CLASSIFICATION OF OFFENCES.
TOTAL NUMBER
OF CASES.
TOTAL NUMBER OF
PRISONERS.
Table I.
ABSTRACT of CASES under COGNIZANCE of the POLICE MAGISTRATES' COURTS during the Year 1906.
CASES, HOW DISPOSED OF, AND THE NUMBER OF MALE AND FEMALE PRISONERS UNDER EACH HEAD,
Ordered to find Security.
WRITS ISSUED BY THE POLICE MAGISTRATES DURING THE YEAR 1906.
Warrants.
M.
༢
Convicted aud Punished.
Discharged.
Committed for Trial
at the Supreme Court.
Committed to Prison or Detained pending Orders of H.E. the Governor.
To keep the
Peace.
To be of Good Behaviour.
To answer
any Charge.
Witnesses
punished for preferring false Charge or giving wilful false Testimony.
Undecided.
Total Number of Prisoners.
Summons for Defendants.
Summons for Witnesses.
Notices of Re-hearing.
Arrest.
Distress.
Search.
For entering Gambling Houses.
Magistrates' Orders.
TOTAL.
M.
F.
F. -M. F.. | M. { F.
Assaults and other Offences against
the Person,
905 1,239
754 13 278 G 20
...
Malicious Injuries to Property,.
83
90
Gambling,
301 2,451
37 1
2,395 7
38
+
- M. | F. | M. | F.
110 11 35
8 1
M.
F M.
F. M.
E
F.
L
-
42
Offences against Property other than Malicious Injuries to fre- perty or Prædial Larceny,
1,668
1,823
1,380 10 357
1
21
.19.1
1
-
71
11
1,203
36 2,554
42
88
2
2,446
1,799
20
ப
:
249
:
| 3,298
Offences against Revenue
Acts.
Highway Acts, Health Acts, and
other Acts relating to the Social
2,008
2,802
36 2,459
393
2
F
:
Economy of the Colony,
Offences against Masters and Ser- vants Acts, including Acts relal-
100
202
102 1
ន
:
:
1
00
୫
ing to Indentured Coolies,
Other
Offences,
9,806 11,426
9,774 | 222 | 1,150 | 35 | 16
18
61 4 33
18
⠀
:
:
:
:
2,800
37
201
I
-
1
83
11,168 263
Total,
13,871 20,128 16,910 299 2,351 49 61
19
185 17 87 5 45 2 2
1
95
19,755
373 2,551 42
219
3,298
|
TOTAL MALES AND FEMALES,
.20,128
* Consisting of Offenders not sentenced to Imprisonment,
281
32.
6,456
281 326,150
-180-
18