any instrument or means, unless when necessary to preserve her life or health and under the direction of a competent licensed practitioner of medicine, shall be imprisoned for not more than five years; or if the woman or her child dies in consequence of such act, by imprisonment for not less than three nor more than twenty years.

SEC. 810. ROBBERY.-Whoever by force or violence, whether against Robbery. resistance or by sudden or stealthy seizure or snatching, or by putting in fear, shall take from the person or immediate actual possession of another anything of value, is guilty of robbery, and any person convicted thereof shall suffer imprisonment for not less than six months nor more than fifteen years.

SEC. 811. Whoever attempts to commit robbery, as defined in the attempt. preceding section, by an overt act, shall be imprisoned for not more than three years or be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or both.

SEC. 812. ABDUCTION.-Whoever unlawfully and forcibly or fraudulently carries off or decoys out of the District any person, or arrests or imprisons any person with the intention of having such person carried out of the District, shall be imprisoned for not less than one nor more than seven years, or fined not exceeding one thousand dollars, or both:

Abduction.

-of child under

Provided, That whoever leads, carries, or entices away a child under the age of sixteen years, with the intent unlawfully to detain 16 years, etc. or conceal such child so lead, taken, or enticed away, shall be imprisoned for not more than twenty years or fined not exceeding one thousand dollars, or both.

or

purposes

SEC. 813. Any person who, for purposes of prostitution, persuades, entices, or forcibly abducts from her home or usual abode, or from the of prostitution. custody and control of her parents or guardian, any female under sixteen years of age shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than two nor more than twenty years; and whoever knowingly secretes or harbors any such female so persuaded, enticed, or abducted as aforesaid shall suffer imprisonment for not more than eight years.

Cruelty to chil

SEC. 814. CRUELTY TO CHILDREN.-Any person who shall torture, cruelly beat, abuse, or otherwise willfully maltreat any child under dren. the age of eighteen years; or any person, having the custody and possession of a child under the age of fourteen years, who shall expose, or aid and abet in exposing, such child in any highway, street, field, house, outhouse, or other place, with intent to abandon it; or any person, having in his custody or control a child under the age of fourteen years, who shall in any way dispose of it with a view to its being employed as an acrobat, or a gymnast, or a contortionist, or a circus rider, or a ropewalker, or in any exhibition of like dangerous character, or as a beggar, or mendicant, or pauper, or street singer, or street musician; or any person who shall take, receive, hire, employ, use, exhibit, or have in custody any child of the age last named for any of the purposes last enumerated, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, when convicted thereof, shall be subject to punishment penalty. by a fine of not more than two hundred and fifty dollars, or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or both.

SEC. 815. LIBEL.-Whoever publishes a libel shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars or imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years, or both.

SEC. 816. WHAT IS PUBLICATION. To knowingly send or deliver any libelous communication to the party libeled is a sufficient publication to subject the person sending or delivering the same to punishment as aforesaid.

Libel.

What is publi

cation.

SEC. 817. JUSTIFICATION.—Any publication of a libel shall be justi- Justification. fied if it appear that the matter charged as libelous was true and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends.

False charges of unchastity.

Blackmail.

Offenses against property. Arson.

-burning his own property.

-fences, stacks of hay, etc.

Housebreaking.

Unlawful entry

erty.

SEC. 818. FALSE CHARGES OF UNCHASTITY.-Whoever wrongfully accuses any woman of unchastity shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both, and shall also be liable to a civil action for damages by the party injured.

SEC. 819. BLACKMAIL.-Whoever verbally or in writing accuses or threatens to accuse any other person of a crime or of any conduct which, if true, would tend to disgrace such other person, or in any way subject him to the ridicule or contempt of society, or threatens to expose or publish any of his infirmities or failings, with intent to extort from such other person anything of value or any pecuniary advantage whatever, or to compel the person accused or threatened to do or to refrain from doing any act, and whoever with such intent publishes any such accusation against any other person shall be imprisoned for not more than five years or be fined not more than one thousand dollars, or both.

SUBCHAPTER TWO.

