Show CRIME tN AMERICA II President Roosevelt a accordIng C t a a Washington dispatch to pay attention in his next message to con conto to some crime crimo that are beIng gathered for hin by the census department The statistics it I is said will boar out the statement r recently made mado by Secretary Taft in an an address made to the tho students faculty of Yale university criminal laws or of the country were beIng with af laxness that c could only described as disgraceful The he census figures show that since 1885 th the number or of murders at and homi homicides has steadily Increased while legal have g In number Murders and homicIdes to the num number er of have baYe been committed In the United States sInce 1885 DurIng the tho same perIod there have been 2286 legal That is considerably el bly less than 2 per cent of the men Who have committed homicIdes are aro pun punIshed for their death It us Is true Unit many ot of Ute the offenders are not guilty ot of mur del der From Irom the list should be excluded killing in and d the slaying of highwaymen and other criminals by officers In pursuit of their d duty ty How However ever aver a large balance balanco is sun still left to be accounted for Out of the homi homicIdes homicides it is easy to believe that were Thus we weha ha have Ye only one murderer in fifty pun punished as he de deserves nes to be punished Nor or Is it hard to account for the con conditions conditions courts seem to throw w a vast deal of protection aroun around those who are arraigned for capital offenses Law Lawyers ors are arc permitted to fo t take k Pr of every trivial technicality V VerdIcts r carrying the death penalty Are sot aside because of trifling errors in the trial court errors that could not possibly affect the guilt or innocence of the ac And it is much to secure a second sentence to death than to se sc secure cure ure the first The growth of this ceis by a comparison or t the figures or of 1885 wIth those or of 1904 In the year ear first nam named there were vere 18 1808 8 mu murders jers and ns In the murders aggregated and th the flom Eight more more ag 67 murders There ia 1 a record for the tho thoughtful to consider As AK to the causes es of the murders a 1 of the census figures says Statistics covering th the Years ears sine since 1894 show the causes of all mur murders murders ders and homicides committed In that period During the eleven years their U es ast aS t e result of qu quarrels as th result of un unknown unknown known causes 4 87 as th the result of jealousy jealous because ot of the liquor habit were wert killed by highwaymen mt n nand and 2616 mothers ki t their 1 r infants In resisting arrest 1 persons perSo s were killed and 1101 highwaymen were killed was vas the cause case of 1592 deaths and aud 16 persons were d dur during I liar ing strIkes s There were fewer in 1904 than han t any year 1894 l 18 1892 at cording c to the statistics there were persons killed by 1 rs the greatest number in any of the tha eleven years Che number killed by has S each year but there thero has hai b been n a gradual decrease until 1901 shows there theror were only ninel ninety lives taken by mob iol nce |