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TOTAL

NUMBER

OF

CASES.

Convicted

priv

Punished.

Discharged.

Committed

for Trial at

the Supreme

Court.

Committed to

Prison, or De-

tained pending!

Orders of His

Excellency the

Governor,

ABSTRACT o* CASES xsara CENIZANCH or mus POLICE MAGÁSTRATIN CHULI, 4) athu

Cases How DISPOALD OF, and the Number of Male and Female PurweNİRS UNDER KACH IKAD,

Ordered to find Security.

WHIT* INSURD by the Potser MauwtraUEA, DA RỤNG Tthe Year 197.

WARRANTS.

Undeciced.

Total

Number of

Defendants.

Summonses

for

Defendants.

Summonses

for

Witnesses.

TOTAL

Abduction of Females,........

Administering Drugs, .

Aiding and abetting in larceny,

Allowing Ununuzzled and Ferocious Dogs to be at large,

Accessory after the Fact to Felony,

Assaults, connion,

786

Assaults at or in connection with Riotous Assemblages,

Assaults accompanied with. Damage of Property,

10 Detention of Seamen's Effects,

Assaulting, or obstructing, or resisting Police in Execution of their Duty,

193

Assaults with Intent to rob,

Deportations from Japan,

M.

F. Mr. F. M. F. M.

ML.

F'.

༢

M.

F. M. F. AL. F. AL.

F.

M.

F.

9,950 11,185 999 2,426 294 187

23

44

30

6

11

1 294

12

28

8

13

1 14,099) 1,345-

3,372

233

40

6

93

31

2

3,781

*Consisting of Offenders not sentenced to Imprisonment.

TOTAL MALES AND FEMALES,

.15,444

THE CASES CONSISTED OF:-

354515265

Brought forward,.

Damage of Property,

Defiling Streams..

Desertion of Merchant Seamen,

Detention of H. M.'s Mails,

Negligently allowing Prisoners to escape,

Dangerous and Offensive Trades, carrying on,.................. ·

Desection from H. M.'s Army and Navy,......

Nuisances, (various), consisting of:-

House Nuisances, viz.: Keeping Pigs, allowing Dirt and Filth to

3,221

Brought forward..........

22

3

Night Noises, by playing the Game called “Chai Mui,”

14

Night Noises by Watchinen,

6,144

I

2

11

10

5

remain on Premises or in immediate Vicinity,

625.

Street Nuisances, neglecting to clean out Dust Bins,

101

Exposing Night Soil in the Street in uncovered Buckets, and in

*

Discharging Fire Arins,

open Boats along the Praya......

Arson, or Attempts to cominit Arson.

82

Assuming Name, Desiguation,

Discharging Stones and other Missiles to danger of Persons and Property,

7

Throwing Rubbish into Harbor or on the Beach,.

70

&c. of Police Constables,

2

Disorderly Behaviour, accompanied with Damage of Property,

63

Raking Dust Bins,...

Assisting Scaunen to desert,

48

3

Attempts to commit Felonies,

Disorderly Behaviour by Europeans:-Drunkenness, Quarreling, Fighting and

Hanging Wet Clothes, &c., to dry over Public Ways,.

41

36

creating Disturbances,.

1,254

At large in the Night without Passes or Lights,

Obeying Calls of Nature in the Street,

· 34

1,189

Disorderly Behaviour y Chinese, Fighting,

· 336

Attempts to extort by Color of Oflice,

7

Behaviour calculated to provoke a Breach of the Peace,

Doubtful Witnesses to find Security for Appearance,.

901

9

70

Embezzlement,

Obstruction of Roads and Streets, &c., by Hawkers, Chair Coolies, and

11

Breach of Ordinances;--

Shop-keepers,

360

Escape of Prisoners from Custody of Police,

4

For Buildings,

Obstruction of Wharves by Boat People.......

55

11

For Cargo-Boats, «

Extortion by Color of Office,

2

Obtaining Money or Goods by False Pretences,

16

7

For Jails,

False Imprisonment,

6

Offences relating to Coins,

10

17

For Markets,....

