Mar 31, 2023
"THEFT EPIDEMIC ?" Ottawa Journal. March 31, 1913. Page 1. ---- More Prisoners for Fraud Than for Drunkenness. ---- During the month of March there were ninety-eight prisoners sent to the county jail, eighty-seven of whom were male and eleven female.
Of these ninety-eight prisoners, eigaty-seven were discharged.
The number confined for theft exceeds that of drunkenness this month, there being twenty-three charged with theft, and 21 with drunkenness.
One of the prisoners was transferred to Kingston penitentiary for four years, one was let out on ticket of leave. Three were sent to The Good Shepherd's Convent; eleven to Central Prison, and one was deported Brockville asylum.
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