NEW CRIMINAL COURT.
Received February 28, 9.7 a.m. LONDON, February 27. To-day King Edward and Queen Alexandra officially opened the new Central Criminal Court, on the site of the old one in Old Bailey and Newgate Streets. The streets were crowded with spectators, and much enthusiasm was displayed. Received Last Night, 9.25 o'clock. LONDON, February 28. King Edward, in opening the New Bailey, remarked that the old buildings were of great historical interest, for they had witnessed during the past century a charge of administration in criminal justice far greater than had occurred in any preceding century. The barbarous penal codes deemed necessary a hundred years ago had been gradually replaced in the progress towards higher civilisation by laws breathing a more human spirit and aiming at a nobler purpose. It was well that crime should be punished, but it was batter that the criminal should be reformed. (Applause). The mercy shown to first offenders often re-shaped their lives, but still more remains to be accomplished in the reclaiming of those who had fal'en into crime.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8370, 1 March 1907, Page 5
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176NEW CRIMINAL COURT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8370, 1 March 1907, Page 5
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