND PERSONS

CONCERNED IN CASES FOR REV ISION .

s rosnn or.

NAME OF THECOURT . REMARKS .

40 41

DistrictMme.

Held An t .Magte

Gen era l Duty DyN agte .

Temporary DeputyMagistra te

G rand Total

Cvnm rm D ISTRICT Mmm'm s 'rn'

s On xcn,

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35

86

38

D ISCHARGED AFTER

EXAMINATION .

NAME OF THE COURT.

District“Magistrate5 Court .

Join tMagistrate do

R ead A sst.Magte . do .

General Dy . D y.Magte.

Tempy Dy MagteChittur TaluqMag'te’sChan dragiri

Palam anair

Polur

UNDER SECTION 349,C C. P .

DistrictMagistrate

’3, Court

Jow t

E d . Asst. D o . do .

G l Dy. Do .do .

Tempy. Dy . Do .

Nou n AacorMeoxsm m ’s Om en

;

DISCHARGED WITHOUTEXAMINATION .

s 587 2 526

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O . VI .

op ea l a nd Revision , in the District of N orthArcot, for the year 1883.

NW BER OF APPELLANTS AND PERSONS CONCERNED IN CASES FOR REVISION .

Fo x Tan a.

lxxx EA rrm xx

STATEMENT N o . VI.

PART 1.

Sta temen t showing the business 0 the Crimina l Courts as Courts of Appea l and Revision ,in the District of orthArcot,

‘

for the year 1888.

NUMBER OF APPELLANTS AND PERSONSCONCERNED IN CASES FOR REV ISION .

D rseosnn or.

NAME OF THE REMA RKS.

COURT.

gnu-ter b ein

JOintM‘glflm te en om lls.

Head A sst .Magistrate, 11

General Duty Dy .

Tempy. Dy Magte.,

Total 23

Can-roo k, (Signed) A . J. STUART,

4thMay 1884.

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C H I N G L E P U T D I S T R I C T .

STATEMEN T N O . IV .

PART I .

S tatemen t showing the n umber an d genera l result of Inquiries and Tria ls of Cases in Courtsof Crimina l Origin al Jurisdictio n , in the District of Chinglep ut, for the year 1883.

NUMBER OF CASES.

Fo r Ingmar o n Turn .

NAME OF THE COURT .

CASES D ISPOSED OFUNDER SECTION 349,

DistrictMagte.,Mr J F Price.Join t Magte.,Mr. R. Sewell.

ALL OTHER CASES.

doch

Deputyw a s,Mr. A.Pinto .

Can tonmen tMsgte St . Tho

mss’

Do . PallaveramDO . Poonamallee

Special Engte .,Ma jor D rakeBrockman

zud Class TahsildarMagteSaidapet

Sheristsdar do . do

Pon neriDo Shen stadar do . do .

Do . Tahsildar do TrivelloreDo Sheristadar do . do .

8rd ClassMagte Satiaved2nd TahsrldarMagistra te,

ChingleputDO Sheristad ar do . do .

Do. Tahsildar Magistrate,Con jeeveram

Do . Sheristadar do . do .

D o . Magta ., Con jegveram

own

8rd Class do . Striperumadnr2nd Tahsildar Magte.,Madurantakam3rd Sheristada r do . dozud Magte., O tramorur

Honorary Mastes., Con jeeversm

do . Chingleputdo . Sa xdapet

D—21

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NUMBER

For. Inqumr on Turn .

NAME OF THE COURT.

CASES D ISPOSED OF UNDER

SECTION 849, C. C. P .

J . F. Price

ALL OTHER CASES.

DistrictMagte.,Mr. J. F. Price

I ow tMagte, Mr. R . Sewell

A sst .May a ,Mr. D . D . MurdochDeputy.Magte.,Mr . A . Pin to

Ca n tonment Magi-a , St. Thomas’

Mount . .

Do . Pallaveram

D O . Poon amallee

DO . Shem tadar do . do .

std ClassMagtes Sa tiaved2nd Tahsildar Magistrate,

D O. Tahsildar Magistrate,Conleeveram .

D o . Sheristada r do . do .

Magte., Con jeeveram

Town “

8rd Class do . Striperumadur

2nd Tahsildar Magistra te,MadurantakamSheristadar do . do .

Magistrate, O tramerur

Hon orary Mastes Con jeeveramDo do . Chingleput

Do . do . Su dspet

Total.

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DISCHARGED AFTER DISCHARGED WITHOUTEXAMINATION. EXAMINATION.

NAME OF THE COURT.

CASES DISPOSED OF UNDERSECTION 349, C. C. P .

District Magte .,Mr. J. R. PriceJoin tMagte.,Mr. R. Sewell

ALL OTHER CASES.

Do . Sheristadar do .

0 . Magte.,

Tahsildar Magistrate,Do . Sheristadar do .

Do Sheristadar do .

EUo

DO. Sheristadar do .

Do . Tahsildar Magistrate,Con jeeveram . .

Do . Sheristadar do

8rd Class do .

zud “Tahsildar Magistra te,Sheristadar do . dO . .

Magistrate, Otramerur.

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N O . IV .

Crimina l Origin al Jurisdiction , in theDistrict of Chingleput, for the yea r 1883. Concluded.)

COMPLA IN .

CASES IN WHICH THE ACCUSED HAVENOT APPEARED . 3353825

11

30PAYCOMPENSATION UNDER

SECT ION 250

OF THE C . C .P .

REMARKS.

74.l 178 19 I(a to (e ) Explanations will follow.

The accused has not as yet been arrested2 c862 ( fwarrant was issued

issued, but was

stating tha t she can not be found .

has n o property worth attaching, theMafistrate has rw ently issued an

warran t.

(Signed ) A . PINTO.

D y. Collectorfor DistrictMagistrate.u—22

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REV ISION .

