The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-01-13
The Maryland Penitentiary.

The ADVOCATE has received from Gen. John
W. Horn, warden of the penitentiary, copy
of his annual report From it we learn that
the average number of prisoners during 1882
was $40, as against 545 the year previous, and
that the net revenue of the institution was
81 ,667 .33, some $500 less than in 1881, a fact
due to the diminished number of inmates and
the increased cost of supplies to maintain
them. Of the inmates in the penitentiary at
the close of the report, November 80, 1882,
1853 were white males, 302 colored males, 8
white females and &c colored females. The
average for the year, $40, given above, was
the lowest since 1865, and the cost per head
of maintaining them was $12O.71. There
were $50 prisoners discharged during the year.
| 10 we're pardoned by the Governor, died
| from natural causes, and from pistol shot
| wound.
Prior to conviction the occupation was-1
brakeman, 2boatmen, l bookkeeper, 2brlck-
makers, blacksmiths, brick-layer, butch
ers, bakers, l basket-m maker, bar-keepers,
| BARRIERS, l broom maker, l cabinet-maker,
2 can-makers, 5 carpenters, l canvasser, l
caulker, coal oil refner, cigar makers, Z
cooks, contractor, coach painter, a clerks,
IA drivers, 3 engineers, farmers, fisher
man, sitter, 8 hucksters, horse dealer,
ink maker, 253 laborers laundress, mil
Ter, moulder, l machinist, 3 miners, IL no
occupation, 2 nurses, 8 oyster dredgers, 9
ostlers, painters, plasterer, pedler, l
physician, printer, photographer, plum
Der, l quarryman, l railroad employe, 81
servants, l soldier, shoemakers, seam
stress, l ship carpenter, 25 sailors, l sales
man, l sail-maker, l saloon-keeper, tele-
graph operator, l tobacconist, timers,
tailor, upholster, 26 walters, 2 wagon ma
kers, wood carver, and l welldigger.
The prisoners were convicted as follows =
for abduction, II for arson, 2 for assault
with intent to murder and larceny, for at
tempt to poison, 26 for assault, with intent to
kill, l for assault, with intent to kill, larceny
and killing gelding, for arson and larceny,
II for assault with intent to commit rape,
for assault, with intent to rob, l for assault,
with intent to rob and murder, 46 for burgla-
ry l for burning factory, for bigamy, l
for carnally knowing female child under ten
years of age, for carnaly abusing female
child, for conspiracy to defraud the United
States, for enticing and harboring for pros
titution, 2 for felony, Is for forgery, 10 for
false pretenses, II for horse stealing, for
intent to ravish child 221 for larceny, for
larceny and receiving stolen goods, 5 for lar
ceny and burglary, for larceny and sodomy,
90 for manslaughter, for murder, 8 for MUIR
der in the first degree, sc for murder in the
second degree, for perjury, 2 for placing OBJ
structions on railroads, 10 for rape, for rape
and robbery, 4 for robbery, 3 for receiving
stolen goods, for burning an clubhouse and l
for uttering forged checks.
The shortest term of a prisoner was one
year and the longest seventy-two years. Sew
enty-two of them were under 20 years of age
and one was between IS and 80 years. Con-
victed the first time, 426, second time, 48;
third time, IL; fourth time, 4; fifth time 2.
Eight of the prisoners were natives of Carroll
county, and ten were convicted in the Carroll
county circuit court.