St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-01-06
WORK OF The COPPERS
Report Of the Police Depart
ment for the Past
Year.
SOME INTERESTING FACTS.
Number Of Persons Arrested
and the Crimes Ac-
cused Of.
SOME INTERESTING FACTS.
NO NEWSPAPERMEN PINCHED
Condition and Needs Of the
Department at the Pres
ent Time.

Liz dUHuUl report VI lHo pOllCo uS-
partment for the past year was submits
ted to Mayor Smith yesterday afternoon.
1t contains statistics that will repay
study. 1t shows, to begin with, which
are the most popular crimes. 1t is in
tereSting to know which is the most
popular offense against the law, in order
that legislators and aldermen may be
enlightened. and amend old OF frame
pew laws accordingly.
The ''drunks" appear to have the best
of it In numbers. There were ILL OF
them. As matter of mere sympathy,
it is not expected that the good fellows
who were elected to enact the cty's Or
dinances will adopt more stringent legis-
latiOn regarding this crime. 1t seems to
be an inevitable miSdemeanor. The
wonder is that there were only LII of
them arrested. There might have been
others.
The "disorderly conducts" press the
''drunks" hard. There were 1,036 of
them. Possibly some of these dis
OrderlieS" were drunk, but that does
not appear in the report. Then there
were 223 individuals arrested for COM
bination of both crimes. They were
drunk and dsorderly." Miserable
luck.
The "vags" ranked third. The police
gathered in 992 of these factors of soci-
ety-theSe people whom the hard times
marked for arrest. but not always for
conviction for many of them were al
lowed to go, provided they would leave
town at once.
SiXty-four gentlemen were arrested
for gambling, and fifty-four for begging
OH the Streets-nearly stand Off. The
remainder of the city offenses for which
the police made arrests make the total
1888.
The state offenseS, including petit
larceny, assault and battery, grand lar
ceny, burglary, non-support, murder,
robbery and the rest of the crimes,
numbered 1,414. That is to say, 1,414
people were arrested charged with
some one OF these OtfenseS. Five were
arrested charged with murder, 274 for
assault and battery, 1913 for keeping
houses of ill-fame. $50 for petit larceny,
al for burglary, for adultery. "a for
bastardy. 90 for highway robbery, 45 for
assault with a dangerous weapon and
40 for grand larceny.
This makes the total number Of ar
rests 5,l47. OF this number 4, 453 be-
longed to the male persuasion, as
against 694 of the gentler sex. AS
convincing proof that married folks are
more successful in keeping out of jail,
the report says that only 1884 of the
STAT arrested were married. whereas
3.6l3 single people were run in. Only
267 colored folks were arrested. Ten
men between seventy and eighty years
were arrested; Is between sixty and
seventy years, 2l9 between fifty and
sixty years, 657 between forty and fifty
years. LAPS between thirty and forty
years. 2,016 between twenty and thirty
years. 757 between ten and twenty
years, and 81 under ten years, all Of
which goes SHOW that youthful Amer
lea beneath the aye OF ten years can
worry the coppers more than the old
folks between seventy and eighty, who
are supposed to be in their second
childhood"
The value of property stolen was S14.-
24O 25, of which $S,627,50 worth was re-
covered, leaving net loss of $5.6l2.75.
The nativity of those arrested might
be significant if Americans could locate
their ancestry in America for eight or
ten generations, but here it is, whatever
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