[Footnote 3: The following table gives the yearly percentages of convictions and acquittals by verdict in New York County since 1901: +------+-------------+------------+-------------+------------+ | | NUMBER | NUMBER | | | | YEAR | CONVICTIONS | ACQUITTALS | CONVICTIONS | ACQUITTALS | | | BY VERDICT | BY VERDICT | PER CENT | PER CENT | +------+-------------+------------+-------------+------------+ | 1901 | 551 | 344 | 62 | 38 | | 1902 | 419 | 349 | 55 | 45 | | 1903 | 485 | 307 | 61 | 39 | | 1904 | 495 | 357 | 58 | 42 | | 1905 | 489 | 299 | 62 | 38 | | 1906 | 464 | 246 | 65 | 35 | | 1907 | 582 | 264 | 69 | 31 | | 1908 | 649 | 301 | 68 | 32 | | 1909 | 463 | 235 | 66 | 34 | | 1910 | 649 | 325 | 66 | 34 | +------+-------------+------------+-------------+------------+] [Footnote 4: Written in 1909.] [Footnote 5: Naples and Sicily were united under that name in 1734.] [Footnote 6: G. M. Trevelyan, “Garibaldi and the Thousand,” c. iii, p. 45. De Cesares F. di P., p. lxix.] [Footnote 7: Compare the Florentine _carcisfo_ “artichoke” for gendarme.] [Footnote 8: H. D. Sedgwick, “Letters from Italy.”] [Footnote 9: G. M. Trevelyan, “Garibaldi and the Thousand,” c. i., p. 19.] [Footnote 10: Compassion.] [Footnote 11: _Publica Securezza_, or Public Safety—the regular police.] [Footnote 12: The Italian Parliament approved in June last a bill proposed by the government authorizing the establishment of 6,000 schools, mainly in the southern provinces, at a cost of 250,000,000 lire ($50,000,000).] [Footnote 13: See appendix.] [Footnote 14: In stolen burial shrouds and the bones of children.] [Footnote 15: About equivalent to our “quartermaster-sergeant.”] [Footnote 16: May, 1912.] [Footnote 17: Ten or more have been liberated already on this ground.] [Footnote 18: Much more likely in Italy than in the United States.] [Footnote 19: Petrosino is a national hero in Italy, where he was known as “Il Sherlock Holmes d’Italia”—“the Italian Sherlock Holmes.” Many novels in which he figures as the central character have a wide circulation there.] * * * * * Transcriber’s note: 1. Silently corrected simple spelling, grammar, and typographical errors. 2. Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed.