27 NOVEMBER 1909, Page 14

THE INDIAN POLICE AND THE DRAMA OF CONFESSION.

[To sits EDITOR or TIED "SPECTATOR."]

Srn,—Having had some experience as a District Magistrate in India for twelve years, I should like to say that the only way I could ever devise for circumventing the police in their inveterate habit of bolstering up "cases by false evidence of all kinds was by constant and careful examination of the notebooks kept by constables, so as to make sure that notes were made at the time of the occurrence described, and not written up at a later hour and made to fit the theory of the crime which had by that time been concocted by the constable in charge of the case.—I am, Sir, dr.c., j. P.