ABSTRACT
Townshend testifies that police-officers hate turned the scale against the prisoner for the sake of the Blood-Money. Townshend's evidence is decisive, as to the, necessity of rendering the officers independent of Blood-Money, and putting them beyond the reach of temptation. It is given in a strain of natural simplicity, interspersed with facts which render it very valuable. If Blood-Money were at an end, and officers were duly and liberally rewarded, according to the skill and diligence they exercised in an affair, whether successful in detecting the offender or not, their usefulness and activity would be increased, and they would cease to be suspected by juries. The blood-men being unexecuted, and as Blood-Money is still to be had, it is not wonderful that blood plots should increase. The temptation remains, and the circumstances show that habit and inclination and temptation united, are too strong to be resisted.
