The New York herald., 1922-02-07
One Aviator Falls and 200
Sailors Are Caught i'm
Crime Wave.
% JANIToRs IN TROUBLE
Report Of Secretary of State
Tells Stories Concealed in
Years Court Records.

Special Dfspctch to TIE NEW yonK HrRALp.
New York Herald Bureau.
Albany. Feb. g.
Chorus girls are not as bad as they
are painted, John J. Lyons, Secretary
Of State. has learned. These and the
nanicurists are models Of propriety.
They are so we'll behaved that not one
of their number appeared in the crime
wave list for last year, and they are
about the only classes of citizens who
did not violate the laws.
Printers, pressmen and stereotypers
also managed to stay out of the tolls
Of the courts. but the report shows
that newspaper men were inclined to
skid trif1e more from the straight
and narrow path In 1921.
total Of 55,51s persons were con-
victed in courts of record and courts
OF special sessions, as against 1851
in 1920. OF the 46,625 convicted in
courts of special sessions 43,7s0 were
men and 2,s35 were women. Hootch
or no hootch, 10,291 were convicted of
intoxication. while misdemeanors
claimed 26,791, petit larceny 4166 and
third degree assault 1851. The re-
port states:
'Sixty-three bakers landed in court.
as compared to forty-six In 1920. Bar
bers cut a bigger swatfh last year, and
eighty-six. as compared to sixty-five,
got in trouble. Bell boys were almost
models of propriety. a single one re-
spending to the call Of the court in
stead of eighteen.
Lawyers Show Improvement.
"one aviator flew too high and fell
A single bank cashier counted out
money to himself. Boilermakers stuck
closer to their riveting. seventeen fac
ing the Judge. as compared to twenty
nine. Brakes failed to hold with thirty
two brakemen on the downward grade.
"Bricklayers are neither better nor
worse. fourteen being convicted each
year.
Here's news. Only two lawyers
failed to be clever enough last year
TO get out of trouble, as compared to
four the year before.
Sailors apparently felt the breeze
that stirred the wave of crime. 200 be-
ing convicted. as against eighty-six.
Saloon keepers-there are still some
left-but they are improving. only six
teen facing the bar Of justice last year.
Two steeplejacks slipped to one the
year before. A half dozen automobile
dealers lost their clutch. to three in
1920. Sixty automobile repairers became
careless enough to get caught. Twenty
blacksmths. as compared to seven
teen, were nailed by the court. SEN
tences instead OF hash were handed
to three boarding house keepers last
year.
"A total of sixty-eight bookkeepers,
as compared to forty-seven. got their
figures muddled. Fourteen bootblacks,
an increase of five. helped polish courts
OF record.
four, cut OFF a slice of crime. Two
hundred more chauffers took the wrong
route last year, bringing their total TO
ISL. Cheesemaking may be a prosaic
business, but nevertheless. three got into
trouble. Clerks were also bit worse
behaved. with a total of 493, as COM
pared to 3s1.
"Gentiemen" Convicted.
''Twenty-one conductors included a
station Of crime, while 100 cooks, as
compared to 70, concocted the wrong
dish. and received a meal ticket. Laws
forceps closed down on three dentists,
one more than the year before.
Detectives were detected to the num-
Der Of three. Dirty dishes were not re-
sponsible for seventeen dishwashers. as
compared to six. being hailed into court.
Elevator men are still going UP, with SIS
convicted as against ~.
"A total Of 1873 farmers left their
acres, instead OF ITO. No less than 14o
fremen banked their Goals as against
102"
Strange as It may seem. there were
nine gentlemen convicted last year as
against six the year before.
All but twenty-three Janitors managed
TO keep out Of trouble, at least to the
extent of figuring In tho courts.
'"rwenty-four musicians played the
wrong tune and sixty plumbers made
wrong connections. while eleven steno-
graphers, as compared to eighteen, took
the dictation of the courts. Convictions
were dished up to 1876 walters as COM
pared to eighty-nine in 1920"