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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 30TH MARCH, 1867.

RETURN of CRIMINAL CASES that have been tried in the SUPREME COURT of HONGKONG, during the Year 1866.

REMARKS.

Number of Cases.

Number of Persons.

CRIME,

Convicted.

Death Recorded.

Penal Servitude.

Hard Labour over

one year.

Hard Labour one

year and under.

Number

of

Persons.

Number

of

Strokes.

flogged.

Publicly

Solitary confinement.

number of Persons.

Number

1

1

1

2

1

1

2

1

1

Burglary,

1

1

Burglary and Larceny,

ww

1

2

Administering a noxious thing,

Assault on the high Seas,

1 Assaulting Police Constable whilst in the execution of his duty...

Attempting to choke with intent to rob,

Breaking and entering and stealing in a Dwelling-house, and

receiving Stolen Goods,

Breaking and entering and stealing in a Ware-house,

Burglary and Larceny with Violence,

2 - 2-,

2

1

1

1

Burglary being armed,

2

5

Burglary with Violence,

1

1

Burglary with Wounding,

Buggery,

NHON

2

4

Caffle Stealing,...

8

9 Child Stealing,

1

3

2

Conspiracy to accuse of Crime with intent to extort Money,

7 Counterfeiting Coin, selling Counterfeit Coin, and having

possession of coining instruments,.

LO CO

6 a...

4

4 Cntting and Wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm,

2

1

1

1 Demanding Money with Menaces,

1

1 Demanding Money with Menaces, Extortion, and Larceny,

1

1

2 Demanding Money with Menaces, and Larceny,

1

1 Embezzlement,

5

5

Escape,

5

1

1 Extortion,

1 Escape, and Larceny with Violence,

***

1

5

False Imprisonment,

1

1 Forcibly detaining a female,

1

2 Forgery, and personating bail,

2

3 Forgery, and uttering a forged note,

I

1 Highway Robbery,

3

4 Highway Robbery, being armed,

3

6 Highway Robbery, with Violence,

1

5

Kidnapping,

1

5

5

Larceny,

4

6

4 4

Larceny by Bailee,

1

1

Larceny by a Servant,...

1

4 Kidnapping, and Assault occasioning bodily harm,...

Larceny, and receiving Stolen Goods,

6 Larceny in a Boat, ...

5 Larceny in a Dwelling-house,

Larceny in a Dwelling-house, and receiving Stolen Goods,

1 Larceny in a Dwelling-house, with Menaces, being armed,

2 Larceny in a Dwelling-house, with Violence,

8 Larceny in a Ware-house,

10 Larceny on board Ship in the Harbor,

Larceny with Violence,

3 Manslaughter,

2: Murder,

2 Obtaining Goods by false pretences,

Obtaining Money by false pretences..........

1 Perjury,

17 Piracy and endangering Life, ...

1

1

15

b...

1

8 Piracy,

3

3

Piracy and Murder,

5

6 Robbery from the Person,

1

1 Robbery from the Person, being armed,

7

8 Robbery from the Person with Violence,

1

2

3 Robbery with Cutting and Wounding,

2

3 Robbery with Violence,

Y

1

2 Robbery from the Person with Wounding,

1 Robbery with Violence, and Wounding a Police Constable,

with intent to prevent lawful apprehension,

Stabbing,

1

1 Uttering Counterfeit Coin,

127 195

1

145 50 19

:

:

::::

300

750

150

#

290

525

600

150

10

60

965

N

300

150 75

1

1

75

"

22

50 53

37

4,400

12

a. To enter into his own Recognizance in $1,000, and four Sureties in $250 each, to come up to judgment when called upon.

b. One prisoner committed Suicide in Gaol on the day of, and before, the trial.

e. This was private whipping with a rattan.

Charges

abandoned.

:

:

Postponed.

Cases.

Number

of

Persons.

Number

of

Cases.

:

20

028

23

:

Number

of

Persons.

N. R. MASSON, Acting Registrar.

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