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generations is traced an environment which predisposes to crime 

 and corresponds to the heredity. -— 



Case 26. Now turning to line 4 of the sixth generation, a boy 19 

 years of age throws another boy over a cHff forty feet high, out of 

 malicious mischief. This boy is the second illegitimate child of his 

 mother, but probably not of his father, which latter was the first 

 illegitimate child of his mother by X. This case then seems to fol- 

 low the rule that the crime follows the lines of illegitimacy where 

 the " Juke " blood marries into X. There is no evidence that the 

 mother was a criminal, but her father was a petty thief, as shown by 

 chart I. Such is the heredity. 



The environment, a home the scene of violence, debauch and 

 drunkenness, father and mother both intemperate and idle ; the 

 mother becoming the procuress for her eldest son of a child 12 

 years of age, whom that illegitimate son seduces and is forced to 

 marry to prevent criminal prosecution ; the first born of this child 

 forming the third bastard in a line of heredity. Here we have an 

 environment corresponding to the heredity. 



Case 27. Line 22, generation 5, seems to be an exception to the 

 rule that the oldest is a criminal, but it is only a seeming exception. 

 He, with his next brother aged 12, engaged in a burglary, getting 

 $100 in gold as booty. The boy was caught, but he, the leader in 

 the crime, escaped. Being a sailor, it is impossible to get any relia- 

 ble information about his career, but it is evident that at 19 he was 

 a leader in crime. 



Case 28. Of lines ^iZi 34 ^^<^ Zl '^'^ the fifth generation, brothers 

 and sisters, we find the oldest son commits a number of offenses, 

 among them murder, but he escapes punishment as in the case 

 above. The second child, a girl, has become the contriver of the 

 crimes which the third child, a boy, has carried into effect, and for 

 which he has recently received 20 years' sentence of imprisonment. 

 In this case the boldest and most intelligent is the oldest child. 



Of the crimes committed by the legitimate branch of the Juke 

 family no chart has been made, only that the same general rule 

 holds good, that the eldest is the criminal of the family, the young- 

 est the pauper. 



