The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-02-11
ARRESTS IN NEW YORK,
Only Thirty Per Cent of Those Taken Int,
Custody Are Women.

Only Thirty Per Cent of Those Taken Into
Custody Are Women.
OF the total number of arrests In New
York, which comprises between 90, 900
and 100, 600 in a year, 20 per cent Of the
persons taken into custody are men, and 80
per cent are women. This proportion has
been maintained for many years, and va
riances from 1t are slight, but when It
comes to tho emigrants from continental
countries it is seen that the feminine por.
tion of some of these colonies fails to fur
nish any considerable number of offenders
against the laws Of this state According
to the last report of tho police commission
ers, the arrests for the quarter ending on
Jan. / 1894, showed 10, 597 native born
persons taken into custody. OF these 8, 4O3
were men, and 3,194 were women. In
other words, about 40 per cent of those ar.
rested were male and 30 per cent female
Substantially the same proportion between
the sexes is found among the natives of
England, Ireland, Scotland, Canada, Bel
gium, Bohemia and France, but how is 1t
with the other newcomers
One thousand five hundred and thirty.
eight male natives Of Russia were arrest
ed, but instead OF 4S5 female natives of
Russia, the normal proportion, there wero
oiiiy oV uIEtsttu Ill tllt In1S Is
undeniably very good showing when it
Is considered how large is the Russian pop
ulation of this city and how ignorant the
great majority of the members of the Rus
sian colony are of American laws and
usages The Russians of New York are
for the most part pitiably poor. Many of
them are In trades, such as peddling, street
vending and shop work, which brings
them close to the border line of police in
terference or conflict with each other, but
Notwithstanding this only so Russian wo-
men were returned as arrested for any of
fense, grave or venial, during the last re
port of the quarter.
Nor do the italian women of brunette
hair, olive visage and strong partiality for
primary colors fall much behind the Rus
slams In their abstention from offenses
which might lead to their arrest. In the
same quarter l, 1874 male Italians were
taken into custody and only Al italian
women. The latter are the mainstay of
good order and propriety in tho Italian
colony, and the official figures of the police
department attest this fact
While the disparity between tho two
sexes in the matter of arrests for violations
of law is not as strongly marked among
the Germans and Scandinavians as 1t Is
among the Russians and the Italians, vet
1t Is sufficiently SO to Justify comment
Twenty-one hundred and ninety-two male
Germans were arrested in the last quar-
ter, and only $50 women or girls Two
hundred and thirty-one male Scandi-
navians We're arrested during the last quar-
ter, and only "a female natives of these
countries Hungary furnishes 1O1 male
and only IA female arrests, and Austria
344 male and only 15 female arrests dur
Ing the same quarter. The laws of New
York are, it is evident pretty carefully OBJ
served among women, at least by some Of
those who, in the popular Judgment, would
seem likely to know least about them.-
New York Sun.