OFFENSES AGAINST PROPERTY.

SEC. 820. ARSON. Whoever shall maliciously burn or attempt to burn any dwelling, or house, barn, or stable adjoining thereto, or any store, barn, or outhouse, or any shop, office, stable, store, warehouse, or any other building, or any steamboat, vessel, canal boat, or other water craft, or any railroad car, the property, in whole or in part, of another person, or any church, meetinghouse, schoolhouse, or any of the public buildings in the District, belonging to the United States or to the District of Columbia, shall suffer imprisonment for not less than one year nor more than ten years.

SEC. 821. Whoever maliciously burns or sets fire to any dwelling, shop, barn, stable, store, or warehouse or other building, or any steamboat, vessel, canal boat, or other water craft, or any goods, wares, or merchandise, the same being his own property, in whole or in part, with intent to defraud or injure any other person, shall be imprisoned for not more than fifteen years.

SEC. 822. Whoever shall maliciously burn or set fire to any fences, woods, stacks of hay, grain, or straw, cr growing crops, the property, in whole or in part, of another, shall be imprisoned for not more than thirty days or be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or both.

SEC. 823. HOUSEBREAKING.-Whoever shall, either in the night or in the daytime, break and enter, or enter without breaking, any dwelling, bank, store, warehouse, shop, stable, or other building, or any apartment or room, whether at the time occupied or not, or any steamboat, canal boat, vessel, or other water craft, or railroad car, or any yard where any lumber, coal, or other goods or chattels are deposited and kept for the purpose of trade, with intent to break and carry away any part thereof or any fixture or other thing attached to or connected with the same, or to commit any criminal offense, shall be imprisoned for not more than fifteen years.

SEC. 824. UNLAWFUL ENTRY ON PRIVATE PROPERTY.—Any person on private prop- who, without lawful authority, shall enter, or attempt to enter, a private dwelling against the will of the lawful occupant thereof, or being therein without lawful authority to remain therein, shall refuse to quit the same on the demand of the lawful occupant thereof, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars or imprisonment in the jail for not more than six months, or both, in the discretion of the court. Depredation on SEC. 825. DEPREDATION ON FIXTURES IN HOUSES.-Whoever shall fixtures in houses. willfully and without color of right enter into any occupied or unoccupied dwelling house or other building, property of another, and

shall cut, break, or tear from its place any gas pipe, water pipe, doorbell, or other fixture therein; or whoever shall in such dwelling house or other building willfully and without color of right cut, break, or tear down any wall or part of a wall, or door, with intent to cut, break, or tear from its place any pipe or fixture therein, shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars, or be imprisoned not more than two years, or both.

SEC. 826. GRAND LARCENY.-Whoever shall feloniously take and carry away anything of value of the amount or value of thirty-five dollars or upward, including things savoring of the realty, shall suffer imprisonment for not less than one nor more than ten years.

SEC. 827. PETIT LARCENY.-Whoever shall feloniously take and carry away anything of value of the amount or value of less than thirty-five dollars, including things savoring of the realty, shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars, or be imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.

Grand larceny.

Petit larceny.

Destroying

SEC. 828. DESTROYING STOLEN PROPERTY.-Whoever shall maliciously destroy anything of value of the amount or value of thirty-five stolen property. dollars or upward which shall have been stolen, knowing the same to have been stolen, shall suffer imprisonment for not less than one year nor more than three years.

Receiving stolen

SEC. 829. RECEIVING STOLEN GOODS.-Any person who shall receive or buy anything of value which shall have been stolen or obtained by goods. robbery, knowing the same to be so stolen or so obtained by robbery, with intent to defraud the owner thereof, if the thing or things received or bought shall be of the value of thirty-five dollars or upward, shall suffer imprisonment for not less than one year nor more than ten years; or if the value of the thing or things so received or bought be less than thirty-five dollars, shall suffer imprisonment for not more than two years.

SEC. 830. STEALING WILL.-Whoever, during the life of a testator Stealing will. or after his death, shall, for a fraudulent purpose, take and carry away a will, codicil, or other testamentary instrument, or destroy, mutilate, or secrete the same, whether it relates to personal or real property, shall suffer imprisonment for not more than five years.

