THE JUKES. 



A RECORD AND STUDY OF THE RELATIONS OF CRIME, 

 PAUPERISM, DISEASE AND HEREDITY. 



In July, 1874, the New York Prison Association having deputed 

 me to visit thirteen of the county jails of this State and report 

 thereupon, I made a tour of inspection in pursuance of that ap- 

 pointment. No specially striking cases of criminal careers, trace- 

 able through several generations, presented themselves till 



county was reached. Here, however, were found six persons, under 

 four family names, who turned out to be blood relations in some 

 degree. The oldest, a man of fifty-five, was waiting trial for re- 

 ceiving stolen goods ; his daughter, aged eighteen, held as witness 

 against him ; her uncle, aged forty-two, burglary in the first degree ; 

 the illegitimate daughter of the latter's wife, aged twelve years, upon 

 which child the latter had attempted rape, to be sent to the reform- 

 atory for vagrancy ; and two brothers in another branch of the 

 family, aged respectively nineteen and fourteen, accused of an as- 

 sault with intent to kill, they having maliciously pushed a child 

 over a high cliff and nearly killed him. Upon trial the oldest was 

 acquitted, though the goods stolen were found in his house, his pre- 

 vious good character saving him ; the guilt belonged to his brother- 

 in-law, the man aged forty-two, above mentioned, who was living in 

 the house. This brother-in-law is an illegitimate child, an habitual 

 criminal and the son of an unpunished and cautious thief. He 



had two brothers and one sister, all of whom are thieves, the sister 



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