CAPTURE OF A NOTED ROBBER.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1756, 28 June 1888, Page 4

CAPTURE OF A NOTED ROBBER.

A telegram from Delhi in the Times announces the conviction of Ganga Sahai, a famous daepit., He was found hiding in the jungle on the Meerut side of the Jumna, and was captured after a desperate resistance. He was the leader of a powerful and daring band of high way.robbers and burglars which lor the past 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 with their booty across the Jumna. Ganga I Sahai has been: sentenced to twelve years’ rigorous imprisonment on three separate charges—namely, of burglary in 1885, followed by an, assault on a policeman in the execution of bis 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 a wealthy Maharaja!), through which they intended to descend and commit a burglary. Being surprised, the gaug scattered 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 bad lost a finger lopped off with the sword. Ganga Sahai got away, but the finger was picked up, aud carefully preserved in spirits of wine. At his trial, this finger was produced as evidence.