4. Belonging to a gang of Dacoits.
5. Belonging to a gang of Thugs.
6. Mutiny or rebellion with murder.
Of those who did not come under this category, some were pardoned unconditionally; others were released after they had completed twenty-five years' imprisonment, on condition that their conduct continued satisfactory. Of those who were pardoned unconditionally many returned to their own country; but when they arrived there they found things so uncongenial that they returned to the Straits and settled down as shopkeepers, cowkeepers, cartmen, etc., and most of them sought and obtained employment either with private individuals or in the Public Works Department. Several of the skilled artificers, who had been petty officers, were employed as sub-assistant overseers and gangers on public works, where their services proved to be of great utility, their prison training having rendered them much more to be relied upon than free men, and, as far as we have been able to ascertain, none of them have been reconvicted.
Of the total number of convicts in the Straits at the time when the convict establishment was broken up in 1873—
| 256 | had been transported for | Thuggee. |
| 581 | " " " " | Dacoity. |
| 21 | " " " " | Professional poisoning. |
| 269 | " " " " | Robbery with murder, includinghighway robbery and gang robbery. |
| 1,127 |
The remainder were nearly all for murder, for being accomplices in murder, or for robbery with violence, and for felony.