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No. 19.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 27TH FEBRUARY, 1869.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Returns, connected with the business of the Superior and Subordinate Courts of this Colony for the Year 1868, are published for general information.

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Number of Cases.

Number of Persons.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 23rd February, 1869. *

J. GARDINER AUSTIN,

Colonial Secretary.

RETURN of CRIMINAL CASES that have been tried in the Supreme Court of Hongkong, during the Year 1808.

CRIME.

Convicted.

Acquitted.

Death.

Death Recorded.

Penal Servitude.

one Year.

Hard Labor, over

Hard Labor, one Year and under.

Publicly flogged.

Solitary Confine-

ment. No. of Persons.

No. of

Cases.

No. of

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sons.

No. of

Cases.

No. of

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Abandoned.

Charges

Postponed.

REMARKS.

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Bribery,

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4

Burglary,

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10

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1

Burglary with Wounding,

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12

Child Stealing.

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3

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Embezzlement,

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4

Escape,

2

Extortion by a Police Constable,

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Administering a stupifying Drug with Intent to commit a Felony,

Allowing a Prisoner to escape,

Assault,

Assault and Wounding,

2 Assault with Intent to rob,.

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Being found on board a Junk equipped for the Purposes of Piracy,

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Burglary and Larceny,...

Burglary and Larceny with Wounding,...

Cutting and Wounding with Intent to do grievous bodily Harm,...

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Forcible Detention with Intent to sell as a Slave; Assault and Lar-

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Highway Robbery, being armed,...

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3 Larceny,

Larceny and Embezzlement by a Police Constable,...

Larceny in a boat.

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Larceny in a Dwelling-house,

2

Larceny in a Dwelling-house and Receiving,

Larceny in a Warehouse,

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Larceny on board Ship in the Harbor,

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Manslaughter,

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1

Piracy,

Piracy and Murder,

Murder,

5 Obtaining Goods by false Pretences,

2 Obtaining Money by false Pretences,

3 Perjury,

Robbery from the Person,...

Robbery from the Person with Violence,

Robbery from the Person; and Shooting with Intent to maim,... Robbery in the Harbor,...

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3 Robbery in the Harbor with Violence,...

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4 Robbery with Violence,...

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Shooting and Endangering Life with Intent to commit Piracy,... Shooting with Intent to do grievous bodily Harm,... Slave Dealing.

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Soliciting a Venereal Affair....

3 Uttering a forged Bank Note,...

3 Uttering counterfeit Coin,

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. Fined $50, and to be Imprisoned until such Fine be paid.

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b. Two Prisoners fined $100 each,-one of them to be Imprisoned until such Fine be paid. One Prisoner fined $25.

c. A Witness for the defence sent to prison for two months for perjury.

d. Imprisonment without hard labor, and fined $500.

e. Case sent back to the Magistrate,

f. A Witness for the prosecution sent to prison for two months for perjury.

g One Prisoner fined $500, and to be Imprisoned for three months unless the fine be sooner paid.

h. The Prisoner committed Suicide in Gaol before the trial could take place.

i. A Witness for the prosecution sent to prison for two months for perjury.

j. No Witnesses forthcoming.

k. Case sent back to the Magistrate.

W. H. ALEXANDER,

Registrar.

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