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No. 63.
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WARRANT TO SUMMON JURY.
Coroner's Inquest at the New Government Civil Hospital on the Body of TAI-YAU, at Three o'clock in the afternoon, on the 27th day of October in the Year of Cur Lord One thousand Eight hundred and Seventy-seven.
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 sie 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.
year above written.
Given under my hand and seal this 27th day of October in the
Summon the following to form a punel-
Jury:
(1). P. ROSE,...
(2). J. JACK,,
(3). CONRAD H. BLUHM,
(4). ROBERT F. SMITH,..
(5). A. G. AITKEN,
(6). W. S. Bamsey,
JOHN JACK...
R. F. SMITH,
CONBAI H. BLUHM,
Siemssen & Co.
JAMES RUSSELL,
Coroner.
..Hongkong Distillery Co.
Pustan & Co.
Dock Co.
..Dock Co.
........Gas Co.
C. V. CREAGH,
Act. Capt. Supt. of Police,
........of East Point, Foreman. .............................. ......... ............of The Dock Co.
........................ ................of Messrs. Pustau & Co.
The manner of Execution of this Warrant appears by the above Schedules. The answer of
In charge of the case-Inspector McKie.
JOSEPH WHITE, P.C. 42, Summoning Officer.
Information of Witnesses severally taken and acknowledged on behalf of our Sovereign Lady THE QUEEN, at the house known as the Government Civil Hospital in Victoria in the said Colony, on the 27th day of October, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred and Seventy-seven, before J. RUSSELL, Gentleman, Coroner for the said Colony, touching the death of HO-TAI-YAU, alias MOK-TAI-YAU, then and there lying dead as follows, to wit:--The Jury having been duly Sworn and having viewed the body:-
LAU-A-YEE, declared, states:----I live at 42, Peel Street. The deceased was known to me. She was called TAT-YAU. I don't know what her surname was. She lived in the same house with me. She fell down the area with a woman called A-Só on the morning of the 17th instant. I don't know what
she was.
I had not seen her from the time she came into Hospital until now.
Her LAU-+ A-YEK.
Mark.
age
1 have
CHAN-A-KUNG, declared, states:-1 am employed by ACHEE & Co., the furniture brokers. known the deceased for 5 or 6 years. Her name was Mok-Tai-Yau. She lived at 42, Peel Street. She was a friend. She was unmarried. She was 26 years of age. I want to bury the body.
陳貢
CHARLES JOHN WHARRY, sworn, states:-I am Superintendent of this Hospital. The deceased was admitted to Hospital on the morning of the 17th instant, suffering from a fracture of the lower jaw, and one of the left thigh, and some internal contusions. From the effects of the latter she died this morning.
The above informations duly taken and acknowledged.
C. J. WHARRY, M.D.
Adjourned till four o'clock, on Monday, the 29th October, at the Magistracy.
J. RUSSELL,
Coroner.
J. RUSSELL, Coroner.
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29th October.
Verdict:--
Jurors answer their names at Magistracy at four o'clock. No further evidence. Misadventure, but with special finding. See inquisition. See also evidence in case of Fung-a-Sz, alias A-SAU. Inquisition No. 62, of the 29th October.
J. RUSSELL, Coroner.
An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lady THE QUEEN, at the House known as the Magistracy, situate in Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, on the Twenty-ninth day of October, in the Year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and Seventy-seven, before JAMES RUSSELL, Esquire, Gentleman, the Coroner of our said Lady THE QUEEN, for the said Colony, on view of the Body of MOK-TAI-YAU, then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of JOHN JACK, ROBERT FRASER-SMITH, CONRAD HERMAN BLUHM, 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 MOK-TAI-YAU came to her Death, do upon their Oaths say, That Moя-TAI-Yau, on the morning of the Seventeenth of October, in the Year aforesaid, being on the roof of a house known as 44, Peel Street, Victoria, and having fled there in consequence of the entry of an Inspector of Brothels into the house known as 42, Peel Street, where she lived, accidentally and by misfortune fell down an open area known as a smoke-hole, unto the granite pavement beneath, and by means thereof did receive mortal bruises, fractures and contusions of which she died on the Twenty-seventh October in the aforesaid year; and so the Jurors aforesaid, upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said MOK-TAI-YAU aforesaid accidentally, casually, and by misfortune came to her death and not otherwise. The Jury aforesaid are further of opinion that Inspector LEE, the aforesaid Inspector of Brothels, exceeded his powers by entering the house No. 42, Peel Street, without a Warrant or any direct authority from the Registrar General or the Superintendent of Police, and would strongly recommend that the whole system of obtaining convictions against keepers of unlicensed brothels be thoroughly revised, as the present practice is, in their opinion, both illegal and immoral.
In witness whereof, the said Coroner as well as the Jurors aforesaid, have hereunto set and
subscribed their hands and seals, on the year and day first above written.
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J. RUSSELL,
Coroner.
JOHN JACK,
Foreman.
R. FRASER-SMITH.
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C. H. BLUHM.
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