From The Wiltshire Times, Saturday 12th July 1862:
Decrease Of Crime In Wiltshire.
It is a striking fact and worthy of observation, as showing the vast improvement which has taken place in this county in the moral and social conduct of the people, that whereas in the summer of 1854 no less than 72 prisoners were taken from the Devizes prison to the Sessions at Warminster, there were last week only nine prisoners taken from the same gaol to the same Sessions; and those for offences of a comparatively trivial nature.