Prisoners their own warders : $b a record of the convict prison at Singapore in the Straits Settlements, established 1825, discontinued 1873, together with a cursory history of the convict establishments at Bencoolen, Penang and Malacca from the year 1797McNair, John Frederick Adolphus
History
Prisoners their own warders : $b a record of the convict prison at Singapore in the Straits Settlements, established 1825, discontinued 1873, together with a cursory history of the convict establishments at Bencoolen, Penang and Malacca from the year 1797
McNair, John Frederick Adolphus
Prisons -- Straits Settlements; Singapore Prison
NOTE.--The size of a Chinese-made brick when burnt is 10 x 5 x 1 1/2 ins.
It requires 22 Chinese-made bricks to build one cubic foot of brickwork,
but of convict-made Government bricks a cubic foot of brickwork requires
13 only.
APPENDIX V
Number and nature of defaults committed by Indian convicts:--
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Nature of Defaults. For the year
1846. 1856. 1866.
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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
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