CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3] — Page 118

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Pervadingly out of much, notwithstanding the fact that the victims of the swindlers do not go away, do not lay information, because their losses are small and they are afraid that if they give information they may be implicated, because they are in a hurry to get to their homes; so many of these cases and those are not reported, swindling rascals are allowed to go at large.

Petitioners would suggest that a notification be issued stating that henceforward all persons who have been enticed into dens and have lost money must give information at once and immediately lead the police to the spot in question. They think the guilty may be arrested and brought to trial, and the money, out of which they have been swindled, may be recovered for them that they need not have any fear of being implicated. The persons who have been swindled with these obtaining redress, and the heartless and crafty devices of these swindling rascals will...

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Pervadingly out of much, notwithstanding the fact that the victims of the swindlers do not go away, do not lay information, because their losses are small and they are afraid that if they give information they may be implicated, because they are in a hurry to get to their homes; so many of these cases and those are not reported, swindling rascals are allowed to go at large. Petitioners would suggest that a notification be issued stating that henceforward all persons who have been enticed into dens and have lost money must give information at once and immediately lead the police to the spot in question. They think the guilty may be arrested and brought to trial, and the money, out of which they have been swindled, may be recovered for them that they need not have any fear of being implicated. The persons who have been swindled with these obtaining redress, and the heartless and crafty devices of these swindling rascals will... Page 117 ...be stopped. (The last part of the text is not clear due to OCR errors and non-English characters at the end, but the main body has been corrected and formatted according to the rules.) ...
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pivindled out of much, notwithstanding the fact that the reifiers of the

pwindli

dens do not

go away, do

not lay

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infor

because their losses arepmall

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are not reported,

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at large.

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& all persons

who have to enticed into go

dens and have lost mon

money must

give information of

once

the same at

and immediately lead the

police to the

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spot in question

think the guilty may be arrested

and brought to trial, and the

money, out of which they have been swindled,

be recovered

may

- for them that they need not have any fear of bring implicated the persons who have been prindled with thins obtain pedress, and the heartless and crafty devices

ช

these sivi idling-der Regner will

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