Number and nature of defaults committed by Indian convicts:— | Nature of Defaults. | For the year | | 1846. | 1856. | 1866. | | Stealing | 11 | 11 | 11 | | Disobedience of Orders | 4 | 1 | 10 | | Drunkenness | 2 | 15 | 6 | | Assault | 1 | — | — | | Neglect of Duty | 4 | 22 | 12 | | Smuggling Articles into Jail | 4 | — | 4 | | Disturbing Women at Night | 1 | — | — | | Sleeping while on Duty | 1 | 3 | 7 | | Cutting and Wounding | 1 | 1 | — | | Breaking open a Convict's Box | 1 | — | — | | Allowing Local Prisoners to speak to Outside Men | — | 1 | — | | Receiving Money for Safe Keeping and Denying the Same | — | 3 | — | | Quarrelling and Abusing | — | 5 | 9 | | Telling Falsehood | — | 3 | 2 | | Allowing Local Prisoners to Abscond | — | 3 | 19 | | Idleness at Work | — | 1 | 3 | | Gambling | — | 6 | 4 | | Absent from Roll Call | — | 4 | 17 | | Impertinence to Warder | — | 1 | — | | Selling his own Cloths | — | 2 | — | | Confined by the Police | — | 5 | — | | Striking a Fellow-Convict | — | 5 | 3 | | Refusing to Work | — | 3 | 6 | | Unlawfully Detaining a Man's Sampan | — | 1 | — | | Creating a Disturbance | — | 2 | 2 | | Bringing a False Charge | — | 1 | 1 | | Writing a Threatening Petition | — | 2 | — | | Having Stolen Property in Possession | — | 1 | — | | Wilfully Destroying Tools | — | 1 | — | | Carelessness at Work | — | 7 | 6 | | Leaving Work without Orders | — | 4 | 4 | | Intending to Abscond | — | 11 | — | | Bringing a Woman into the Hospital at Night | — | 1 | — | | Selling Rations | — | 2 | — | | Begging in the Streets | — | 1 | 3 | | Committing a Nuisance | — | 1 | — | | Mixed up in Street Rows | — | 1 | — | | Counterfeiting Coin | — | 1 | — | | Buying Rations from a Fellow-Convict | — | — | 1 | | Pawning | — | — | 1 | | Suspected of Thieving | — | — | 2 | | Losing Cloths | — | — | 4 | | Leaving his Watch | — | — | 6 | | Committed by the Police | — | — | 9 | | Attempting to Commit Suicide | — | — | 1 | | Marrying without Permission | — | — | 1 | | Carrying Letters for Local Prisoners | — | — | 3 | | Disrespect to Superiors | — | — | 2 | | Obtaining Money under False Pretences | — | — | 1 | | Receiving Bribes | — | — | 1 | | Impertinence | — | — | 2 | | Malingering | — | — | 2 | | Suspected of being Concerned in a Murder | — | — | 2 | | Assaulting a Free Man | — | — | 4 | | Total | 30 | 132 | 172 | This table gives the number and nature of the defaults committed by the Indian convicts for the years 1846, 1856 and 1866, but it is doubtful whether the list for 1846 is complete, as the prison records do not appear to have been fully kept up; anyhow they are not to be found, and at that time the inquiry room had not been established. The number of convicts under discipline and on ticket of leave during the twenty years was between 1,900 and 2,500, which shows a small percentage of defaulters, and they are all, with few exceptions, of a petty nature.
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