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APPENDIX A Return showing the Number of Offences reported, the Number of Offences for which Persons were apprehended or summoned, and Comparison of Crime during the Year ended 31st December, 1944, and Year ended 31st December, 1945

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Offences. 1944. 1945. Number of Offences reported. Number of Offences reported. Number of Offences in which Arrests or Summonses resulted. Crimes and Justices of the Peace Acts, etc. Seditious offences 1 Misleading Justice Perjury and false oaths 5 5 False statements and declarations 42 41 41 Corrupting juries or witnesses 7 Escapes and Rescues Breaking prison 2 Escaping from prison or lawful custody 101 62 61 Assisting or aiding escape from prison or lawful custody .. 5 5 Offences against Morality Unnatural offence 17 5 4 Unnatural offence, attempted 2 6 5 Unnatural offence, assault with intent to commit 2 Indecently assaulting a male 63 122 119 Incest 5 3 3 Indecent acts 23 12 7 Publishing obscene matter 1 Offences against the Person, &c. Murder 20 20 11 Murder, attempted 8 7 6 Manslaughter 3 5 5 Suicide, attempted 72 74 72 Concealment of birth 3 4 4 Disabling or stupefying with intent to commit a crime .. 3 3 Wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm 2 3 3 Endangering safety of persons on railways or tramways .. 3 Assault causing actual bodily harm • 24 " 32 " 29 Causing actual bodily harm under circumstances that, if 18 2 2 death had been caused, would be manslaughter Assault, indecent 144 138 112 Assault with intent to commit a crime 113 7 6 Assault 513 711 647 Assault, aggravated 3 3 Rape 29 21 20 Rape, attempted 8 10 7 Carnally knowing girls under sixteen years 75 66 59 Carnally know girls under sixteen years, attempts to 2 17 17 Carnally knowing idiots or imbecile women 1 Abortion, procuring 8 6 6 Abortion, supplying means of procuring .. 3 3 Bigamy 21 23 22 Abduction 1 Stealing children under fourteen years 4 4 Setting man-trap .. .. .. 1 1