May 41.
Those who study the monthly police reports appearing in the Municipal must be struck fi increasing number of prisoners hanging on from week to week on remand; secondly by the accumu.
n of prisoners of all classes."
he gaols and- police station: cells. Thus through the report for April, and taking the sections devoted to. murder and? attempted murder, kidnapping, armed robbery and writing. threatening letters, there were, if we ure not mistaken, 240 accused persons still on remand ut the beginning of the present month. Of these no fewer than 142 were persona originally brought up for trial in Maech! and still. awaiting sentence,
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