lose nothing of their deliberations.

"But," explained Wellman, "you see, in a way I am your attorney, and I
want to know how to do better next time. She had offered to plead guilty
if she could get off with twenty years!"

The abashed jury slunk downstairs in silence and the secret of their
deliberations remains as yet untold.

In spite of such cases, where guilty women have been acquitted through
maudlin sentiment or in response to popular clamor, nothing could be
more erroneous than the idea that few women who are brought to the bar
of justice are made to suffer for their offences. Thus, although no
woman has suffered the death penalty in New York County in twenty years,
the average number of convictions for crime is practically the same
for women as for men in proportion to the number indicted. The last
unreversed conviction of a woman for murder in the first degree was that
of Chiara Cignarale, in May, 1887. Her sentence was commuted to life
imprisonment. Since then thirty women have been actually tried before
juries for homicide with the following results:

Convicted of murder in first degree...........0
Acquitted "...................................7
" " murder in second degree...........3
" " manslaughter in first degree.....10
" " manslaughter in seconds degree...10

Total.......................................30

The percentage of convictions to acquittals is as follows:

Convictions Acquittals Convictions Acquittals
Per Cent Per Cent
1887-1907......23........7..........77..........23

It is distinctly interesting to compare this with the table showing the
results of all the homicide trials for the past eight years irrespective
of the sex of the defendants:

Convictions Acquittals Convictions Acquittals
Per Cent Per Cent

1900.............5.......12...........29.........71
1901............17.......17...........50.........50
1902............15.......11...........58.........42
1903............24........8...........75.........25
1904............19.......14...........58.........42
1905............18.......13...........58.........42
1906............21.......22...........49.........51
1907............16.......10...........62.........38

Total..........135......107.....Aver. 55...Aver. 45

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