The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-04-26

been SO returned by the local author.
tiles. A summary Of thv proportions
of habitual criminals born In particu-
lar localities gives rather surprising
results. Stafford stands at the head
Of the list, raised to that bad eminence
by 80 criminals out Of a population Of
Is. 046, which gives tho rate Of 1881
professional criminals to every 1000
inhabitants. Wore. ster comes next
with 81 criminals out OF a population
Of 38, 1l6, rate Of 1857 to the 1000.
Where the numbers are so small the
difference might seem the result or
chance, but the returns extend over
seven years.
Taunton comesnext with q criminals
among Is, 1856 inhabitants, q proper
ton Of 1,745 and Lancaster has = pro-
portion of 1851 to the LOCO, or 20 out
of 1925. Manchester, Hereford.
Wigan, Preston, Shrewsbury. Liver
pool, Stockport, Warrington, GlOuceS-
ter, Cheltenham, Black hurn. Birming-
ham, Bristol, Chester, and Hanley fol-
low close. The Metropolis, which
| heads the list for number OF habitual
criminals, producing 503-nearly
three times as many as Manchester,
the next town on the list-has the
low proportion of 46l in GOO when it's
habitual criminals are compared with
its total population. London thus
comes out not only better than the
towns already mentioned. hut better
than such places as Yarmout b, Ipswich,
Brighton. Oxford, and Cambridge.
The places which produced more than
100 habitual criminals were London,
NJ nchester, (630) Liverpool, $751;
Birmingham. (343) Leeds, (2lO,)
Bristol. $780, Sh. field, (l72 Preston,
)Ilc J AL of the criminals came from
towns or villages which contribute
fewer than % of the returns. The
habitual criminals whom Ireland con-
rributed to the prisons in England and
| Wales were 1882 in number. Those
y no had been burn in Scotland were
! 1853. Of the total number Of prisoners,
1912 were males. 3 $50 females. In
spite of the merciful presumption Of
the law as 10 women acting under the
| directions of their husbands, the per.
centage Of married female prisoners
was 50 IL. On the other hand, the
single men were twice AS numerous az
1
whole to 80 per cent?
| The register itself is more useful
for reference than agreeable for read
ing. The marks and measurements by
which criminals arc identified present
4 dismal picture of their violent lives
and senseless habits, their defOrmed
frames stunted growth. Out Of the
"a descriptions on the first page, all
except six prisoners are identified by
scars, cuts, scrofula marks, by fingers
being crooked, or the sinister mouth
drawn down, &c. A female prisoner,
with three aliases, having brown hair,
brown eyes, and swarthy face, who
says she is a spinner ny trade, and has
been discharged from Preston Jail for
seven years supervision, after a con.
victiOn for felony having been Q times
previously found guilty of minor Of
fences, is known by her left little fin
ger being bent, by a mole on the right
arm. by being pOck. marked, and by
bearing scars ON herface and foI ehead.
Another woman with a sallOw face,
who at the age of 20, has been six
times convicted of felony and ii times
fol minor offences, has scar on the
| ICIC 1Ul0ulM AUC4hhuCls q 0C6e
man. discharged two years ago from
COldbathfields, after a miro months
sentence for housebreaking, and q
member of a hume, Gus clan who re-
veal one source of the criminal class
in an Imperial country, which, like
Rome of old, collects in it's slums re-
cruits from the criminals of all it's de-
Tendencies, is recognized by his color
and a scar close by the left eye.
A puddler Of BilstOn, sent to Catham
Prison after three convictions for fell
ony, has been good enough to assist
the police by procuring the tattOoing
Of his person with as many as six fish,
four stars, four diamonds, a heart and
two darts. These ornaments are on
his left arm, lower down upon the
wrist he wears bracelet, two stars
and a crown. His right arm has cross
flags and three stars portrayed upon it;
and to these voluntary disfigurementS
the disease of hernia has added it's
characteristic mutilation. A tailor
born at Wddsworth, who announced
the intention after his discharge OF
going to seek for work in Commercial
street Whitechapel, is known by being
| % u1dl uucu GIldJ ITO IuIkuL udVO Deem
supposed incapaciated from mourning
a conviction for larceny after three
previous felonies. He has a wound in
the left leg, is crippled in the left hip,
as also in the left shoulder. A Durham
pitman Of 80, described on the same
page with the last criminal, has at
last been sent to Jail for two years for
larceny, and discharged subject to
three years supervision, after being
% times convicted Of minor offences.
The close connection between moral
and physical degradation could not be
more clearly exenplified than in the
list before us. The catalogue Of boils.
burns, and blains, and other Egyptian
plaques, dents IN the forehead, prema-
ture badness, broken noses, and bone
diseases might be indefinitely pro-
lOnged, but to indicate its existence
is sufficient. A glimpse Of what Is or
dinarily hidden behind the prison
walls, although dismal and depressing,
| is neither uninteresting or uninstruc.
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