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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 1894.

CRIMES.

Hi N2

ti ti

2

4.

1

Convicted.

Acquitted.

Death.

Death Recorded.

Hard Labour

over one Year.

Hard Labour one

Year and under.

SENTENCE.

Solitary Confinement→ Number of Persons.

Number of Persons,

Privately Flogged-

No. of Cases.

No. of Persona.

No. of Cases.

No. of Persons.

1 CHARGES

CABES

ABAN-

POST-

DONED.

PONED.

2

2

1

2

2

~ :2221

Attempting to commit buggery,

Bribery,

Burglary,

Conspiracy to murder,

Embezzlement,

Feloniously administering stupefying drug with

intent to commit larceny,

2

1

N

3

Feloniously attempting to set fire to a dwelling

house,

1

2

Feloniously wounding with intent to murder,.....

2

2

Feloniously uttering forged bank notes,

I

Forgery;

1

Larceny,

I

1

Larceny in a dwelling house,

1

Larceny by a servant,

2

5

Larceny from the person,...

3

Manslaughter,

3

1

1

21

1

1

1

Murder,

Obtaining money under false pretences, Perjury,

Robbery from the person with violence, Unlawfully and wilfully falsifying accounts and

destroying certain books,

Unlawfully uttering certain counterfeit coin, Unlawfully bringing into the colony a certain girl

for the purpose of emigration,

Unlawfully bringing into the colony a certain girl

for the purpose of prostitution,............ Uttering a forged instrument with intent to defraud,

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38

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1

1

5

1

21

17

14

6

3

6 6 1

Of 49 Persons only

.38 were tried.

6 were not indicted which are included under the heading of "Charges Abandoned,”.. Casc Postponed, Persons,

6

5

49 Persons.

Registry Supreme Court, Hongkong, 5th day of January, 1895.

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C. F. A. Sangster, Acting Registrar.