CRIME IN NEW YORK.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1290, 17 September 1872, Page 4

CRIME IN NEW YORK.

Buring a single week eight dead ! bodfc». Here found floating near New York, ctoclis, an unknown woman was found, etead- ins the streets, and a prominent German citizen mysteriously disapgeared. In nearly every instance tjiessi persons were foully murdered, else their t . bodies would not have borne the m&rSpof<the bludgeow the knife, or the pistofc If we add to tt» Iwt two cases o*. murder in which the ante-mortem, t^atfra.pny of the victims, ha* already provM- the guilt of their murderers, and the. numerous murderous assaults, which huvo occurred during the week, some of which may yet end fatally,we havo a record of crime and violence: which hardly any other city in. Christendom can parallel. It is only necessary to> walk along the river front of tb» oity after dark to nnderitaiid wjhyso, many corpses are constantly talftn, from thr waters. The neighbpiftpod of, the rivw , if shunned by tho/ police, at night, w¥ i ft th« gang*, qf. ryfSano who congr«f wound tjip %,grpg. shops, or v ' 1 alpng Hie wharves, In. swiroh of plhr nAer cap perpetrate robbery and mwtor P "\*h Mtle; fear of detection. Their niW j^SJJ mostly seafaring men, and tfe w o tive S of these crimes is nearly always* iercen ° *ailor, or the captain of. a, s» who may be absent fron* to aQ for weeks without exciting u nearness on the t of his family, ati^cJß Ktt> , c or no not F ice> Days after the «w» baa been committed the mer givQ&-ap.ited« , d> but the c is seldom jdanfated, ar .d no clue to the crime * giy/sn, .No o« Qe c^ doubt th t wer^he.nwD district 8 efficiently patrolled «« aigbt. this posr Ability of J4et and *jccesßfnl murde-f wou i d be greatly diminished. ° J