CRIME IN NEW YORK
OVER 300 MURDERS THIS YEAR COMPLETE BREAK-DOWN OF LAW Press Association —By Totegraph —Copyright. NEW YORK, December 18. (Received December 19, at 9 a.m.) Three hundred and seventy people have been slain in New York City since January 1, and not a single criminal has paid tho death penalty. This situation is unprecedented in forty-one years since tho law prescribed electrocution, and illustrates how completely the law has broken down.
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Evening Star, Issue 20671, 19 December 1930, Page 9
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74CRIME IN NEW YORK Evening Star, Issue 20671, 19 December 1930, Page 9
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