The following excerpt from the Dublin "Freeman" is indies tive of the slmust crimeless state of Ireland during the period the Government thought it necessary, for the detection and prevention of crime" to proclaim the capital and thirteen counties and suspend the Habeas Corpus Act and trial by jury. Indeed it was hardly exaggeration to say that "white gloves were falling like snowflakes all over the country," and half the prisons were empty and clo:
"White gloves were presented t" his Honour Judge Kisby at the opening of the Drogheda Quarter Sessions on Thursday. It was the eighth time in succession he was made the recipient ut these emblems of a crimeless country, and having congratulated everybody on the extraordinary fact that for two years there had not been single crime for trial at Quarter Sessions, his Honour sympathised with the jurors who had no work to do. It was another County Court Judge who complained some time ago that owing to the same cause his knowledge of criminal Iw was growing rusty. But in London and the English provinces the judyes are not threatened by this state of darkness. In a London news-aper isa list of nine murders committed in London and the English provinces in the last week of September,"
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.