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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 1 



II. Personal History. 



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

 ried.— 9. Divorced. — 10. Widowed. — 11. 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 1 — 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 got 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. 



