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of criminals.” Oscar C. McCulloch, speaking of the de- 
scendants of a pauper family named “Ishmael,” in the 
city of Indianapolis, uses the following language: 
“We start at some unknown date with thirty fami- 
lies. These came mostly from Kentucky, Tennessee, 
and North Carolina. Of the first gen- 
eration—of sixty-two individuals—we 
know certainly of only three. In the 
second generation we have the history of eighty-four. 
In the third generation we have the history of two hun- 
dred and eighty-three. In the fourth generation—1840- 
1860—we have the history of six hundred and forty- 
four. In the fifth generation—1860—1880—we have the 
history of six hundred and seventy-nine. In the sixth 
generation—1880-1890—we have the history of fifty- 
seven. Here is a total of seventeen hundred and fifty 
individuals. Before the fourth generation—from 1840 
to 1860—we have but scant records. Our most com- 
plete data begin with the fourth generation, and the 
following are valuable. We know of one hundred and 
twenty-one prostitutes. The criminal record is very 
large—petty thieving, larcenies chiefly. There have 
been anumber of murders. The first murder committed 
in the city was in this family. A long and celebrated 
murder case, known as the ‘Clem’ murder, costing the 
State immense amounts of money, is located here. 
Nearly every crime of any note belongs here. Between 
1868 and 1888 not less than five thousand dollars has 
been paid for ‘ passing’ these people from place to place, 
each township officer trying to throw off the responsi- 
bility. The records of the city hospital show that— 
taking out surgical cases, acute general cases, and cases 
outside the city—seventy-five per cent of the cases 
treated are from this class. The number of illegitima- 
cies is very great. The Board of Health reports that the 
The tribe of 
Ishmael. 
