16
17
207
And on
the next page, in the
return of number of Felons confined
in the Honghong Gaol
on the set of
each month, are the following figures:-
1871
June
Number of Prisoners confined for Robbery with violence and Robbery of Larceny. House or from the Person
in a
Europeans Indians Chinese
in
different nationalities residing Hongkong or visiting the Harbour is taken into account, the foregoing figures" do not support the assumption that
the Chinese are an
race.
especially criminal Comparing the Police and Gaol returns for 1871 with the returns for preceding years for subsequent years it
will also be seen that there have been than 1891 as regards
many
July
August
18
22
130
120
19 2
129
13.
Another part of those returns
would have shown that the only
murderer executed in
Houghong
in
1871 was a
Malay.
that
12.
I need hardly say
when the relative proportion of the
worse
years
crime committed by chinese.
The other point to which I
refer is the Return Table C, showing the
strength of the Police Force in 1871 and the number dismissed during
year.
the