ΤΟΤΑΙ
NUMBER
TOTAL
NUMBER
OF
OF
CASES.
PRISO-
NERS.
Convicted
PILU
Punished.
Discharged.
Committed
for Trial at
the Supreme
Court.
ABSTRACT OF CASES UNDER COGNIZANCE OF THE POLICE MAGISTRATES COURT, DURING THE YEAR 1875.
CASES HOW DISPOSED OF. AND THE NUMBER OF MALE AND FEMALE PRISONERS UNDER EACH HEAD.
To find Security.*
WRITS ISSUED BY THE POLICE MAGISTRATES, DURING THE YEAR 1875,
Warrauts.
Arrest.
Distress. I
Search.
To enter
Sumqucra
Houses.
Magis-
trates'
Orders.
M.
F.
M. F.
M. F.
M. F.
M. | F. M. F.
M. F. M
F. 31. F.
M. P.
8.055 9.930 6,749 890
281 1,682
95
9
1
16
Co
26
J
118
17
23
20
1
8,713
1.217
3,266
105
41
33
16
20
2
15
3,528
TOTAL MALES AND FEMALES,...,
9,950
* Consisting of Offenders not sentenced to Imprisonment.
THE CASES CONSISTED OF:-
Abduction,
3
Brought forward,...
...1,686
Brought forward....
...2,898
Brought forward..
...5,054
Absent from Ship without Leave, ...
3
Burial of Chinese Corpse elsewhere than in a Ceinutery,
Accessory before the Fact to Felony,
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Cattle turned inose on Public Ways....
15
Found by Night with Dangerous and Offensive Weapons?. with Intent to break into Dwelling Houses,
Do. wier do.
do.,
Cattle Stealing,
B
Administering Drugs,
1
Child Stealing.
Aiding and Abetting in Felony,
3
Allowing Uamuzzlei Ferocious Dogs to be at large,
19
Chinese not Holders of Night Passes found carrying Arms, Chinese Offenders found in the Colony after Banishment
6
Fraudulently using False Trade-Marks and Labels,
Found by Night in Dwelling Houses with Iutent to com- mit Felony,
Street Nnisances. viz.: Neglecting to clean out Dustį Bins, and throwing Rubbish, &c., into the Street, | Throwing Rubbish into the Harbour, or on the Beach, 49 Offences relating to Coin,
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14
Offensive Weapons-Having Possession of,
2
Frand by Bankrupt,
Årson.
1
KAT
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Assaults accompanied with Damage to Property.
14
under Ordinance No. 9 of 1857, and in Breach of 15 Conditional Pardon under Ordinance No. 1 of 1860,)
Furious Driving,
Obstruction of Roads and Streets, &c., by Hawkers, i Chair Coolies, and Shop-keepers,
778
Harbouring Seamen Deserters,
Obtaining Money, &c., under False Pretences,
Assaults at or in connection with Biotons Assemblages,
4
Confederating with Pirates,
1
Harbouring deported Persons,
Assaults, (Comnion),
368
Conspiracy to defraud,
Having Possession of Spurions Opium with Intent to
Perjury,
Assaulting, obstructing or resisting Police in the Execu-
68
Conspiracy with Intent to commit Felony,
fraud,
Piracy,
tion of their Duty,
...
Conspiracy to accuse of Crime,
1
Highway Robbery with Arms or with Violence,
3
Piracy with Murder,
Assaults with Lutent to reb,
2
Contempt of Court,
1
House Breaking,
Assaults with latent to commit an Unnatural Offence,
Crimes and Offences committed in Chinese Territory,
2
Illegally Pawning,
2
Assaults with Wounding.
Cruelty to Animals....
24
Illicit Distillation,
Obstruction of Wharves by Boat People,...
Posting Bills on Walls, &c.,
Preferring False Charge or giving wilful False Testimony, 35
Purchasing or receiving Begimental Clothes, &c.,
Assisting Soldiers to Desert,
Catting and Destroying Trees,
20
Indecent Assaults,
5
Rape,
Assisting Seathen to Desert,
1
Cutting and Wounding and Inflicting Bodily Injuries,
19
Indecent Exposure of Person by bathing or otherwise?
15
Receiving stolen Goods,
Assuming Name. Designation, &c., of Police Constables,
?
Damage to Property,
16
and Lewdness,
Refusal of Duty by British Merchant Seamen,
A large at Night without Night Passes or Lights,
542
Dangerous and Onsive Trades, Carrying on,
3
Tueiting a Person to commit a Misdemeanour,
Refusing to pay Boat and Chair Hire,
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1G
3
109
Attempting to commit Felony,
89
Defiting Streams. ...
17
Intimidating Workmen,
1
Attempting to courait other Offences,
G
Demanding Money by Monaces,
Jurors neglecting to answer Coroner's Summonses to
Attempting to extort by Threats, Menaces, &c.,
Behaviour calculated to provoke a Breach of the Peace,
1
20
Deportation from Canton to this Colony, under H.M.'s Order in Council of 1865,
attend an Inquest,
Larcenies. (Common),
434
Bestiality,
Breach of Ordinances.—
For Buildings,
For Cargo Boats....
