CRIMINAL STATISTICS.

Assault and battery40260
Assault with intent to kill40260
Assault with deadly weapons2
Assault with intent to commit rape7
Assault with threats15
Murder18
Manslaughter115
Attempt to murder1
Accused of murder4
Threatening to murder6
Mayhem1
Dueling2
Prostitution1
Keeping brothels95
Lewd conduct27
Insulting women6
Exposing person3
Nuisance9
Obscene and profane language5
Forgery and counterfeiting424
Drunkenness8
Drunk and disorderly68307
Drunk and profane29151
Selling liquor without license12136
Gambling and keeping gambling houses18
Mail and highway robbery152
Grand larceny16
Burglary348
Disturbing peace18
Bigamy34111
Destroying property1
Arson1526
Obtaining money under false pretenses26
Opium smoking, etc25
Stealing railroad rides16
Vagrancy19
Violating prison rules147
Total6

So that the Mormons, comprising seventy-eight per cent. of the population of the Territory, contributed one-eighth of the arrests made during 1882, and the non-Mormons, having only twenty-two per cent., contributed seven-eighths.

In those pursuits having a demoralizing tendency, the distribution was as follows:

Mormons.Non-Mormons.
No. saloons and breweries16146
No. billiard tables and bowling alleys146
No. gambling houses10
Total17202

The number of brothels throughout the Territory was twelve, all kept by non-Mormons; number of inmates not given.

The criminal record of Salt Lake City, for 1882, shows that in a population of about 25,000, divided between Mormons and non-Mormons as nineteen to six, the total number of arrests was 1,561, of which 188 were Mormons, and 1,373 non-Mormons.

If it should be suspected that these territorial and city exhibits show an unfair discrimination in favor of the Mormon population, through the sympathy of the Mormon police officers and magistrates, such suspicion will be removed by the summary of the records of the territorial penitentiary for the same year. It will be recollected that for the conviction of this class of criminals, the whole machinery of the law, judicial and ministerial, is in the hands of the Federal government. The number of penitentiary convicts for the year was twenty-eight. Of these but one was an orthodox Mormon, and she a woman, confined for one day for contempt of court; five others were Mormons only by reason of their parentage, and the remaining twenty-two were; eight Catholics, four Methodists, one Jew, one Adventist, one Presbyterian, and seven of no religious faith.