TOTAL TOTAL - NUMBER NUMBER
OF
OF
CASES. PRISO-
NERS.
ABSTRACT OF CASES UNDER COGNIZANCE OF THE POLICE MAGISTRATES' COURT, DURING THE YEAR 1874.
CASES HOW DISPOSED OF, AND THE NUMBER OF MALE AND FEMALE PRISONERS UNDER EACH HEAD.
To find Security.*
Summonses
for
Defendants.
WRITS ISSUED BY THE POLICE MAGISTRATES, DURING THE YEAR 1874.
sosuowung
for
Witnesses.
Notices of Re-hearing.
Distress.
Arrest.
Warrants.
Search.
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enter
Gambling]
Houses.
Magis-
trates'
Orders.
TOTAL.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 10TH APRIL, 1875.
159
M. F.
M.
F. M.
F.
8,079
10,191 6,636 1,185 | 1,651 269 101 Consisting of Offenders not sentenced to Imprisonment.
2
M. F. M.
31 1 30
F.
M.
F.
M.
4 44
2
101 15
F. M. F. M.
50
F.
M.
F.
2
21
th
8,665 1,486
2,931
112
40
39
95
13
3
19
3,252
TOTAL MALES AND FEMALES,
.10,101
THE CASES CONSISTED OF:-
Abduction,
2
Brought forward..........
1,895
Do.
after do.
Administering Drugs,
Accessory before the Fact to Felony,
Aiding and Abetting in Larceny or Felony,
1
Cattle turned loose on Public Ways,
4
do.,
2
Cattle Stealing, Child Stealing,
...
1
9
Fraudulently using False Trade-Marks and Labels,
Found by Night in Dwelling Houses with Intent to com- mit Felony,
Brought forward,.
3,092
2
3
Allowing Unmuzzled Ferocious Dogs to be at large,
6
Chinese not holders of Night Passes found carrying Arms, 2 Chinese Offenders found in the Colony after Banishment
Furious Driving,
Harboring Seamen, Deserters,
Arson,
3
...
Assaults accompanied with Damage of Property,.
***
16
Assaults at or in connection with Riotous Assemblages, -
Assaults, (Common)..........
400
Assaulting, obstructing, or resisting Police in the Execu-
tion of their Duty,
77
Assaults with Intent to rob,
Assaults with Intent to commit an Unnatural Offence,
Assaults with Wounding,
Assisting Soldiers to Desert,...
Assuming Nune, Designation, &c., of Police Constables,
At large at Night without Night Passes or Lights,...
...719
Attempting to commit Felony,...
Attempting to commit other Offences,
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under Ordinance No. 9 of 1857, and in Breach of Conditional Pardon under Ordinance No. 1 of 1860,
Harboring deported Persons....
11
Having Possession of Spurions Opium with Intent to defraud, 1
Brought forward,...
Throwing Rubbish into the Harbor, or on the Beach, 110 Offences relating to Coin, ...
Offensive Weapons-Having possession of,...
Obstruction of Roads and Streets, &c., by Hawkers,
Chair Coolies, and Shopkeepers,
Obstruction of Wliarves by Boat People,
Obtaining Money, &c., under False Pretences,
111
...5,575
Conspiracy to defraud,
1
Highway Robbery with Arns or with Violence,
2
Perjury,
13
1
933
49
13
2
Conspiracy with Intent to commit Felony,
***
House Breaking,
6
Piracy,
...
...
...
Contempt of Court,
9
Illegally Pawning,
Piracy with Murder,
Crimes and Offences committed in Chinese Territory,
2
Illicit Distillation,
Cruelty to Animals,
17
Indecent Assaults on Females....
6
Cutting and Destroying Trees...
21
Indecent Exposure of Person by bathing or otherwise and
Posting Bills on Walls, &c.,
Preferring False Charge or giving wilful False Testimony, Purchasing or receiving Regimental Clothes, &c.,
38
...
39
Cutting and Wounding and inflicting Bodily Injuries,
11
Lewdness,
9
Rape....
Damage to Property,
20
Inciting a Person to commit a Misdemeanor,.
3
Receiving stolen Goods,
13
Dangerous and Offensive Trades, Carrying on,...
4
Intimidating Workmen,...
4
Refusal of Duty by British Merchant Seamen,...
3
Defiling Streams,
40
Jurors neglecting to answer Coroner's Summ ses to
Refusing to pay Boat and Chair Hire,
119
27
Demanding Money by Menaces,
attend at Inquest,
3
...
2
Deportation from Canton to this Colony, under H.M.'s
Larcenies, (Common),
374
...
Registered Householder permitting Gambling within a House,...
1
Behaviour calculated to provoke a Breach of the Peace,
26
Order in Council of 1865,
1
Larcenies from Dwelling Houses,.
88
Rescuing Prisoners from Custody of Police,
Breach of Ordinances:-
Deportation from Japan
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do.
