CRIME IN MEXICO
18,000 MURDERS A YEAR United Press Asm. — i3y Electric Telegraph— P-opy right. MEXICO CITY. October 3. The newspaper “Excelsior” rejoits thut criminality is rampant throughout Mexico. Eighteen thousand murders are perpetrated yearly, redn.ing the population more than typhoid, smallpox, and other epidemics.
The newspaper attributes the situation to the lack of the death pen-
Jty in some states
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLXI, Issue 15165, 5 October 1942, Page 3
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61CRIME IN MEXICO Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLXI, Issue 15165, 5 October 1942, Page 3
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