Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-07

| s26s.S0; total, $1S6l1.95; average num-
Der of convicts, 200; average individual
earnings for 10 months. $93.06; net cost
of subsistence. Sc, 560.7S; net cost OF
clothing. S1,606.21; average individual
cost of subsistence and clothing for 10
months. Si0.S; average individual
profit over and above subsistence and
clothing, $52.22
Statistics of Prisoners.
The crimes for which commitments
were made during the year ending
| Nov 30, 1911, are as follows: Adultery.
.; assault and battery, 4; assault and
| battery and breaking and entering
with intent 10 commit larceny, /; as
! sault with intent to commit rape 3;
assault with intent to kill 4, assault
with intent to murder. /; assault with
| intent to kill and murder. /: assault
with intent to kill. while armed with
a dangerous weapon, 3; assault and
| larceny, /; assault and larceny from
person, 2; assault with intent to com
| NIT larceny, l.; attempt to cheat by
| false pretenses, /, breaking and enter
| ing, /: breaking and entering in the
night time and larceny, ?; breaking and
entering in the night time; larceny. .:
| breaking, entering and larceny, 10;
| breaking and entering and larceny;
assault with intent to kill. /; breaking
| entering and larceny in the night time.
| L: burning building to defraud insur-
ance company. 1; burning building III
| the night time, !; compound larceny
! 1; common thief, 5; falsely assuming
| to be an officer. /; forgery, /; larceny,
| 8, larceny from the person. 6; mali
| eious mischief, 5; manslaughter, l:
| murder, 5; rape, 4; robbery. /: setting
| fire to building. IA; unlawfully con-
| veying into a jail instrument adapted
and intended to aid prisoner lawfully
/ detained Herewith to escape /; ut
l.tering a forged written instrument, /:
| uttering and publishing as true a GER
| tain written instrument, knowing the
| same to be false, forged and counter
| felt. /; total, 9S.
| Previous occupation of conVcts com
/ mitted during the year ending, Nov.
| 90. 1911: Blacksmiths, .: candy makers.
| /: canvassers. 1; carpenters. >; chauf-
| feurs, / clerks. .; coal miners, /;
copper smiths. /; electricians. l; farm
ers and farmhands, II; firemen, 2; har-
ness makers. l: hostlers. l; housework
| tfemale), 9; laborers. So: fathers. |:
| leather cutters. /; linemen, .: mill
| hands, >; news merchants on train, |:
painters and paper hangers, /; photog
raphers. .; printers, 1: sailors, ,; shoe
makers, 8: shipbuilders, stone cutters
2; students, l.; tailors, l; teamsters, g.;
textile workers, 2; veterinarians, l.;
woodsmen and river drivers, q wood
workers, /: total. 9S.
| Age of conyicts committed during
the year ending. Nov. 80, 1911: Between
o. and TO- l; between SO and 90, o; be-
tween 30 and 90, 2; between 50 and So
4: between 40 and 50, .; between Al
and 10; I; between IS and 40, 8: be-
tween 50 and 50, II; between % and 80
81; between 20 and 25, u; between Ii
and 20. ID; total, SO.
Education, habits and family rea-
tons of convicts committed during
year ending. Nov. 30, 1911; Could read
and write, Sc; could not read and
write, l.; number serving prison SEN
tcnce for first time, rs; number having
served previous prison sentence, 20;
did not use intoxicants. 80; did use in
} toxicants, 50; did not use tobacco. g.
did use tobacco SO; married at com
| nitment, SO; single at commitment, "a;
| divorced, 81 wife deceased, 5.
Nativity of convicts committed dur
ing year endins Nov. 30. 1911: Can
ada 9; China, l: Connecticut, /: Dis
trict of Columbia, /; England, Germa-
ny, Illinois, l each Italy, s; Maine a6;
| Massachusetts. IL: New Brunswick, 8.
New Hampshire. .; New York, ,; New
Zealand, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Oklahoma
; ontario, Quebec, Scotland, Syria, Nir-
ginia l each; total, IS.
Number of convicts committed from
each county during the year ending
NOV. 80 1911; Androscoggin, L; Aroos-
took. .; Cumberland. II; Franklin, I;
Hancock ,: Kennebec, 9: Knox, A;
Lincoln, /; Oxford, ); Penobscot %;
Piscataquis, = Sagadahoe, >; Somer-
SCI, 8; Waldo. 0; Washington, ,; York,
s. total, IS.
Physical and Spiritual Welfare.
The report of the prison physician, j.
Edwin Walker, states that during the
year there was an apidemic of influ-
enza. some so cases. There have been
| six Deaths five from tuberculosis and