HONGKONG.
195
No. 10
1900
REPORT OF THE CAPTAIN SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE FOR THE YEAR 1899,
Laid before the Legislative Council by Command of His Excellency the Governor.
No. 33.
POLICE OFFICE, HONGKONG, 29th January, 1900.
SIR, I have the honour to forward, for the information of His Excellency the Governor, the Criminal Statistics and Report on the Police Force for the year 1899.
2. The total of all cases reported to the Police was 9,023 as against 10,596 in 1898 being a decrease of 1,573 or 17.43
per cent.
In the division of these cases into Serious and Minor Offences, there appears an increase as compared with 1898 of 457 cases or 15.57% in the former and a decrease of 2,030 cases or 36.05% in the latter.
The increase as compared with 1898 in Serious Offences of 457 is shewn as follows:-
Murder, Robbery,
Burglary or Larceny in Dwelling,
Assault with intent to rob,.
Piracy,
•
Larceny,
Felonies not already given,
5
70
77
1
.308
47
509
F
Deduct decrease in—
Kidnapping,
Unlawful possession,.
5
47
52
457
Deducting Murder,
3
Robbery,
42
Burglary or Larceny in Dwelling, Kidnapping..
7
1
Piracy.
7
Larceny,
48
12
Unlawful possession,
Felonies not already given,
121 the increase directly
due to the New Territory, the increase in Serious Crine in the Old Territory as compared with 1898 was 336 cases or 11.44%.
3. Table A shows the number and character of the Serious and Minor Offences reported to the Police during the past year, and the number of persons convicted and discharged in connection with those offences.
4.
MURDER.
(1.) On the 17th April. TANG CHEUNG TSAI, 47 years, oyster dealer, Ha Tsin, was nurdered at Un Long in the New Territory by TANG TSING SZ, CHEUNG TIN and seven others. The two men named were arrested and tried at a Special Criminal Sessions in June, convicted and hanged.
(2.) On the same date and at the same time and place a man named CHAN KWAI SHU TSAI was murdered by the same persons amongst who.n were NG KI CHEUNG, his nephew NG TUNG, and Lur TAK LAP, who were arrested and tried at the July Sessions, convicted and sentenced to be hanged. NG TUNG was pardoned. The sentence on his uncle was commuted to imprisonment with hard labour for life, and that on LUI TAK LAP to 10 years' imprisonment with hard labour.