The Archive · 1902

Under Suspicion

Three men were. charged with being common loafers, without any means of 1 subsistence, and' therefore a source of danxer to the peace and good order of the Settlement.

Inspector Aiers said that the men were known to the Police and were suspected of belonging to the same gang as the three men concerned in the stabbing case above reported.

Tu reply to the Assessor, the Inspector said that deportation would be a suitable Bevagain arrested if they returned to the punishment, as in that case the men might Settlement. He thought that "a good bambooing would not hurt them."

One of the prisoners was sentenced to deportation and the others ordered to be expelled from the Settlement.

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