Columbia.

SEC. 831. STEALING PROPERTY OF DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.-Who- Stealing propever shall embezzle, steal, or purloin any money, property, or writing, erty of District of the property of the District of Columbia, shall suffer imprisonment for not exceeding five years, or be fined not more than five thousand dollars, or both.

the District of Co

lumbia.

SEC. 832. RECEIVING PROPERTY STOLEN FROM THE DISTRICT OF Receiving propCOLUMBIA. Whoever shall receive, conceal, or aid in concealing, or erty stolen from have in possession, with intent to convert to his own use, any money, property, or writing, the property of the District of Columbia, knowing the same to have been embezzled, stolen, or purloined from the District of Columbia by any other person, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding five years, or both.

Embezzlement

SEC. 833. EMBEZZLEMENT.-Whoever, being charged with the collection, receipt, safe-keeping, transfer, or disbursement of public defined. money or other property or effects belonging or payable to the District of Columbia or in the custody of the same, fraudulently converts to his own use, or to the use of any other person, body corporate, or association whatever, or uses, by way of investment, in any kind of security, stock, loan, property, or in any other manner or form loans, with or without interest, to any company, corporation, association or individual, excepting by depositing in bank to said party's own credit, in the usual course of business, any public money, funds, property, bonds, securities, assets, or effects received, controlled, or held by him for safe-keeping or for any other purpose, shall forfeit all right, by

Embezzlement

way of commissions or compensation, to any part of the said money or other property and shall be deemed guilty of embezzlement of the whole of the money or other property thus converted, used, invested, loaned, deposited, or paid out, and shall be imprisoned for not more than twenty years and fined in a sum not exceeding double the value of the money or property embezzled.

SEC. 834. EMBEZZLEMENT BY AGENT, ATTORNEY, CLERK, OR SERVby agent, attorney, ANT.-If any agent, attorney, clerk, or servant of a private person or clerk, or servant. copartnership, or any officer, attorney, agent, clerk, or servant of any association or incorporated company, shall wrongfully convert to his own use, or fraudulently take, make way with, or secrete, with intent to convert to his own use, anything of value which shall come into his possession or under his care by virtue of his employment or office, whether the thing so converted be the property of his master or employer or that of any other person, copartnership, association, or corporation, he shall be deemed guilty of embezzlement, and shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than ten years, or both.

Embezzlement

ered.

SEC. 835. EMBEZZLEMENT OF NOTE NOT DELIVERED.-Every embezof note not deliv- zlement of any evidence of debt negotiable by delivery only, actually executed by the master or employer of any such clerk, attorney, agent, officer, or servant, but not delivered or issued as a valid instrument. shall be deemed an offense within the meaning of the last preceding section.

Receiving with knowledge.

Embezzlement

SEC. 836. RECEIVING WITH KNOWLEDGE. Every person who shall buy or in any way receive anything of value, knowing the same to have been embezzled, taken, or secreted contrary to the provisions of any of the three next preceding sections, shall be punished in the same manner and to the same extent as prescribed in said sections, respectively.

SEC. 837. CARRIERS AND INNKEEPERS.-Any person intrusted with by carriers and anything of value, to be carried for hire, or being an innkeeper and innkeepers. intrusted by his guest with anything of value for safe-keeping, who fraudulently converts the same to his own use, shall be deemed guilty of embezzlement and punished as provided in section eight hundred and thirty-four.

By warehouseman, etc.

By mortgagor in possession.

SEC. 838. WAREHOUSEMAN, AND SO FORTH.-Any warehouseman, factor, storage, forwarding, or commission merchant, or his clerk, agent, or employee, who, with intent to defraud the owner thereof, sells, disposes of, or applies or converts to his own use any property intrusted or consigned to him, or the proceeds or profits of any sale of such property, shall be deemed guilty of embezzlement, and shall suffer imprisonment for not more than ten years.

