JB/149/162/001

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The worst that can be said against anonymous
information is, that with a view to the
public in respect of the interest it has in the
prevention of the crime or offence and the punishment of the
offender, it is not upon the whole generally speaking altogether upon a
par in point of utility equally serviceable with information from a person
known, because it is more liable to
not so certain of being adequate to the object
of it, viz: the prevention of the offence, or the bringing the offender to punishment.
If the man were known and forthcoming, you
might get out from him every thing he knew:
while he remains unknown you must be content
with what he gives you. But this whatever it
is, it may be just so much more than you could have
got at all, had it not been for the expedient faculty
which the informant reserved to himself of
concealing himself: and if what it amounts to
is happens to prove sufficient to lead to the discovery of other evidence,
affording a sufficient ground for conviction,
it is has then all the good effects that
information from a known Informant could have
had. To the public therefore it information without a name from a person unknown is not quite
so good desirable as information with a name from a
person known: because in the latter case conviction
may be obtained without further evidence or research
which in the other case can not be. But to the with a
view to the person informed against, it is either more favourable
to his interests than information from a person
known, or at any rate not less so. If he is
innocent it is not the worse for him for being anonymous,
for it is only by upon evidence from given by a known
person witness

Identifier: | JB/149/162/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 149.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	149	Main Headings	police bill
Folio number	162	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d6
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	g&ep 1794
Marginals		Paper Producer	fr3
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1794
Notes public		ID Number	50016
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