The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-13 00:00:00

A Yeai's Crime in the West Riding.

Captain Armytage, the governor of the West
Riding prison, at Wakefield, has issued to the
magistrates of that division of Yorkshire a tabulated
statement showing the offences that have been COra"
mitted in the West Riding, and the number of pri-
soners in custody for the year ending the 30th ol
September last. Notwithstanding an increase of the
population in the West Riding, the number of pri-
soners in 1865 and 1866 is less by about 250 than
for the preceding year. There are now in the West
Riding prison 4,578 males, and 1,178 female pri-
soners, making a total of 5,756. The offences are
classified as follows :—Felons committed from tli°
assizes or sessions, 97.7 ; juvenile offenders; 123,;ci
summarily convicted larcenies, 585 ; rogues an
vagabonds, 564 ; vagrants, 210 ; neglect of
166,; disorderly paupers, 94 ; common prostitutes,
131 ; common assaults, 643 ; aggravated assaults'
80 ; want of sureties, 136 ; military offenders, 66 t;
for breach of revenue laws, 12 ; misdemeanants sen
from the assizes and sessions, 283; for wilful darnageigi
220 ; for drunkenness, 1,009 ; for neglect of '6991.0
and being disorderly apprentices, 104 ; under lilt
bastardy laws, 90,; under the game laws, 71 ; 0tb,,0
summary convictions, 364 ; and prisoners in custoaii
58. Of these prisoners, 951 have been counnittQeo
once ; 449 twice ; 227 thrice ; 166 four times ; e
five times ; 159 six and seven times ; 84 eight, alain d
and ten times, and 237 above ten times--t°
2,453. The remainder, 3,303, entered the prison
the first time ; 26 of the prisoners were uO7O
12 years of age ; 207, 12 and under 16 ; 9,
between 16 and 21 ; 2,006 between 21 and 3va
1,319 between 3.0 and 40; 767 between 40 and
50 ; 351 between 50 and 60 ; and 160 were 60 ali
°o
upwards. Of the total number 3,157 were reside a
of the West Riding ; 48 came from the North 6 4
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East Riding; 472 from Lancashire ; 948 from eta;
English counties; 25 from Wales ; 85 from filo
land ; 974 from Ireland ; 13 from the colonies he
East Indies ; 23 from foreign countries ; and
nationality of 11 was unknown. 2,089 of the Peo
Boners could neither read nor write; 980 could r 96
only ; 2,589 could read and write imperfectli_;riot
read and wrote well ; and two were of sup o,
education. The petty sessional districts We
tributed prisoners in the following proportions op
Aberford, 11 ; Barnsley, 173 ; Bingley, `351 aford
ton-by-Bowland, 9; Boroughbridge, 2 ; Bre off
(West Riding),. 181—borough, 634 ; Delsster
(West Riding), 260—borough, 218 ; P°l3 46;
(West Riding), 57—borough, 183 ;
Halifax (West Riding), 68—borough, 232' Inge
field, 9 ; Holmfirth, 54; Huddersfield, 634 ; ,0109
ton, 5 ; Keeley, 129 ; Knaresborough, 114 ; 53
77 (Leeds has its own borough gaol); Otiefiwoot
Pontefract (West Riding), 85—borougb, 36;
5 ; Rotherham, 373 ;- Saddleworth, 26 ; Sedg,e.did,
21; Selby, 36 ; Settle, 17 ; Sheffield (West 114 ;
46—borough, 1,223 ; Sherburn, 10 ; Skieciolor
Snaith, 19 ; Tadcaster, 15 ; Thorne, 4 ; °rote/
den, 41 ; Wakefield (West Riding), 188-100,, 3.
292 ; Wentbridge, 2 ; Wetherby, 36. ; and litia
Of military offenders there were 52 ; Too '
fenders, 4 ; and from other prisons, 2.
5,756. tita°

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