The Colony's Criminal Statistics.
« The criminal statistics show an in- j crease of 480 iv the total number of all | offences reported in the colony duriug the past year as compared with the year | previous. The principal increases are ; as follows : — Abortion, procuring, 7; assaults, common, 76 ; assaults, occasioning bodily harm, 20: burglary, breaking into shops, 63 ; coinage offences, 15 ; cruelty to animals, 47 ; deserting and failing to provide for wives and children, 160 ; drunkenness, 42; failing to support near relatives, 53 ; gaming offences, 33 ; murder, 8 ; murder (attempted 1 , 4 ; obscene ancl profane language, 45 ; obstruct ing railway lints, 5 ; sly grog selling, 23 ; sodomy, 3 ; theft as bai'co, 27 ; theft of cattle and horses, 21 ; theft of sheep, 18 ; theft from dwellings, 49 ; tliefe from the person, 51 ; vagrancy. 33. Otiier crimes have docrgasQii as follows: —Arson, 9 ; assaults, indecent, 19; assault on police, 8 ; breaches of the peace 56 ; embezzlement, 16 ; false pretences. 25 ; forgery aud uttering, 13; illegally on premises, 23 ; indecent exposure, 9 ; keeping disorderly houses and brothels, 25 ; malicious injury to property, It ; neglected and criminal children, 48 ; obstructing and resisting police, 77 ; perjury, 7 ; rape, 14 ; theft, undescribed, 27.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 53, 31 August 1896, Page 2
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