For. Tau n.

NAME OF THE COURT.

DistrictMagistrate,Mr J. F. Price.

JointMagistrate,Mr.H .Tnemenheere.

DeputyMagistrate,Mr. A. Pin to

TemporarygeputyMagistra te, MrDorasawmy Iyer

DistrictMagistrate,Mr. J. F Price

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mea l a n d Review , in the District of Chingleput, for the year 1883.

NUMBER OF APPELLANTS AND PERSONS CONCERNED IN CASES FOR REV ISION .

For. Tau n.

[Arm an

STATEMENT N 0 . VI .

PART I .

Sta temen t showing the business of the Crimin a l Courts as Courts of Appea l and Rin the District of Chingleput, for the yea r 1883a

NUMBER OF AP PELLANTS AN D PERSON SCONCERNED IN CASES FOB REVISION .

Disp osa l) or .

NAME OF THECOURT.

5

District Mayto Mr. J.

F.

Joint Magistrate,H.

Dy liagistrate,Mr. A.

Pin to .

'I‘

etnplyJ

Dy Magic ,Mr.

Vs orasawmy

District Magta.,Mr. J.

(Signed) A . PINTO ,

Dy . Collector for District H amstreze.

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NUMBER OF A PPELLANTS AND PERSON SCONCERNED IN CASES FOR REVISION .

D isp osa l) or .

NAME OF THE REMA RKS

Distn ct Magte Mr. J .F

Joint Magistrate, Mr.

H.

Dy Magistrate,Mr A.

P luto . o o

'I‘

empxyJ

Dy Mash ,MrW orasawmy

‘The case i

District Magte.,Mr. J.F. Price

(Signed) A . PINTO ,

Dy . Collector for DistrictMagistrate.

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STATEMENT No . IV .

PART I .

Sta temen t showing the n umber an d genera l result of In quiries and Tria ls of Cases in Courts ofCrimin a l Origin a lJurisdiction , in the District of SouthArcot, for the yea r 1883.

NUMBER OF CASES.

Foa Inqumr on Turn . s rosrn or.

NAME OF THE COURT.

DistrictMagistJoin t do .

D eputyAssistant do.

Cuddalore Taluq do .

Do . Sherwtadar do .

Cuddalore TownTiruvadiSub do .

Tindivanam Taluq do .

D o . Sheristadar do .

do .

do.

Villupuram Taluq do .

Do . Sheristadar d o.

Vanur Sub do .

Tiruvan namalaiTaluq do .

D o . Sheristad ar do .

Chengum Sub do .

e dachalam Taluq do

Do Sheristadar do .

TittagudiSub

Chedumbaram Taluq do .

D o Sherista dar do

BhuvanigiriSub do .

Porto N ovo Sub d o} .

MannargudiSub do .

Terukoilur Taluq do

Do Shen stadar do .

Ulundurpett Sub d o

KullakurchiTaluq do

D o Sherxstadar do

BenchMagistrate CuddaloreMunicipality

Chidambaram do

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NUMBER

Foa Ingmar 03 Trus t .

THE COURTend

BenchMagistrateCuMuncipalityChidambasam

(a .) This case With2 person s was pending at the end of last year, but by oversight it was not included in that year’s

statement. Hence the difference.

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Nuns“ or Wm ussss'

Nuusna o r

mscn anexn a r ms m sca aacnn wlruourExamm 'n os . Ex snmsrxou.

OF THE COURT.

50 ,51'5zlss l54 ]

Chongun Sub

Virdachalam TaluqD o . Sheristadar do .

TittagudiSub

Chidambaram TaluqDo . Sheristadar

BhnvanigiriSub do .

Porto N are Sub do.

MannargudiSub do .

Terukoilur Taluq do.

D o Shen stadar do .

Ulun durpett Sub do .

KullakurchiTaluq do .

Sheristadar do .

—Continued.] xciii

riminalOrigina lJurisdiction , in the District of SouthArcot, for the year 1883.—(Concluded )

Con rmmarrrs

NOT APPEARED . was ] : 031) q

TION UNDER Sac.

n ow250 or 1111

(Signed) A . CRUICKSHANK,

DistrictMagistrate.

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STATEMENT No . V I .

PA RT I .

Sta temen t sho wing the business of the Crimin a l Courts .a s Courts of Appea l a nd Revisio n ,

in the District of Sorth Arcot, for the yea r 1883.— (Con cluded )

NUMBER O F A PPELLANTS AND PERSONS CONCERNEDIN CASES FO R REVISION .

DISPOSBD or.

NAME OF THE

COURT . iJ !

3I:U"

U

.e.0 ' H

8'

8 i 2: E3

'

2 0'

Eid g 0 g g g3 a. o O t-c

DistrictMagistrate

DeputyMagistrate

1 xsratcr MAG ISTRATE'S Om en, (Signed) A . CRUnICKSHANK,

CAMP Penm an , 26thMarch1884. D unn “ ”a z to

D . Continued ] x cvii

T A N J O R E D I S T R I C T .

STATEMENT N o . Iv.

PART 1.

Sta temen t showing the number and genera l result of Inquiries and Tria ls of Cases in Courts ofCrimina l Origina l Jurisdiction , in the District of Tanjore, fon the year 1883.

NUMBER OF CASES.

Fo a INQU I RY on TRIAL .

NAME OF THE COURT .

Koduvassal Sub do .

Master Attend . 2nd Ol. do .

Mayavaram Ta luq do .

D o Sher. do

Tranqubar Sub do

Shiyali Taluq do .

D o Sher. do

Tim turaipundiTaluq do

V edarm em Sub do .

Mutupet Special do

Dy Magie ,Pa tuko ta do

Do do Ta n lore do

Kumbakon am Taluq do

D o . Sher. do

D o .Town do

Tiruwdamm'ndur Sub do

Tan j ore T aluq do

Do Town Sub do

Trivedi Sub do

Vullum Sub do .

