CO129-146 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [10-12] — Page 328

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With all deference to the Opinions which the Chief Justice is perfectly

on litted to hold upon this nexed m

-question,

I cannot admit the accu

of the facts which he

urg

curacy

us as the ground

for his opposition to the System;____

the increase

namely, the

of

Crime and the

corruption of the Police force. On the contrary, I maintain that since the Establishment of the licensed Gaming Houses, there has been a vast Devreuse of Crime, and that

no instance of r -Corruption in the Police Ferce has

come to my

have

any

knowledge, which can

sort of Connection with

Gaming Houses.

Six Richard Mac Donnell.

the

at one of the best Meetings of Legistative Council over which he presided: (30th March 1870, laid upon the Table the elaborate Police Return on Crime, published in the Gazelle of the 16th April 1570, a Copy of which is enclossed. According to that Return the decrease of Crime in 1869 word not

less than 13 per cent as

compared with 1368, and if this remarkable change

be

t due to the assistance rendered

by the Gaming House Licensees in the arrest of Criminals and in the

detection

- of departed Convicts who lawfully return to the Colony, it must be due to the improved moral and numerical status of the Police