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the increase in come expes of offenses
tann amy
the cause.
As to the ungrounded statement made at the Public
Meeting
in souve
on the 7th of October 1978, and
newspapers respecting the
alleged avolition of corporal punishment, the Committee dispose of it by rublishing a Peturn of all Criminals "swho were sentenced to be flogged from the date of my arrival, 22? Arril, 1877 to the 22nd of July 1878, with the following note:.
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Of the twenty-five prisoners
sentenced to be flogged by the Police Magistrate, the Governor allowed the
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floggings in twenty-four.
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case in which he interfered
that of op Ayow, a little boy so is
stole a clock at the Reformatory
was told he would be flogged it
who
and
he
did not confels the theft, whereupon
he confessed the theft and was sentenced to be flogged. The Governo
declined to allow tint part of sentence to be carried out.
the
Of the five prisonces sentenced be publicly flogged with the cat on the back by Sir John Smale, the "Governor allowed the first two to be
so flogged but on discovering the extent of the physical injury
thak
to