Sessional_Paper_1895 — Page 136

TABLE B.-RETURN OF FORMAL ENQUIRIES DURING THE YEAR 1894,--Continued.

FINDING.

Europeans and Americans.

Indians.

Japanese,

Men. Boys, Men, Men.

Chinese.

Total.

Men.

Women. Boys. Girls.

6

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Brought forward,........

Death resulted from injuries received by fire whether by suffocation or burning the cause of fire being accidental,

Death resulted from injuries received from a blow from a plank falling upon him from the top of the tank at the bottom of which he was engaged in working,

Death resulted from injuries received from falling into the hold of S.S. Progress from either the 'tween deck or the upper deck,

Death resulted from hanging self inflicted,...................... Death resulted from injuries occasioned by a fall down the open fore hatchway on the 'tween deck of the S.S. Tokyo Maru............

Death resulted from injuries sustained from a fall while attempting to escape from the Police who were forcing an entrance into House No. 16 Nullah Lane, Death occasioned by fracture of the skull arising from the use of an insufficiently strong chain to support the weight it was being used to lift. In the absence of No. 1 Coolie it is not possible to fix the blame which undoubtedly attaches for the use of an obviously improper chain,...........

Deceased died from a rifle wound self inflicted while under the mental effects of bad news received from his home,

Found drowned...................

Suicide by drowning,.

Suicide of hanging,

Suicide by opiun poisoning,...

The deceased died from some kind of poison of the

nature of strychnine self administered,

The deceased died from the effects of an overdose of Prussic acid self administered but whether acciden- tally or with the intention of committing suicide there is no sufficient evidence to definitely decide. The Magistrate further finds that at the time of taking the poison the deceased was perfectly sober, The deceased died from dislocation of the neck con- sequent upon the execution of the deceased by being hanged by the neck in pursuance of a sentence of death passed upon him by the Supreme Court of Hongkong at the March Criminal Sessions of 1894,

The deceased died from shock occasioned by fracture of skull and other injuries incurred in falling from the top floor of House No. 22, Tung Man Lane whence he was pushed down in a rush occasioned by the attempt of P.C. 251, Lo Kai, to arrest some men on the top floor whom he found engaged in playing a game of chance,

The deceased met with his death by rupture of the spleen occasioned by falling or jumping over a wall in the premises of the Government Civil Hospital in which he was temporarily lodged, he being at the time of his death of unsound mind, The deceased P.C. 140, Cheng Leung, met with his death by a bullet fired intentionally at him by the deceased Sorain Singh who at the same time met with his own death by inflicting a bullet wound on his own person with intent to commit suicide, there being no evidence to show for certain whether the deceased Sorain Singh was or was not in his right mind at the time and there being no evidence forth- coming to explain the reason of this action towards the deceased P.C. 140,

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