Forcibly taking away or detaining Adults with Intent to ransom, &c.,

12

Perjury,.

303

For Marine Store Dealers,

Forgery...

I

Piracy and Murder,

2

For Pawnbrokers,

Found by Night in Dwelling Houses, with Intent to commit Felony,

5

Posting Bilis,

16

For Preparation and Sale of Prepared Opiwn,

Fraudulently using False Trade Marks and Labels, .....

I

Preferring False Charge, &c.,.

27

ม

Furious Driving,

Rape,

For Registration of ¡louses and Servants,

49

For Beryll of Spirituous and Fermented Liquors,

Harboring Deserted Seanien, ...........

2

Registered Householder, permitting Gambling within a House,

23

Highway Robbery with Arms or with Violence,

10

For Street Chairs and Vehicles,..

Receiving Stolen Goods,

240

Indecent Assaults on Females,

For Suppression of Gambling Houses,

Refused of Daty by British Merchant Scamen,

6

For Suppression of Piracy,,

For Weights and Measures,

Breach of Contract, Breach of Harbor Regulations,

Indecent Exposure of Persons by Bathing or otherwise, and Lewdness,-

26

Indicent Pictures, exposing for Sale,

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Intimidating Witnesses,

1

Intimidating Workmen,

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Refusal of Duty by Seamen of Foreign Ships,,

2

Robberies,

2

Rogues and Vagabonds:-

As Street Gamblers and Watchmen to Gamblers................

281

75

Breach of Merelrint Shipping Act,

Jurors neglecting to answer Coroner's Sunminous for Attendance at Inquests,...

2

Brench of Recognizance.

Kidnapping,

As Vagrants, (Europeans), .

As Suspicious Characters, ......................................................

210

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78

6

Larcenies,

109

Breach of Regulations for Boarding Houses,

572

1

Larcenies from Dwelling Houses..........

107

B:Bery, or Attempts to bribe Police Constables, ......

Rescuing Prisoners from Custody of Police,

3

Larcenies from the Person,

69

Stragglers from Men of War,..

Burglary,

16

11

Larcenics from Ships

or Boats in Harbor,

H

Burial of Chinese Corpso elsewhere than in a Cemetery,

1

Cattle turned loose on Public Ways.....

Larcenies of Vegetables or Fruits from Gardens and Enclosed Places,...

Street Gambling, (treated as Obstruction of Public Ways),

220

4

Street Noises by Hawkers,.

478

10

603

Tresspass on Crown Lauds,.

Chinese Offenders found in Colony after Banishment under Ordinance No. 9 of 1857, and in Breach of Conditional Pardon under Ordinance No. 1

36

Littl

1

Unauthorized Religions Ceremonies,..

4

13

Magistrates' Order, Disobedience of,...

1

Unlawful Possession of Property,

of 1860,

Making Bonfires or Firing Crackers,.......

15-1

Child Stealing.

Unlicensed Coolie Lodging Houses,

330

7

11

Manslaughter,

&

Unlicensed Hawking,

Conspiracy in the Colony to accuse of Rubbery and Murder in Chinese Territory,

668

1

Mendicancy,

198

Conspiracy in the Colony to comunit Marder,

Unlicensed Plying of Beats for Hire,

I

Mendicants, bringing into Colony,.

1

Contempt of Court,

4

Misconduct as Domestic Servants,.

42

Crines aud Offences committed in Chincse Territory,

Unnatural Offences, .

Unwholesome Provisions, exposing for sale or bringing into Colony,

8

Misconduct as Police Constables,

20

Uttering Forged Bank Notes,

Cruelty to Animals,..

I

13

Misconduct as Private Watchmen,

44

Cutting and Destroying Trees,

34

Misconduct as Worknien,

11

Cutting and Wounding, and inflicting bodily Injuries,

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9,950

Murder,

4

Carried forward,.

3,221

Carried forward,.

6,111

C. MAY, 1st Police Magistrate.

135

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 29TH MARCH, 1873.