The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-01-06
A Year of Crime.


held nigh carnival in the United
States. On an average there have
been each day two murders and one
SUICIDE. On the other hand. execu-
lions have averaged only two in a
week and lynchings one. Since JAN
uary l, 720 persons have met their
deaths at the hands of their fellow
men. One hundred and twenty-five
were mysterious murders. There
were OF wife murders, 5 murders of
husbands, 6 PARTICLES, matricides.
5 frstricides and sororicides. Forty
children were killed by their parents.
In twenty-three of the crimes there
were Two assassins +; in three instances
there We're three of them. Twenty
four OF the murderers committed sui
side and one died in Jail.
In regard to murders New York
leads With 131 ; rs of these were COM
mitted in New York and ID in Brook
lyn. The other States and Terrific
ries rank in the following order; Mis-
souri,, "A; Virginia, 43; Pennsylva-
mia. 40; Kentucky. 81; Texas, 81 !;
Illinois. 80; New Jersey, 80; Ohio,
%; Massachusetts, q; Arkansas, "A ;
Tennessee, q {; Indiana, 10; North
Carolina, 10; Georgia, IS; Missls-
sippl. Is; Colorado, 13; California,
10; Iowa and Minnesota, 9 each ;
Alabama, Connecticut, Maryland,
Michigan and Wisconsin, 8 each /;
Louisiana, Maine and South Caroli-
ma. Z each; Kansas and Rhode
Island, 6 each; West Virginia, S;
Arizona, District of Columbia, In
dian Territory. New Mexico, Oregon.
Utah and Wyoming. each +; Florida,
Nevada and New Hampshire, 8 each;
Dakota. Nebraska and Washington
Territory, 2 each; Delaware, Mon.
tana and Vermont, l each.
One hundred and one persons paid
the penalty of their crimes by death
during the past year. Of this num-
Der ninety-eight died on The galIows
and three were shot, the scene of the
executions of the latter being the In
dian Territory. Of those who for
feited their lives fifty-two were ne
groes, thirty-eight were white, eight
were Indians and two were China
men. Three women were executed.
One was hanged in Georgia, with
four men, for having committed a
murder at camp-meeting, another
was executed in South Carolina, with
her '0rother-in-law, for numbering
her sister, and third died on the
gallows with two men in North Car
olina for killing her husband. Eighty
eight of the executions were for MUIR
der, five for arson, three for
treason, two for lying in wait
and stabbing and three for as
saultihg women. The persons hang
ed for treason were three Indian
scouts, executed by the United States
authorities at Fort Grant, Arizona.
Two brothers were hanged together
in Tennessee, and two cousins died
on the same gallows in Pennsylvania.
OF The murderers expiated, six were
those of wives, one that of husband,
one of a son, one of sister, one of
an aunt, one of a daughter-in-law and
one was committed in prison. One
of the executions was that of Guiteau,
for the assassination CfPresident Gar
field one that of the Indian chief,
Brave Bear, and two occurred in New
York-those of Sindram and Leigh
ton on April 20 and May 10, respec-
lively. The 101 executions are divid.
ed among the several States and
Territories as follows: Georgia, IL !;
South Carolina, 8; Louisiar' 7; Mis-
souri, and North CARROLL each /;
Dakota, Illinois, Indian rrrltory
and Pennsylvania, 5 each; l. -ntucky,
New York, Tennessee and Texas, 4
each; Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas,
Mississippi and Virginia, 8 each AL
ALBANIA, California, Colorado, Connec-
ticut, Delaware. District of Columbia,
Florida. Idaho, Nevada, New Jersey,
New Mexico and Oregon, each.
Judge Lynch, during the past
twelve months. has been very busy.
BY his order fifty-seven persons were
put to death in punishment for vari-
Gus crimes. There were twelve double
and four triple lynchings. Thirty
four of those on whom summary
justice was inflicted were white men,
twenty-five were negroes, and one an
Indian, who was hanged in Califor-
MIA, OF the fifty-seven lynchings,
thirty.four were for murder, three for
horse stealing in Missouri, two for
cattle stealing in Colorado, two for
cotton stealing in Texas, two for rob-
berry and attempted murder in Loui-
siana, two for murder and stage rob-
berry, and twelve for other crimes
which the residents of the South and
l.