Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-01-09
A Year OF Crime.
MURDERS, EXECUTIONS, LYNCHINGs
AND SUICIDES-AN APPALLING LIST.

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AND sUICIDEs-AN APPALLING LIST.
During the past year, says the New
York Evening Telegram, crime has held
high carnival in the United States. On
an average there have been each day
other hand, executions have averaged
only two in a week and lynchings one.
Since January l. 720 persons have met
their deaths at the hands of theirfellow-
men. One hundred and twenty-five
were mysterious murders. There were
81 wife murders, 5 murders of husbands,
6 parricides, 4 matricides, fratricides
and sororicides. Forty children were
killed by their parents. In twenty
three of the crimes there were two assas-
sins in three instances there were three
of them. Twenty-four of the murderers
committed suicide and one died in Jail.
In regard to the murders New York
leads with 1871 :; rs of these were COM
mitted in New York and IA in Brooks
lyn. The other States and Territories
rank in the following order: Missouri,
A; Virginia, 43; Pennsylvania, 40;
Kentucky, 81; Texas, 81; Illinois, 80;
New Jersey, 80; Ohio, %; Massachu-
sets, 27; Arkansas, "a; Tennessee, 81;
Indiana, 10; North Carolina, 10; Geor-
gia, IS; Mississippi, Is; Colorado, ID;
California, 10; Iowa and Minnesota, 8
each Alabama, Connecticut, Maryland,
Michigan and Wisconsin, each /; Louis
lana, Maine and South Carolina, 7 each I;
Kansas and Rhode Island, each West
Virginia, 5; Arizona, District of Column
bia. Indian Territory, New Mexica, Or
egon, Utah and Wyoming, 4 each /;
Florida, Nevada and New Hampshire,
8 each Dakota, Nebraska and Wash
ington Territory, 2 each; Delaware,
Montana and Vermont. each.
One hundred and one persons paid the
penalty of their crimes by death during
the past year. Of this number ninety
eight died on the gallows and three
were shot, the scene Of the executions of
the latter being the Indian territory.
OF those who forfeited their lives fifty
two were negroes. thirty eight were
white, eight were Indians and two
were Cinnamon. Three women were
executed. One was hanged in Georgia,
with four men, for having committed a
murder at q camp-meeting, another was
executed in South Carolina, with her
brotherin-law, for numbering her sis
ter, and the third died on the gallows
with two men in North Carolina for
killing her husband. Eighty eight of
the executions were for murder, five for
arson, three for treason, two for lying
in wait and stabbing and three for as.
saulting women. The persons hanged
for treason were three Indian scouts, ex-
ecuted by the United States authorities
at Fort Grant, Arisona. Two brothers
were hanged together in Tennessee, and
two cousins died on the same gallows in
Pennsylvania. OF the murders expiat-
ed, six were those of wives, one that of a
husband, one OF son, one of sister,
one of an aunt, one of daughter-in law
and one was committed in prison. One
of the executions was that of Guiteau,
for the assassination of President Gar
field one that of the Indian Grief, Brave
Bear, and two occurred in New York
those of Sindram and Leighton on April
Goth and May 10Th, respectively. The
101 executions are divided among the
several States and Territories as follows:
Georgia, IL South Carolina, 8; Louisi-
ana, y Missouri and North Carolina,
each Dakota, Illinois, Indian Territory
and Pennsylvania, 5 each; Kentucky
New York, Tennessee and Texas, 4
each; Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas
Mississippi and Virginia, 8 each; Ala
bama, California, Colorado, Connect
cut, 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
orders ifty-seven persons were put to
death in punishment for various crimes.
There were twelve double and foul
triple lynchings. Thirty-four of those
ON whom summary justice was infiict-
| ed were white men, twenty-five were
| negroes, and one an Indian, who was
| hanged in California. Of the fifty. seven
lynchings, thirty four were for murder,
| three for horse stealing in Missouri, two
/ for cotton stealing in Texas, two fol
robbery and attempted murder in Louis
I lana, two for murder and stage robbery
4 and twelve for other crimes which the
i residents of the South and West general.
1 ly punish with death. The hangings
Y by mobs and vigilance committee occur
red in the following States and Territo-
ries: Colorado, 6; Alabama, 5; Ken
4 lucky, Louisiana, New Mexico, South
Carolina, each Kansas, Missouri and
Washington Territory, each Arizona
Florida, Indiana, Minnesota, Mississip'
pi, Ohio and Texas, 2 each Arkansas,
California, Louisiana, Missouri. Oregon
! Virginia and Wisconsin, 1 each.
Three hundred and eighty-three per
sons in various parts of the country
having grown tired of life, ushered
themselves into eternity by means O.
| the pistol, gun, knife, razor, poison
fire, the rope and various other ways
In New York 1913 persons committed
suicide, and in Brooklyn there were 2e
| cases. OF all the States and Territories
New York ranks first, with 1874 cases
New Jersey, 38; Pennsylvania, 81; Ohio.
"a; Maryland, 10; Missouri, 10; Illinois,
9; California, z; Arkansas and Della
ware, each; Connecticut, Massachu-
sets, North Carolina, each; Alabama,
Indiana, Georgia, Maine, Rhode Island
and Virginia, each District of Colum-
bia, Louisiana, Mississippi and New
Hampshire, 8 each; Kentucky, Michi-
gan, Vermont and Wisconsin, 2 each.
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