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Report of the Visiting Justices to the Prison Epiphany Sessions 1872. Harry Thornton, Joseph Tucker, R H Lindsell, Hugh Smyth, Lionel Ames, Charles Pole Stuart, W B Higgins. Includes the following:

26 December 1871

From: 1871 To: 1872

The number of prisoners in confinement during the period has been small in comparison with the numbers in the corresponding quarter in 1870 and 1869, the decrease is not in one class of offenders alone but the Visiting Justices may direct attention to the fact that the commitments for offences against the Game Laws have been very few.

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Thornton, Harry,
Tucker, Joseph,
Lindsell, R H,
Smyth, Hugh,
Ames, Lionel,
Stuart, Charles Pole,
Higgins, W B

BEDFORD, gaol, general justices of the peace, prison governors, Bedford Borough police, Bedfordshire police, Quarter Sessions, imprisonment, Bedford Gaol, County Gaol, House of Correction, crime, punishment, poaching, Game Laws