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498

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 18TH AUGUST, 1879.

Ch'an A-lin, of Tung-kún, a bricklayer, aged

25 years, was found at night in the street with

7 jackets and 2 pipes, that had been stolen that night from a house. As some other person

might have stolen the things and given them to him, he was only convicted of receiving the

property knowing it to have been stolen. He was sent to prison for two years with hard labour.

Léung A-shang, of Shun-tak, a coolie, aged 32 years, was found in a house at night with intent to steal things. He struck one of the people in the house. He was sentenced to three years' penal servitude for being in the house, and one year's imprisonment after that for striking the

man.

受賍以禁不與屋枝七街 也

不等現斷監

與賊人接贓

屋內偷竊或

枝或入他人

七件烟袋兩

賍而故爲接

以他明知賊

接賊年

也陳

二十三歲夜

也東莞縣人

陳連坭水匠

衣歲

贓或人兩服夜人匠

人因禁他人擊欲深德 監他 入故扑

年人

竊入人

三十二歲順 新會人年方

桃夫槊亞生 挑夫陳亞有

扑奴屋 載此工監因

盜人審歲

家得順生

+

定前奴故被 某伊

年

I

奴獄 亞七

Ch'an A-yau, of San-úi, a coolie, aged 33 years, and Liu A-sau, of Wai-chau, aged 30 years, were convicted of stealing things from a junk in Sháu-ki-wán harbour. Chan A-yau had been in prison three times before and so was sentenced

工故 Lui A-sau, who to seven years' penal servitude. had not been in prison before, was sentenced to three years only.

Mak-kwong, coolie, and Cheng A-ki were found guilty of snatching things from people in the street. Cheng A-ki had been in prison three times before for stealing things, he was now sent

to prison for seven years. Mák-kwong only got

three years, not having been in prison before.

W. H. MossOP,

Acting Deputy Registrar.

歲惠

箕審州

、陳

新年次前物灣得人連方有

未年定

嘗以

繫他

獄前

此

竊鄭現在及桃

被街

次偷查物

及鄭亞基因

挑夫麥亞光

香港巡理

何亞有木匠

也於本月十

府自已卯

七日偷去梁

亞灼木板四

年六月十

鄭基

因偷

偷 塊被拿到案

定罪監禁三

年麥光不過

現定監禁七

竊繫獄三次

五日起至

官斷監禁

十二日止

所判案情

選錄於後

案 竊

苦牢 個官塊亞七

點衆工餘日月斷被

另

枷發 於尾

號往作黑十

案件勝帶輪

日於亞

本有

月手梁

官被衣及船去十也 亞 嗎八於 根

三點鐘

MAGISTRACY, HONGKONG,

11th August, 1879.

Summary of cases deserving notice decided at; the Magistracy of Hongkong, from 2nd to 9th August, 1879, both days inclusive.

Larcenies.

1. Ho A-yau, a carpenter, was, on the 4th instant, convicted of stealing four planks of wood, the property of one Léung A-chéuk, and sen- tenced to four months' imprisonment, the first and last fourteen days to be in solitary confine- ment and the rest with hard labour, in addition to being publicly exposed in the stocks for three hours.

2. Léung A-kan, a seaman, was, on the 5th instant, convicted of stealing eight pieces of clothing from the steam-ship Moray, the property of one Chan A-tái and Kwok A-shing, and sen- tenced to six months' imprisonment with hard labour.

3. Li A-úi, a coolie, was, on the 6th instant, convicted and sentenced to three months'im-

prisonment with hard labour for stealing two

jackets, and a silver chain the property of one

Cheng A-i, from the Fung Heung brothel.

苦個判拿

工月監到八亞亞利日本水

操三官被銀 苦個斷

工月到

去鄭亞二

衣服兩件

並

案條件

娼日本

丙鳳十

李亞匯肩

挑者也於

香九於肩