THE MURDER RATE
TERRIBLE AMERICAN TOTAL. COST OF CRIME TO NATION. ‘ WASHINGTON, June 24. The American Bar Association's Crime Commission states that the murder toll in .the United States averaged 12,000 persons annually, or about |>o times the numbar in England, France, Italy, Germany and vllapani V • i The murder rate has increased 350 per. cent, since 1900. The cost of crime in the United States, averages Jannually 13,00c 1 ,000 dollars. (
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 44, 26 June 1929, Page 5
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72THE MURDER RATE Stratford Evening Post, Issue 44, 26 June 1929, Page 5
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