Sherwood Forest Crime Rate Rise

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31335, 4 April 1967, Page 13

Sherwood Forest Crime Rate Rise

(NZ. Press Assn.—Copyright) DETROIT, April 2. Things haven’t changed much in Nottingham, England, since the days of Robin Hood. The sheriff still can’t hit the bull’s-eye and poaching is on the rise in Sherwood Forest Mr Elliott Durham, the current Sheriff of Nottingham, was in Detroit last week to help promote the ninth annual international indoor open archery tournament

For the benefit of newsmen he decided to try the longbow on a target in a park near central Detroit Resplendent in his four-

teenth century blue robe, cocked hat and chain of office, the sheriff missed several shots before two of the arrows struck the target 25 yards distant Asked if the original sheriff of Nottingham might have done better, Mr Durham replied: “Well, I should think he was a lot better shot than I am.”

He described the original sheriff of Nottingham as a man “working for his King and earning his salary.” The crime rate in Nottingham today?

“There’s too much of it,” said Mr Durham. “Housebreaking is on the increase. So are crimes of violence. Poaching, too. If I want a pheasant now, I have to go to a pub and buy one from the poacher.” He described Robin Hood as “a resistance leader who did a good job in his own way.”