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No. 1905
HONGKONG.
ROPORT OF THE CAPTAIN SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE, FOR THE YEAR 1904.
Laid before the Legislative Council by Command of Dis Excellency the Governor.
POLICE OFFICE,
HONGKONG, 31st January, 1905.
SIR, I have the honour to forward, for the information of His Excellency the Governor, the Criminal Statistics and Report on the Police Force, for the year 1904.
2. The total of all cases reported to the Police was 11,812, as against 11,252 in 1903, being an increase of 560, or 497 per cent.
In the division of these cases into Serious and Minor Offences, there appears a decrease, as compared with 1903. of 1.330 cases, or 27-35 per cent. in the former, and an increase of 1,890 cases, or 29-57 per cent. in the latter.
The decrease, as compared with 1903, in Serious Offences of 1,330 is shewn as follows:-
Murder,..
Robbery,
Burglary or Larceny in dwelling,.
Unlawful possession,
Larcenies....
Felonies not already given,
Deduct increase in
4
45
107
99
943
173
1,371
Kidnapping and Protection of Women and
Girls Ordinance.
Total,.....
41
1,330
3. Total A shows the number and character of the Serious and Minor Offences reported to the Police during the past year, and the number of persons convicted and discharged in connection with these offences.
MURDER.
4. On the 15th of January, 4 armed men entered the house of IP PING FAT, farmer, residing at Un Leng Willage, Tsoi Hang in the Hop Wo District, N. T., and stole clothing and jewellery value $30. Li YUNG Ku, his wife, rushed out of the house and raised an alarm, when she was immediately shot and murdered by an armed man who was keeping sentry outside the door. One man was arrested and discharged by the Police Magistrate.
On the 13th of June, a female named AH Ho, aged 21, employed at No. 56в Peel Street, was murdered in the kitchen of the house by a man named MAK SUI FONG who afterwards committed suicide.
On the 16th of July, an Indian soldier named SHEIK JANGI, aged 23, of the 114th Mahrattas, while on sentry at Stonecutters Island ran amok and murdered two of his companions named FATCH MAHOMED, aged 27, and SHEIK DADU, aged 25, afterwards committed suicide by shooting himself.
On the evening of the 27th November two Americans and a Swede, of the seafaring class, hired a sampan at Pottinger Street wharf to take them off to a steamer. The crew consisted of a woman, a boy of 16, and 3 small children. the middle of the harbour they assaulted the boy and threw him overboard and
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