SEC. 839. MORTGAGOR IN POSSESSION.-Any mortgagor of personal property in possession of the same, who, with intent to defraud the owner of the claim secured by the mortgage, removes any of the mortgaged property out of the District, or secretes or sells the same, or converts the same to his own use, shall be deemed guilty of embezzlement, and shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than five years, or both. Taking away or SEC. 840. TAKING AWAY OR CONCEALING WRITINGS. Whoever, with concealing writ- intent to defraud or injure another person, shall take away or conceal any writing whereby the estate or right of such other person shall or may be defeated, injured, or altered shall suffer imprisonment for not more than seven years.

ings.

Embezzlement

SEC. 841. EXECUTORS AND OTHER FIDUCIARIES.-Any executor, adby executors and ministrator, guardian, trustee, receiver, collector, or other officer into other fiduciaries. whose possession money, securities, or other property of the property or estate of any other person may confe by virtue of his office or employment, who shall fraudulently convert or appropriate the same to

his own use, shall forfeit all right or claim to any commissions, costs, and charges thereon, and shall be deemed guilty of embezzlement of the entire amount or value of the money or other property so coming into his possession and converted or appropriated to his own use, and shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding ten years, or both.

SEC. 842. FALSE PRETENSES.-Whoever, by any false pretense, with intent to defraud, obtains from any person anything of value, or procures the execution and delivery of any instrument of writing or conveyance of real or personal property, or the signature of any person, as maker, indorser, or guarantor, to or upon any bond, bill, receipt, promissory note, draft, or check, or any other evidence of indebtedness, and whoever fraudulently sells, barters, or disposes of any bond, bill, receipt, promissory note, draft, or check, or other evidence of indebtedness, for value, knowing the same to be worthless, or knowing the signature of the maker, indorser, or guarantor thereof to have been obtained by any false pretenses, shall, if the value of the property or the sum or value of the money or property mentioned or described in the instrument so obtained, procured, sold, bartered, or disposed of is thirty-five dollars or upward, be imprisoned not less than one year nor more than three years; or, if less than that sum, shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both. Any person who obtains any lodging, food, or accommodation at an inn, boarding house, or edging house, without paying therefor, with intent to defraud the proprietor or manager thereof, or who obtains credit at such an inn, boarding house, or lodging house by the use of any false pretense, or who, after obtaining credit or accommodation at such an inn, boarding house, or lodging house, absconds or surreptitiously removes his baggage therefrom without paying for his food, accommodation, or lodging, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof in the police court of the District of Columbia be fined not more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than six months, or both, in the discretion of said court.

False pretenses.

-penalty.

SEC. 843. FORGERY.-Whoever, with intent to defraud or injure Forgery. another, falsely makes or alters any writing of a public or private nature, which might operate to the prejudice of another, or passes, utters, or publishes, or attempts to pass, utter, or publish as true and genuine, any paper so falsely made or altered, knowing the same to be false or forged, with the intent to defraud or prejudice the right of another, shall be imprisoned for not less than one year nor more than

ten years.

Whoever

any

or

public

SEC. 844. DESTROYING OR DEFACING PUBLIC RECORDS. Destroying maliciously or with intent to injure or defraud any other person defaces, defacing mutilates, destroys, abstracts, or conceals the whole or any part of records. record authorized by law to be made, or pertaining to any court or public office in the District, or any paper duly filed in such court or office, shall be fined not more than three hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.

False certificate acknowledg

SEC. 845. FALSE CERTIFICATE OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT.-Any officer authorized to take the proof or acknowledgment of an instrument of which, by law, may be recorded, who willfully certifies falsely that the ment. instrument was acknowledged by any party thereto, or who willfully certifies falsely as to any other material matter in such acknowledgment, shall be imprisoned for not less than one year nor more than ten years.

SEC. 846. MALICIOUS INJURY. - Whoever maliciously places an obstruction on or near the track of any steam or street railway, or displaces or injures anything appertaining to such track, with intent to endanger the passage of any locomotive or car, shall be imprisoned for not more than ten years.

Malicious in

jury,

-to steam or street railways.