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    • CENiTRAL CRIMINAL COtjRl* AND FASHION.
    • DE MORTUIS NIL NISI BONVMl
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      Police ! Police ! Such Is The Instinctiv...

      in a cell described by one of the witnesses as being " cold and damp , and in a filthy state , " at a little past nine o ' clock on Saturday night ; and though her husband and others of her family repeatedly applied for permission to remove the poor woman to a proper place , the Police refused to allow her removal . At seven , o ' clock on Sunday evening she died " from the effects of the shock , " and the divisional surgeon was called in to look at the dead body . No medical assistance was called in during those twenty-two hours which the poor half-drowned woman passed on a hard bench in a cold , damp cell . If this is not manslaughter , what is it ? It is a very good imitation of murder . " But it was only carelessness , it was not intentional . " Only carelessness ! A man walks into a powder magazine and flings lighted matches about . If the gunpowder explodes , is that only carelessness ? Yet it is not more certain that a lighted match will cause powder to explode , than that such brutal neglect would kill a woman in the condition of the deceased . Had the unfortunate Mrs . Saunders cdmrftitted any crime , there might have been some reason fdr Such harsh treatment . But at the worst , she was only suspected of suicide ; suspected by a Policeman , it is true , and we know they are wonderful phenomena of penetration , almost clairvoyants ; suspicion with them amounts tb certainty . But grant that she did intend to commit suicide , the Police seem to have determined that the intention should be carried out . They neljied the wdtrlati to complete the crime frbrn which , they professed to save Her . Is - it conceivable that in SUcli a cake tile cehsurS of a jury should be all the punishment that falls updn thb guilty persons ? To a

      civil action they are exposed , but from a criminal one they are pretty nearly safe . Yet if they had been cabhieh caught in the act of driving a lame or sick li'drse there would have Been no difficulty about punishing them . Oh , glorious did England ! what a delightful country ydu are for the poor and tfie wretched to inhabit ! Everybody is equal in the eye of the Law ; in the eye , not the eyes , for irom the other half-closed eye the Law leers at the gold which it hopes to clutch . If that is wanting , the poor suitor had better wait for justice till the day when that great Tribunal shall sit , where no fees are taken , and where no special pleading will be heard . It will be a long time , of course , before Such a case occurs again ; or rather , before we hear of such a case ; There are iio statistics of the persons whom the irresponsible brutality of the Police drives to death every year . There are plenty of details as to the number of criminals whom they succeed in catching . is Vi a gila public nt , humane prosecutor , even to intelligent take up , such some cases may be as ; but those until of tHere Mrs . Saunders , no individual merit will blind the eyes of the people to the vicious defects of the Fbrce . Protect the Police fey all means in the execution of their duty ; arm them , ydu like ; teach them common sense—common humanity , if you can ; but do not try and make them absolute judges of the treatment proper for half-drowned persons . Their intellects will not bear such a heavy demand . In all such cases , instant medical aid should be called in , and at the nearest hospital , not at the Police-station , till these places are veiy differeiitly constructed to what they are now . A Police-station is hot a place for the confinement of criminals , but only of suspected persons , and the cells should not be infinitely more loathsome than the condemned cell in which the guilty murderer passes his last hours .

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      12 THJS TOM AHA WK . ^ [ 5 ^*^ 9 , 1869 .

      Joite For The New Year. — Why Was Mahome...

      JoitE for the New Year . — Why was Mahomet . like , a { man coffiii in ) had church to be with suspended a bad cold ! 1—Why—because his coughing

      Cenitral Criminal Cotjrl* And Fashion.

      CENiTRAL CRIMINAL COtjRl * AND FASHION .

      Menced Our Contemporary A Leader With , ...

      menced Our contemporary a leader with , an The ann Echo ouncemen , the t oth to er the evening effect com that - Eng Sir land Eardley with Gideo a view n Culling to spending Eardley the , worst Bart ., portion had just of the left winter months in the island of Madeira . It further expressed the some public surprise with , as a p well iece it of might information , at being of the a position kind , inasmuch furnish as the worthy baronet in question , having / been found guilty on labour a charge in January bigamy last , and , ought sentenced at this to present eighteen moment months' to hard be taking an occasional his meals turn in at the En treadmill glish gaol . and The alternating moral it deduced them from with these facts was of co ; urse the obvious one . England has one to law well for -b the orn ri ruffians ch , another . Health for the was poor the , plea and op put forward prison in doors debeen fence despatched of this indul to gence the admirable , but as Smith establishment or Sykes at Wo would king have and not suffered to take a continental tour , the plea falls to the to ground be investi . The gated case . then Possi is bl one y , thos of back e in -stair authority influence will and meet oug the ht charge by an indignant statement that a like remission of sentence what cdurt should Were circular would do the this have suggests station such been a an entertained it & humorous sejf antecedents that we in combih cannot a of sirr tfc ; * 2 ti refrain lar ^ culprit n case of from , , crime no ft matter trying fcney and a little in print . How would this look fdr instance ? sentence The Hon for . fraudulent Bewdly Flashover bankruptcy ) , wi p re ll s ent s the ergoing winter his at "Nlirpk

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      De Mortuis Nil Nisi Bonvml

      DE MORTUIS NIL NISI BONVMl

      Rag We And Believe Bone That Shop A , Ce...

      Rag We and believe Bone that Shop a , certain to the shutters seaside of clergyman which he has frais affixed opened the , a following placard :- — Notice to the Bereaved ! The Original Bones i ! Best price given for old Grand Mothers ; Full price offered for all sorts of Nieces ; Ancestors removted at a moment ' s notice . An allowance made for New Cornhs ; Vivat ffig $ h & . M Money reifrrftM

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    • Tomahawk (1867-1870), Jan. 9, 1869, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_09011869/page/4/