Classified list of the number of persons convicted, and the average term imposed for each particular crime during the year 1907 in New York County.
MALES
| Offence | No. | Aggregate Term of Sentences | Average Term Each Person | ||
| Years | Months | Years | Months | ||
| Abduction | 4 | 32 | .. | 8 | .. |
| Abandonment | 2 | 4 | .. | 2 | .. |
| Assault, 1st degree | 4 | 27 | 1 | 6 | 9 |
| " 2d degree | 48 | 161 | 7 | 3 | 4 |
| Bigamy | 6 | 20 | 10 | 3 | 6 |
| Bribery | 1 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 6 |
| Burglary, 1st degree | 5 | 94 | 7 | 18 | 11 |
| " 2d degree | 30 | 187 | 5 | 6 | 3 |
| " 3d degree | 120 | 385 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
| Blackmail | 4 | 17 | 6 | 4 | 4 |
| Carrying burglar's tools | 6 | 23 | 4 | 3 | 11 |
| Carrying concealed weapons | 9 | 34 | .. | 3 | 9 |
| Election law | 8 | 26 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| Extortion | 6 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 5 |
| Felony (N.C.) | 2 | 12 | .. | 6 | .. |
| Forgery, 1st degree | 2 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 3 |
| " 2d degree | 13 | 63 | 2 | 4 | 10 |
| " 3d degree | 3 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 5 |
| Grand larceny, 1st degree | 38 | 209 | 8 | 5 | 6 |
| " " 2d degree | 146 | 478 | .. | 3 | 3 |
| Kidnapping | 3 | 44 | 1 | 14 | 8 |
| Maiming | 1 | 2 | .. | 2 | .. |
| Manslaughter, 1st degree | 11 | 165 | 1 | 15 | .. |
| " 2d degree | 3 | 30 | 9 | 10 | 3 |
| Murder, 1st degree | 3 | Sentenced to be executed | |||
| " 2d degree | 13 | 260 | See note | 20 | .. |
| Attempted murder, 1st degree | 1 | 24 | 6 | 24 | 6 |
| Perjury | 2 | 19 | 5 | 9 | 8 |
| Rape, 1st degree | 1 | 18 | .. | 18 | .. |
| " 2d degree | 10 | 80 | 6 | 8 | .. |
| Receiving stolen goods | 11 | 42 | .. | 3 | 10 |
| Robbery, 1st degree | 23 | 245 | 7 | 10 | 8 |
| " 2d degree | 6 | 59 | 2 | 9 | 10 |
| Seduction | 1 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 9 |
| Sodomy | 3 | 29 | 1 | 9 | 8 |
| Total | 550 | 2,845 | 7 | 5 | 2 |
Note.—In preparing the above table, the maximum terms of all indeterminate sentences are computed, except in convictions of murder in the second degree, in which the minimum terms of twenty years are used. (Section 187. Penal Code.)
STATE PRISON—FEMALES
| Offence | No. | Terms of Sentences | Average Term Each Person | ||
| Years | Months | Years | Months | ||
| Assault, 2d degree | 5 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 9 |
| Grand larceny, 1st degree | 7 | 40 | 3 | 5 | 9 |
| " " 2d degree | 7 | 23 | 8 | 3 | 4 |
| Manslaughter, 1st degree | 1 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 5 |
| " 2d degree | 1 | 13 | 6 | 13 | 6 |
| Receiving stolen goods | 1 | 5 | .. | 5 | .. |
| Robbery, 1st degree | 1 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 6 |
| Total | 23 | 107 | 2 | 4 | 8 |
This divergency of mental attitude accounts in part for the great curse of the inequality of sentences. Two cases suggest themselves vividly as examples.
A conductor on a surface car took the place of the motorman and carelessly ran into a wagon, throwing out the driver, who died in consequence. He was convicted of manslaughter in the second degree and sentenced to ten years in State's prison.
Another defendant who had killed a woman by cutting her throat and hacking her up with a razor was convicted of the first degree of the same crime and sentenced to the Elmira Reformatory. Both defendants were of approximately the same age. In each case the particular sentence seemed just and fair to the judge who presided at the trial. It was conscientiously imposed. Yet the thing speaks for itself.