Theft in the Evening Star, 1900 & 1920

In 1900s, 17 of the 20 cases that mention the victim but not their race was most likely white. I came to this conclusion since newspapers in both 1900s and 1920s will go out of their way to mention any other race that isn’t white. The only case I have in the 1900s that mentions race at all is A Colored Countryman Robbed of Forty Dollars While Asleep article where the alleged victim is mentioned to be colored. For the alleged offenders, only 6 out of 14 caught offenders were colored, meaning the were possibly more whites committing theft than blacks in the 1900s.

            Now for the 1920s, 17 of the 20 cases that mention the victims but not their race are most likely white again surprisingly, the other 3 did not list the victim’s name hence their race is unknown. As for the alleged offenders, 2 out of the 7 that were caught were black, which still supports the fact that more whites were committing theft crimes than blacks in the 1920s.