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Total Number

of

Cases.

ABSTRACT OF CAUSES UNDER COGNIZANCE OF THE POLICE MAGISTRATES' COURT, DURING THE YEAR 1871.

CASES HOW DISPOSED OF, AND THE NUMBER OF MALE AND FEMALE PRISONERS UNDER EACH HEAD.

Ordered to find Security.

WRITS ISSUED BY THE POLICE MAGISTRATES, DURING THE YEAR 1871.

WARRANTS.

Undecided.

Total Number of Defendants.

Summonses for

Defendants.

Summonses for Witnesses.

M. F. M. F. M. F. M.

F.

༣

6,400 6,143 673 2,406 311 148

I

28

Total Males and Feinales,..

M.

F. M. F.

M. F. M.

F.

M.

F.

65

5

8-19 11

40

7

32.

J 9,211❘ 1,017

2,302

329

58

10

75

66

.10,228

2,840

THE CASES CONSISTED OF:-

Administering Drugs,

3

Brought forward,...

Allowing unmuzzled Ferocious Dogs to be at large,

12

Child-stealing,

1,894

7

Brought forward,...

8,902

Manslaughter,...

Assaults (Common),

629

Compounding Felony,

1

Mendicancy,

Assaulting or Resisting Police in the Execution of their Duty,

86

Conspiracy to defraud,

1

Misconduct as Workmen,

Assaults at or in connection with Riotous Assemblages,

2

Contempt of Court,

8

Misconduct as Police Constables,

Assaults accompanied with Damage of Property,.

13

Crimes and Offences committed in Chinese Territory,

15

Misconduct as Private Watchmen,

Assaults with Intent to rob,

1.

Cruelty to Animals,

15

Misconduct as Domestic Servants,

Assuming Designation of Police Constables,

2

Cutting and Wounding, and inflicting bodily Injuries,

12

Murder,

Attempts to commit Felonies,

At large in the Night without Passes or Lights.

Breach of Ordinances:-

13

Cutting and Destroying Trees,

Negligently allowing Prisoners to escape,

390

Damage of Property,

Nuisances,

Behaviour calculated to provoke a Breach of the Peace,

67

Defiling Streams,

Obstruction of Public Ways by Hawkers, Chair Coolies, Shop-keepers, and

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

Wharves by Boat People,

...

For Buildings,

3

Desertion from a Foreign Man-of-War,

2

Obtaining Money or other Property by False Pretences,...

For Cargo-Boats,

6

Detention of Seamen's Effects,

1

Offences relating to Coins,

599

870

12

12

For Chairs and Vehicles,

173

Discharging Fire Arms,...

1

Perjury,

For Jails, ...

6

Discharging Stones, &c., to danger or damage of Persons and Property,

3

Personating Bail,

For Markets,

215

Disorderly Behaviour,

1,084

Piracy with Murder,

For Marine Store Dealers,

2

Disorderly Behaviour accompanied with damage of Property,

40

For Pawnbrokers,

20

Doubtful Witnesses to find Security for Appearance,...

5

Preferring False Charge or giving wilful False Testimony,

Receiving stolen Property,

For Police and Lighting Rates,

6

Embezzlement,

5

Refusal of Duty by Merchant Seamen,

For Preparation and Sale of Prepared Opium,

14

Escape of Prisoners from lawful Custody,

2

Rescuing Prisoners from Custody of Police,

For Preservation of Birds,

1

False Imprisonment,

3

Riotous Assemblages,

For Registration of Houses and Servants,...

20

Firing Crackers and making Bonfires in the Street,

74

Robberies,

For Retail of Spirituous and Fermented Liquors,

32

Forcible Detention of Persons with intent to ransom or sell,

9

Rogues and Vagabonds,

For Storage of Gunpowder,...

1

Forgery or uttering forged Bank Notes, &c.,

6

Street Gambling,

For Suppression of Gambling,

4

For Weights and Measures,

17

Found by Night in Dwelling Houses, or with Arms, or House-breaking im plements with Intent to commit Felony,

Trespass on Crown Lands,

5

Unlicensed Billiard Tables and Bowling Alleys,

Breach of Harbor Regulations,

84

Furious Driving,

3

'Unlicensed Coolie Houses,

Breach of Recognizance,.

7

Highway Robbery,

Unlicensed Hawking,...

Breach of Stamp Act,

Illegally holding a Public Meeting,...

1

Unnatural Offence,

***

Bribery and Attempts to bribe Police Constables,

4

Illegally purchasing Soldier's Kit, &c.,

2

Unlicensed Plying of Boats, ...

Burying Chinese Corpse elsewhere than in a Cemetery,

1

Indecent Assault,

4

Unlawful Possession of Property,

Burglary,

24

...

Indecent Exposure of Person and Lewdness,

18

Unwholesome Provisions, exposing for Sale, and bringing into Colony,...

Cattle. Turned loose on Public Ways,

4

Intimidating Witnesses,

2

Chinese not holders of Night Passes found carrying Arms, Chinese Offenders found in the Colony after Deportation, or in Breach of

1

Kidnapping,

20

TOTAL NUMBER OF CASES,...

10

2

2

14

481

174

27

2

1

220

1

17

323

2

6,400

Larcenies,

Conditional Pardon,.

30

Larceny from the Person,

524

50

Carried forward,...

1,894

Carried forward,...

3,902

C. MAY,

First Police Magistrate.

Notices of Judg-

ment and Re-

bearing.

Distress.

Arrest.

Search.

For entering Gambling

Houses.

TOTAL.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 17TH FEBRUARY, 1872.

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