HEAT WAVE AND CRIME.
There is again daily evidence that th* heat wave in New York is responsible for a large number of crimes committed in a state of high nervous tension and irritability. The record of violence on June 16th included a young man who shot his sweetheart and himself because she had teased him, a girl who shot her father, a husband who poisoned his wife, and a man who murdered, in a sudden access of irritability, a venerable clergyman, because in his capacity of magistrate, ha had sent him to giol a year agj for drunkenness. ' There was also reported on, June 16th the mysterious murder of William Williams, a prosperous septuagenarian farmer of Dover, Delaware, on the eve of his marriage to Elizabeth Wells, a thirteen-year-old daughter of one of his tenants. The bridegroom was discovered in the morning scrung to a tree, with his brains dashed out, close to the church where the wedding was to be celebrated. In his pocket was the marriage license.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9181, 2 September 1908, Page 3
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170HEAT WAVE AND CRIME. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9181, 2 September 1908, Page 3
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