ABSTRACT of CASES brought under COONIZANCE at the POLICK MAGISTRATES' COURT, during a period of Ten Years, from the 1st January, 1870, to 31st December, 1879, inclusive.
CASES HOW Disposed of, AND THE NUMBER OF MALE AND FEMALE PRISONERS UNDER EACH HEAD.
Committed to Prison
To keep the Peace,
to be of Good
FLOGGINGS IN HONGKONG.
RETURN of Prisoners flogged from 1st January, 1875, to 31st December, 1879, and by whose authority.
Police Magistrate.
Gaol
Superintendent.
TOTAL.
Visiting Justices and Gool Superintendent.
82
35
119
53
2
56
113
41
3
9
58
20
18
4
49
5
4
7
18
Years.
Total Number of Casey.
Ordered to And Security,
Years,
Supreme Court.
Committed
Punished for Preferring
Tota
Convicted and Punished
Discharged.
for Trial st Supreme Court.
ar detained pending Orders of
False Charge
Undecided.
or giving
His Excellency
Behaviour, and
the Governor.
to answer
False Testimony.
Number of Defendants.
1875
any Charge.
1876
M. F
1870, 5,936
1971,
6,400
5,702 6,143
M.
2,065 809 673
F.
M.
F.
3.
F.
M.
F.
M.
F.
M.
F.
M
F.
1877
1878
261
127
រ
12
***
836
28
40
6
70
14
8,332
019
2,406
311
148
1
28
414
16
40
32
9
9,211
1,017
1879
1872,
9,950
11,185
900 2,420
294
137
23
44
1
271
13
14,099 1.845
1878,
9.187
8,8101,352
1,748
2017
67
10
10
121
10,988
1,673
1874,
8,079
6,636 1,185
1,651
269
ហ្គ
101
175
8,665 1,436
1875,
8.03â
0,749
1,682 800
281
97
199
8,713
1,217
NOTE. No public floggings have been allowed in 1879 and 1879,
1876,
9.103
7,315 683 1,734 300
118
174
9,402
1,024
1877,
6,286. 9.100 7.166 1878 1879, 7,009 5,758 361
7,380
572 628
364 1,366 2,126 201 1,900 189
209
16
I
192
0,745 972
་་
200
18
98
22
146 13
18
280
92
AN
9,630
022
Victoria Gaol Office, 6th March, 1880,
4
8,105
602
C. B. PLUNKET,
Police Magistrate.
M. S. TONNOCHY,
Superintendent.
Magistracy, Hongkong, 24th February, 1880.
CORONER'S INQUESTS.
TABLE A.-Return of all Coroner's Cases, 1879.
Nationality.
Inquest Held.
Buried without Inquest.
Very much decom-
Men. Women. Boys. Girls. Total. Men. Women. Boys. Girls.posed, sex noi acer- Total.
kirable.
Europeans and Americans, -
8
.1
11
1
Chinese,
52
Portuguese,
Malays and Indians,
: : :
15
12
86 83
I
87
સ
103
I
1
4
Total,.
69
M
17
15 102
34
co
37
92
8
104
Total for 1878,-
75
37
8
5 103 28
4
35
92
}
90
Verdicts.
Accidental Death,,
Died from Gon 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, 1879.
Farropeans
Chineas.
and Americans.
Portn-! gese.
Indiaus
aud Malays.
Men. Girls. Boys. Men.
Women. Boys. | Girls. Girls.] Men. Women. Girls,
1
2 21
2
10
悲
1
3
Total
49
8.
1
2
52 1
7
15
12
1
3
1
102
Said to have died from the effects of a Shot fired from the Chinese Revenue Cruiser "Peng-Chan-Bai,”
TABLE C-Return of Burials without Inquest, 1879.
Europeans
Chinese.
Reason why no Inquest
and Americans.
was held.
Indians.
Very much
decompos
Found on Shore.
Found in Harbour.
ed, sex not Total.
ascertain-
Un-
En-
Men. Women. Men,
Women. Boys. Girls. Men.
able.
Known,
Known.
known.
known,
No auspicious circumstances,
1
28
2
26
13
70
20
39
3
14
No evidence and decomposed
11
9
• 00
1
23
8
A
State of Body, .........
Post Mortem satisfactory....
1
1
***
Total,.
1
33
$
37
22
104
22
57
3
22
Coroner's Office, Hongkong, 24th February, 1880.
C. V. CREAGH,
Coroner.
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