It has been tried.

But, if so, then though ye are jackals, kites and vultures all in one with the skill of chemists added, ye can never extract secret knowledge from a dead man's brain.

Then that letter will reach Feisul tomorrow night; and the French, who speak of you now as of animals, will call you what?
Princes?
Noblemen ?' "I suppose they saw the point of that, sahib, for they changed their tone without, however, becoming friendly to Yussuf Dakmar.

Thieves of that sort know one another, and trust none, and it is all a lie, sahib, about there being any honor among them.

Fear is the only tie that binds thieves, and they proceeded to make Yussuf Dakmar afraid.
"There seems to be one among them, sahib, who is leader.