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cha])ter are included. The motives of love, which among the whites 

 are res])onsible for many serious transgressions, exist, with the excep- 

 tion of jealousy, in less force and to less extent among the Indians, par- 

 ticularly among the unmarried. The fewer w^ants of the Indian, and 

 the absence of the habit of hoarding property, general among most 

 of those of the Southwest and of northern Mexico, mean the lack of 

 the principal incentives to theft and robbery. Neither is revenge, 

 except temporarily, a very strong motive. It* used to be considered 

 obligatory among some tribes, including the Apache, to avenge the 

 murder of one or more of their number by killing some of the enemy, 

 but there is no evidence that beside this custom of war there existed 

 within any tribe itself anything like blood vendetta. Among the 

 predisposing causes to violence the first place belongs to jealousy, 

 especially sexual, and the second to the sentiment of real or supposed 

 wrongs. If such feelings are present and emphasized by liquor, they 

 may result in a fight or murder. 



According to the criminal statistics of the Eleventh United States 

 Census, 1890 (Report on Indians, 96-97), out of about 130,000 Indians, 

 there were confhied in various prisons on June 1 of the census year, 322 

 prisoners — 307 males and 15 females. Of these, 166 were single, 138 

 married, and only 4 were less than 15 years of age. The table of the 

 offenses was as follows: 



Crimes. 



Males. 



Females. 



Offenses against the revenue law 



Offenses against military law 



Perjury 



Adultery ■ 



Fornication 



Violation of liquor law 



Public intoxication 



All other offenses against public morals . 



Disorderly conduct 



AU other offenses against public peace. . 



Vagi'ancy 



All other offenses agaiiist public policy. . 



Homicides 



Rape ^ 



Abduction 



Assaults 



Burglary 



Robbery 



Plain larceny 



Grand larceny 



Petit larceny 



Larceny of horses 



Not specified 



Total 



Grand total. 



306 

 322 



