Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-03-17 | Page 16 | Making Murderers

I Making Murderers II B BE ERT T LORD hails haits from Ch Chenango N. N Y and represents that community in the legislature re of Americas America's most populous state He is the author of a a bill biJl which would make it illegal to put a headline more than one column in width over the report of a n murder ur r or a murder trial rial He would limit the size of the type If lf 1 I could do it he said I would place severe restrictions restriction 5 A on on t the I length and the the contents of articles article's dealing with murders r c. c 1 Bert Bert Lord imagines he could end murders by not printing any any tl thin thing g. g in in inthe the newspapers about murders I I How Hoer many murders have you read about Tho Thousands sands no doubt But you have never felt the urge Jo foo lay down your paper i and nd go o out to slay stay a fellow fetlow being No human human being has That r isn't f how murderers are made Murder statistics statistics' show that an ci overwhelming o rr percentage of murders are committed by that class of sf persons who read the least The well read murderer these same s statistics show kills kitts when e moved by sudden passion or when mental mental balance is overthrown Nev Never r in in all aU the criminal law case casebooks b books and reports is there cited an instance of a sane and sober p person slaying a human being excepting ng when moved by passion or or desire for another's property neither of which are aided or any newspaper story of another r murder case ase I If Bert Lord is right there be I would rould fewest murders in lands where h here re newspapers are most scarce in the heart of Africa for example ample c Which isn't a fact Cannibals never re read ad murder stories rt nor r do other savages Indeed there is as much strength in in Bert l Cords Cord's contention as as s you'll find in ina a strand of spiderS web And f. f no max n more moret el i r t 1