TIGER SLAYER BY ORDER 



to the boldness and originality of his methods, for the 

 crimes he had committed were mostly robbing and offences 

 against women, and, so far as I remember, he had never 

 been accused or suspected of murder. 



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Inspector Hafizullah's plucky capture of this celebrated 

 criminal brings back to my mind a similar but much finer 



feat performed by that famous police officer. Sir F 



S r, when an Assistant-Superintendent of Police of the 



District of Nagar. The story of this notable achievement, 

 which has been the admiration of all his brother officers 

 for so many years, was told me by his son — then himself a 

 Deputy Inspector-General of Police stationed at Ahmedabad. 



He was proceeding on leave at the time, and I had been 

 appointed to relieve him. While engaged in taking over 

 charge of the office, I was interrupted by a visit from the 

 landlord of the bungalow, which I had also taken over. 

 He was a very courteous native gentleman, and in the course 

 of conversation informed me that the house had been 

 occupied by my father, who thirty years ago had com- 

 manded a brigade in Ahmedabad. 



I mentioned this later to S , and we then discovered 



that our respective fathers had been friends. It was then 

 that he told me of some interesting episodes in the life of 



Sir F S r, amongst them the following remarkable 



exploit which I have already referred to. 



It appears that soon after the Indian Mutiny the Bhils 

 in the Nagar and Khandesh districts started a rising of their 

 own, giving considerable trouble and anxiety to the autho- 

 rities by attacking and looting villages, etc., thus keeping 

 the police and the military very busy in their efforts to 

 quell these disturbances. 



Amongst the Naiks or leaders of these Bhils was one 

 called Babaji, who, having collected a gang of dangerous 

 bad characters round him, had become a terror to the 

 neighbourhood he frequented and evaded all attempts of 

 the police to capture him. However, after considerable 



trouble. Captain H , the Superintendent of Police in 



Nagar, managed to corner him by surrounding a hut in 

 which he and his men were concealed. But notwithstand- 

 ing his desperate position he refused to surrender when 

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