NO. OF
No. of
OFFENCE.
CASES.
PRI- SONERS.
OFFENCE.
Brought forward.....
9,956 12,029
Brought forward.......
Streams-Defiling,
49
49 Unlicensed-Money Changer,
Streets-Noises by Hawkers.
129
129
Threats with intent to murder, .
T
1
17
Trees, &c.-Cutting and destroying,
77
771
#
Trespass on Crown Land,
146
Triad and Unlawful Societies-Breach of Ordinance for
25
25
Suppression of,
Unlawful Possession of Property,
231
of Trees. Shrubs. &c.,
23
Unlicensed-Coffee Shop,
1
*
-Hawkers, -Latrine,
992 1
--Plying of Boats or Vessels for Hire,
-Seamen's Boarding Houses, -Undertaker,
146 Unwholesome Provisions-Exposing for Sale, or bring-
ing into the Colony... Watchmen-Misconduct as Private,
342 Weights and Measures-Breach of Ordinance for,
23 Women and Female Children-Breach of Ordinance for
protection of.. 992 Workmen-Intimidating............................
1
Carried forward..
11,631 13,815
TOTAL...
NO. OF CASES.
No. Of PRI- SONERS.
11.681 13,815
2
2
12
12
I
1
I
1
30.
30
I
I
207
207
!
78 111
2
2
Magistracy, Hongkong, 9th January, 1888.
12,015 14,182
H. E. WODEHOUSE,
Police Magistrate, for the Police Magistrates.
ABSTRACT of Cases brought under COGNIZANCE at the POLICE MAGISTRATES' COURT during a period of Ten Years, from 1st January, 1878, tv 31st December, 1887, inclusive.
CASES, NOW DISPOSED OF, AND THE NUMBER OF Male and Female PRISONERS UNDER EACH ÍÏEAD.
Years.
Total Number of Cases.
Committed
Committed to Prisou
Ordered to find Security,
Punished for Preferring
Total
Convicted atkl Punished.
Discharged.
for Trial at
Supreme
Court.
llis Excellency
or detained
pending Orders of To keep the Peace,
False Charge Undecided.
or giving
i and to be of Good
False
Number of Defendants.
the Governor.
Behaviour.
Testimony.
2
3
4
8
9
10
12
13
14
15
:
16
17
JL.
!
F.
M.
F
J.
F.
M.
F.
M.
F.
M.
F
M.
F.
M.
F.
1878,
:
9,100 7.166 628
2,126
261
200
18
11
98
22
19
1879.
7.009 5,708 881 1,000
189 :
145
R
18.
280
32
18
1880,
7,098 5.892 252
1,778
187
170
27
15
201
87
15
20 20 160
8
19
9,630
922
34
8,108 602
33
1881,
8,203
7.049 BBB
1,078
173
102
48
-1
369
65
58
9,379
1882.
7,567
6.049 394
1,922 265
239
17
268
13
; 80
1888,
10,658
8.127 | 670
2,398 349
121
8
154
62
160
11
1884,
14,065 : 11,748
1.088
2,294 268
101
35
228
58
105
1885,
1886,
i
1887,
10.281 7.951 849 2,188 14.011 12.081 842 2.198 100 12.015 10,35-4 #26 2,620 159
258
159
11
357
99
18
197
3
860
100
168
158
28
411
52
14
*48
8,126 531
630
8,622 780 11.008 1,101 14,517 | 1,418 10,690 1,211 15,5101,137 18,638 549
Grand Total for
the 10 Years,
100,602
$2,175 5,742 | 21,099
2.279
1,662 146
200
14
8,183
433 176
36
718 $1
109,218 8.881
Average per
Year,
110,060.2-8,217.5 57422,100.5 227.9
166.2
14.6
20.0
14
R18,3
63.3 176
R.G
71.8
8.1 10.9215 888.1
One male committed suicide in Gaol while under remand.
Magistracy, Hongkong, 9th January, 1888.
CORONER'S INQUESTS.
TABLE A-RETURN OF ALL CORONER'S CASES, 1887.
H. E. WODEHOUSE, Police Magistrate, for the Police Magistrates.
Inquest Held.
Buried without Inquest.
NATIONALITY.
Very much Men. Women. Boys. Girls. Total. Men. Women. Boys. Girls. decomposed: Total.
scx not ascertainable.
Europeans and Americans,
9
7
:
Portuguese,
:
Japanese,
:
Jews,
I
1
:
Chinese,
72
10
13
102
Total,........
84
10
14
115
Total for 1886,
69
16
100
31818
60
13
73
73
18
235
68
11.
75
73
18
245
55
34
41
10
144