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Section 690. Injuries to railroads.

691. Cases where death ensues.

692. Injuries to highways, private ways and bridges.

693. Injuries to toll houses and turnpike gates.

694. Injuries to guide posts and mile boards.

695. Injuring telegraph line, or intercepting a message, a misdemeanor.

Sec. 690. Every person who maliciously, either:

1. Removes, displaces, injures or destroys any part of any railroad), whether for siearn or horsc cars, or any track of any railroad, or any branch or branchway, switch, turnout, bridge, viaduct, culvert, embankment, station house, or other structure or fixture, or any part thereof, attached to or connected with any railroad; or,

2. Places any obstruction upon the rails or track of any railroad, or of any branch, branchway or turnout connected with any railroad.

Is punishable by imprisonment in the territorial prison not exceeding four years, or in a county jail not less than six months.

Sec. 691. Whenever any offense specified in the last section results in the death of any human being, the offender is punishable by imprisonment in the territorial prison for not less than four years.

Sec. 692. Every person who maliciously digs up, removes, displaces, breaks or otherwise injures or destroys any public highway or brilge, or any private way laid out by authority of law, or bridge upon such way, is guilty of felony.

Sec. 693. Every person who maliciously injures or destroys any toll house or turnpike gate, is guilty of felony.