RECORD YEAR OF CRIME
FIFTY MURDERS IN WASHINGTON.
By Telegraph—Press Association. Received July 8, 9.50 p.m. Washington, July 8. Fifty murders and four hundred killed in street accidents during the year just ended form the highest number in the nation’s capital city. Fourteen thousand were arrested under the Shepherd law, which makes being intoxicated a crime.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 July 1929, Page 9
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