CO129-152 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [9-10] — Page 261

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on the

subject

"If these Booths are not properly " Hept, II" consider it must affect the " repert of the efficiency of a Force, for "no greater breach of discipline " can be named than Keeping fabe

Freturns"

109.

I find the existing syetem of recording crime to be of the most defective nature, so much so as to render it

in

my

mind

extremely doubtful whether much

reliance can consiste

consistently be placed on the deductions made from:

Returns furnished

Returns of crime for 1869

110.

make mention of five

cases of murder

260

are

Ay

only, for which five persons entered as convicted and two dixharged, Unless, as has been suggested, the four persons convicted of the Showtewan murder and sirbsequently declared to be innocent are still reatored as

guilty the discrepancy

between the figures

and the rejat cannot be reconciled. 111.

the

only

case in which

a conviction can

is that in

justly

be claimed.

which one man

was

sentenced to death for a murder

committed at sea on Board the

British Barque Nile" off Romeo.

The Pokpolum Murder:

112:

is not

no

even entered, and reference whatever is made of the cases in

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