OCR Text |
Show THE WAVE OF CRIME. Detroit Free Press. Crime is holding carnival in many sections of tho country of which Michigan Michi-gan makes a notable one. Crime -waves have been observed and studied and while other factors outer, particularly the changing tension in tho excitemcut of the community, tho phenomenon be irs all the characteristics of an epidemic. epi-demic. The crime impulse is propagated propagat-ed by suggestion. Whero the tension 13 greatest the suggestion is most potent po-tent and the epidemic most rapid. Whatever tho theory, there is no mistaking mis-taking tho facts. A wave of crime and death passed over Pittsburg, just ns it has nt other times seized Chicago and Detroit. Atlanta opened tho season with a protracted siego of negro outrages. out-rages. It is noticeable that the verv spirit that impelled tho negro to outrage out-rage incited the criminal whites to riot and to massacre. The Pittsburg outrages out-rages wero almost without parallel, ono female victim being crucified bv her de-spoilers. de-spoilers. As a contributor Michigan elbows el-bows out most of her compotitore. Asido from the recent trials for murders which were committed some timo since, tho State has just furnished a gruesome series, se-ries, most, of them rural tragedies having hav-ing sufficient characteristics in common to warrant a belief iu the infectious nature of the disease. |