CLASSIFICATION OF OFFENCES.
TOTAL NUMBER
OF CASES.
TOTAL NUMBER OF
PRISONERS.
Convicted and
Punished.
Discharged.
Committed for Trial
at the Supreme Court,
Committed to Prison or Detained pending Orders of H.E. the Governor.
To keep the
Peace.
Table I.
ABSTRACT of CASES under COGNIZANCE of the POLICE MAGISTRATES' COURTS during the Year 1907.
CASES, HOW DISPOSED OF, AND THE NUMBER OF MALE AND FEMALE PRISONERS UNDER EACH HEAD.
Ordered to find Security.
*
WRITS ISSUED BY THE POLICE MAGISTRATES DURING THE YEAR 1907.
Warrants.
To be of Good Behaviour.
To answer
any Charge.
Witnesses punished for preferring False Charge or giving wilful False Testimony
Undecided.
Total Number of
I'risoners.
Summons for Defendants.
Summons for Witnesses.
Notices of Re-hearing.
M.
F.
M
F.
Assaults and other Offences againstĮ the Person...
998
1,437 533 26 501
32: 37
2
Malicious Injuries to Property,
115
150
Gambling,
317 2,502
82 1
2,427 34
45 B
38 1
M. | F. M. 1. M. ¦ F. M. A P.
221
223
28 25 + 1
17 I
J.
M.
P.
M.
F.
M.
F.
:41
Offences against Property other than Malicious Injuries to Prop- erty or Prædial Larceny,
1,416
1,672
1,153 17 427
12 35
2
1
3 2 12
:
145
2,467
1,688
26
1,314
93 2,197 il
35
213 9
:
69
Offences against Revenue
Acts.
Highway Acts, Health Acts, and other Acts relating to the Social Economy of the Colony, . Offences against Masters and Ser- vants Acts, including Acts relat- ing to Indentured Coolies, Other Offences,
2,533
3,676
3,166 | 119
383
:
E
10
1
39
3,549
127
47
109
26 1
76
1
2
105
£
:
7,088 10.170) 8,146 534 1,148102 33
47
53 21 47 10 7 1.
4
1
19
I 9,499
671
Total,
13,414 19,716| 15,533|732|2,563|160 195 3
47
291 51 88 17 21 9
4
I
87
1 18,742
974 2,197 41
213
19,716)
TOTAL MALES AND FEMALES,
* Consisting of Offenders not sentenced to Imprisonment,
Arrest.
Distress.
Search.
For entering Gambling Houses.
Magistrates' Orders.
TOTAL.
3,5341 341
36
6,371
9 3,534 341 36
6,371
į.
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