Patukota Taluq do

Do . Sher.do

A ran tangi Sub do .

Man nargudi Taluq do

Do . Sher.

go

0

BenchMagistrate N egapatamD o . MayavaramD o Knmbukonam

D o . Ta n j ore

D o Man nargudi

CASES D ISPOSED OF UNDER

SECTION 849 C C . P

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NUMBER OF

Foa Ingmar on Tam .

NAME OF THE COURT .

Tiruvalur Sub do .

Nannilam Taluq do .

Do Sheriatadar do .

Kodavassal Sub do .

MasterA ttend. zud 0. do .

CASES DISPOSED O F

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NAME OF THE COURT .

DistrictMagistrateJomt Magistra teHead A ssistantMagistrateDy .MagistrateMann argudiNegapa tam Ta luq Magistrate

Town do .

Tiruvalur Sub do

Nanm lam Ta luq do .

Do . Sheristadar do

Kodavassal Sub do

Master A ttendan t dzzud 01. do .

Mayavaram Ta luq do .

Do Shen atadar do .

Tranqubar Sub do .

Stuya liTaluk do .

Do . Sheristadar do

TiruturaipundiTa luq do

Ved aran iem Sub do .

Mutu t Special

Dy. e .,Putukota

D o Tan joreKumbakon am Taluq

Do Sheristadal'

Do Town

Tiruwdam sm dur Sub

Tan jore TaluqDo . Town Sub

TrivadiSub

Vallam Sub

Batukota TaluqDo . Sheristadar

A ran tangiSub

Man n argudl Ta luqDo Sheristadar

Nidamangalam Sub

BenchMagta Negapa tam

D o MayavaramDo . Kumbakonam

D o . Tan joreD o Man nargudi

CASES DISPOSED OF UN DERSECT ION 849 C C .

zud ClassMagte, Tan jore TownTiruvadi

Mann argudiTaluqSheristadar Magistrate do .

D ISCHARGED AFTER

EXAMINATION .

[

477

DISCHARGED WITHOUTEXAMINATION .

PART

the business of the Crimina l Cowrts as Courts of

REVI810N

roa Tau n.

NAME OF THE COURT.

Dy. N agte., Patnkota Division

Do . Tinjore Division

Head em uMagistrate

DistrictMagistrate

Dy .W ., Patnkota Division

Do. Tan jore DivisionDo . Mannargudi

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STATEMENT No. VI.

PART 1.

Sta tement showing the business of the Crimina l Courts as Courts of Appeal andin the District of Tanj ore, for the year 1883.

NUMBER OF APPELLANTS AND PERSONSCONCERN ED IN CASES FOB REV ISION .

D ram !) or.

NAHE OF THE COURT.

Dy. l ast“,Maunargndi

DistrictMagistrate

Join tMagistrateDy Magte Patukota Dv.

Do . Tan jore DivisionDo . Hannargudi

Head AssistantMagistrate

(signed) J. B. Pm nmron,

D .—Continued.] cv

T R I C H I N O P O L Y D I S T R I C T .

STATEMENT N o . IV .

PART I.

S ta temen t showing the number and genera l result of Inquiries and Tria ls of Cases in Courts ofCrimina l Origina l Jurisdiction , in the District of Triehiw poly, for the year 1883.

NUMBER Ol‘ CASES.

Foa Ingm ar on Tan a . Dism al) or.

as

NAME OF THE COURT.

DistrictMagistrate2nd ClassMagte. Tricky. Taluq

Shr. Magistra te

Town 8nd 0.Mag

TownMunsifMagistrate2nd ClassMagistrate, Lalgudi

2nd ClassMagistrate,MusiriShr.Magistrate2nd ClassMagistrate, Toraiore2nd ClassMagistrate KulitalaiShr.Magistra tezud ClassMagistrate,ManaparaiGeneral DeputyMagistrate2nd ClassMagte Perambalore

Shr.Magistra te2nd C Magte Udaiyarpoliem

Shr.Magistrate do

zud ClassMagistrate, KilapalurAsst. Tempry Dy. Magistrate

Statement showing the number and genera l result of Inquiries and Tria ls of Cases in Courts of

NUMBER 0?

Pen Inqorar on Ta n a .

NAME OF THE COURT.

2 nd 0 .Magta ., Trichy

Shr.Magistrate do .

2ndClassMagistrate, Toraiore. ,015 14

2nd ClassMaglstrate,Kalitalal. 229 1

284 9

844 42nd ClassMagta , Manaparai.

Shr.Magistratezud C.Magte.,Udaiyarpollem.

i

t

2nd ClassMagte .,

Asst . Tempry . Dy .Magte

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DISCHARGED WITHOUTEXAMINATION .

NAME OF THE COURT.

1 DistrictMagistrate8 2nd Class Magte., Trichy. 420 155

s Shr.Magistrate 891 231

4 Town zud

Town MassifMagistrate,2nd ClassMagistrate, LalgudiHead Assista ntMagistrate,2nd Class Magistrate MuslriShr.Magistrate,

O

Q

O

O‘

2nd Class Magistrate, Toraiore 1069 1894 802

zud ClassMagistrate Kulitalsi

Shr.Magistrate,2nd ClassMagistra te,GeneralDeputyMagistrate,2nd ClassMagistrate, Perambalore.

Sbr Magistrate,2nd 0. Magistrate,Udaiyarpohem 253

Shr. Magistrate, do.

19 2nd ClassMagistrate, Kilapalur20 Assistan t at Tempry . Dy .Megte

On mmTmcsmoronr D ISTR ICTMsexsrasrr ’s

}l0thMay 1884

Crimin a lOrigin a l Jurisdiction , in the District of Trichinopoly, for the year1883.

