Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-01-11
THE CRIMES OF THE YEAR.


Statistics of Murders, Executions, Lynch
,..,.-.,., inG4 aud Suicides.
During the past year, rs will be seen
by the statistics given below, 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 aver
aged only two in Il week and lynchingS
one. Since January /, 720 persons
have met their deaths at the hands Of
their fellow men. One hundred and
twenty-five We're mysterious murders
There were iifty-two wife murdcrs, five
murders Of husbands, six parricidcs,
four matricidcs, five fratricidcs and two
sororicidcs. Forty children We're killed
by their parents. In twenty-three of the
crimes there were two assaSsins, in
three instances there were three of
them. Twcuty-four Of the murdercrs
committed suicide, and one died in
Jail,
In regard to murders New York
leads with l3l; 76 of these committed
in this city and II in Brooklyn. The
other states and territories rank in the
following order: Missouri, 4i; Virginia
!3; Pennsylvania, 10; Kentucky, New
jersey, 81; Texas, 3l Illinois, 80;
Ohio, IS; Massachusetts, y; Arkansas,
"a; Tennessee, n; Indiana. 10; North
Carolina, 10; Georgia, lG; Mississippi,
lj; Colorado Is; California, 10; Iowa
and Minnesota, . each; Alabama, Con-
nccticut, Maryland, Michigan and Wis
consin, s each; Louisiana, Maine and
South Carolina, I each; Kansas and
Rhode Island, each; West Virginia,
>; Arizona, District Of Columbia. In
dian Territory, New Mexico, Oregon,
Utah and Wyoming, 1 each; Florida,
Nevada, and New Hampshire, 3 each;
DaLotQ, Nebraska and Washington Ter
ritory, 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.cighl died on the gallows and
three were shot, the scene of the cN-
ecutionS of the latter being the Indian
Territory. Ofthosc who forfeited their
night wcrn vrito cight worc Tn,lioE.
apJ twn vcro CLinomon Thrn,
women wcro ,vocntnI Ono wos
honrnI in Gnorrin. with four mon fn,,
Loyinr cnnmi,trI , mnrdor -, a crmn.
mccti3r onnihrrwaso"nnntod in Snmih
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mmrInrinr Lor sis,or anil lI,o ,hirJ
died nm In %gilows with two % wcn in
Nil Car,J7no fo,l.iIlinr how r',hanI
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nTrJSr Ii"o fnr ru orsoM tEro" fo,. ,rno, 'o
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