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APPENDIX A. Return showing the Number of Offences reported, Persons apprehended, and Comparison of Crime during the Year ending 31st December, 1902, and Year ending 31st December, 1903.

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Oftences. 1902. ■ § 5.2 if 1 o S SI'S "8 CD fl J* © iiil Persi me apprehended or summoned. 1903. ■2 a"3 a 3223 Nurul Couvii amo tlK comm lor T ber of ctions mgst ose litted Mai. I Coi miti forT: Q;ed rial. Summarily Convicted. Discharged. ill M. F. M. F. M. P. M. i<\ Abandoning children Abduction Abortion, procuring Absconding from apprenticeship Absconding from bail Absconding from industrial schools Abusive and threatening language Arson Arson, attempted Assaults, common Assaults, indecent Assaults occasioning bodily harm Assaults on bailiffs Assaults on police Assaults and robbery Attempts to commit felony Bankruptcy offences Being in possession of housebreaking implements Begging Bestiality Bestiality, attempted .. Bigamy Breaches of the peace Burglary, breaking into shops, dwellings, &c. Causing bodily harm by negligence Carnally knowing girls Carnally knowing, attempted .. Cattle and horse stealing (see Theft). Cattle-maiming Coinage offences Concealment of birth Conspiring to defeat the course of justice Conspiring to defraud Contempt of Court Counselling the commission of an offence Cruelty to animals Cruelty to children Cutting and wounding.. Damaging police uniform Defacing brands on stock Deserting and failing to provide for wives and children Deserters and stragglers from H.M. ships Deserters and absentees from merchant vessels Discharging firearms Disobeying orders on board ships Disobeying orders of Court and summonses Disobeying terms of release under First Offenders' Probation Act Disorderly and riotous conduct.. Dissuading a witness from giving evidence Distillation offences .. DistributiDg obscene literature .. Disturbing meetings and congregations Drunkenness Endangering lives of persons travelling 1 n railway Escaping from custody Escaping Irorn custody, attempted Failing to support parents and near relatives False declarations False pretences Falsifying company's books with intent to defraud Fish, illegally taking Forcible entry Forgery and uttering Fortune-telling Furious riding and driving Game, illegally shooting 1 1 3 110 270 64 9 860 35 45 2 69 52 6 11 8 3 2 3 2 3 99 278 19 7 910 53 61 2 89 47 9 12 4 2 2 3 2 78 278 16 6 903 50 61 2 87 44 7 12 4 1 3 13 2 5 35 29 1 1 78 199 1 2 605 2 10 1 13 15 1 2 60 2 2 255 8 18 6 28 2 2 3 2 78 278 17 6 903 45 62 2 87 52 7 12 4 1 "9 2 1 "1 3 2 2 1 "8 50 18 16 3 .. 2 .. 2 .. 1 1 .. ■■ o " U 8 I .. 45 2 '3 2 1 ~25 20 1 50 .. I O 18 .. 1 £• 1 38 3 12 1 81 1 1 4 11 4 1 18 2 12 1 20 16 .. or\ '2 i 1 20 .. 5 o "3 1 3 .. 1 "2 i 1 .. 4 19 3 1 368 449 25 1 1 2 501 340 25 1 1 2 499 213 1 1 1 22 1 2 1 54 29 25 1 1 2 510 220 1 1 6 1 1 133 . 6 .. 2 1 1 .. 1 128 1 446 57 8 2 2 3 115 1 .. 1 QO 133 .. 109 "9 4 1 7 5 1 6 5 1 6 1 1 6 5 1 2 1 1 .. 2 -1 4 1 1 .. 4 1 3 7 1 2 2 l 2 2 1 2 2 1 2 2 1 2 3 1 1 .. 1 7 1 1 4 12 1 4 12 1 "3 9 'i 1 4 12 1 1 .. 1 4 3 i 2 "9 n 9 .. 230 9 1 21 4 700 190 16 4 30 189 16 4 30 2 1 •2 136 8 2 30 3 3 50 3 1 189 18 4 30 "l 1 40 7 3 9 7 o 3 .. 9 .. 599 541 375 '5 158 3 541 4 101 36 36 22 22 22 21 80 25 120 95 80 79 1 37 107 536 28 61 598 27 60 562 24 59 449 6 3 1 101 6 27 60 562 9 46 62 62 .. 10 3 3 2 1 3 7 292 2 378 1 377 1 i 344 12 21 377 1 "l 86 86 .. 1 2 2 57 54 53 50 *7 57 2 2 e 8,269 1 8,815 8,815 7,935 839 38 3 8,815 546 546 .. 1 16 1 224 5 246 4 231 8 1 148 3 76 4 4 231 3 11 1 22 22 .. 36 212 3 56 265 54 231 3 32 *9 25 139 7 13 7 33 12 5 54 231 3 16 "7 20 53 20 .. CO 53 .. 3 48 6 99 24 106 40 92 76 10 62 43 92 73 10 62 43 64 a 58 2 53 33 1 6 36 6 a 95 72 10 62 43 62 "2 44 44 .. 6 23 14 44 *9 10 "3 3 ..