88
TABLE B.-RETURN OF FORMAL ENQUIRIES DURING THE YEAR 1893,—Continued.
FINDING.
Brought forward.............................
Europeans and Americans.
Indians.
Chinese.
Total. ·
Men. Boys. Men. Men.
Women, Boys. Girls.
4
2
37
7
3
4 57
1
:
...
:
1
:
:
Strangulation by hanging such hanging being the act of the
deceased, That the deaths resulted from fire or suffocation or other injuries sustained on the occasion of a fire in No. 58 Square Street the probable explanation of the deaths being that the victims returned to the burning buildings after making their escape and that the buildings fell in with them before they again escaped,...............
The deceased came to her death by hemorrhage occasioned by a wound on the neck inflicted by the husband of the deceased,
The deceased met his death by fire in House No. 74 Aberdeen, First floor to which he had set fire by his own act while labouring under a fit of temporary insanity,
The Magistrate finds that the deceased came to his death through injuries received from the inadvertent discharge of a bullet from a Nordenfelt Five barrel gun on board H.M.S. Pigmy in Hongkong waters after the conclusion of prize firing from the said gun and while it was in process of being secured,
The Magistrate finds that both the deceased died from the effects of bullet wounds shot on the evening of the 2nd day of March, 1893, at about 8 o'clock P.M. from one or other of two junks named the San Fat Li junk and the San Yau Li junk which were at the time engaged in carrying several parcels known to be raw opium which had been transferred from two small boats which had been attacked in Sandy Bay by the boat in which the two deceased were under the impression that the parcels known to contain raw opium were still on board such said boat, the two said junks thereupon returning the fire of the deceased's boat and inflicting the wounds which caused the deaths of the deceased, the said junks and the afore- said small boat and the boat of the deceased being at the time of such firing in the neighbourhood of Sandy Bay in the waters of Hongkong and not more than a few Cheungs from the shores of Hongkong. The Magistrate further finds that at the time when the shots were fired that caused the deaths of the deceased there were amongst others on board the said San Yau Li junk three Chinese named respectively Leung Un, Kwok Hing, Leung Muk Kau, and amongst others on board the said San Fat Li junk two Chinese named Kwok Lin, Leung Muk-kwai,........
Total,...
1
:
3
1
C
:
:
1
1
2
43
9
:
TABLE C-RETURN OF BURIALS WITHOUT FORMAL ENQUIRIES DURING THE YEAR 1893.
Europeans
& Americans.
Reason why no Formal Enquiry was held.
No suspicious circumstances,
No evidence and/or decomposed state of
Body,
Post Mortem satisfactory,...............................
Total,..
Men.
Men.
Chinese.
Indians. Very much
Women.
Boys. Girls.
Men.
de- composed; sex not ascertain- able.
Total.
1
N
67
Found on
Found on
Land.
Harbour,
Known,
Un.
known.
Known.
Un-
19 25
1
71 13 10
7
1
103
54
00
8
1 114
79
9
:
211
176
1
2
ଖ
1
80
15 124
86
1
9
316 56
195
Magistracy, Hongkong, 10th January, 1894.
known.
0
35
25
25
40
H. E. WODEHOUSE, Police Magistrate.