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Larcenies from the Person,
46
Robberies from Person,
For Buildings,
11
Deportation from Shanghai
do.,
do.
3
Larcenies from Wreck,
11
Robberies from Person with Wounding,
For Cargo Boats,
6
Desertion from Foreign Ships,
4
Larcenies from Ships or Boats in Harbor,
43
Rogues and Vagabonds:-
For Chinese Emigrant Ship Fittings, (No. 3 of 1873),
Desertion from H.M.'s Army and Navy,...
10
For Harbor and Cousts,...
For Jails,
24
Desertion of Merchant Seamen,
Larcenies of Vegetables and Fruits from Gardens and enclosed Places,
As Street Gamblers and Watchmen to Gamblers,... 125
3
As Suspicious Characters,
78
Detention of Seamen's Effects,
1
Making Bonfire, or Firing Crackers,
225
As Vagrants (Europeans and Indians),
36
For Marine Store Dealers,
1
Detention of H.M.'s Mails,
***
Malicions Injury to Property,
8
For Markets,
253
For Pawn Brokers,...
14
Disorderly Behaviour accompanied with Damage of Property, 81 Disorderly Behaviour, Drunkenness, Fighting, &c.,
Manslaughter,
4
Seamen making False Statements as to Ships in which they served, and presenting False Characters,
1
911
Mendicancy,
...164
Stragglers from British Men-of-War,...
14
For Preveration and Sale of prepared Opium,
9
For P. vation of Birds.
1
Disorderly Behaviour, wasting Water at Public Hydrants, 10 Discharging Fire Arms,...
Misconduct as Domestic Servants,
40
Stragglers from Foreign Ships,...
63
2
Misconduct as Police Constables,...
15
Street Gambling, (treated as Obstruction of Public
For ho,,entration of Births and Deaths, .
7
Discharging Stones and other Missiles to danger of Per-
Misconduct as Private Watchmen,
18
Ways),.
65
For Registration of Houses and Servants, For totail of Spirituous and Fermented Liquors,
24
sons and Property,
4
Misconduct as Workmen,
5
Street Noises by Hawkers,
220
10
Dog Stealing,
1
Murder,
3
Trespass on Crown Lands,
26
For Storage of Explosive Substances,...
Doubtful Witnesses to find Security for Appearance,
21
Negligently allowing Prisoners to escape,
Unauthorized Religious Ceremonies, (Chinese)..
2
For Storage of Gunpowder,
1
...
For Street Chairs and Vehicles,
52
Dredging in the Harbor at Anchorage for Ships of War, Embezzlement,
1
4
Night Noises by playing at the Same called "Chai-mui,” Night Noises by Watchmen, &c.,..
Unlawful Possession of Property,
195
1
Unlicensed Auctioneer,
1
For Suppression of Gambling,
15
Embracery, (Intimidating Witnesses).
1
Nuisances. Various-consisting of :-
Unlicensed Coolie Lodging Houses,...
1
For Weights and Measures,
88
Breach of Chinese Passengers' Act of 1855,
Enticing, Decoying, or by Force or Fraud bringing to, or taking away, Men or Women from the Colony,
22
Breach of Harbor Regulations,
..105
Escape of Prisoners from Gaol,
2
Breach of Military Law, (Soldiers disposing of Uniform, &c.),
Escape of Prisoners from Custody of Police,
1
Breach of Recognizance,
4
Extortion by Color of Office,
3
Breach of Stamp Act,
1
Extortion by Menaces,
Exposing Night Soil in the Streets in uncovered Buckets, and in open Boats along the Praya, Hanging wet Clothes, &c., to dry over Public Ways, 47 House Nuisances, viz.: Keeping Pigs, allowing Dirt and Filth to remain on Premises or in imme- diate Vicinity,...
Unlicensed Seamen's Boarding Houses,
14
Unlicensed Hawking....
..
307
Unlicensed Plying of Boats for Hire, .
35
Unnatural Offenco,
1,202
Breach of Quarantine Regulations,
False Imprisonment,
Obeying Calls of Nature in the Street,
38
Using Threats with Intent to extort,
Unwholesome Provisions, Exposing for Sale or bringing into Colony,
1
Bribery or Attempts to bribe Police Constables,
2
Forgery,
Raking Dost Bins,
4
Using Threats of Violence to Persons,
6
Burglary,
8
Found by Night with Dangerous and Offensive Weapons
Burial of Chinese Corpse elsewhere than in a Cemetery..
with Intent to break into Dwelling Houses,
2
Street Nuisances, viz.: Neglecting to clean out Dust Bins, and throwing Rubbish, &c., into the Street,
90
TOTAL,...
8,079
Carried forward,
1,895
Carried forward,...
..3,092
Carried forward,...
...5,575
C. MAY, 1st Police Magistrate.