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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 23RD APRIL, 1879.

SUPREME COURT,

Hongkong, 21st April, 1879.

Summary of cases tried at the Supreme Court

during the Criminal Sessions which commenced on 18th April, 1879.

Chan A-hi and Wong A-loi both of San On, boat boys, were convicted of breaking into the house of Yow A-cheong at Yau-má-tí and steal- ing therefrom a pillow box containing several articles of clothing, some silver ornaments and sundry moneys. Three previous convictions

against the first prisoner were proved and he being an old offender was sentenced to five years'

penal servitude. No previous conviction being proved against second prisoner he was sentenced

to imprisonment for one year.

Wong A-sing of Tung Kun, hawker, was con- victed of stealing $2.80 from the person of Tang A-chik at the Chinese Recreation Ground. There

were two previous convictions proved against this prisoner and as he was an old offender he was sentenced to three years' penal'servitude.

Yung A-sing of Pün Ü, seaman, was convict- ed of stealing a bangle from the arm of an infant named A-kow. There being no previous convic-

tion against this prisoner he was sentenced to one year's imprisonment only.

Chan A-shap and Lau A-chin of Suh Ping, traders, were found guilty of stealing a ring. Chan A-shap was the actual thief. Lau A-chin was in the shop aiding and assisting. He was equally guilty. Chan A-shap was sent to prison for two years with hard labouı. Lau A-chin was sen- tenced to be kept in penal servitude for three years, he having been twice formerly convicted.

Ün A-cheung of Tung Kun, hawker, was con- victed of child stealing. He said that he found the child lost in the street. If his intentions had been good he would have taken the child to the nearest Police Station instead of carrying it off to Ap-li-chow and abandoning it there. He was sentenced to three years' penal servitude with three months' solitary confinement in each year.

He might have been sentenced to be three times

flogged.

選錄

斷案情

日起所

月十八

年犯年斷三查銀衣去破!

案黃監

犯案故斷監禁一

三次因乃舊犯戒

陳

苦

舊

嘗五敌罪案飾有竊地

工斷積獄犯解八其

其大販

工三年

等或

斷案

案查該

查立

笪人

囊於地因升

苦故乃繫該據元竊鄧探在東

案被釧阿竊子人升

逮一 小業 解隻手子因舟

二陳罰展案者人

亦與陳為寓

竊港

商羅

旅定

斷監禁

案底故

犯前無

繫獄二次故也

以其前經犯罪

監禁苦工三年

禁苦工三年每年

一年

或可鞭撻三次不 坐黑牢三閱月且

香港按 陳喜來俱新安人

小販黃升東 容升番禺 陳十劉展俱羅定 袁昌東莞人小販爲

察使司

業爲因拐帶人口

自一千八百

香港巡理府

衙門於

本年四

查陳喜前經定罪

去枕箱壹個內有 銀碎等立據解案 衣服數件及首飾

艇戸也在油蔴地 破屏入邱長室竊

童迷路遇諸途止

展與謀同謀者

之宿亦憫人之善

月十二日起

至十九日止

所判案情選

罰亦同故官斷

故犯三展苦

也罪年則工

投該

A

應附斷 近 每斷往差宜之途稱

不且年監鴨館携善止該

立業昌

MAGISTRACY, HONGKONG,

21st April, 1879.

Summary of cases deserving notice decided at

the Magistracy of Hongkong, from the 12th to

the 19th April, 1879, both days inclusive.

Assault.

1. Ch'an A-chi, a chair coolie, was on the 15th instant convicted of assaulting one Ch'an A-shing, master of the "Yat T'ai" chandler's shop, and fined $15 in default 14 days' imprisonment with hard labour and to be exposed in the stocks for three hours opposite the complainant's shop; and

also ordered to enter into his personal recogni- zance in $50 to be of good behaviour for twelve months.

案

錄於左

選止起

打 毆 爲

該作監銀被店日於

十另前

四員 陳 發 日否

否斷亞雜十夫

復保具號往兼則罰勝貨五也