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4PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
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WARRANT TO SUMMON JURY.
Coroner's Inquest at the gaol on the body of Leung & Loi alias Mok a Kwai, at 12 o'clock on the 29th day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven.
Hongkong
to wit.
To the Captain Superintendent of Police and his assistant Constables of the Colony of Hongkong. By virtue of my office, these are in Her Majesty's name to charge and command you
that on sight hereof you summon and warn six able and sufficient men of the colony personally to be and appear before me at the time and place *above written, then and there to do and execute all such things as shall be given them in charge on behalf of our Sovereign Lady the Queen touching the death of the above named person, and for your so doing this is your Warrant: and that you also attend at the time and place above mentioned to make a return of those you shall so summon, and further to do and execute such other matters as shall be then and there enjoined you. And have you then and there this Warrant.
Given under my hand and seal this 28th day of September in the year above written.
(Signed) J. RUSSELL,
Summon the following to form a panel :
P. W. Auton.
C. D. Bottomley.
A. Chart.
J. Lamke.
D. Muncherjee.
G. Raynal.
JURY:
Coroner.
(1) H. K. and Shanghai Bank.
(2) D. Lapraik & Co.
(3) Victoria Foundry.
(4) Blackhead & Co.
(5) Framjee Hormusjee & Co.
(6) Stanley Street.
(Signed) C. V. CREAGH,
Acting Capt. Supt. of Police.
Mr. C. D. Bottomley of Victoria, Foreman. Mr. Lamke of Victoria.
Mr. D. Muncherjee of Victoria.
The manner of execution of this Warrant appears by the above Schedules. The answer of
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(Signed)
JOSEPH WHITE, P.C. 42,
Summoning Officer.
In charge of the case-Inspector Sergeant BREMNER. Information of witnesses severally taken and acknowledged on behalf of our
Hongkong Sovereign Lady the Queen, at the house known as the Victoria Gaol, in Victoria, in the said Colony, on the 29th day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, before James Russell, Esq., Gentleman, Coroner for the said Colony, touching the death of Leung a Loi alias Mok a Kwai, then and there lying dead as follows, to wit:—the Jury having been duly sworn and having viewed the body :-
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Gordon Ducat, sworn, states: I am acting Superintendent of the Victoria Gaol. The deceased was admitted to gaol on the 18th August 1677. He was committed under the Leung a Loi alias Mok a Kwai, and he was finally committed on the 20th August 1877 for larceny and also returning from banishment. He was admitted to hospital on the 22nd August and died on the 28th September 1877. I produce the commitment Warrants.
(Signed) G. DUCAT.
Philip Bernard Chinery Ayres, sworn, states: I am Colonial Surgeon and Medical Officer of the gaol. The deceased was known to me as an old offender, and consumptive. I recollect his banishment. It was partly a reason for letting him out of gaol that he was in hospital a great portion of the time.
He has been in hospital ever since his commitment, and I certified that he was unable to attend at the present Criminal Sessions. He died yesterday in the Gaol Hospital of phthisis. He has been suffering from phthisis for years.
(Signed)
PH. B. C. AYRES.
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The above depositions were taken and acknowledged before me on this 29th September at the Victoria Gaol.
(Signed)
J. RUSSELL,
Coroner.
Gaol Hospital, Victoria, 28th September 1877.
I certify that I have examined the body of a Chinese prisoner named Leung a Loi alias Mok a Kwai who was admitted to Gaol Hospital on the 22nd August 1877 and died at 12.10 p.m. this day of Phthisis.
(Signed) PH. B. C. ATRES,
SIB,
Colonial Surgeon.
ACTING SUPERIntendent of Victoria Gaol to CORONER.
Gaol Office, Hong Kong, 28th September 1877.
I HAVE the honour to inform you that a Chinese prisoner named "Leung a Loi " (alias "Mok a Kwai"), 24 years of age, who was admitted to gaol on 13th August last and committed for trial at the Supreme Court on the 20th August for larceny and returning from deportation, died in Gaol Hospital at 12.10 p.m. this day. The body is now in the Gaol Dead-house awaiting inquest.
I have, &c. (Signed) G. DUCAT,
(T. 15.) Hongkong
Acting Superintendent.
An inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lady the Queen, at the House known as the Victoria Gaol, situate in Victoria, in the Colony of Hong- to wit. kong, on the Twenty-ninth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, before James Russell, Esq., Gentleman, the Coroner of our said Lady the Queen for the said Colony, on view of the body of Leung a Loi alias Mok a Kwai, then and there lying dead, upon the oath of Charles David Bottomley, Dodabhoy Muncherjee, Johannes Lamke, good and lawful men of the said Colony, duly chosen, and who, being then and there duly sworn, and charged to inquire for our said Lady the Queen, when, how, and by what means the said deceased came to his death, do upon their oaths say, that the deceased died at the Victoria Gaol on the 28th day of September 1877 whilst a prisoner on commitment for trial at the Supreme Court. on the charge of returning from banishment and also for felony, and the jury find that the said deceased died of natural causes, to wit phthisis, by the visitation of God and not otherwise.
In witness whereof the said Jurors of the Coroner aforesaid have hereunto set and subscribed their hands and seals in the year and day first above written.
(Signed)
J. RUSSELL, Coroner,
C. D. BOTTOMLEY, Foreman.
D. MUNCHERJEE,
J. LAMKE.
MINUTE by his Excellency the GOVERNOR.
I SHOULD be glad to get a special report from Dr. Ayres on the illness that proved fatal to Leong & Loi alias Mok a Kwai, with respect to whom the doctor stated at the inquest that he had been suffering from phthisis for years.
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(Signed)
J. POPE HENNESSY, 4th October 1877.
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