COURT STATISTICS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 437, 20 February 1909, Page 13

COURT STATISTICS.

[BV "iblkoba^H— spioiit: wSiinSWNDiiiiJ;: ;. iAuckland, February 18. C Tlie;;annualstatistics ' .of '. the Auckland (Police' aiid Magistrate's: Courts: for 'the year ended December 31, 1908,/ on the .. whole dis- ; 1 ;close, a ' decrease in crime and a considerable, incre'ase in, civil busili^si.. Tlia ii'ihnber :dt persons taken 1 itho: custody- during the 12 ■ months totalled. 4928 males aft'd, &59,$ett'&l&s, as compared with 5136. males -and 670 females, for tlio previous year. Of the total ;for for want Jot. ail'a . 247/ A oh'atgeS ";wei«--\3iStois(S^<i ! toi i tlieir,vtetenti3:''o.:SVim&aigf: ! males ;and. ; 665 females/ while 455. lines' were : izn■jposeH. ; for 1 trial: or. sentence aggfegaiftj' 'M 6,.; &M ; , i 445' SdiMiifos :'of. iim--Fifteen'whippings were ■ orderedi 'in . respect to■;. male .'prisoners j ■19 iil&leS allid' , s,feiiftle& Were u'oti&d oy&r to : keep the peace, and 13 males and 3 females wero released under the First .Offenders' .Probation.Act.-'",Summary ordfers Vi'eW ittado 'in.respect to 85 males and'l'S7'feiiles.' The' •convicted persons ,who. ; were discharged ,with 'cautions numb'eM Bfel Ailes I .aid I§B ■ f& mh]Q3,. The, police ( wero called on to deal iwith' fewer cases of common 1 .assault,' thd figures • being • 148 males. Sfid '18,' compared with 186, males' arid : B females for ■the corresponding period of 1907. Tlie hum';b'er. of charges, of . assaulting ;thd' police wai; -.strangely enough, exactly .the .same as. the : pMWoSS ■y , iiil-j'.S'9 'iiileSj'.'feaiAles: beifa'g hap-. pily ' free • from charges wider this head. There .wtere'a.grtattt'.ttttidfettcy td.i'n'ctir 'debt by-fraud during tho past year, the number charges, being; 24-, as t qoinpared witli3for 1907. Jy- Housebreaking,' Charges wereeven tftpre'in excess, as 101 persons: were taken iiiito custody.' a'gaihst, 19 .'diiring the jprSVfotfs .year. . Chdrgds bf. tlifeft . weW 1 'preferred ;against;-'i43 p'rsorik, As.'with '423 during 1908: ;: Offences'of driiiUrehness-iSi'ain:. •:teihed-"fih J 'a!ihost'ex4ct.']bM4it(Ss,':tlfe^nttteVef of charges during 1908. totalling 1§82,. inoliiHing7B.;■'M&oris,'lS. compart with- 1584, including 5 Maoris, mIOO7. Municipal by-OTS-Wro %ftfdSic&3 ,Vi'itll'|?eate success,'Clie num])ftr of persons', charged .with breaches ing 413, as -'against 567 in 1807.