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[Keuteks Telegrams.] TOLL OF Al I'll DERS. NI-AV YORK, May 21. America's annual toll of murder now exceeds ll.titl’d and the homicide rate fur 1921 is more than double that of I‘Kill, according to the state,ties ot a large insurance company. Recent murder trials, it i- stated, leave no mom to doubt that the indicia! administration in capital eases is not what it should lie.' It is asserted that pistols and poisons are far too easily intailied by the public. UNWRITTEN LAW. „ NEW YORK. May 20. Lucille Waiineli. the LA-year-old daughter of a wealthy Chicago resident found him living with Miss Agues Himniem-k. Charging the latter wnh breaking up their home, she shot and seriously wounded Miss ] l immenok, and then Siiot her father dead. Airs Waillieli who attempted to intervene between her frenzied daughter ami the victims, was also wounded. \AIERICANS IU'SH FOR BEER. OTTAWA. May 20. The province of Ontario yesterday inaugurated sales of l.f per cent beer, following upon the prohibition era. Thousands of Americans thronged over the border, particularly from Detroit. to quench their thirst.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 May 1925, Page 2
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