... had been abolished the crime of murder had not increased. He also pointed out that the abolition of the capital sentence for crimes other than murder in this country had not only not been followed by an increase of these crimes, but they had actually ...

... there is reason to hope that the hideous crime will be tracked back to the criminal. Little has been heard of late of the agitation for the abolition of capital punishments. At that we are not surprised. Such crimes this of the murder and mutilation of the ...

... the increase which is taking place, or is supposed to be taking place, in the number of crimes and offences tried by the Police Magistrates, and arising, as such crimes and offences generally do arise, out of the excessive consumption of strong drinks. We ...

... has ordered some 400 photographs to be distributed among the police authorities in various parts of the country. atrocious crime was committed on Saturday in Lambeth, London, by an American, medical student. Shortly after three o'clock in the morning, ...

... Gambetta, however, does not affect to discredit the rumours, but states that such a disaster can only be the result of crime, the authors of which should be put out of the pale of the law. Mr Pakker, M.P.. addressed his constituents at Blairgowrie ...

... addresses, containing valuable suggestions, have been given by the presidents of sections such topics as the repression of crime, on sanitary reform, and education, and many papers on these subjects have been read. Nor must we omit notice of the thoughtful ...

... the people when he said that there was less ordinary crime in the country than in England. This has long been known, and it is most satisfactory to be told that agrarian outrages and political crimes have greatly decreased. There is nothing in the state ...

... and other intelligence is necessarily held over. Courier WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1873, It is happily seldom that the records of crime Dundee contain a case grave as that which occupied the attention of the Circuit Court of Justiciary during the greater part ...

... New York says Bid well has been arrested at Havana, and that he will be sent back to England should proof be given of the crime of which he is accused. Respecting this telegram the Echo of Saturday evening says:— If they have captured the right man, ...

... this is least putting evidence against evidence, though in a court of justice the evidence of neither the perpetrators of a crime, nor their employers, would be considered of much value. And as for the four correspondents at the seat of war who bear testimony ...

... Amendment Bill came last night in the House of Commons. Mr Hinde Palmer, in moving the second reading, wished to know what crime there was in matrimony that it should be visited with the same punishment high treason. He thought it was a most indefensible ...

... Pjeace in Tipperary.—The returns to Government for the week ending the 18th April instant show not single case of outrage or crime in the entire police district of and surrounding neighbourhood— including, does, no fewer than eight rural divisions, besides ...