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GAOL STATISTICS FOR THE YEAR.

The number of prisoners lodged In local gauls last year was 6,511, compared with 6,339 In 1920, ac- cording to the annual report of the Superintendent of Prisons. There was an increase of prlson ers convicted for larceny during the year, the number being 1,083 as against 927 for the previous year. There were 1,154 cases of prisoners being admitted without the option of a fine, compared with 613 in the previous year.

THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1927.

ELECTROCUTED.

INQUIRY INTO COOLIE'S DEATH.

Interesting evidenco was given by Mr. V. D. Sorby of the Hong- kong. Electric Company, when an inquiry was held yesterday after- noon into the death of an unknown. Chinese who was found dead on Mount Cameron Road on May 22. Major C. Willson sat as Coroner.

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Mr. Sorby snid that he was Mains Engineer connected with the Hongkong Electric Company and lived at 530 The. Peak. the morning of Sunday, May 22, a Fifty four juveniles wero ad-Chinese went to his house and told was killed on mitted with sentences varying him that a man

Rond. Witness from 24 hours' detention to 12 Mount Cameron months' hard labour. In two cases took his rubber gloves and pliers corporal punishment was awarded to the apot, which was about a In addition. The percentage of quarter of a mile away and there convleled prisoners admitted to saw that a telephone wire had prison with previous convictions fallen across an electric light wire. was 19 as compared with 17.5 for The man who had called him 1925. There were 13 prisoners pointed to a sidepath where tole- admitted who were convicted by phone wires were lying, and wit- the police courts in the New Ter-ness, wearing his rubber gloves, clear. Further ritories.

out the wires along the sidepath ho Chinese, lying. The two of them carried the man on to the road.

Witness then sent the man who first called on him to go and fetch Mr. G.H.M. Bannerman, who lived nearby, while he himself tried arti- ficial respiration. The body, how- ever, got cold and Mr. Sorby aban. doned it. He went to Mr. Banner- man's house and found that the man whom he had sent there had run away. Later he got Mr. Ban- nerman to go to the Police Sta- tion to call the Inspector, whilat he returned to his own house to call up the Telephone Company.

Percentage Increase. The following table shows the number of petsoners in custody on December 31 for the past ten years and the percentage to popu- Tation.

Dally average Percentasta number of to

prisoners population.

COD

.112

Year.

1017

Extimated popainifun. 35,100

1018

649,000

001

.108

1919

GON,100

750

.126

1026

C8.150

700

117

1021

665,360

703.

115

1922

662.200

FHT

.110

1023

201

.120

1924

799,650

1,000

1,116

128 .134.

1026

671,420 784,920

3.034

There was a decrease in the number of offences against priso discipline the figures being 516 cases as against 792 the previous

year.

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When the Inspector came along. the three of them went to the, scene and there the Inspector found a hat, some clothing and a Over 18 million forms were pair of pliers. The pliers, Mr. issued to various Sorby explained, were cheap Chin- Government departments andese pliers, the sort that a Euro- 74.030 books bound or repaired. | pean company would not own. Type to the value of $9,000 was cast during the year.

printed and

Building Improveme¬t, More land was resume at a Chi Kok in November 1926 and as much as possible placed under cultivation. This land gives part employment to 40 prisoners. The staff is too limited to permit the employment of prisoners all day on this particular work.

Victoria, Gaol is still crowded although more prisoners have been transferred, to Lai Chi Kok. Authority has been given for the improvement of the hos- nital, reception and office ac commodation and this improve ment it is hoped will be partially cfected in 1927.

Witness went on to explain that the telephone wires were at right angles to the electric light wires. The telophone wires were cut at the foot of the pole and they were hanging over the electric wires.

Tho Coroner: What would be the effect of the telephone wires hang. ing over the electric wires?

Mr. Sorby: There are five elec- tric wires and the top wire is an over-earth guard wire, which should be bare wire. The two wires below that are live wires and the other two are earth potentials. The top wire is eighteen feet from the ground, and owing to a mistake of the workman concerned, braid, was not removed and thereby caused a short circuit when the telephone wire fell on it. If the telephone wire had not been cut and had fallen as a result of a typhoon, it would still have been dangerous.

15. Several buildings were found to be in a bad state of re- pair; a paper store, the ruefs of "F" Hall and female prison were condemned. These will be renew ed in 1927.

The conduct and health of the staff was good during the year. As usual there was a considerable amount of malaria at Lai Chi Kok but there were no serious cases.

The average cost per prisoner was $306. 11., as compared with $305.20 in 1925 and $237.56 in 1924.

WOMAN'S DEATH.

BODY FOUND ON HILLSIDE.

An inquiry into the circums- tances of the death of an elderly Chinese woman whose body was found on the hillside of Kowloon Tsai on May 22, was held by Mr.

Mr. Sorby added that the wires were inspected from time to time, but there was no regular Inspec- tion.

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Mr. G.H.M. Bannerman carro- borated Mr. Sorby's evidence.

Mr. R. Kirkwood, of the Tele- phone Company said that on May 22 he received a telephone mes- sage to say that one of their em- ployees had been killed at Mount Cameron Road, but when he reach. ed the body, he, in the presence of the Inspector searched it in crder to find the Company's pass card for men on duty they could not find one on the deceased.

At this stage the inquiry was adjourned until Wednesday next, at 2.30 p.m.

W. Schofield at the Kowloon Ma- death was sudden. There were no gistracy yesterday afternoon with signs of violence or poisoning.

the following serving on the jury, Messrs. F. II. Crapnell (foreman, E. W. White and G. Hansen.

The evidence showed that the woman, who was a cigarette haw- ker, left her house on May 13 and Dr. J. E. Dovey, giving evidence was not seen again. As she did of the post mortem examination, not return that day her disappear said that the body was badly de-ance was reported to the Police composed which rendered diagno- the following day, but it was not sis of the cause of death impos- till May 22, while a constable was sible, but there were signs of on duty in the vicinity of the Row- chronic nephritis of the left kid loon Hospital, that the body was ney, which in witness's opinion found in an advanced stage of de- caused the woman's death.

composition. There was a quantity of rice in

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