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valued at !i: 5,3CC/- from a wealthy neighbour.
The ornaments disappeared, The bridegroom
alleged that they had beer, stolen, It was
found, after investigation, that he himself
had stolen them and hidden them m a drain m

a house in Kuharraq. The locality of the
stolen property was suggested by a profes­
sional diviner who appeared himself to be

entirely innocent, In two other cases similar
robberies were reported and it was found that
the family had stolen the £oods.
14. A case ccurred in hedd in which a

young Arab returned from the diving banks,
celled his sister into a room and strangled
her, leaving her, as he thought, dead, The
girl recovered and escaped, 'Then the brother

was arrested he stated to the police, and
afterwards to the Court, that he had meant
to ;d 11 tne girl and thought that he had done
so as an acquaintance told him that she had
brought disgrace on bis family during his

absence, Ee was sentenced to five years
hard labour.
15. Numerous convictions were obtained

in cases of contravention of ^aws forbidding
liquor and opium. The manufacture of arak
continues and its prevention bec’onp.-* more and
more difficult as many of the younger members

of the Ruling Tamily are addicted to it. The
illicit importation of opium e-^ears also to be
increasing but so far the opium habit has not