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(4.) On the 2nd May Constable HOGGARTH arrested a Chinese at 10.30 r.3. for robbery at Cross Street, and handed him over to a District watchman while he went in pursuit of another man. The prisoner shot the District Watchman and escaped, but was smartly re-arrested by HOGGARTH after an exciting chase. The prisoner was convicted of murder and hanged. (5.) On the 12th July Chinese Detective Constable LAI TAK SHING was shot by a man named LAI MIT whom he attempted to arrest for larceny. LAI MIT was subsequently arrested in China and tried and executed there.
(6.) Early in the morning of the 27th August a widow, her son-in-law and grandson living in a boat at Hung Hom, were attacked by 5 men armed with knives. The woman was killed and her son-in-law received serious injuries of which, however, he recovered. The woman was apparently regarded as a witch, and it is supposed that the attack upon her arose out of a quarrel with some fishermen, who imagined that she had defrauded them by her witchcraft. No arrest was made.
(7.) On the 19th September four Hakkas and two Shanghai horse boys employed at Kennedy's Livery Stables quarrelled over a woman, with the result that two of the Hakkas were stabbed to death with a pocket knife. The Shanghai men were arrested. One was convicted of murder and hanged, and the other was acquitted.
(8.) On the 24th October the body of a Chinese fisherman was found on the shore at Stone- cutters' Island. It was ascertained that the deceased and two companions, while in his fishing boat off Green Island on the previous day, had been attacked and murdered by the crew of another fishing boat. Two men were arrested and brought to trial but acquitted. The parties were members of 2 rival secret societies which had their head- quarters in Chinese territory and had been at enmity for some time.
6. ROBBERIES WITH VIOLENCE.
Among the eight cases under this heading, were 6 cases of highway robbery, 1 of Street robbery, and 1 of carring snatching.
(1.) On the 28th February a coolie was met by a man at 6.20 P.M. in Jubilee Street, who
levelled a revolver at him and robbed him of $50. No arrest made.
(2.) On the 26th March at 12.15 r.M. an European lady, while walking in Richmond Road,
was robbed of a gold watch by two Chinese. No arrest made.
(3.) On the 21st of May at 10.15 A.M. a coolie was robbed by a Chinese on the Bowen Road
of some $3. No arrest made.
(4.) On the 3rd June at 8.45 P.M. a Chinese servant in European employ was attacked by 3 men on the Peak Road, wounded with knives, and robbed of $11. One man was subsequently arrested and convicted.
(5.) On the 21st July at 2.30 P.M. a Chinese was robbed by 2 others of a pair of silk trousers
on the road to Stanley. No arrest made.
(6.) On the 29th December at 3 P.M. a coolie was robbed near Tai Kok Tsui, Kowloon, of 60 cents by another coolie; who ran away into Chinese territory. No arrest made.
7. GANG ROBBERIES.
These have been included, as was the case last year, under the healing "Felonies not already given" instead of under "Robberies with Violence" as was done in 1893 and 1894.
There were six of these robberies.
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(1.) On the 14th January at 4 A.M. 3 men broke into a house at Quarry Bay, tiel up the inimates and stole property to the value of $140. Two men were subsequently arrested, one of whom was convicted.
(2.) On the 23rd February at 7 P.M. four men entered and stole clothing and money to the value of $76.
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clothes store in Queen's Road West, No arrest made.
(3.) On the 12th March at 7.30 P.M. 6 men entered a matshed at Quarry Bay, and robbed
the inmates of $56. No arrest made.
(4.) On the 14th April at 9.15 P.M. four men entered a clothes shop in Queen's Road East,
and stole property to the value of $114. No arrest made.
(5.) On the 2nd May at 10.15 P.M. four men entered a shop in Cross Street, and robbed the inmates of $55. An alarm was raised after the robbers left, and one of them was arrested after he had shot a District watchinan. Ile was convicted and hanged.
In all the above cases the robbers were armed with revolvers.
The 6th case was a robbery committed by boat people on another boat at Hung Hon. One man was arrested and convicted at the Police Court.