CHAPTER V. CRIMINALITY OF THE COUNTY H. DE- 
FECTIVES AS SHOWN BY THE JAIL AND THE 
JUVENILE COURT RECORDS 
Of the persons whose names appear on the list of the 
County H. defectives, 84 are on the records as having been in 
jail one or more times. Of these, 23 have been there not be- 
cause of any crime committed, but because they were com- 
pelled to wait there until transferred to the hospital for the 
insane. 
Besides these there is a large number of persons recorded 
as having been in jail who belong to the same family groups 
as do many of the mental defectives in the county. There 
are many more in this latter class than in the former. 
The mental defectives of County H. do not figure so promi- 
nently on the jail records as they do on those of the poor relief. 
Not nearly so many of them are on record, and those who do 
appear are not recorded again and again as are those on the 
other records. Out of a total of 84 mentally defective jail 
cases, 43 appear 1 time only; 11 appear twice; 6 appear 3 
times; 4 appear 4 times; 7 appear somewhere between 4 and 
10 times ; 9 appear somewhere between 10 and 20 times, and 3 
appear between 20 and 30 times. 
These defectives have cost the county $1,025.10 in the form 
of in-and-out fees, board, and bed in jail. This sum is much 
larger if the family groups are considered. 
The majority of commitments have been for trivial of- 
fenses, such as intoxication, vagrancy, disturbing the peace, 
and sex offenses. Table IX gives a list of all the offenses com- 
mitted by the mental defectives arranged according to fre- 
quency. Of these arrests, 535 are due directly to liquor as 
shown by the wording of the charge, and many others are 
probably due to the same cause, such as the disturbing of the 
peace, fighting, profanity, vagrancy, and being a public nuis- 
ance. A large number of other crimes are those against sex 
and are recorded as prostitution, association, bastardy, fraud- 
ulent marriage, and rape. Of the more serious crimes, only 3 
of the defectives have been charged with murder, 3 with grand 
larceny, and 1 with arson. 
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