ceedings against these officers on the charge of corruption, as in the case of Inspector Mitchell, owing to the insuperable difficulty of tracing the intermediaries through whom the actual payments of hush money passed. It has accordingly been necessary to deal with them departmentally under the Police Ordinance, and in doing so it has been almost impossible to dissociate the strong circumstantial evidence of their guilt on the count of corruption from the responsibilities which devolved upon them by reason of the nature of their duties and their evident unfitness for such responsibilities.
3. Inspectors Stanton and Quincey and Sergeant Holt were the responsible officers