CASES IN WHICH THE ACCUSED HAVE

NOT APPEARED .

REMARKS.

47 154

86 106

4 174

250 255

(Signed) A. R. RICHARDS,

For DistrictMagistrate.D-28

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NUMBER OF APPELLANTS AND PERSONSCONCERN ED IN CASES FOB REVISION .

l315 20l or.

NAME OF THE COURT .

DistrictMagistrate

Assistant.Megte.

General DeputyMagte.

(Signed) A . n. mam as,

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STATEMENT N o . IV .

PART I .

>tatemen t showing the n umber and genera l result of In quiries and Tric

Crimin al Origin a l Jurisdic tion , in the District of Madura ,NUMBER OF CASE

Fox. Inqvm on TR IAL

OF THE COURT.

tMagustra te let ClassMagistrate do .

\sst Magistrate do

Magistrate do .

mtMagistrate do

ag13trate . a ben do .

.n tMagistrate zud Cl.a Taluk Mag, do .

Shen atadar do . do .

mgalam Tk do . do

0 Sher. do . do .

1patti do , do

Taluk do do .

Shen stadar do . do .

a Town do , do .

nlTaluk do do

Sher do . 3rd Cl

knlam Taluk do , 2nd Cl.

Sher. do . 3td Cl

l‘

aluk do . 2n d Cl.ihen stadsr do . do

mannr do . do .

mdnr do . do .

>tta do . do .

re nal do . do

do do .

do 8rd Cl

do zud Cl

do do .

do do .

do do.

do do

do . 3rd 01

do . do .

do .

do .

do .

MagistrateAesxstan tMagistratem Magistrate

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NUMBER

Fox INQUIRY on Tnu r.

AME OF THE COURT .

l st bless

do zud 0]

tiTaluk do . 2nd Cl.

Sheristadar do . do .

do do

do do

do . do

pxkan nl do . do

do . do

do . 3t d 01do. 2n d Cl

do do .

do . do .

do do .

380

as d zsposed of under Section349, C C P

Magistra tenl Dy .Magistratean tMagnetrate

Total

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of Crimina l Origin a lJm-isdictibn , in the D istrict ofMadura , for the year 1883.—(Concluded )

Cu es m wm cs run Aeetu n nu s

nor u rm rn .

1108 us ers Sec.

n ew250 or run

RENARKB

(Slgned) E. G RICKETTS,

For DistrictMagistrate.D -30

mcxv

Statement

NAME OF COURT .

Join tMagistra te

Head Asst.Magistrate

General Dy .Magistrate

Total

District Magistrate

STATEME N TPA RT

Crimin a l

REVISION .

Fox Ta u n.

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— (Con cluded )

N UMBER OF A PPELLANTS AND PERSONS

CONCERN ED lN CASES FOR REV ISION .

s rosno or.

NAME OF THECOURT . REMA RKS

Heed Asst .Megte

General Dy . Msgte.

Asst Hegte

DistrictMagistrate.

(n ned) E. G .

For DistrictMagistrate.

D .—Oontinued .] cxxi

T I N N E V E L L Y D I S T R I C T .

STATEMENT N o . IV .

PART I .

Sta temen t showing the number and genera l result of In quiries and Trials ofCriminal Origin al Jurisdiction , in the District of Tinnevelly, for the 3,

NUMBER OF CASES.

Fox H ome: on Ts u n.

NAME OF THE . COURT.

Joln t

Heed Asst. MagistrateGeneral (

thu

g;Dy .

20.

Temporary o .

TaluqMegta , AmbesamudmmDo . T enkasi

Do . Nangun eri

Sotnr

Sher. Hegte., Satnr

Do . Sn villipntnr

zud ClassMagte ,Pelamootte.

D o. Virudupeti

D o. Tutworin

Do. Ka lasekm pstbmD o . Radhnpurnm

Spl. Megte ., Kays lpetamBen chMegte '

Ihxtxoorin

Do . P alamco ttah

exvix

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Fox Ingmar on Turn .

NAME OF THE COURT.

1Head Asst.Magistra teGen eralCharge

!)y

Dyd

do .

mporsry o .

Ambssnmndrnm .

D o . SstnrDo . Brivillipntur

her.Msgta , AmbsenmudrsmDo . Tenkasi

Tenknrai

Shermndevi

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Nur s es o r Wrrs essss

mscs n onn m m osr

En mm rxos .

Nel sen or Wrm nssns

meann ess u rns. Exa min es

NAME OF THE COURT.

District MagistrateJen t do .

Heed Asst. Magistrate

Do. Satur

D o . Srin llipntnrSher. Hegte .

,Ambesamudran

D o . Tenkasi

Ota pidaramSankaranainarkoil

2nd Class

Kulesekernpatsm

D .—Con tinued.] cx xv

N o . IV .

of Crimina l Origin a lJurisdiction , in the D istrict of Tinnevelly, for the year 1883.

Cu t s is wa ter! rs : Accuses nu n

n o r a ssu res .

REMARKS.

A. . B. ATKINSON,(Signed) JAg. DistrictMagistra te.

p-32

oxm

P A RT

Sta temen t showing the business of the Crimin a l Courts as Cour ts of

NUMBER OF APPEALS AND APPLICATIONS FO RREVISION .

Foa Tam .

NAME COURT.

Appeal.

District Magistrate

Revision

Join tMagistrate Appeal

Head Asst Magistrate

eralChargeDy.

Temporary DyMagistrate

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STATEMEN T No . VI.

PART I .

Sta temen t showing the business of the Crimin a l Courts as Courts of Appeal and Revisio n ,

in the District of Tin nevelly, for the year 1883.

NUMBER OF A PPELLANTS AND PERSONSCONCERNED IN CASES FOR REVISION .

D ISPOSED or:

Referred.

NAME OF THECOURT . REMARKS .

