Middletown transcript., 1883-01-12
A Year of Crime.
MURDERS, EXECUTIONS, LYNCHINGs
AND SUICIDES.

MURDERS, EXECUTIONS, LYNCHINGs
AND SUICIDES.
During the past year, says the New
Y ork EUeninq Telegram, crime has held
high carnival in the United States. On
an average there have been each day
two murders and one suicide. On the
other hand executions have averaged
only two in week and lynchings one.
Since January 1st. 720 persons have
met their death at the hands of their
fellow-men. One hundred and twenty
five were mysterious murders. There
were fifty-two wife murders, five muir
ders of husbands, six parricides, four
matricides, five fratricides and two
sororicides. Forty children were killed
by their parents. In tWenty-three of
the crimes there were two assaSsinS, in
three instances there were three of
them. Twenty-four of the murderers
committed suicide and one died in Jail.
MURDERS.
In regard to murders New Y York leads
with 131, rs of these were committed in
this city and IA in Brooklyn. The other
States and Territories rank in the fol-
lowing order: Missouri, A Virginia,
43 Pennsylvania, 40; Kentucky, 81
Texas, 81 Illinois, 80; New Jersey, 30;
Ohio, 3S 4; Massachusetts, 27; Arkansas,
"a F.; Tennessee, 81 Indiana, 10; North
Carolina, 10 Georgia, 16 \; Mississippi,
Is 4; Colorado, Ii !; California, 10; Iowa
and Minnesota, each Alabama,
Connecticut, Maryland, Michigan and
Wisconsin, s each Louisiana, Maine
and South Carolina, each Kansas
and Rhode Island, each !; West Vir-
ginia, 5 Arizona, District of Columbia,
Indian Territory, New Mexico, Oregon,
Utah and Wyoming, 4 each Florida,
Nevada and New Hampshire, 3 each
Dakota, Nebraska and Washington
Territory, 2 each +; Delaware, Montana
and Vermont, each.
EXECUTIONS.
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 a camp meeting, another
was executed in South Carolina, with
her brother-i1-law, for numbering her
sister, and the third died on the gal
lows 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 assaulting women. The persons
hanged 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
murders expiated, six were those of
wives, one that of husband, one of a
son, one of a sister, one of an aunt,
one of a daughter-in-law and one was
committed in prison. One Of the exc
cutions was that Of Guiteau, for the
assassination of President Garfield one
that of the Indian chief, Brave Bear,
and two occurred in this city, those Of
Sindram and Leighton, on April 20 and
May 10, respectively. The 101 eXecu-
tions are divided among the several
States and Territories as follows -
Georgia, II 1; South Carolina, g.; Lou
isiana, Z; Missouri and North Caro-
lima, 6 each Dakota, Illinois, Indian
Territory and Pennsylvania, each
Kentucky, New York, Tennessee and
Texas, each Alaska, Arizona, Ar
kansas, Mississippi and Virginia, 3
each Alabama, California, Colorado,
Connecticut, Delaware, District of Co
lumbia, Florida, Idaho, Nevada, New
Jersey, New Mexico and Oregon, l
each.
LYNCHINGS.
Judge Lynch, during the past twelve
months, has been very busy. BY his
orders fifty-seven persons were put to
death in punishment of various 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 ne
groes 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 cattle stealing in
Colorado, two for cotton stealing in
Texas, two for robbery and attempted
murder in Louisiana, two for murder
and stage robbery, and twelve for other
crimes which the residents of the South
and West generally punish with death.
The hangings by mobs and vigilance
committees occurred in the following
States and Territories Colorado. 6 I:
Alabama, 5; Kentucky, Louisiana, New
Mexico, South Carolina, each; Kan
sas, Missouri and Washington Terri
tory, Beach Arizona, Florida, Indiana,
Minnesota, Mississippi, Ohio and Texas,
2 each Arkansas, California, Louis
lana, Missouri, Oregon, Virginia and
Wisconsin, each.
SUICIDES.
Three hundred and eighty-three per-
sons in various parts of the country. |
having grown tired Of life, ushered |
themselves into eternity by means of
the pistol, gun, knife, razor, fire, the
rope and various other ways. In this
city 123 persons committed suicide, and |
in Brooklyn there were 26 cases. OF
all the States and Territories, New
7 ork ranks first, with 184 cases Jer-
sey, 80; Pennsylvania, 81; Ohio, "a
Maryland, 10; Missouri, 10; Illinois,
8; California, z; Arkansas and Della
ware, s each Connecticut, Massachu-
setts, North Carolina, 8 each Ala
bama, Indiana, Georgia, Maine, Rhode
Island, Virginia, each District of
Columbia, Louisiana, Mississippi and
New Hampshire, 3 each Kentucky,
Michigan, Vermont and Wisconsin, 2
each.