PETTING MURDERESS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 67, 19 March 1910, Page 17

PETTING MURDERESS.

Tie New Tort "World" publishes a remarkable Interview with Mr Andrew l>. White, the "octogenarian sage- of Ithaca" (New York), who denounces in striking terms the maladministration of the criminal law in America. Wlien he relintruisned the •post of Ambassador at Berlin eight years ago, Mr White began a systematic investigation of the immunity enjoyed by murderers in the United States. The fruit of nia Investigations the former president of Cornel now sums np in the words—"lt Iβ safer to kill a man in the United States than to kill a deer." "As we elt here to-day," Mr WMte solemnly observed, "1 will make a prophecy. It is now January 2S. I say in all sincerity, and with profound regret, that before the 2Sth of next January 5000 men and women In the United States will haye been murdered." The sympathy which criminals enjoy In .•this -country Is such that the savant sarcastically suggested ttoa-t th« State should purchase the Waldorf Astoria, or some other hotel in New York, confine all the murderers in it, and "dine and wine" them until they die of gout. Mr Wlilte proceeded:—"Twenty years ago there were about 1500 murders yearly in the United States. There are now SOOO. The percentage of murders in the United States ito the population is forty-three times greater than in Canada, and eight times greater than in Belgium, •■which jhas ,the worst record in Europe. ,,