in these Cover
Cannal foil &
Ecater
& which
strike the
is that Vs. H. Blake's
ideas of what constitutes necessary severity go quite
beyond
and those of those of Coffin’s
as for
Mr May
Ly
fall short
of them
too
Sir Henry's methods appear, & to me, if I may say so, drastic for the Circumstances
ous. I feel strongly for instance that Brimble, as he behaved, might
have been
given
a Chance
& retrieve his character in
blameless
service, and his May evidently
news of
3
year
thought
the same
I will
with the
usual level & the
severity of punishment In my letter (the date of which I forget) in reply
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Paragraphs
Your No. 16993 of 18 May indicated that we
May
in opinion the power of punishing Rangers might & should be used
more than it had become the recent practice and I described it if I remember rightly as
our best trump card. In a
our head a subsequent interview with Mr Lucas
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amplified this view
& Explained
Henry Blake's reluctance
that
displayed in banishing
suspicious characters unless they had been convicted, or
Convicts
we could prove some
&
offence against them, to the detriment in listing the Colony, under
his
regime, of unconvicted persons practically known
& by
the
police as thieves & rogues, but against whom no exact sentence is procurable, I attributed the heavy increase
in larceny & other offences.
Characterising
which has characterised the
past 4 or 5 years.
I
do venture
to criticize
the propriety of Sir Henry's
attitude,
which
I
was
powerless
to shake, but my point
was
that it was
a new & great departure from precedent, and of
unfortunate results there
were
in my mind no shadow of doubt. Before Sir Henry's
the Police had practically
no difficulty in procuring the punishment
of any
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