39 40 41

87 4

1 DistrictMagten “

731 1}

Joint 165 91312, 86

Head Asst .Magte 996 8

General Charge Dy .

574 5

Temporary DeputyMegistra te 023 4115 53

(Signed) A . J. B ATKINSON ,

Ag. DistrictMagistra te.

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S A L E MD I S'

l‘R I C T .

STATEMENT No. IV.

PART I .

Sta temen t showing the n umber and genera l result of I nquiries a nd Tria ls of Cases in Courts ofCriminal Origin a lJurisdiction , in the Distoict of S a lem , for the yea r 1883.

N UMBER OF CASES.

Fox Inqvlnr on Tnmr. Disroenn or.

NAME 01"THE COURT .

Under Bectnon 349

DistrictMagistra teO ther ca ses

Under Section 349

JomtMagnetra teO ther cases

Under Section 349

Head Aesxsta n t Magxstm te 3O ther ca ses

Under Sec tio n 349

General D eputyMaglstra teO ther ca ses

Un der Sec tmn 319Tempora ry Dy Magnetra te

O ther cases

Ben ch o fMagistra teAssxstautMagnetrateSa lem Tahr MagteDo . Shen str

Ahtoo r Tahr

D o . Sherlstr do .

N amakal Tahr.

D o,

Shen str

Trxchengode Tahr.

D o SheristrHosn r Tnhr dcD o . Shr.e stnagirx Tahr.D o . Shr.

Dha rmapuri'l‘

ahr.D o ShnTn patore Tahr .

D o . Shr.

Uttankari 'l‘

ahr.

Do Shr

Under Section 107 C'

P . C.

fige

oqaa

o

a

mw

12

ou r

PA RT

Statement showingthenumber a nd genera lresult of Inquiries and Tria ls of Casesin Courts of

NAME OF THE COURT '6

Under Section 849

DistrictMagistrateO ther oases

Under Section 349

O ther cases

Under Section 849

Head Assistan t H aste ,

O ther cases

Under Section 849

General Deputy Mag-to”Under 800151011 3419

Temporary D y . Hegte.

O ther oases

Bench ofMagistrate

DoAhtoor

N nmknl 'l'nhr. do .

Do . Shel-is . do .

Trxohengode’

l‘

shr. do .

D o . Sharia. doBonar Tahr. do

Do . Sher-is. do .

Kristnugiri Tahr do .

D o. Sheris . do .

DharmapuriTahr. doDo . Sherie. do .

Tahr. do

Sherie. do

Tahr. do

Sher m do

Denkinico ttnPennegeram

VaniembsdyHumor

For. Ingmar on'

l nu n.

By 019110111error the was shown as 15 m bu t years return .

189

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Humans or e n sears Nausea o r e nrssrs

DI SCHAR G E!) s n ra D lecm nern wrrnour

Examnu xos . En m ns‘

n on .

NAME OF THE COURT.

Un der Section 849ctMagistrate

Other cases

Under Section 349Join tMagistrateOther cases

Un derSection 849AssistantMagnetrate

O ther Cases

Under Section 349General Deputy Magistrate

O ther CasesUn der Section 349

Temporary Dy .Magistra teOther cases

Magistrate n o

Assistan tMagistra teSalem (him doDo . Sl-erie.Ahtoor TahrD0 Shem .

N‘mOkal Tall?Do . Sheris.

Trichengode'l‘

ahr.

Do . Sheris.

Hosnr Tahr .

D o . Sherie.

KistnagiriTahr.

Do . Sharia.

Ssnru Dre-rarerMscxsrasra’s Om en,

f22nd Februwrv1884.

cm iii

Crimin a lOrigina lJurisdiction , in the District of Salem, for the year 1883.—(Concluded )

Cox ru rm zmNOT APPEARED .

REMARKS

(Signed) T . APPAJI ROW,

For Ag. D istrictMagistrate.D—34

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Sta temen t showing the business of the Crimina l Courts as Courts of

NUMBER OF APPEALS AN D APPLICATIONS FOB.REVISION.

Foa Tam .

NAME OF THE COURT.

Appeal. 9 8

DistrictMagistrate

Revision 82 82

JointMagistrate 84 Appeal. 44 43

Head AssistantMagistrate 86 Appeal. 37 35

General DeputyMagistrate 72 Appeal. 84 33

Temporary DeputyMagistfl te 89 Appeal. 51 46

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Statement showing the business of the Crimina l Courts as Courts of Appea l a nd Revision ,in the District of Sa lem, for the year 1883.

— (Con cluded )

IN CASES FOR REVIS ION .

D I SPOSED or.

NAME OF THECOURT .

2 966

7 970

2 543

7 ,728

Sau l s ‘rmcr Macrn m rs

’

s 011101

12505 January L884»

D. cxxxvii

C O IMB A TO R E DISTR IC T.

STATEMENT N o . IV.

PART I .

S ta temen t showing the number an d genera l result of In quiries and Trials ofCrimina l Origin al Jurisdictio n , in the District of Coimba tore, for the 1

NUMBER OF CASES.

For. Ingmar c a Tan a.

NAME OF THE COURT.

DistrictMagte. of Coimbatore.

Joint do. of do .

Hd . Asst. do . of do .

Assistan t do . of do.

Deputy do . Northern Di

Taluq do . of Coimbatore '

Sheris do . of do.

Sub do do . Town

Benchof do . do.

Sub do .Mettapo liyam .

Taluq do of Erode

Sheris. do. of do.

Ben ch of do . do . To

Sub do. Perundural

Taluq do . o f Karur

Sheris. do . of do .

Benchof do . do . Town .

do .

Sharia. do. of

do of do .

do. ofSatyamangal

Sharia. do o f do .

do . Talavadi

do . of do .

