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 * Men.
 * Women.
 * Total.
 * Robbery,
 * 1,500
 * 470
 * 1970
 * Prostitution, adultry, bigamy, sodomy and incest,
 * 312
 * 179
 * 491
 * Quarreling, wounding,
 * 2,129
 * 1,140
 * 3,233
 * Rioting and bearing arms,
 * 612
 * 444
 * 1,056
 * Homicide and attempt at ditto, and robbery and
 * homicide,
 * 70
 * 17
 * 87
 * Rape and incontinence,
 * 65
 * 21
 * 86
 * Forgery,
 * 7
 * 1
 * 8
 * Gambling,
 * 3
 * 0
 * 3
 * Total,
 * 6934
 * High grades of crime,
 * 6934
 * Misdemeanors,
 * 1927
 * Total,
 * 8861
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 * 8
 * Gambling,
 * 3
 * 0
 * 3
 * Total,
 * 6934
 * High grades of crime,
 * 6934
 * Misdemeanors,
 * 1927
 * Total,
 * 8861
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 * 6934
 * High grades of crime,
 * 6934
 * Misdemeanors,
 * 1927
 * Total,
 * 8861
 * }
 * Misdemeanors,
 * 1927
 * Total,
 * 8861
 * }
 * Total,
 * 8861
 * }
 * Total,
 * 8861
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 * 8861
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$4,121 were expended for salaries in the Acordada; and $30,232 for the maintenance of the prisoners. It should be stated, moreover that a large number of the above criminals were committed and punished for throviring vitriol on the dress and faces of persons in the street;—that 113 dead bodies were found;—894 individuals sent to hospitals; and 17 executed by the garrotte. The culprit who is sentenced to this mode of expiating his crime is seated in a chair on the scaffold, whilst his neck is embraced by an iron collar which may be contracted by a screw. A sudden and rapid turn of the lever drives a sharp point through the spinal marrow at the moment that the band closes around the throat and strangles the victim.