A Gaoler's "Racket."

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 80, 13 December 1884, Page 5

A Gaoler's "Racket."

The following Btrange story is related by the Dhubri correspondent of a Calcutta paper : The Bengaligaoler at Gauhati seems to nave given offence to a Marwaree in the station in connection with some pecuniary transactions. The Marwaree smelt out somehow that the gaoler was making a fortune out of the prisoners, and gave information to the European superintendant of the gaol that things were not as they should be. He was asked to sign a charge, and really did so, and, on a search warrant being obtained, the native gaoler's quarters were found to be a veritable depot for all th c stolen goods in the station for many months past. But the remainder of the story did not end here, and, though it may be termed a romance, the facts are worthy of more than newspaper record. It transpired that the Bengali gaoler had to look to the safety of two old offenders, who were then undergoing long sentences of imprisonment in the gaol. He would let them out after dark, to commit burglaries and thefts, and let them in again before day light, pocketingthe proceeds of all their doings • :\.i ing the night, and laying up the store which was afterwards so rudely broken into. — " London Eh™ »