Deputy do Mr Co le

This is a case underSection 471, C. P. C

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PAR'

I

lta temen t showing the number an d genera l result of In quiries and Tria ls of Cases in Courts 04

NUMB ER

For. Ingmar on Ta n a .

NAME OF THE COURT .

[strict Magte of Coimbatore.

lin t do . of do

ead Asst. do . of do .

ssista nt do . of do .

sputy do . Northern Div.

ila q do . of

len s . do . of

suchof

n chof do . of do .

do. Perundurai

do . of Ram

do . of do.

nch of do . do . Town

do . Aravakurchi

do . of do

of Bhavan l

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Nur s es o r W ITNESSESN on e“ . or Wrm ltssns DISCHARGE!) wrm ov'r

mscnsaenn arm s Exu ma'mos .

Exu n ru rxon .

NAME OF THE COURT .

DistrictMagte of Coimbatore

Joint do, of do .

Head Asst. do . of do .

do. of do .

do . N orthern Dn

do . of Coimbatore

Bench of

Perun durai

Sher-is.

of do.

Comm-roux s 'rtcr Mscrsrasrr.s

Om en, 6thMay, 1884.

D .—Con tinued .] cxli

N o . IV .

of Crimin a l Origina lJurisdiction , in the D istrict of Coimba tore, for the year 1883.—(Concluded )

Casss us wm cs rue sccusxn nsvn

nor a ssass in ) .

n on us e rs Sac.

TION 250 o r run

REMARKS.

One case transferred MagistratMr. Cole .

(Signed) E . A . ELWIN,

For District Hagim us

D —36

cxlii

Statement

NAME OF THE

APPEALS.

DistrictMagte. of Coimbatore. 276 48 ppeal

273 111

Head Asst Hegte. of do .

237 113

Depy.Magte.,N zthernDivision 276 115

APPLICATIONS FORREVISION .

DistrictMagte. of Coimbatore.

Other Courts

Crimina l

REVISION .

For. Tam .

PART

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Sta temen t showing the business of the Crimin a l Cour ts as Courts of Appea l and Revision ,

in the District of Coimba tore, for the year 1883.

NUMBER OF A PPELLAN'IB AND PERSONS

CONCERNED IN CASES FOR REVISION .

D ISPOSED or.

Referred .

NAME OF THECOURT . REMAR KS .

39 40

Asst. Magistrateof

APPLICATIONS

DistrictMagistrateo f Coimba

Other Courts

Comm-roan D ISTRICTMscxsrm rs’s Osn cr, (Signed) A E . ELLWIN ,

6thMay, 1884. For DistrictMagistrate.

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STATEMENT No . IV .

PART I .

Sta temen t showing the n umber and general result of Inquiries and Tria ls of Cases in Courts ofCrimin al Origin alJurisdiction , in the District of Nilgiris, for the year 1883.

NUMBER OF CASES.

For Isqm r or.Tam . Disrosan or.

NAME OF THE COURT.

Additional Sessions Judge,

1st Class HM A

Megistrate, Nilgiris

D o . D eputy Collector,

Do . Sub-Judge, Nilgiris

Assistant 2n d Class Magis

2nd ClassMagistrate , Ootaoamu

Do., Coon oor

3rd do ., Gudalur

Ben chMagistrate of Kota

Do. South-East Wyn sad

D—37

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Sta temen t showing then umber a nd genera lresult of Inquiries and Tria ls of Casesin Court: of

THE COURT.

Sessions Judge,Nilgiris

District Magistrate of Nil

lst Glass Bead Assi

Do . D epn ty Collector,Ootacamund

D o. Sub-Judge, Nilgiris

A ssistan t zud ClassMagis

2nd ClassMagistrate, Ootecamun d

Do.

3rd do Gudalur

BenchMagistrate of Kota ~

D o. South-East Wyun a.

86 19

282 4

831 1

151 4:

890 7

310 3

92 1

142 45

Fox Inqvmr on TRIAL.

820

17

101

121

108

265

NUMB ER

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Discuss ant) u rn

Exa ms-n on .

NAME OF THE COURT.

Additional Sessions Judge, Nil

First Class Held Assistant

Assistant 2nd Gu sMagistrate,

zud Class Magistrate. Ooteca

Coonoor

8rd do . Gudalur

BenchMagistrate of Kotagiri

D o . South-East Wyna d

Oorscu mm,

7th I arch 1884.

PA R T

D.

No. IV .

fnmina l O riginalJurisdiction , in the District of Nilgiris, for the year 1883.—(Concluded )

CASES IN WHICH THE ACCUSED HAVENOT APPEABED .

13 146

80 280

64 347

430

159

360

411

430

89

130

117

275 41

137

291

194

103

201

352

112

335

TO PAY Com missrxon mu ms.81crxon 250 or m

REMARKS.

(Signed) A . G . CARDEW

ForAdditional838810118 Judge.

9-38

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Sta temen t showing the business of the Crimina l Courts as Courts ofNUMBER OF APPEALS AND APPLICATIONS FOR

REVISION.

Fos Tum .

NAME THE COURT. g

0co

5 38

.D

'

5 E '

3

3i

It io i

“

Additional Sessions Judge, Nil2 1

1 t Glass Bead Assistant Magis71 57

DistrictMagistrate of 71

1st Class Heed AssistantMag-is.

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STATEMENT N0 . VI .

PART I .

Sta tement showing the business of the Crimin a l Courts as Courts of App eal and Revision ,in the-District of Nilgiris, for the year 1883.

— (Con cluded )

IN CASES FOR REVISION .

Referred .

NAME OF THECOURT.

Additional Session s

District Magistrate of

lstGlassBead A ssist

antMagistra te

District Magistrate 0

N llgu‘is

of Nilgiris

Oo 'rscn wsn , (Signed) A . (i. CARDEW,

7thMarch 1334, For AdditionalSessions Judge.

