SINLESS EDEN
TRIBUTE TO BRITISH POLICE.
. NEW;. YORK, July 08. ■‘War' and'’ the depression, British authorities saly, are responsible for an increase in British crime,, which gave 1930 a reoord of 12,450 more cases' than 1929,” ibbsefves the “New York ening Post.”.-
we have comeltp’know in.this country, EngiamLappears almost an Eden without, siinj ‘ 'j .. “In its record of murders we may find one explanation of why Great Britain is so. much better off than the Dm ted States. .. '
“In 1930 there.were 75 cases of murder. Arrests were/ mad© in al,j but eight of the, 7.5 cases of murder, and of those arrested oh, the murder charge only nine Were acquitted or discharged. L “This constitutes *a .record of efficiency in this department of crime which may . well discourage all would*be murderers, and- renders the gangster type of murder welhnigh impossible.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 July 1932, Page 8
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