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Number of Cases tried.

Number of Persons tried,

RETURN of CRIMINAL CASES tried in the SUPREME COURT of HONGKONG during the Year 1893.

SENTENCE.

CRIMES.

Convicted.

Acquitted,

Death,

Death Recorded.

Hard Labour over one Year,

Hard Labour one

Year and under.

Solitary Confinement— ̈

Number of Persons.

Number of Persons.

Privately Flogged--

No. of Cases.

No. of Persons.

No. of Cases.

No. of Persons.

CHARGES

CASES

ABAN-

POST-

DONED.

PONED.

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1

2

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1

1

4

1

2

Administering stupefying drug,

Applying to goods a false trade description, Assault occasioning actual bodily harm, Attempt to commit an unnatural offence, Demanding money with menaces,

Feloniously assaulting with intent to rob,

Feloniously assaulting with intent to do grievous

bodily harm,

Feloniously breaking and entering a dwelling house

with intent to commit a felony therein,

Feloniously forging a certain request for delivery

of goods with intent to defraud,

Feloniously and unlawfully causing to be taken a

certain poison, called datura alba,

Feloniously uttering a certain forged bank note

with intent to defraud,

Feloniously wounding with intent to kill and

murder,

Forging a trade mark,

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1

1

1

Fraud by an agent,

1

Indecent assault,

2

2

Larceny,

4

Larceny by a servant,

1

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1

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1

Larceny from a ship,

Larceny in the Queen's service,

Larceny in a dwelling house, .................................................

Manslaughter,

Murder,

Obtaining a registered letter by means of false

pretences,.

Obtaining money by false pretences............................................. Robbery from the person,

Robbery with violence,...

Unlawfully attempting to bribe,...

Unlawfully making a false statement for the purpose

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2

Bi Ti w

1

1

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of such false statement being inserted in the Register of deaths,

1

1

1

Unlawfully and maliciously causing to be taken a

certain poison with intent to injure,

1

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19

13

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Of 57 Persons only

49 were tried.

8 were not indicted which are included under the heading of "Charges Abandoned,"... 8

57 Persons.

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a In one case the prisoner was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to Eighteen years' imprisonment with hard labour.

ALFRED G. WISE, Registrar.

Registry Supreme Court, Hongkong, 16th day of January, 1894.