ENORMOUS CRIME BILL
AMERICA'S RECORD
50 TIMES AS MANY MURDERS
AS ENGLAND
RATE TREBLES IN 30 YEARS
(Aust. and N.Z. Cable)
Washington,. June 24
The American Bajr Association’s 'crirocf conimulsion states that the murder Loll in tho Liiitedj States averages 12.000 persons annually, or about 50 times the number in Englarid, France, Italy, Germany »or Japan.
The murder rate has increased 350 per cent, sine© 1900. The cost of crime in the United States averages annually 13,000.000 dollars.
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Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2243, 26 June 1929, Page 7
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