For Harlour and Coasts,
For Gaols,
For Marine Store Dealers,
For Markets....
For Pawnbrokers.
Deportation from Japan
do.,
Lareenies from Dwelling Houses,
117
Deportation from Shanghai
do.,
ão.
Larcenies from the Person,
55
2
Desertion from Foreign Ships,
Larcenics from Wreck,
2
Descrtiu from HM.'s Army and Navy,
13
Larconies from Ships or Boats in Harbone,.
67
Desertion of Merchant Seanen,,
2
Larcenies (of Vegetables and Fruit) from Gardens and
8
Detention of Seamen's Efters,
enclosed Places, ...
Detention of Her Majesty's Mails.
Libel,..
1
267
Disorderly Behaviour accompanied with Damage to Pro- ?
Making Bonfires, or Firing Crackers,
429
58
For Preparation and Sale of prepared Opium...
For Preservation of Birds,
For Registration of Births and Deaths.
For Registration of Househol lers and Servants,..
For Betail of Spirituous and Fermented Liquors,
For Storage of Explosive Substances,
For Storage of Guopowder,...
For Street Chairs and Vehicles,
For Suppression of Gamb ing.
For Weights and Mensuses.
Breach of Chinese Passengers' Act of 1855,
Breach of Harbour Regulations,
Breach of Military Law (Seldiers disposing of Uniform, &c.),
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Malicions Injury to Property,
Disorderly Behaviour, Drunkenness, Fighting, &c.,
936
Mans aughter,
Disorderly Behaviour, wasting Water at Public Hydrants,
1
Mendicancy,
161
9
Discharging Fire Arms,
Misconduct as Domestic Servants,
16
Discharging Stones and other Missiles to danger of Per-
Misconduct as Police Constables,
5
17
sons and Property,
Misconduct as Private Watchmen,
19
Dog Stealing,
Misconduct as Workmen,
Doubtful Witnesses to find Security for Appearance,
11
Dredging in the Harbour at Anchorage for Ships of War, Embezzlement.
Embracery. (Intimidating Witnesses),...
|9642
Murder. ...
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66
Enticing, Docoying, or by Force or Frand bringing to, or taking away, Men or Women from the Colony,
31.
Escape of Prisoners from Gaol,
Breach of Post Office Ordinance.
1.
Escape of Prisoners from Custody of Police,
Breach of Recognizance,
7
Extortion by Colour of Office,
Breach of Stamp Act,
Extortion by Menaces,
1,318
Breach of Quarantine Regulations,
False Imprisonment,
Burglary,
Bribery or Attempts to bribe Police Coustables,..
Carried forward,...
3
Forgery,
13
Negligently allowing Prisoners to extape,
Night Noises by playing at the Game called “Chai-mui,' Night Noises by Watchmen, &c..
Nuisances. Various-consisting of:-
25
Exposing Night Soil in the Streets in uncovered ? Buckets, and in open Boats along the Praya.... i Hanging Wet Clothes. &c.. to dry over Public Ways, 13 House Nuisances, viz. Keeping Pigs, allowing Dirt and Filth to remain on Premises or in imme- diate Vicinity thereof,
Oheying Calls of Nature in the Street, Raking Dust Bins,
8
Registered Householders permitting Gambling within a
Rescuing Prisoners from Custody of l'olice,...
Robberies from Person with Wounding,
Rogues ani Vagabonds:-
As Street Gamblers and Watchmen to Gamblers.
As Suspicious Characters,
As Vagrants (Europeans and Indians),
Seamon making False Statements as to Ships in which }
they served, and presenting False Characters,
Stragers from Foreign Ships.
Stragglers from British Men-of-War,
189
Street Gambling, (treated as Obstruction of Public Ways), 123
Street Noises by Hawkers,
Trespass on Crown Land,
Unauthorised Religious Ceremonies (Chinese),
Unlawful Possession of Property,
Unlicensed Auctioneer,
Unlicensed Coolie Lodging Houses,
Unlicensed Seamen's Boarding Houses,
Unlicensed Hawking,
Unlicensed Plying of Boats for Hire,
Unwholesome Provisions, Exposing for Sale
into Colony,
Using Throats with Intent to extort, Using Threats of Violence to P'ersons, Unlicensed Money Changer,
House,
Riotous Assemblages,
Robberies from Person,
J20
27
225
46
Unnatural Offence,
258
6
203
45
2
Bringing
6
RESTAT | * | 885 | 8-8389
21
3
36
17
TOTAL....
3
1
8,055
...1,686
Carried forward,...
2,893
Carried forward........
354
C. MAY, 1st Police Magistrate.
73
TOTAL.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 12TH FEBRUARY, 1876.
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