199
CHARGES ÁBAN-
CASES
POST-
DOXED,
PONED.
Solitary Confinement,
Number of Persons.
Number of Persons.
Privately Flogger.
RETURN of CRIMINAL CASES tried in the SUPREME COURT of HONGKONG, during the Yeur 1887.
SENTENCE.
Number of Cases.
Number of Persons.
CRIMES.
Convicted.
Acquitted.
2
3 3
3
1
3
1
:
1
4
2
1
1
9
3
3
4
2
1
1
Arson.
3
4
7
B
1
1
2
I
Escape,
I
4
1
1
1 Administering stupefying drug,.................
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Assault and unlawfully imprisoning, Burglary and receiving stolen goods, Conspiracy...
5 Demanding money with menaces,.
Embezzlement by a Police Officer,
Embezzlement by a Public Servant,.
Embezzlement by a Clerk,
Feloniously wounding with intent to do grievous
bodily harm.
5 Feloniously forging a certaiu receipt for money with
intent to defraud,
Feloniously setting fire to a dwelling house,
150
:
1
1
Larceny on board ship in the Harbour,
2
4
Larceny in a dwelling house,.......
I
1
Larceny from the person,
2
4
Larceny and receiving stolen goods,.
2
3
Larceny and feloniously wounding,
1
Ι
Larceny by a servant.
1
Ι
Larceny by a Police Constable,
11
12
Larceny and previous conviction,
+ 7
Manslaughter.
al
2
Murder,
Obtaining money under false pretences,
Perjury,
1
2
Piracy,
2
1
Piracy and receiving stolen goods.
5
1 5
Receiving goods feloniously taken by pirates,
1
2 2
Receiving stolen goods,
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7
13
Robbery from the person with violence,
12
1
I
Robbery and Larceny from the person,
1
Ι
3
Unlawfully attempting to bribe an Inspector of Police.
1
5
8
1 Unlawfully being a member of the Triad Society,,
Unlawfully detaining for the purpose of prostitution, Unlawfully bringing into this Colony for the purpose
of prostitution,
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1
3
3
4
Unlawfully bringing into this Colony for the purpose
of emigration,..
1 3
b1
3
Unlawfully printing and publishing obscene libel,
3
1
2
Unlawfully falsely and deceitfully uttering certain
counterfeit coin,...
1 1
7 Unlawfully shouting with intent to do grievous and
bodily harm,
7
76 123
:
82
36
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I
3
1
3
1
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2
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15
47
17
17 17
26
1
118 were tried.
Convicted.. Acquitted,
.82
..36
2
3
118 Persons.
Charges abandoned.
26
Recognizance estreated.
3
Cases postponed.
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123 Persons.
Total,
155 Persons.
Of 123 Persons only
2 were not indicted, which are included under the
heading of charges abandoned,
and
3 Recognizance estreated,
a. In this case the Jury found the Prisoners guilty of manslaughter.
b. In this case the 1st Prisoner was fined $250, the 2nd and 3rd Prisoners were find $100 each.
Registry Supreme Court, Hongkong, 21st January, 1888.
ALFRED G. WISE,
Acting Registrar,