The Dead Finger and the Living Ulan.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 280, 11 July 1888, Page 3

The Dead Finger and the Living Ulan.

A telegram from Delhi in the "Times" announces the conviction of Ganga Sahai, a famous dacoit. He was found hiding in the jungle on the Meerut eicle of the Jumna, and was captured after a desperate resistance. He was the leader of a powerful and daring band of highway robbers and burglars which for the paat three years has been the terror of the country round. The robbers move about with astonishing rapidity, and after a successful burglary or dacoity they escape witn their booty across the Jumna. Ganga Sahai has been sentenced to twelve years' rigorous imprisonment on three separate charges — namely, of burglary in 1885^ followed by an assault on a p 'liceman in the execution of his duty, and a theft in August last from the house of a member of the ex-Royal family of Delhi. Ganga owes his conviction almost entirely to the affair with the policeman. He and some of his party had made an aperture in the roof of the house of the wealthy Maharajah, through which they intended to descend and commit a burglary. Being surprised, the eang scabteied in every direction. Ganga Sahai was, however, arrested in his flight by a policeman, who drew his sword. The former vanquished the policeman, but not before he himself had lost a finger, looped off with the sword. Ganga Sahai got away, but the finger was picked up and carefully preserved in spirits! of wine. At his trial this finger was produced as evidence