AMERICAN ITEMS.
CHIME IN THE UNITED ■ STATES. ,AN ENORMOUS INCREASE. ▼ (per Press Association—By Electric . Telegraph—Copyright). WASHINGTON, June 24. The American ' Bar Association’s crime commission states that the nuir'der toll in the United States averaged 12,000 persons annually, or about fifty times the number in England. France, Italy, Germany and Japan. The murder rate had increased 3"0 per cent since 1900. The cost of crime in the United States averaged annually 13,000,000 dollars,
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 June 1929, Page 5
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72AMERICAN ITEMS. Hokitika Guardian, 27 June 1929, Page 5
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