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COMPARATIVE TABLE showing the NUMBER of OFFENCES, APPREHENSIONS, CONVICTIONS and ACQUITTALS for the last Four Years,

The Number of Convictions in the Superior Courts—

1. For Offences against the Person,

2. For Offences against Property,

3. For other Offences,

The Number of Persons acquitted-

1. In the Marine Magistrate's Court,.............

2. In the Superior Courts,

Registry, Supreme Court, Hongkong, 4th day of January, 1899.

Number of Cases tried.

Number of Persons tried.

1

1

6

1

1

1

1

1895.

1896.

1897.

1898.

17

15

21

19

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10

10

17

2

5

3

10

6

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17

9

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A. SETH, Acting Registrar.

RETURN of CRIMINAL CASES tried in the SUPREME COURT of HONGKONG during the Year 1898.

CRIMES.

Administering stupefying drug with intent to

commit an inclictable offence,

Applying pepper with intent to commit au indict-

able offence,

T Arson, ....

Assault occasioning bodily harm,

Assault with intent to rob, being then armed,.

Attempt to commit an unnatural offence,.

Attempting to obtain a bribe as a Public Servant,.

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Bribery.

Demanding money with menaces, ...........................

2

2

32

19

Disobeying order of banishment,

Forging a telegram and uttering same,...

Larceny.

Larceny as a Servant,

Larceny and receiving stolen goods,

Larceny in a dwelling house with menaces,

Maliciously wounding,

Manslaughter...

Murder,

Convicted.

Acquitted.

Death.

3

2

1

3

Obtaining money by false pretences,

Obtaining goods under false pretences,

Offences against the provisions of the Triad and

Unlawful Societies Ordinances.

Robbery, being armed, .

Throwing destructive substance with intent to do

grievous bolily harm,

Unlawfully detaining letters,

Women and Girls' Protection Ordinance, 1897,

Offences under,

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Wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm,....... 2

Of 34 Persons

Recognizance estreated...

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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 Persons,

No. of Cases.

No. of Persons.

Abandoned. Postponed.

Charges

Cases

2

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37

10

3

20

14

3

4

.47 were indicted.

2

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Five were not indicted, which are included under the heading of Charges Abandoned," 5

. Defendants failed to appear, and recognizance estreated.

Registry, Supreme Court, Hongkong, 4th day of January, 1899.

54 Persons.

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