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GUATEMALA. 
the course of 1883, 6,125 were accused of misdemeanors 
( faltas ), and 3,178 of crimes ( delitos ). Of the former 
class 764 were acquitted, while of those tried for crimes 
1,515 were judged not guilty, — leaving only 1,663 crim¬ 
inals out of a population of a million and a quarter. 
The carefully prepared tables published each year by the 
Government show that there is hardly one delinquent for 
each thousand inhabitants; that notwithstanding the 
greatly inferior numbers of the ladinos, this class claims 
many more convicts; and that eighty per cent of the 
criminals have no education. 
Crimes or Delitos. 
Males. 
Fe¬ 
males. 
Ladi¬ 
nos. 
Indios. 
Read. 
Write. 
Unedu¬ 
cated. 
Single. 
Mar¬ 
ried. 
Total. 
Against authority 
133 
6 
Ill 
28 
8 
48 
83 
56 
83 
139 
Assaults .... 
56 
5 
51 
10 
6 
18 
37 
37 
24 
61 
Wounding . . . 
396 
21 
298 
119 
19 
82 
315 
215 
201 
417 
Homicide . . . 
188 
15 
117 
86 
4 
46 
153 
107 
96 
203 
Bodily injuries. . 
312 
35 
202 
145 
12 
40 
295 
174 
173 
347 
Adultery . . . 
55 
55 
69 
41 
7 
24 
79 
25 
85 
110 
Seduction . . . 
38 
24 
14 
1 
9 
28 
31 
7 
38 
Rape. 
42 
.. . 
41 
1 
4 
20 
18 
33 
9 
42 
Lewdness . . . 
68 
50 
18 
7 
18 
43 
49 
19 
68 
Injurias .... 
80 
'50 
106 
24 
14 
29 
87 
62 
68 
130 
Cattle-stealing . . 
74 
40 
34 
14 
60 
26 
48 
74 
Tricks .... 
39 
*io 
44 
5 
4 
22 
23 
34 
15 
49 
Robbery .... 
32 
5 
33 
4 
2 
12 
23 
31 
6 
37 
Larceny .... 
303 
49 
264 
88 
13 
80 
259 
208 
144 
352 
Against liquor laws 
276 
316 
313 
279 
23 
60 
509 
175 
417 
592 
Smuggling tobacco 
25 
12 
25 
12 
1 
8 
28 
11 
26 
37 
Defrauding . . . 
95 
75 
71 
99 
4 
16 
150 
61 
109 
170 
Desertion . . . 
49 
48 
1 
1 
7 
41 
28 
21 
49 
All other delitos . 
227 
*36 
188 
75 
18 
84 
161 
126 
137 
236 
Totals .... 
2488 
690 
2095 
1083 
148 
639 
2392 
1489 
1688 
3178 
Included in the “ other delitos ” are several crimes 
much more common in New England and elsewhere,— 
perjury, nine ; libel, fifteen ; arson, thirteen ; poisoning, 
three ; infanticide, four; bribery, two ; abandonment of 
infants, four. In Livingston the “ Court ” kindly con¬ 
sented to sit for its portrait; and although this abode of 
the blind goddess was very dark, I got a satisfactory 
picture. I also photographed a man sitting in the stocks 
