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TABLE B.-RETURN OF FORMAL ENQUIRIES DURING THE YEAR 1895,--Continued,

157

FINDING.

Euro-

peans.

Indians.

Chinese.

Total.

Man. Men. Men. Women. Boys.

Girls.

Brought forward,......

2

17

4

1

3

27

-:

1

Plague,....

Pulmonary congestion and general debility,................. Suicide-Death by hanging,

Suicide-Death by hanging by means of a false queue in her own cell. There was no evidence before the Jury to show how the deceased became possessed of the false queue,

+ Suicide-Death by strangulation,

Suicide Dislocation of the second cervical vertibra,

Syncope-Suicide whilst of unsound mind,

That death was caused by exhaustion produced first by gangrene and

then by anæmia and general debility,

That deceased C. Baldwin died from privation,

That deceased died from fracture of base of skull caused by being knocked down by a pony ridden by Henry Percy White who had lost control of the pony,

That deceased died from general debility, complicated by pulmonary

congestion,

That deceased died of asphyxia by strangulation but that there is no

evidence to show by whom the strangulation was effected,

That deceased died of diarrhoea and general debility, ·

That deceased died of lardaceous disease of the intestines brought about

by anæmia,

That deceased died of pulmonary consumption,

That deceased met his death by asphyxia produced by strangulation.... That Pan Kwoon-loi died from hemorrhage resulting from injuries to

spleen and left kidney caused by a bullet fired by one Sunt Singh,... That Sunt Singh died from cerebral concussion resulting from injuries

caused by a bullet fired by himself,

Wilful murder by Leung Tat Tsoi, Leung Tat Ngan, Leung Tat

Wong, Leang Tat Yan, and Leung Shau Tsai,

Wilful murder by some person or persons unknown,

Wilful murder of P.C. 218 Lai Tak Shing committed by a man named

Lai Mit,

Total,.

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1

I

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I

4 30

8

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TABLE C.--RETURN OF BURIALS WITHOUT FORMAL ENQUIRIES DURING THE YEAR 1896.

Reason why no Formal Enquiry was held.

Chinese.

Europeans

and

Americans.

Indians and Malays.

Japanese.

Men. Women Boys. Girls. Men. Men. Boy. Girl.

Man, Woman.

No suspicious circumstances, . No evidence and/or decomposed

state of body,

80

11

28

28

9

1

1

1

26

7 106

91

+

Post Mortem satisfactory,

99

16

13

21

1

Suspected persons were tried

for the murder of deccased,....... Suspected persons were tried for causing the death of deceased,

Total,.......

•

4

3

1

212

35 148 140 10

5

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10

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1

H

Magistracy, Hongkong, 18th January, 1897.

-

Sex not

ascertainable.

1

1

:

1

:

:

1

جن

3

Found o

Found in

Land,

Harbour.

Total.

Known.

Un-

known.

Known.

Un-

162

60

47

21

34

35

265

165

100

1

153 81

£3

15

11

:

4

5

3

:

2

35

589 150

255

39

145

Wa. C. H. HASTINGS,

Acting Police Magistrate,

known.

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