CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3] — Page 117

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and stand about in some

main thoroughfares

as a trader or

When they meet a stranger from

some foreign port, who has

arrived in the Colony, they

claim

to be men

of

the

same Village

or

the same clan and induce

or worse, drag him and ruthlessly rob him. For a lonely traveller who has returned from afar to meet such cruel treatment

as

this, is truly pitiable !

With regard to this evil it is

of

the greatest

moment that

orders should be

given

to the

police to carefully watch and

report all suspicious

characters.

8. Keepers of swindling dens, if they succeed in capturing

a big prize, divide the booty and then make off. The person who has been plundered knows that it is impossible to

recover what has been plundered from him and that

if

he

petitions the Government to order the police to make enquiries, it will also be impossible to effect an arrest.

Those who have not been...

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and stand about in some main thoroughfares as a trader or When they meet a stranger from some foreign port, who has arrived in the Colony, they claim to be men of the same Village or the same clan and induce or worse, drag him and ruthlessly rob him. For a lonely traveller who has returned from afar to meet such cruel treatment as this, is truly pitiable ! With regard to this evil it is of the greatest moment that orders should be given to the police to carefully watch and report all suspicious characters. 8. Keepers of swindling dens, if they succeed in capturing a big prize, divide the booty and then make off. The person who has been plundered knows that it is impossible to recover what has been plundered from him and that if he petitions the Government to order the police to make enquiries, it will also be impossible to effect an arrest. Those who have not been...
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and stand about in some

main therosakens

pu a trader or

When they stranger from

some foreign port, who has

arrived in the Colony, they

14-

claim

to be во

of

the

same Village

or

the same clan and induce

or worse d.

him by fair words into their gambling dew. or wor

drag him and ruthlessly rob him. For a lovely traveller who has returned from afar to meet such cruel treatment-

as

this, is truly pitiable !

to this evil it is

with regard

greatest

of the

atest moment that

orits d

orders should be

given

116

to the

police to carefully watch and

report all puspicion

ous characters.

8 . Keepers of swindling dens, if they proceed in capturing

a.

big price, divide the booty and then make off. The person who has been plundered/crnows that it is impossible to

recover what has been plunderid

him and that

if

he

from petitions the Government to order the police to make enquiries, it will also be impossible to effect on arrest.

Those who have not beew

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