bring carried out
upon
a
female,
replied that they
did not
case
know of any
in which
it
had been inflicted.
2. It is possible
that this
tenant
may
have been made with
to
reference only executions in Hongkong
thinks
but his Lordship that
it is desirable to
notice
it in
in answering
the Fourrior's despatch, and with this views
he wishes to be in
position to give
instances of the
Execution of women
this counting
within
the last 25 years.
3. From the Criminal
Memoranda and Returns
prepand in
the Women
opy of
which
Kath
supplies
some years ago for
the confidential 15 use
this Department,
of
several mstances of
the Execution of
between 1883
females between
beau
and 1894 have collated. Those retures
however deal only
with
cases prior to
1895, and I
accordingly
to ask whether this dept could be furnished with similar retures!
for the capital
subsequent to
would of
cases
1894. They
course
be mated
confidential,
the
بية
of the
previous Memora
RIA.