[ Booking Register From The Des Moines Police Department 1905--1906 ]

(AMS/Iowa)

Published by J.H. Welch Printing Co.; Des Moines; 717 pp.; ; Good; 1905-1906, 1905

About this Item

_____A specially produced, small folio, half leather register, 14 x 9.25 x 1.75"._____ The binding is tenuous, separating at the hinges._____ . _____ The pages are printed on the rectos only._____ The only title is on the spine "500 /- 700", reflecting serial booking numbers. _____ The 200+ cases are from 1905 into 1908._____ The perpetrators are indexed in the front._____ The concluding 17 pages appear to be addendum cases from various years and are not included in the index._____ . _____ Each booking includes: date of arrest, name, alias, residence, age, nativity, occupation, age, weight, arresting officer and crime._____ They each include a long section of (we think) Bertillon measurements and another inventory of "marks, scars, moles etc." The names of the officers who made the measurements are usually noted. _____ Some lowlights._____503._____ Lidia Hamilton / "Prostitute - Coak Fiend" ._____514.____ Pat Murphy / Irish / All Round Thief Burns Gang ._____537._____ Wesley Jones / "Nigger" ._____541.____ Charles Mitchell / "Negro" / inciting a riot ._____570-1._____ A man & woman out of Chicago arrested for "Lewdness." ._____645._____ Elroy Howard / "A" Troop, 2 Cavalry, Army Post / Murder ._____(708)_____ Wm. Herman / "Afro Am" ._____(712-717) Six men booked on 4/18/1906 for blowing a safe in Marshalltown, Iowa._____. Seller Inventory # R-45281

Bibliographic Details

Title: [ Booking Register From The Des Moines ...

Publisher: J.H. Welch Printing Co.; Des Moines; 717 pp.; ; Good; 1905-1906

Publication Date: 1905

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good