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To test to its fullest extent the possibility of gathering such materials, 

 the following schedule was used in the examinations : 



SCHEDULE USED IN THE EXAMINATION OF CONVICTS. 

 I. Parental Antecedents. 



i. Are the parents consanguineous. What degree ? 2. What 

 has been the family example of father and mother as to temperance, 

 industry, chastity, debauchery, pauperism, crime, education, religion ; 

 also property, trade, present age, age at death, disease? 3. Has he 

 criminal uncles, aunts or cousins, and how many ? 



II. Personal History. 



4. Legitimate birth. 5. Color. 6. Age. 7. Single. 8. Mar- 

 ried. 9. Divorced. 10. Widowed. n. Illicit relation. 12. Num- 

 ber of children, boys, girls, legitimate, illegitimate. 13. Homeless 

 childhood by abandonment of father, mother, by death of father, 

 mother, by imprisonment of father, mother, by pauperism of father, 

 mother. 14. Was other guardian provided ? 15. Was it a kinsman, 

 a stranger, an institution ? 16. Character of guardian. 17. How 

 many brothers and sisters had he ? 18. Their order of birth ? 



III. Pauperism, 



19. What form ? Poor-house. Out-door relief. Vagrancy. 

 20. At what age ? 21. How long? 22. How did home g*t un- 

 fixed ? By death of. Abandonment of. Imprisonment of. 

 Want of work. Loss of property. 



IV. Industrial Training. 



23. Industrious. 24. Lazy. 25. Apprenticed. 26. Served 

 . . . . years. 27. What trade. 28. Profession? 29. Was it fully 

 learned? 30. Why not? 31. How much time lost since? 32. Use 

 of spare time. 33. Character of companions. 34. Where he met 

 them. 35. How many of them since convicted ? Sent to State 

 prison. 36. Ever in army. Kept rum shop. 37. Or brothel. 



