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Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 219, 14 April 1868, Page 3

"Police Court Reporting. A Jew very properly complains, in a letter to one Of the daily papers, of a practice by the reporters of police and criminal courts, of stating when there is anything disreputable in the charge of evidence, that the prisoner or witness, as the case may be, was " of ' the Jewish persuasion "or" an Israelite." It is justly said, that as'it is not stated of others who appear in these courts that they are Baptists, or Churchmen, or Roman Catholics, and so forth, consequently this notification of the faith of one sect only gives to that sect the appearance of being more prone than others to the offences dealt with by these courts. Now the fact is, that the Jews produce fewer criminals in proportion to'their number than any other -religious community, and they are remarkably free from the off-1 ences that come under the cognizance of the police courts. If the professed creed of every other defendant or discreditable witness weae to be reported in like manner, this would be apparent to all. TheJ injustice of the practice, to which we allude is so manifest 1 that we trust the reporters will at once abandon it; that Our contemporaries will prohibit'its publicationin their columns if the report be so sent in, and that they will dismiss any reporter who may persist in the practice. —"Law Times."