The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-30
NICE BOYS IN PEN
Neither Liquor Nor Tobacco Used
by 112 Prisoners.
All Trades Represented in List
Of Erring.
ALL ARE RELIGIOUS
No AgnOstics to Be Found i'll
Federal Prison.
Most Criminals Are From 30
to 40 Years Old.

Most Criminals Are From sc
to 40 Years Old.
Leavenworth. Kan. Dec Cover
Howard T. Bennett. the Ludlow. Mass
youth who never drank liquor tasted
tobacco nor uttered an oath would not
bc a snob in the Federal Penitentiary
Which June 30, 1911, held 112 convlcts OF
&lodel habits. according to the record
%,Terk's report for the last fiscal year
= His report bound in an eiShty-three
rage book with the warden's and those
Of heads of departments, was issued
from the prison press
TTsed liquor Only-------- 4s
Used tobacco only ----..-.........---4 3a
T-Sed both ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 90
I-sed neither Observation-Disclosures IL
June go 1911 the date of the report,
71s2 prisoners were in the penitentiary-
Few occupations had no representa-
tive i'm prison at that time. LabOrers,
goo head the list and farmers, 10l. are
second. Others before conviction We're.
actors 5. bankers 16, BARRIERS 36, bar
tender 1. professional boxers ,, broker
] cartoonist / cowboys ,. dentists ..
detective 1, druggists >. embalmer 1.
kitchen servants g. lawyers 2 mariner
/ merchants Is minister l. newspa per
men .. physicians ). pilot 1. plumbers s.
policemen ). pOstmaSterS A. printers y,
4lrfzefghter l. professor of languages L,
ranchers 10. sailors 3. saloon keeper l.
Salvation Army captain J. teachers .,
turkish bath attendant l. veterinary
surgeon l. walters 80 mere are nun
dreds of others less interesting.
None of the prisoners in prison June
so professed aSnostlclSnl- mere II ll7
way they line up on religious belief;
Adventist --.-.-------.---- 90
Baptists ----.----.----- 80 "a
Catholic. -'-' - 20.
Chlistadelphians ----------.-----.-
Christian .------.-------.- 70
Christian Science -------- .------''
Congregationalists- --------..----..-
Disciples. Observation-Disclosures >
Dunkard- OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Episcopallan ------------ -------'- %
evangelical ----.------ '----'--'--
tae VIII Baptlsts ---------.--- .-----
~ek Orthodox Observation-Disclosures
stheran. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 81
thodists. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 222
preference OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 66
mouth Brethren Observation-Disclosures.
IS byterian. Observation-Disclosures. 80
2srimitive Methodists .........-.-....
Ouakers OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Reformed Church NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
salvation Army Observation-Disclosures.
Shin+tlisr1 OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
-,,-al7e 81, boro~ia,, - 1
r-nftad Brethren - :
7-niS,eTss,Iiste Il
Hebrew. ........-......-. Fl
Holiness ...........-.. I
7-ol11n+aers of America ..... I
7.,+te,. nv SAINTS
IT.. ,-e,c,.5 c1arl,,s ranor+ shows that
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~ -, - 49, lst 81 ,-oo,
- N - 1se. - 60 -
WeIS - m tei ne ;, M i ll
gu ~ 49, - n - - 80 -. 80,
.eneeu LOT I'VE Years leu inns ta.,ie soilu
III three-Year men came thlfd- one
vas mere TOT hilletE-hlhe years, Nlreu-
any hie uiliess preslaentlai clelnency
saves MN one iof Iorty-thfee years
ana one LOT IoIIy years.
Inc "a PIE OF ages OF prisoners may
explain Why unmarried men are IN the
plurality At the time OF their com
rlitment. $50 were between go and 40
Years old That age brings wisdom is
shown by the Sradual decrease or con-
ears. This shows. the ages. at the
cners June 30.
ErisOne-s' Ages.
lte' % - "a 90. 90