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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 26TH NOVEMBER, 1879.
SUPREME COURT,
24th November, 1879.
Summary of cases tried at the Supreme Court
during the Criminal Sessions which commenced
on the 18th day of October, 1879.
門按
毛署
毛現將
Tang A-lam of San-on, baker, aged thirty-two years, pleaded guilty to breaking and entering the Dwelling House of Kwok A-yow, at Yau-ma-ti, and stealing therefrom $32 and certain pieces of clothing. This prisoner admitted that he had been three times previously convicted, he was therefore sentenced to seven years' penal servi-
tude.
署剛經歴司
斷案情選錄
起案期內所
十月十八日
百七十九年
門自一千八
按察使司衙
年奴工
數件並認前經定 罪三次故現定七
銀三十二圓衣服
入郭亞有屋內
供認在油蔴地攻
飽匠也三十二歲
鄧亞林新安人類
羣帶路者現定該
乃由石排灣路往
服數件蓋王有興
傷王有興搶他衣
奉押之人二名毆
定有罪因與現未
匠也三十三歲被
林亞華歸善人木
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故定三年奴工
犯前經定罪三次
四錢九分現該
成搶去碎銀壹兩
人一名毆傷楊希
偕同現未奉押之
有罪因在海傍街
夫也十四歲被定
陳亞勝東莞人挑
于後
犯監禁二年苦工
Lam A-wa of Kwai-shin, carpenter, aged thirty-three years, was found guilty of having, with two others not arrested, assaulted and wounded one Wong Yau-hing, on the road between Aberdeen and Victoria, and of having stolen from him certain articles of clothing. The prisoner was sentenced to two years' imprisonment with hard labour.
被挑
禁二年苦工
件現定該犯監
一個並衣服 數
有屋內偷去箱
油蔴地入羅保
明四點鐘時在
本月十四早黎
被定有罪卽于
桃夫也二十歲
梁亞有羊城人
期內每兩個月一次坐黑牢七天 室現定該犯監禁二年及作苦工監禁 童爲自已照顧者拐往太平山禁留一 應適值小童之交不在則乘機以該小 同居近因賦閒糧食所需都蒙方九照 現查該犯前在石塘嘴與該小童之父 故意賣此小童又定罪因謀勒贖銀兩 故意令與伊北方亞九分離又定罪因 有罪卽因違例橋去四歲小童方光猷 鄧亞添歸善人挑夫也三十六歲被定
Ch'an A-shing of Tung-kun, street coolie, aged twenty-four years, was found guilty of having, to- gether with another man not arrested, assaulted one Yéung Hi-shing, on the Praya, and of hav- ing stolen from him Tls. 1.4.9 in broken silver. This prisoner was found to have been three times previously convicted; he was sentenced to five years' penal servitude.
Léung A-yau of Canton, coolie, aged twenty years, was found guilty of having entered the house of Lo Pò-yau, at Yau-ma-ti, at 4 o'clock in the morning of the 14th September, and of having stolen therefrom a box and certain arti- cles of clothing. The prisoner was sentenced to two years' imprisonment with hard labour.
Tang A-tim of Kwai-shin, coolie, aged thirty- six years, was found guilty of having unlaw- fully taken away a boy named Fong Kwong-yau, aged four years, 1st with intent to deprive Fong A-kau, the father, of the possession of the boy, 2nd with intent to sell the boy, and 3rd with intent to procure a ransom for his liberation. The prisoner had been living at Shek t'ong-tsui, in the house of the father of the child, and being out of work, had latterly been entirely supported by him. He took advantage of the father's absence on one occasion to steal the child, who had been left in his charge and left him in a house at T'ái-p'ing-shán. The prisoner was sen- tenced to two years' imprisonment with hard labour, and to be kept in solitary confinement for a period of one week in every two months of the said imprisonment.