No. 1903
9
HONGKONG.
REPORT OF THE CAPTAIN SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE, FOR THE YEAR 1902.
Laid before the Legislative Council by Command of His Excellency the Governor.
POLICE OFFICE,
HONGKONG, 5th March, 1903.
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 1902.
2. The total of all cases reported to the Police was 10,421, as against 9,172 in 1901, being an increase of 1,249, or 13.61 per cent.
In the division of these cases into Serious and Minor Offences, there appears an increase, as compared with 1901, of 594 cases, or 17-45 per cent. in the former, and of 655 cases, or 1135 per cent. in the latter.
The increase, as compared with 1901, in Serious Offences of 594 is shewn as follows:
Burglary or Larceny in dwelling,
Assault with intent to rob,
Kidnapping and other offences against the Protection
of Women and Girls Ordinance,
Unlawful Possession,
Larceny,
Felonies, not already given,
.100
}
11
.103
..321
73
612
Deduct decrease in Robbery, 16, Piracy, 2,....................... 18
594
50-28.3.03.
3. Table A shows the number and character of the Serious and Minor Offen- ces repoted to the Police during the past year, and the number of persons convicted and discharged in connection with those offences.
MURDER.
4. On the 5th July the body of LO CHIU, 32, engineer unemployed, was found in No. 104 Des Voeux Road Central with a number of wounds on it, said to have been inflicted by a barber named A Mui, who absconded. No arrest was made.
(2) On the 31st August LI K1, 37, coolie, 17 Quarry Bay, was sent to the Government Civil Hospital suffering from severe cuts and wounds inflicted by a number of men, He died in the Hospital on the 2nd September. Three men were convicted and hanged.
(3) On the 30th October the body of a Chinese male adult, aged about 35 years, was found in a gully at No. 1 Water Valley Kowloon with a deep cut across the back of his neck. The body was never identified. One man was arrested and discharged by the Magistrate. (A false charge.)
(4) On the 8th November a Malay Woman named KARISINA, 30 years old, residing at No. 10 Square Street, was murdered by her hasband named DooLA who inflicted wounds on himself from which he died in the Government Civil Hospital on the 9th November.
MANSLAUGHTER.
5. On the 13th January three Coolies who were in charge of a truck in Con- naught Road Central, were arrested for causing the death of a female child, aged 6 years, by knocking her down and one of the wheels passing over her. They were discharged.