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Abstract of Causes under COGNIZANCE at the Police Magistrates' Court during the Year 1865.
CAUSES HOW DISPOSED OF, AND THE NUMBER OF MALE AND FEMALE PRISONERS UNDRR EACH HEAD.
Ordered to find security.
WRITS ISSUED BY MAGISTRATES DURING THE YEAR 1865.
Summonses Summonses for for Defendants. Witnesses.
Notices of
Judgment
WARRANTS.
TOTAL.
and
Rehearing.
Distress.
Arrest. Search.
Total Number of Defendants.
Undecided
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 31ST MARCH, 1866.
M. F. M. F.
M.
F.
M.
F.
M.
F.
M. F. M. F. Mr.
F.
M.
F.
6,144
6,650
501 3,473
259
301
7
362
40
12
1
167
1
50
00
8 24
B
11,039
820
2,681
320
32
145
113
93
3,384
Total Number of Prisoners,
...
11.859
THE CASES CONSISTED OF
Brought forward....
2,579
Abduction of Feniales,
Administering Drugs,...
Accusing of Crime with intent to extort,
Accessary to Offences,
7
Cutting and destroying Trees,
7
2
Conduct calculated to provoke a breach of the Peace,
105
Disorderly behaviour, and disorderly behaviour accompanied by damage
Harboring Soldier Deserters,..
Found at night with Arms or House breaking Implements with intent to commit Felony,
Brought forward........
4,944
14
of Property,
688
Harboring Police Deserters,
...
Aiding Soldiers and Seamen to desert,
Assaults;
924
Assaults accompanied with damage of property,
Assaults with intent to rob, .
Attempts to commit felony,
Attempting to sell Children,...
Aiding and abetting in murder,
172 |
Defiling Streams,
4
Highway Robbery,
Discharging Fire Arms, ...
Indecent assaults, ..*
53
Firing off Crackers, and making Bonfires,
53
Illegal Pawning,
8
Furious Driving, Riding, &c.,
Intimidating Workmen,
Indecent Exposure of Person,
10
Kidnapping,
Wontonly throwing Stones,
3
Keeping Billiard Tables without a License,
Misconduct as domestic Servants, &c.,
102
Keeping Seamen's Boarding House without a License,
Being at large in the street at night without night pass........
206
Unlawful Possession of Property,
807
Larcenies common,
Breach of 'rison, ...
16
...
Obstruction of Public Ways by Hawkeis, &c., and by playing at Games
Larcenies from l'erson,
834
215
Breach of Recognizance,
8
of chance,
337
Libel,
Breach of 5 and 6, Vict. Cap. 39, Sec. 6, -
1
Bribery,
I
Malicions Prosecution and False Testimony, &c.,.
Breaches of Building Ordinance,
7
Burglary,
Breaches of Cargo Boat Ordinance,
3
Child Stealing,...
Breaches of Jail's Ordinance....
36
Concealing birth,
:
:
10
Miscendnet as Police Constables,
21
Marder and Piracy and Murder,
Manslaughter,
Breaches of Market's Ordinance,
88
Confederating with Pirates, ...
Offences relating to Coin,
Breaches of Passage Broker's Ordinance,
Confederating to defeat Justice,
Offences relating to Workmen,
Breaches of Post Office Ordinance,
3
Counterfeiting Trade Marks,...
1
Obtaining Property by false Pretenses,
Breaches of Registration Ordinance,
192
Compounding Misdemeanor,
1
Personating Bail,
---
...
(Plying boats without license, mendicancy, unlicensed hawking, &c.,
Breaches of Ordinance for Registration of Public Brothels,
24
Crimes and Offences committed in Chinese Territory, and against the Laws of China,
Purchasing Military Property,
6
Receiving stolen Property.
Breaches for Regulation of Weights and Measures,
1
Cotting and Wounding with intent to do grievous bodily Harm, &c.,
23
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Ecfusing to render Aid to Police,
Breaches for Regulation of Vehicles and Chairs,
122
Demanding Money with Menaces,
6
T
Breaches for sale of prepared Opium,
7
Desertion or Refusal of Duty by Seamen,
26
Breaches for Suppression of Public Gambling,
29
Desertion from H. M.'s. Army,
2
Refusing to provide Passage, &c. for destitute Seamen,
Rescuing Prisoners from Police,
Returning to Colony after being conditionally pardoned,
Breaches for Betail of spirituous and fermented Liquors,
40
Detention of Seamen's Effets,
3
Robbery,
Breaches of Pawnbroker's Ordinance,
10
Detaining Ship's Register,
1
*
Hobbery and Murder,
Breaches of Ordinance 14 of 1845, viz :—
Embezzlement,
12
Rogues and Vagabonds,
Nuisances,
541
Escaping from Custody of Police,
Rape,
Damage of Property,
48
Exercising the calling of Pawnbroker without License,
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Surreptitiously obtaining Passage,
Cruelty to animals,
1
Extortion by colour of Office,...
1
Trespass on Crown Lands,
...
Allowing unmuzzled ferocious Dogs to be at large,
J
Forgery,
1
Unnatural Offences, ...
4
Obstruction of Wharves, &c. by Boats,
167
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False imprisonment,
13.
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Writing threatening Letter with intent to Extort,
1
Carried forward,...
2,579
Carried forward,..
4,314
Total,...
0,1-44
JOHN C. WHYTE,
Police Mugistrate.