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92 persons were tried before. Supreme Caint

the

of whan 80 were

cawvided and only

12 acquitted... In the following year (1891) 139 persons were tried of whom 106 were convicted and 2.6 acquitted, and it will be observed that in

that

were

&

Year

the eim

ยอ

charged

of a graver description ethan

Mo

lefo

Than

the previous year, prismers having been cavicted

of Minder, & of Piracy with violone,

and d

of Burglary

AU W

infested at

The ledam that time by a gang of desperate characters from the Chinese "Mainland but airing to the

energetic efforts made to abrengetion

the Police Force a great reduction

in the

graver descriptions of

Crime became soon apparent and the Retur for 1892 shuus

that in that

year 89 person

were tried at the Impreme leant,

of

whon

mly

and

39

бо

were

cerwieled

37 acquitted and although.

7 laser of

The Return sheus

ev

Highway Robbery only 1 prismer

convicted of Minder, I

Was

of Binglary and There has been

of

Orive

a

Nove

of Piracy.

steady decrease aving

ever since

the great addition recently made to the strength of

the

to

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