Issue Date: June 1990

He was in a hurry and had a large parcel in his possession. Without hesitation, Bag seized him by the arm and stopped him. The man drew a knife, but Bag quickly took it from him. The man tried to escape, but Bag held him in the grip of his powerful hands. All the while, the struggle had been fought in silence, for the man did not want to arouse public attention.

Bag turned his prisoner around and marched him back through the gate into the city and to the head office of the police. The chief of police was there surrounded by his officers when Bag came in with his captive. When they saw the man, all the officers exclaimed as one man: “Kim Keyhole!”

It transpired that this was the name of the man Bag had caught. The criminal was well known to the police not only as a thief and ruthless murderer but also as someone with the uncanny capacity to escape and disappear even from locked rooms. Hence, his full nickname was Kim Keyhole Creeper.

Bag deposited the knife and the parcel on the police chief’s desk. The parcel contained money, golden art objects, and precious stones, the man’s last catch. Kim Keyhole was safely locked up in a police cell, and Bag received the reward for finding the most wanted man on the police list of suspects. Soon the entire city had heard of this spectacular arrest, and Bag became famous overnight.

On the road outside the city gate, the noble Bag and the despicable murderer struggle in silence until Bag supressess his prisoner.

But in every town there is more than one criminal. The following night the lovely dead lady came back to Bag’s bedside and told him how to make his next arrest. This time, he would have to catch two young men at the same moment. Again, everything happened exactly as the ghost had predicted. Two young men were running along the road where Bag, standing where the lady had indicated, was waiting for them. He caught them both, and when one escaped he threw the other at him, so they both fell and were badly hurt on the stones. They did not try to escape again, and when Bag marched them into the police department, the astonished officers cried out, “The Torture Twins!”

Apparently, the two young men used to go break into isolated houses, where they beat old people to death and robbed them of their goods.


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