42 THE JUKES. 



time it will be well to notice how harlotry prevails among those 

 families where the boys are criminals. 



Case 2i> Take chart I., generation 3, line i, we get an intermar- 

 riage of cousins, and the appearance of crime seems to be postponed 

 for a generation. The word " seems " is used because no crime re- 

 ceiving punishment was committed ; but there is no doubt that the 

 two eldest sons of the next generation were both petty thieves, one 

 of them an expert sheep stealer. Coming down to the next genera- 

 tion (5th) we find the criminal children to be where there is a cross 

 between the "Juke " and the X blood. We also find that the oldest 

 male child of the fourth generation is the father of proportionately 

 more criminals than the second male child, while the third male 

 child, who is also the youngest and has intermarried into the " Juke " 

 blood, is the father of honest children. The figures run thus : ist 

 son, 7 boys, 5 criminals ; 2d son, 6 boys, 2 criminals ; 3d son, 4 

 boys, no criminals. 



Moreover, comparing the children of the fifth generation by 

 families, we find that it is the older brothers who are the criminals 

 and not the younger ones ; while, if we trace down line i to the 6th 

 generation, we find the heredity of crime seems to run in the line of 

 the oldest child, and that the males preponderate in those lines. 



Case 24. Taking the illegitimate progeny of Bell, chart III., what 

 do we find : that the preponderance is of males, and that the three 

 eldest children are honest, industrious and self-supporting. 



The probable reason for the honesty of the first born children 

 will be discussed further on. But when we come to the fourth child 

 we find, what .? That he has married outside the " Juke" blood ; that 

 he is not a criminal himself, but that amongst his children are found 

 criminals. The oldest of his boys, as in the previous generation, 

 was industrious. He married, emigrated to Pennsylvania at least 

 30 years ago, and now owns a farm and is doing well. 



The second child was a farmer and industrious, lived to 70 years 

 of age, and neither committed crime nor went to the county-house, 

 but received out-door relief at 65 for 3 years. The third child did 

 tolerably well and had no criminal children, they being all girls. 



