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Excerpt from Report of the Royal North-West Mounted Police, 1905 There were 302 convictions more than last year; an increase of less than 9 per cent, which is satisfactory, considering that the population increased at least 25 per cent. The number of charges of murder seems large, and needs explanation. One case occurred in 1904 and was only concluded this year; in another case three persons were charged with the same murder, two were acquitted; and one was tried, but the jury disagreed, and a re-trial was ordered; in two other cases death was shown to be due to natural causes, and the charges were not brought; in another case the accused was acquitted and in two other cases the accused are awaiting trial. There were actually three cases of murder during the year; the accused in all cases are foreigners. Four out of seven cases of manslaughter were charges brought against railway employees for negligence. Of the remaining three cases, two arose through fights, where death was inadvertently caused; and one, that of an Indian who struck his squaw, causing death, and the jury found there was no intention of killing her. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.