The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-09

woolly The existence and pursuits of
such amiable gentlemen as "Deadwood
! DICK, Dynamite Dan" and others
! who varied the monotony of life in the
Rockies and west of those mountains,
have come to be looked upon as nat
/ ural. But that Massachusetts should
be found in such company! Third as q
crime producer! The chief political
division of New England! The state
which has exerted the greatest in1u-
ence upon the American people through
its intelligent activity. The home of
the poets!-Richard Henry Dana. Long
fellow Whittier, Lowell, Holmes,
What explanation can be given for this
condition?
One reason may be that Massachu
setts has more large cities than any
other state in the Union. There are II
towns in which the population is 25 O00
or more. Was it not to point out the
trials and temptations Of a city in this
Very Massachusetts that a great poet
has taken his pen in hand and given
reverencing world these profound
sentiments:
o Mr. Austin.
Since I've been in Boston
EVerything's been happiness without
care or pain;
Ny brains raj been in q constant whirI,
And Ill be much wiser girl
When go back to Sacarapa. Maiper
Ihere's the situation in a nutshell
The wisdom of the serpent dye1Ieth in
the cities. And wisdom NAV frenuen+I,-
prove the key to crime. Ergo, the more
cisIes' the more wisdom, and the more
Wlsoohn' the more crime And Massa-
chusetts, having more large cities than
any OF her sister states, boasts a great
er percentage of criminals This how
ever, is not the publicly expressed vjau,
OF the othcials having these matters in
charge IN Massachusetts Mr.. Freder-
lex q. Pettigrove, who is the gener5l
superintendent of prisons said when
questions concerning criminal figures
We're put to HIM ~ %
In the year upon which fiouras o,.o
computed, we had. on Oct III IL a!
oners, held either for non-naI,I1e,itt ~
nhes and costs or ON term sentancaS ~,
.ne state, county and city Driennr ~ ~
massachusetts,. OF this n,irnbo eo+
We're serving for offences aeains+' NJ W.
person; 3l9 of these, however 1t.ora IN .lle
pa! assaults, and in most cases n7iobt 80,
vel nave been included under M
80 So VI III drunkenness. One Thousand
flVe hundred and forty-fva ve,-o ,ee l!u
ces against property, the Iarora g o ,i
per pelng larcenies. Three tbon isuiI'1
Two hundred and seventy-ona I,-e,,a e ilu
oLleHceS against public order 49, +oi
lnls last number 2l62 Were fo,, a. S, OIL
ei,riess III VIII thus be seen that fnIt,,
PEI cent OF all the persons beid ~ =,
only" VI drunkenness
form rheg " run INT to homicide as the favorite
4 FORM Oh crime in Arizona, 10 he e UIrte
they Go q little in the line If breo 1Jte,
tle laws for the protection Of . se,niig
s1 property and the government d..
lliese dIe minor considerations WI
az Ai!Nold criminal wants 10 oct ~
enu dlstlnguish himself and not , oes
ea , WIN ms fellow criminals he IS
q e,, q 9i1 -9noolef or experiments viii
iriI,,if,a1 or theor1zes with a rife o.
l "a sI III one or other of the arcer
eu forms OF amusement in tba III.
preclnct. Forty-fVe per cent 30 nv
cri'leS which have resulted il, ~ tA'
pIehehslon of the offenders bs,ta DIP
VI 1i'leS committed against the rers EEL
"a great deal that is true of A riyo,.
- rue OF Nevada Here is anntJI
IonaiitI- ~ mat IN the language of ~
o?callty' VIII stand acid" II ie ~ the
right AS matter Of fsot nard
tlle territory on the personal VIC, iC ops
question, for As per cent of ~ 'lOleHce
committed are offenses against tba mes
New York is not so bad as tba ,,.,
III Mouiu nave the rising eanaroti1
pelleNe. i isn't at all cs,sa .'e I rat .,2
lI. Manhattan for the tbe G % In
snow that the Empire state &c HsGres
only In point of prisoners ana - ;, sixth
view Of the fact that the ei'e st ms IN
nrst IN point of population is s,, Ia[e IS
markabie and gratifying to @tqbn o re-
dents, Of this section. Out f one Of resi-
lnl'llon inhabitants in New Youi, every
NAV be reckoned an ayera e olA, there
criminals. The ratio is made isI i,o OF Il 1872
l l,l Of which burglary is Up up Oh Of,
notable, for there are found 1 SGe most
Iast general count AS a second l5i,I y Z the
me New York crook eviden{i'.t cnolce,
ing arrested; for there are oG fo,, oL get
asses under this head. The g spu,ld 1850
per lObO' and then follow 't oeeG um-
igalnst property such as natt1 oi lenses
morals public peace, public Sg ga, iagainst
'obbery and forgery with i Pu,,cy and
y me less serious ane more t una6T string