CRIME IN U.S.A.
STARTLING ESTIMATES GIVEN LONDON, December 8. The startling estimate that one in every 300 people in the United States I was concerned in crime, made by j Colonel Moss, directing the National Crime Council, is reported by the Daily Telegraph. Every year, he said, crimes ! averaged : —Murders, 12,000 ; kidnapp- ! ings, 3000; assaults, 10,000. The mur- ' der rate had gone up by 350 per cent in the last 40 years, he added. “The general public,” Colonel Moss went on, “does not realise that the most successful criminals keep an attorney on a yearly fee. The attorney telephones his client daily at a given time. If he fails to reach the client two days running he makes a round of the gaols. When he finds him he goes to see a ‘sympathetic’ judge, who helps to release the client on a habeas corpus basis. Our greatest difficulty lies in the alliance of corrupt judges, crooked politicians, and grafting police officers.
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 December 1933, Page 7
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161CRIME IN U.S.A. Hokitika Guardian, 11 December 1933, Page 7
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