Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 209, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1913 — Suicide Is An Exception [ARTICLE]

Suicide Is An Exception

Gradual Increase In Breaking of Law Among Younger Males Al*o Shown by Statistics. New York. —That married men are better than single ones is the most remarkable feature of a report of an investigation made by the district attorney’s office which has just been made public. Out of the 2,857 men convicted last year only 784 were married, as compared to 2,068 who were unmarried. The one startling exception is in the case of suicide, the report showing that among men who attempt to take their own lives the married outnumber the single three to one. A comparison foY the last nine years gives 7,67o(4convictions of married men for all sorts of crimes and 18,406 convictions of unmarried men. The re ~ port indicates that there is a gradual increase in crime among young men, the male criminals under the -age of thirty years having increased in number from 1,700 in 1904 to 2,200 in 1912. During the last year many offenders were between the years of fifteen and twenty. Assault charges now show 40 under twenty years and 64 from twenty to thirty years; third-degree burglary. 213 for the younger period an< * 205 for the older; grand * larceny in the second degree, 184 criminals under twenty years, and 258 from twenty to thirty; petit larceny, 157 under twenty and 144 from >wenty to thirty years; unlawful entry, 84 under twenty years and 22 from twenty to thirty years. The total shows 940,under twenty convicted last year, ahd 1,278 from twenty to thirty. Only offenders from thirty to forty years were convicted. The statistics for women prisoners show that two-thirds of the women brought to court were under thirty years.