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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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