Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-01-11
STATISTICS OF CRIME.

The New York Evening Telegram has kept
a record of crime perpetrated in the United
States during the past year, from which the
following facts are condensed
During the year 1882, on ali average there
were each day two murders and one suicide.
On the other hand executions have averaged
only two in week and lynchings only one.
Since January l, 720 persons have met their
deaths at the hands Of their fellowmen. One
hundred and twenty-five were mysterious mur-
ders. There were 81 wife murders, murders
of husbands, parricides, matrcides, 5 frat
ricides and 2 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
In regard to murders New York leads with
131 rs of these were committed II q ew-4Y- ork
and Is in Brooklyn. The other States and
Territories rank in the following order Mis-
souri,, "A ; Virginia 43 !; Pennsylvania, 10 ;
Kentucky, 81 Texas, 81 ; Illinois, 30; New
Jersey, 30 Ohio, 2S Massachusetts, 27 Az
kansas "a Tennessee, 21 Indiana, 10 North
Carolina, 10 ; Georgia, IL; Mississippi, IS:
Colorado, 13 California, 10 ; Iowa and Min
nesota, each Alabama, Connecticut, Mary
isiana. Maine and South Carolina, each
Kansas and Rhode Island, 6 each West Vir-
ginia, 5; Arizona, District of Columbia, In
dian Territory, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah
and Wyoming, each Florida, Nevada and
New Hampshire, 3 each Dakoea, Nebraska
and Washington Territory, each Delaware,
Montana and Vermont, each.
One hundred and one persons paid the PEN
atty 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 execution 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 Chi
namen. Three women were executed. One
was hanged in Georgia, with four men for hav-
ing committed murder at camp meeting,
another was executed in South Carolina, with
her brOther-in-law, for numbering her sister,
and the third died on the gallows with two
men in North Carolinafor 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
saulting women. The persons hanged for
treason were three Indian scouts, executed by
the United States authorities at Fort Grant,
Arizona. The 101 executions are divided
among the several States and Territories as
follows Georgia II South Carolina, 9; Lou
isiana, 7; Missouri and North Carolina, 6
each Dakota, Illinois, Indian Territory and
Pennsylvania, each ; Kentucky, New York,
Tennessee and Texas, each Alaska, Arizo-
ma, Arkansas, Mississippi and Virginia, 3
each Alabama, California Colorado, Con-
necticut, 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 fifty-seyen
persons were put to death in punishment tor
various crimes. There were twelve double
and four triple lynchings. Thirty-four of
these on whom summary justice was inflicted
were white men, twenty-five were negroes and
one an Indian, who was hanged in California.
OF the ffty-seyen lynchings, thirty-four were
for murder, three for horse stealing in Mis-
souri,, 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 9TH
er crimes which the residents of the South and
West generally punish with death. The hang
ings by mobs and vigilance committees occur
red in the following States and Territories
Colorado 6, Alabama 5, Kentucky, Louisiana,
New Mexico, South Carolina, each, Kansas,
Missouri and Washington Territory each
Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Minnesota, Mis-
sissppi, Ohio and Texas 2 each, Arkansas
California, Louisiana, Missouri, Oregon, Vir-
gnia and Wisconsin l each.
There were 1888 suicides during the year, OF
which number New York contributed 1S4.