5. A. J., from Paisley, age 50; cattle stealing; two years a soldier;
“could not learn the bugle-calls or anything.” Weak-minded; most of life
in prison; three terms of penal servitude; eleven shorter sentences.
6. P. J., charcoal burner and collier, from Hereford, age 36; unlawfully
and maliciously wounding; “low type of intellect.” Very troublesome at
Chatham, and among the weak-minded at Millbank. One previous sentence of
penal servitude.
PLATE II.
1. T. C., chemist, from Portsea, age 21. Paid his addresses to girl whose
mother objected; attempted to murder latter by administering prussic acid.
Eight years’ penal servitude. Valvular disease of heart after rheumatic
fever.
2. G. H., farm labourer, from Leeds, age 50; “very low type;” twenty years
for shooting wife.
3. J. H., soldier and navvy, from Durham, age 60; conspiring to murder.
4. J. C., from Liverpool, fifteen years for manslaughter.
5. E. L., dock labourer, from Bristol. Life sentence for murdering wife’s
paramour; genitals undeveloped; fatty tumours on scapula.
6. W. G. H., from Lincoln, age 12. Manslaughter; fifteen years. Second and
third toes webbed.
PLATE III.
1. R. W., dock labourer, from Paisley, age 18. Assault and robbery; ten
years. Previous conviction for theft.
2. E. S. J., farm labourer, age 38; seven years for horse-stealing and
other thefts; four previous convictions.
3. W. W., stone-masons’ labourer, from Kirkdale, age 21; seven years and
flogged for robbery with violence. Three previous shorter sentences.
4. G. W., puddler, from Salford, age 21; five years for wounding.
5. W. S., cook and steward, from Liverpool; ten years for larceny; five
years previously for ditto.
6. W. C., age 25. Robbery with violence; ten years. Two shorter sentences.
PLATE IV.
1. J. J., hawker, from Hull; seven years for theft.
2. J. M., age 28; eight years a tailor, “rest of life a thief.” Seven
years for larceny, housebreaking, and receiving.
3. V. M., maker of pearl ornaments, from Birmingham, age 20. Thief
chiefly; twelve times in prison.
4. J. W., collier, from Durham; seven years for felony; seven shorter
sentences previously. Right eye destroyed.
5. W. T., farm labourer, from Hereford, age 21; ten years for receiving
stolen goods.
6. N. K., collier, from Gloucester; seven years for receiving joint of a
sheep, stolen and cut up by another; previous conviction for stealing
fellow-labourer’s dinner. “Low type; history told as if it was all a
joke.”
PLATE V.
1. J. H., from Chester, age 21; five years for burglary. In reformatory
and seven times in prison. “Very prominent forehead; small eyes nearly
concealed by upper lid.”
2. J. C. E., age 25; seven years for housebreaking. “Low type.”
3. S. P.. age 35; weaver, from Wakefield; ten years’ penal servitude for
felony; five years previously.
4. J. P., costermonger; seven years; house and general thief.
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