CRIMINAL STATISTICS.
Through the courtesy of Inspector Thompson, we are enabled to give the following tables showing the numbers of offences reported to the police in Waitaki and "VVaimate Counties, the arrests made, and the committals or summary convictions, for the year ending 30th April, 1879 COUNTY OF WAITAICI. , rs a "3 _«• » a ™ £ 2 ri S 15 c 52 S % o fi -a 'E c "-S Offences. Qg, | u g-p P3 Assault (common) ... 10 10 0 7 Assaulting police ... 3 3 0 3 Astault with intent ... 1 1 0 1 Assault and robbery ... 4 4 3 0 Breach of peace ... 22 0 1 Breach of Merchant Shipping Act ... 6 5 0 0 Breach of Corporation Act 3 3 0 3 Creating disturbance ... 4 4 0 4 Cutting and wounding 1110 Drunkenness ... ... IS3 183 0 132 Damaging property ... 3 2 0 2 Disobeying order of the Court . 3 3 0 2 Embezzlement 22 0 2 Forging and uttering ... 3 22 0 False pretences ... 7 6 3 2 Fraudulent bankruptcy 1110 Horsestealing ... ... 2 1 1 0 Indecent exposure ... 5 5 0 5 Indecent assault ... 1 1 1 0 Incendiarism 3 2 10 Larceny... ... ... 42 34 6 16 Lunacy ... ... ... IS IS 0 11 Murder (child) ... ... 1 1 1 0 Neglected children ... 1 1 0 0 Obscene language ... 4 4 0 4 Resisting police ... 4 4 0 4 Vagrancy ... ... 5 5 1 4 Wife desertion ... ... 22 0 1 Totals 324 310 21 204 COUNTY OF WAIMATE. A".-Oil* ... ... ••• 1 0 0 0 Assault (Oamaru) ... 22 0 0 Assaulting police ... 6 6 0 6 Breach of railway byelaws ... ... 13 13 0 1Breach of Destitute Persons Act ... 1 1 o 2 Breach of the peace ... 7 / 0 7 Cattle stealing... ... 1 1 0 0 Cruelty to animals ... 1 1 0 1 Drunkenness ... 149 149 0 149 Drunkenness and creating disturbance in licensed house ... 7 7 0 / Disobeying a summons 110 1 Embezzlement 1 1 1 0 Forgery and uttering ... 10 3 3 0 Furious riding 1 1 0 1 Horse stealing ... ... 1 1 0 0 Indecent exposure ... 11 11 0 11 Issuing counterfeit coin+ 10 0 0 Larceny 25 20 3 13 Lunacy 3 3 0 3 Lunacy from drink ... 22 0 2 Manslaughter 1110 Obscene language ... 33 33 0 32 Obtaining goods by false pretences ... ... 1 1 0 0 Resisting the police ... 10 10 0 9 Rape ... ... ••• 1 1 1 0 Stealing from the person 2 10 0 Vagrancy ... ... 15 15 0 15 Wilful destruction of property 4 4 0 4 Totals 311 296 9 ,^73 *ln this case the evidence at the inquest was not sufficiently conclusive to warrant the arrest of the suspected person. tin this case the coin (a bad half-sovereign) was found in the till of an hotel, but no clue was obtainable as to the person who passed it.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 960, 17 May 1879, Page 2
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468CRIMINAL STATISTICS. Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 960, 17 May 1879, Page 2
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