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of tiventy members of the Police Force
(ureluding
were instituted,
some Inspection) with the sanction and aid of the
Government, for compiracy and extortion,
receiving
bribes
from
the illicit
Garnbling houses which then existed.
There
mmitted for Trial,
men were committed for And, at the Ciminal Sessions
mi
July
1861, and August 1861, the Attorney Comeral (the provent Chief Justice Mr Smale) filed about forty Informations based upon such Committal, and) appeared, with myself Junior Connel, to prosecute. The result i
As
was
that in only two mistances were
as in the ther
convictions obtained,
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the evidence of the Police
(M. Jarman and others) placed to watch the payment, failed to corroborate, with the necessary nicumitantiality, the evidence of the
who were
of
mun...
paying
The brites,
accomplices, and,
under direction of Chief Justice Adams,
the
Jury acquitted
the accused in three
instances, and the Attorney General then
entered.
The orter.
a
Nolle Prosequi in each of
cases.
The investigation however
led to the dismifal of the accused person (and otters) from the Police Porce. Mr then the Editor of the
Munaw was
"Enily Prof" and fully cognizant of all strere circumstances, most of which, if
not all,
were
fully reported in the local papers at the time, and if, with