Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-13
A NEW BOOK OF FATE
Tile Complete Report of the Criminal
History of the City
UNDER THE PUBLIC SAFETY LAWS.
The Work of the Department Shown to
Have Been Thorough.
CRIME is CONSIDERABLY LESsENED

Chief Brown, of the Department of Public
Safety, has added another volume to the
library of his department, which will soon
be in better shape, as far as a public
library is concerned, than the prospective
one to be endowed by Andrew Car
negie. Some six weeks ago he de-
tailed Special Officer Harry C. Fehl
to search the court records and obtain
a thorough history of all the cases brought
to a conviction by the department since its
organization. The officer did some of the
hardest work of his life on the detail, and
has succeeded In producing a wonderful
record of crime in this city for two years and
hall. When the book is completed 1t will
occupy about 700 pages. showing
the disposition not alone of the
convictions, but of every case tried by the
Department of Public Safety, the names of
the arresting officers, the history of the
criminals as shown by the evidence and the
records of the Police BureAu. 1t will not
be illustrated, as the rogues' gallery is
deemed particularly sacred BY the police
departments all over the country, and
they are not desirous of Civ
ing pointers to criminals that it
is advantageous to change their
appearance The report is intended to
show, what has long been apparent, that
crime in Pittsburg is on the decrease, and
the efficiency of the police force is the factor
most potent in producing such a desirable
state of affairs in the face of the wonderful
increase both of floating and resident popu-
lation.
The record of the department shows up
very we'll in convictions, and the nicely of
distinction in crime under the different
heads would puzzle Philadelphia lawyer,
while Pittsburg citizen would titillate
his cerebellum with the SUBMITS of his
digits to point out the difference
between entering a building with
intent and entering dwelling with intent,
especially as a feature of the entertainment
seems to be burglaries 1t would be i'm
possible to give 1.-The list in extenso. but the
leading features in the criminal history of
the city for about 80 months are condensed
as follows
Murders, Il; burglaries, 16; attempt to
commit burglary, l; manslaughter, 2; in
voluntary manslaughter, 8; larceny, 112;
larceny from the person, "a; attempt to COM
NIT larceny, 2; attempt to commit larceny
from the person, 1;entering a-building with
intent, ETC., 80; robbery, IL; entering
dwelling with intent, ETC., 4; ag-
gravated assault and battery, 40;
indecent assault, s; assault with
intent to rob, 1; assault and battery, IA;
feionious assault and battery, 1S; assault
with intent, 2; trsudulently making writ
ten instrument, /; false pretenses, 8; mali
cious mischief, 8; keeping disorderly houses,
6; felonious shooting, 2; forcible entry, 1;
selling liquor to minors 3; without
license, SO; on Sunday, 80; keeping disorder
ly house, 6; leasing houses for disorderly pur-
poses 8; enticing child to disorderly house,
8; cruelty to children, 1; singing stones at
railroad cars 1; horse stealing, 2; keeping
gambling houses, 4; receiving stolen goods,
6; lottery ticket selling, 3; aiding prisoners
to escape, 2; carving away fruit, 1; conspir-
acy. 3; pointing firearms, 2; bigamy, 1; per-
jury, 1; riot, 1; accessory to murder, 1.