This is Case Closed, Crime Stories from the Golden Age of Radio.

Good evening. This is Crime Classics. I am Thomas Highland, with another true story of crime.

Listen. That was a beaten iron bailing hook.

A native of India named Kanak just plunged it into a bale of cotton. It was his favorite tool.

He used it to plunge into logs when he needed logs. He used it to tear up the hard sun-packed earth when he wanted to plant.

And mighty hunter that he was, he used it to plunge into charging wild boars

whenever he wanted to show the fellas how it was done.

And when Connock went to kill his brother Supan,

oh, this beaten iron baling hook was a veritable handy home workshop.

So tonight, my report to you on how Supan got the hook outside Bombay.

Crime Classics.

A series of true crime stories from the records and newspapers of every land, from every time.

Your host each week, Mr. Thomas Highland,

connoisseur of crime, student of violence,

and teller of murders.

Now, once again, Mr. Thomas Highland. Music I would like to address a few pertinent remarks to those of you who may never have been in South Konkan province, India.

It lies athwart the western Ghats and the Arabian Sea.

In 1856, the time that concerns us, the province claimed many more vultures than it does now.

It was a place of contrasts, of beggars and marble temples, of havaldars and Pachasabs,

of monsoon and searing sun, barren fields, jackals, pomegranates, cobra, Englishmen,

Fakhirs, and veiled maidens, and life and death.

Now there lived in this section of the country two brothers, whose names were Kanak and Supan.

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