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INDIANA EVENING CIndiana Sent Seven PrisonersTo The Workhouse During 1921PITTSBURGH. Mar. 17.--The52 nd an mm] report lt;»f I hi* Allegheny county workhouse' and inebriate asylum for the year 1021 furnishea an inini-esting study. Within tin? walls of this old ' (prison arc eon lined prisoners from most of the counties of Western Pennsylvania. In 1021 there were 3,350 p.-fsonors i-omim tiled to this prison, plus GOG whose serile nres carried over from 1020, making « tat ft I of 4,022 for this year.Of the prisoners received in 1021, Lawrence county sent 48, Beaver 48, Somerset 14, C,lac ion 10, Faye Me 02, Westmoreland 40, Frio 21, Washing-ton 28, Indiana 7, .Jefferson 7. Armstrong 20, Me Kean 2, Butler IP. Crawford .11, Mercer 02, Greene 2, Warren 0, Venango 24. The 'balance were from Pittsburgh and Allegheny county.The list, of crimes covered a wide range. Some of the more numerous charges included: abusing family 14, assault and battery half a dozen different kinds 122, bigamy 7, burglary 14, eontnvon prostitute 21, breaking and entering building 28, blackmail 2, carrying concealed wea-.pons 29, cruelty to wife 3, disorderly eon duel 232, drunkenness 48, drunk and disorderly 2d, false .pretense If*, forgery 19, gambling 2, habituuldrunkard 14, indecent exposure 1.bawdy house 5, kcoping disorderly house 12, keeping ga-mbling house 10, entering 'bniiding and larceny 80, laiceny Ida, other kinds of'larceny 39linn - siiitjpti ft. 50, -pointing ii reft unis 0,rape 10, nibbery 4, robbery and receiving stolen goods 12, receiving stolen goods 19, suspicious persons 1,200, selling liquor unlawfully 95, vagrancy 19, violating city or borough ordinances 84, wife-beating 4.Long as the list of crimes is, the list of occupations is much longer. Within these prison walls are confined workers of every known craft under the sun. Here are enough artisans to run a miniature government. There are cooks butchers, railroad men, printe-s, pressmen, railroad men, architects, bakers, musicians, ball -players, policemen and even a detective. Not only are there lots of cooks but there are, bell-boys, embalm era, hucksters, gsvmblers, a dentist, a jockey and .even, movie operators. The cast is complete. IIhere are some of the trades or occupations of the prisoners and tlu* number of such in the .prison: 2 actors. 17 auto repairers, I artist, I advertiser, 1 architect, 1 awning .maker, 1 bartender, 3 'brokers, 22 brake.men, 48 barbers, Idinvolumji--y manslaughter 2, keeping J,blacksmiths, 12 boiler makers, 14.bakers, 9 butchers, 4 book-keepers 1 bell boys, '?■ ball .players, 122 cooks, 2(5 carpenters, 42 clerks, 101 chauffeurs, 20 cranemen, 13 clothes press*ers, 3 decorators, 1 detective, 1 dentist, 14 engineers, 12 electricians, 2 vnilbalmers, 59 firemen, 55 farmers, 9 glass workers, 1 grocer, 3 gamblers, 10 hostlers, 2 hucksters, t harness maker, i hotel proprietor, I hat maker {not milliner), 70 iron /workers, 1 jockey, 1,032 laborers, 1 lineman, 3 found ryrncn, 70 miners. 41 .machinists, 24 molders, 1 mason, 0 millwrights, 2 motormen, 5 (musicians, 2 movie operators, 9 merchants, 3 nurses, 112 .porters, 8 plumbers, ft printers, I pressman, 2 press feeders, 7 plasterers, 14 pipe-fitters^ 52 painters, 1 photographer, 3 pugilists, 2 policemen, 17 salesmen, 18 shoe .makers, lt;5 structural iron workers, 9 sailors, 2 soldiers, 1 shirt cutter, 2 switchmen 1 PUBLISHER, 108 •teamsters, 25 tailors, 1 'kdegraph operator, 109 waiters.-Short team (prisoners were in the great majority running from a -month to three years. Of these in for a month there were 1,733; two months 529; three months 294; four months GG; five months 1G; six months 230; nine months 44; one year 15(5; year and half 50; two years 53; three-years 12; indeterminate 59. Other
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Indiana Evening Gazette
Indiana, Pennsylvania, US
Fri, Mar 17, 1922
Page 6
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Clipped by
Emma L.
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