CLASS
OF
PRISONERS.
Marder.
RETURN showing the CLASSIFICATION of OFFENCES for which PRISONERS were committed to VICTORIA GAOL, from the respectice Courts of the Colony, during the Year 1877.
Am
.
1
:
124
-
**
12
12
19
G
174
N
...
·M
17
2
C
***
19
186
35
53
12
61
Manslaughter.
Piracy.
Catling and Wounding, or Assault occnxiuning Grier- ous Bodily Harin, &o.
Asmull with Intent to Rob, Highway Robbery, Rulibary with Violonce und Attempt at suchi,
Barglory, Attempt to commit Burglary, and having Possession of House-breaking Hmpletaviti.
Larceny, Larceny from a House, Loreeny from the P'erson atid froin Ships in the Harbour.
Defrauding, and Obtaining Goods or Money nader False Pretences
Unlawful Possession or Receiving Stolen Gooils, &c.
Illegally Pawning Goods, &c.
Sodomy and Unnatural Offences,
Indecent Assault.
Child Stealing, Kidnapping, Abduction of Females, For- cible Detention, Buying or Selling of Human Beings.
Forgery, Coining or Uttering Counterfeit Coin, Notes or Certificates.
Perjury, Suborning Witnesses to Cuminit Perjury, Preferring Fulse Churge, and Giving Wilful Falso Testimony, &c.
Threatening to Aceuse of Crime, Accusing of Crite with Intent to Extort Money.
Assault, Asanult with Wounding and Rioting,
Drunk and Incapable, Fighting and Quarrelling, Diss orderly Conduct, Refusing to pay Chair Hire, and Resisting the P’ulice in the Execution of their Duty. Misconduct as a Private or Public Servant, Refusal of Duty, Negligence, Desertion and Hemaining be- bind from Ship.
Breaches of Military or Naval Disciplius.
Gambling or Haunting Gambling Houses, &c.
Rogues and Vagabonda, Suspicious Characters, and Vagrancy.
Breach of Conditional Pardon and Returning to the Colony from Deportation.
Brench of Ordinance with regard to Weights and Measures and Registration.
Without Passes, Unlawful Hawking or Selling without
■ Licence, Obstruction, Nuisance, Damagë, Making Bontires and Firing Crackers, Defiling Streams, Uttering Cries, Trespassing, Breach of Ordinance for Harbour and Market Regulations.
Breach of Brothel Ordinance.
Committed for Trin), Remandedl from Courts, Crown Witnesses, and Pending Orders, &c.
Chiness Females, ..........
Chinese Sales ...... Indian Fernales, ................ Indian Males, co-i------
European Females........ European Males,......
#
2
TOTAL.........
в
A
***
768
27
166
12
1
7
6
8
15
793
80
180
1
Victoria Gaol Office, Hongkong, 10th May, 1878,
:
---
HA
...
.
10
19
8
***
11
8
11
19
4
134
438
39
HO
16
4
= 8
235
39
170
3
1
15
114
+3
277
193
16
dom
100
For Debt.
439
2
10
1
72
1
1
16
3,239
2
192
G70
22
899
23
3,046
Acting Superintendent, T. C. DEMPSTEr, Coptain,
+
GRAND TOTAL,