BOLDNESS OF CRIME IN NEW YORK.
At the opening of the September term of General Sessions at New Judge Bedford delivered a stirring charge to the grand jury. He said, " I learn that a large number of persons are awaiting your action, many of whom are charged with criminal use of knife and pistol. There seems to be, as it were, murder in the very atmosphere we breathe. There is in
tliia city a large class of men who have no respect for the laws of God or man ; they violate both, because in their waywardness they believe they can do so with impunity. The time has unquestionably arrived when the authorities, in order to preserve the future welfare of society, are called upon to mete out to these men the utmost rigor of the law. Tou owe it to the people, to whom you now stand in the sacred relation of guardians, to see that the law be enforced at all hazards, and that this wanton use of the knife and pistol be emphatically checked by your prompt and righteous action."
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Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 764, 17 January 1871, Page 3
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182BOLDNESS OF CRIME IN NEW YORK. Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 764, 17 January 1871, Page 3
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