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MA L A B A R DIS T R IC T .

STATEMENT N o . IV .

PART I

Sta temen t showing the number and genera l result of Inquiries a nd Tria ls of Cases in Courts ofCrimin a l Origin a l Jurisdiction , in the District ofMa la bar for the yea r 1883.

NUMBER OF CASES.

Fou q n at o n Tan a . Disrost n or.

NAME OF THE COURT.

DistrictMagistrateHead Asst . do .

Special do . do .Jow tMagistra te , Cochin

do . Wyua adDy. do . Southern Dim .

Dy. do Calicut (Treasury)A ssistan tMagistrateFirs t Class do . Vytheri

D o . do . Cochin

Bench of do . Calicut

Do . do SouthWyDo . do . Cochin

do . Gallan t

do . do .

zud Class do Calicut Town

DO . do .Vythen

Tahsildar do . E rn ad

Shen stadar do . do

2ud Class do . Tirura ngadyTahsildar do . Wulluwan ad

Sheristadar do . d o

2 ud Class do . Cherpulsherry

Tahsildar do Pa lgha t

Shen stadar do . do

zud Class do . Ala thur

Tahsildar do . Pon aui

Sheristadar do . (1

do Betutpudiangad

do Cha vakad

do . C ochin

do . Ta ngacherrydo . Aujengo

To tal

Tubalw’

oliv

STATEMENTP ART

Statement showing the number and genera l result of Inquiries and Tria ls of Cases in Cou rts of

NUMBER or

Fen Ingmar on Tan s.

NAME OF

do. Vytheri

do . Calicutdo . do .

do . Bet

DistrictMagistrateJoin t do.

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PAR T

Sta tement showing the number dud genera l result of Inquiries an d Tria ls of Ca ses in Courts 0

NAME OF THE COURT .

District MagistrateHead A sst. do .

Special do . doJomt Magistrate, Co chinD eputy do . WynandDy . do . Southern

Dy . do .

Assistan t Magistratelst Class do . VytheriDo . do.

Ben ch of do .

Do . do.

Do . do .

Tahsildar do

Sherlstadar do .

zud Class do .

D o . do .

Tahsildar do .

Sheristadardo2n d Class do .

Tahsilda r do .

Sheristadardo .

2nd Class do .

Tahsildar do .

Shen stadar do .

zud Class do .

Tahs'

ildar do .

Sheistadar do .

2n d Claas do .

no do .

Tahsildar do .

2n d Cla ss do .

D o. do .

District MagistrateJum t do .

Can tonmen t do .

Deputy do . Wyn an d

D o do .

TahsildarMagistrateShermtadar do . do .

2nd Class do . TalxparambaDo do . Ca n nan ore

Tahsildar do . Ko ttayamShen stadar do . d o

2116!C la ss do .

Tahsilda r d o “ n -n ‘ L J

a ss peugmsxe pus peuopn dm 'em

Ben ch ofMagistrates T ellicherry.

D ISCHARGED AFTER

EXAMINATION .

Cuben t

1 .

NorthWyn and

. ‘ l

Kn ttapuram bu:

[ imm oral e us, sauspuep p 3out 30 one so open: sun 33u

m

DISCHARGED WITHOUTEXAMINATION .

also mm m . o

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Crimin a lOrigin a l Jurisdiction , in the District of Ma la bar for the year 1883.

CASES IN WHICH THE ACCUSED HAVENOT APPEARED .

REMARKS.

elvin

P ART

Sta teme nt showing the business of the Crimina l Courts as Cour ts of

REVISION .

Fos Ta u n.

NAME OF THE COURT.

DistrictMagte . 5 Court , Calicut

Jom tMagte .

’s Court, Tellicherry

Dy Magte ’

s Court, Ma nantoddi

asvxso .

DistrictMagte.

’

s Court, Calicut

Jomt Magte-’s Court, Tellicherry .

Total

SOUTH MALABAR .

u rn s.

DistrictMagte.

’s Court, Calicut

Join tMagte ’

s Court, Cochin

Dy Magte ’s Court, Ponnani

Dy .Magte ’s Court ,Man antoddx

(Treasury) Dy. Magte.

’

s Court,Cahcut

nsvxslon .

DtMagte ’s Court

, Ca licut

Join tMagte .

’s Court, Cochin

Dy.Magte.

’s Court, Po nn ani

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STATEMENT No . VI .

PART 1.

Sta tement showing the business of the Crimina l Courts as Courts of Appea l and Revisio n ,in the District of Ma labar for the year 1883.

— (Con cluded )

NUMBER OF AP PELLANTS AND PERSONSCONCERN ED IN CASES FOR REV ISION .

D ISPoss!) or.

NAME OF THE COURT .

tions

rej

AP PEAL.

1,DistrictMagte.

'sCo nr

2 Jom t Magistra te’s Co urt,TellicherryD y Magte ’

s Court,Manantoddi

Total

ann exes .

D ist. Mugte ’

s Court,Join t Magistrate '

s Court,Tellicherry

2 12 10

SOUTHMALABAR.

arres t .

DistrictMagistrate’s Court,('

ulicutAHead sst . Magi

Court, Pa lgha t 12 53 53

Spl. Asst. Magte.

’s Court,Malapuram 33 44 8Joust Magistrate’s Court,

0Cochin

D Ma '

stra te'

s Court Ponfan,

8117 30 31

1 Dy . Magistra te’s Court,Msnan to ddi 1 1 1

12 Treasury Dy Magistra te’sCourt, Calicut

63 161 98

REVISION.0

8

13 DistrictMagistrate’s Court, on N th816“

salien t 12 31 Jowt Magistrate’s Court,I Cochin

Deputy Magistrate’s Court,Ponnani

Csu cvr,

Man n a Ma s ts-man '

s Cocs 'r, (Signed) B. M. D ’

CRUZ ,

23th February 1884. I District Magistra te

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S O U TH C A N A R A . DISTR ICT.

