ABSTRACT of CASEs brought under COGNIZANCE at the POLICE MAGISTRATES' COURT, during a period of Ten Years, from the 1st January, 1870, to 31st December, 1879, inclusive.
Total Years. Number
CASES NOW DISPOSED OF, AND THE Number of Male and Female Prisoners under EACH HEAD.
of Cases.
Convicted and Punished.
Discharged.
Committed for Trial at Supreme Court.
Committed to Prison or detained pending Orders of His Excellency the Governor.
Ordered to find Security.
To keep the Peace, to be of Good Behaviour, and Punished for Preferring False Charge or giving False Testimony.
Total
'Undecided.
Number of Defendants.
M.
F.
M.
F.
M.
F.
M.
F.
M.
F.
M.
F.
M.
F.
M.
F.
1870. 5,936
1871, 6,100
1872, 9,050
1873, 9,137
1874, 8,079
6,636 1,185
1875, 8,055 6,749 800
1876, 9,103 7,815 683
1877, 9,283 7,336 572
1878, 9,100 7,166 628
1879, 7,009 5,758 361
5,702 609
6,143 673
2,005 261
127 1
12 360 28
2,406 311
148 1
28 414
11,185 999
2,420 294
137 23
44 271
8,810 1,352
1,798 260
67 10
15 171
29 1,651 269
101 2
31 175
21 1,632 231
95 9
4 190
1,744 300
118 11
6 174
1,900 2,126 251
364 200
16 16
192 200
18 11
98 1,900
189 145
13 18
230
RESAZBBENS
40 16
40 19
23 37
50 20
23 23
25 17
14 22
10 18
- 1 -30516
G
70 14
8,352 919
32 9,211 1,017
13 14,099 1,345
35 6
10,933 1,673
21 8,665 1,436
20 8,713 1,217
20 9,402 1,024
12 9,745 972
19 9,630 922
34 8,103 602
C. B. PLUNKET,
Police Magistrate.
Magistracy, Hongkong, 24th February, 1880.
CORONER'S INQUESTS.
TABLE A.-Return of all Coroner's Cases, 1870.
Inquest Held.
Buried without Inquest,
Nationality.
Very much decomposed, sex not ascertainable.
Total.
Men. Women. Boys. Girls. Total. Men. Women. Boys. Girls.
Europeans and Americans,...
8 2
Chinese,
52 7 15
Portuguese,
Malays and Indians,
3 0.4
:: 1 11 1 12 86 33
1
1 3
37 22
8
103
Total,... 63 7 17 15 102
34 3 37 22 8 104
Total for 1878,...... 75 17 6 5 103 28 4 35 22 1 90
Verdicts.
Accidental Death,...
Died from Gun Shot wound,
Felo de Se,
Found Dead, (Cause of Death unknown),..
Manslaughter,.
Murder
No Jurisdiction,*.
Natural Causes,
Do. in Gaol,
Overdose of Opium,
Suicide while Insane,
TOTAL,
TABLE B.-Return of Inquests, 1870.
Europeans and Americans.
Chinese.
Portu-guese.
Indians and Malays,
Men. Girls, Boys. Men. Women. Boys. Girls.| Girls. Men. Women. Girls.
+
2 2
21 6 10 6
1 11 3
'
Total.
·
49 1 7 13 6
2 ::
2 8 1
2 52 7 15
12 3
1020
* Said to have died from the effects of a Shot fired from the Chinese Revenue Cruiser “Peng-Chan-Hai,”
TABLE C.-Return of Burials without Inquest, 1879.
C
Europeans and Americans.
Reason why no Inquest was held.
Chinese,
Very much decomposed, sex not ascertainable.
Total.
Found on Shore, Found in Harbour.
Men. Women. Men. Women. Boys.| Girls.| Men.
Katzen.
Un-known.
Known.
Un-known.
No suspicions circumstances,
State of Body,
Post Mortem satisfactory.
Total,.. 1
28 2 26 13
ΤΟ ++
No evidence and decomposed
OF
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32 1
ཋམས
20 33 3
14 1.
1 23 1
1 33 3
87 22
8 104
22 57 3
ma 22
Coroner's Office, Hongkong, 24th February, 1880.
C. V. CREAGH,
Coroner.