STATEMENT N o . IV .

PART I.

Sta temen t showing the number and genera l result of Inquiries and Tria ls of Cases in Courts ofC rim ina l Origin a l Jurisdiction , in the District of South Ca n ara , fo r the year 1883.

NUMBER OF CASES.

NAME O F THE COURT.

Un der Sec . 349, 1f

P . Code

U n d er 800 . 349 C. P Code.

HeadM utan tMagistrate.

3 U n d e r Sec . 349, C P. CodeAssistan t Magistrate.

U n d er Sec 349, C P Code2nd A ssistant Magistrate

U n der Sec . 349, C P . CodeGen era l D uty Dy. Magistrate

U n der Sec 349, C. P . CodePerso n al Asst.Magistra te.

Specia lMagistrate, lst Clu e

Mangalore Taluq zud ClassMagte .

Kasaragod Taluq do

UdipiTaluq do.

Uppinaugudy Taluq do .

Coon dapoor T aluq do .

Manga lore Town do .

Ben chMagistrate, 3rd ClassBan tval 2nd Class Magistra teNilesbwar

Beltangadi

Mangalore Sharia. 3rd ClassMagteKasaragod do . 2nd Class do .

Udipi do . std Class do .

Uppinangadi do . do .

Condupo or do do.

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PART

Sta tement showing the number and genera l result of Inquiries and Tria ls of Cases in Courts of,

NUMBER OF

Fox Inqumv on Turn .

NAME OF THE COURT .

Un der Sec . 849, I . P . Code.

District Magistrate.

Un der Sec . 849, C P Code.

Head Assistan t Magistrate.

Under Sec. 349, C. P . Code,

Under Sec . 349, C . P . Code.

2nd AssistantMagistrate

Under 800. 849, c P 0060 .

General Duty Dy.Magistrate.

Under Sec. 849, C. P . Code.

Person al A ssistant Magistrate.

SpecialMagistrate, 1st ClassMangalore Taluq, zud ClassMsgte.

Kasarsgod Taluq do .

UdipiTaluqUppinsngsdy Taluq do .

Coondapoor Taluq do .

Mangalore Town do .

BenchMagistrate, 3rd ClassBantvsl, zud ChasMagistrateNileshwar do.

Beltangadi do .

Mmgslore Sheris. 8rd Class

Ksseragod do . 2nd Class do .

Udipi do . ard Class do .

Uppinsngsdi do. do .

do. do .

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DISCHARGED WITHOUTEXAMINATION .

NAME OF THE COURT.

Diltn ct Magistrate.

9 8

Under 8900 349, 0. P0 Cd e

Bend AssistantMagistrate. 17 8

Un der Sec . 849, C . P Code

2 4

Under Sec

18 13

Under Sec. 849, C. P . CodePersonal Assistsn

'

tMagistrate.

15 1

SpecialMagistrate, 1st ClassMangalore Taluq, 2nd ClassKasai-aged

'I‘

sluq do .

Uppin sngndy Taluq do .

Coondapoor Taluq do .

Mangalore Town do .

BenchMagistrate, std ClassBantval, 2nd CluesMagistrateNileshwer do .

Beltnngsdi do .

Mangalore Sheris. 8rd Class Hegte.

Kasarngod do . zud Class do .

Udipi do. 3rd Class do.

Uppinangadi do . do .

Coondapoor do. do.

Boom CANARA D ISTRICT Miersrm rn’s Om en,

M an n er, 21» February 1884.

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C rimina lOrigin a l Jurisdiction , in the District of SouthCan ara , for the yea r 1883.—(Concluded )

CASES IN WHICH THE ACCUSED HAVEN OT APPEARED .

How Dis.

REMARKS.

1 12 (a .) Includes 47 cases referred to other Courts for

(b.) Includes 2 cases referred to other Courts fordisposa l.

(c.) Includes 11 cases referred to other Courts fordisposal.

(d .) Includes 11cases referred to o therCo urts for

a a a a a disma l

(e ) Tran sferred to o ther Courts for disposal.

(f ) Transferred to the Court of the Personal

A stt. Magistrate

(Signed) J. STURROCK,

DistrictMagistrate.9—42

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Statement showing the business of the Crimin a l Courts as Courts of

NUMBER OF APPEALS AND APPLICATIONS FORREVISION .

Fox Ten n.

NAME THE COURT .

41 41

DistrictMagistrate

13 18

Head Assistant Magistrate 38 33

Assistan tMagistrate

General Duty Dy.Magistrate 17 3 4,

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PART I .

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Sta tement showing the business of the Crimina l Courts as Courts of Appea l and Revision ,the District of South Canara , for the year 1883.

NAME OF THE COURT.

DistrictMagistrate

Head Assistant Magistrate .

AssistantMagistrate

General Duty Dy Magte

PersonalAssistant

36

26

NUMBER OF A PPELLANTS AND PERSONSCONCERNED IN CASES FOR REVISION .

Dmrossn or.

(a Transferred to the Court of the Personal AssistantMagistrate.

Boom CANABA Dis-rarerMaelsras '

rs’s

3Own er, Msxosw sx,

2186 February 1884.

(Signed)

16 97

25 119 No revisionwork .

19 29 No revisiwork.

23 48 N o revisionwork .

12 12 No re visio n

work

J. STURROCK,

District Magistrate.

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S ta temen t skewing the several modes in which the cases and the persons en tered in Columns

156 and 39 of Annual Statement No. IV of 1883 were disp osed of .

Mom: or nlsrou n. Mons or msrou n.

N AME OF COURT. REMARKS.

50m Ow n s Dis-rater Masts-tu rn Om en, (Signed) J. STURROCK,

Ma n son , safe February 1884. DistrictMagistra te.