Show INCREASE IN MURDERS IN the matier matter of crime the new year bids air to eclipse at its predecessor in chicago it opened with a riot in which several hundred persons persona were involved and in which the police were severely handled in alabama the sims outrage and subsequent lynching lunching lyn ching also marked its first week brutal murders are being reported daily from every part of the country only yesterday a dispatch from georgia stated that night eight men lost their 11 11 ina in a quarrel over a game of cards this thin morn lag the telegrams tell teh the story of a man who made it his hie profession sion to go abou arou arouxet the country marrying rich an anc good looking women and th thel robbing and deserting them he haft been arrested at lasts last and seven of h haak victims have been already heard fr frome only four days ago there occurred 1 l quarrel over a few dollars at chall Chal chalatte tte idaho which resulted in the death at two men and thus it to is with ev every newspaper one takes up it contain accounts of the most horrible crime in the way of murder lynching lunching lyn ching ra rap robbery arson etc in the absence of complete statistic departments in the majority of ti th stater of the union many of the proa pro anent newspapers keep a cri criminal minati 1 record which at the end of the mearla year taa PU published blushed bli shed among this class of journals is the chicago tribune which a owing to its enterprise as a news n gatherer and its location in the cen tre of the most populous districts might be taken as a good standard its tabu lation of murders executions ands and lynch ings for 1891 makes instructive reading during 1891 there were legal executions as am compared with lp in 1890 of these 52 were whites 65 ne groes I 1 mexican 4 indians and I 1 J japanese in the south 96 of the executions i took place and 27 in the i 1 north du during ring persons were lynch lynore ly nohe ed I 1 by mobs of these six were women women I 1 rh aphis I 1 is the largest number ever lynched in one year in the united states there were negroes 60 white 2 In indians 2 chinese and I 1 mexican in the south of these were taken off by the io process and in the north 26 the 11 italians executed by the mob last march in new orleans are included in the for the south during 1891 the total number of murders as reported by mail and telegraph to the chicago tribune was as compared with in 1890 and in 1889 thus it is that though nearly persons were mur dered in the united states during 1891 only legal executions and io executions took place of the latter it should be stated that 45 were for assaults on women by negroes in the south that leaves only about executions legal and illegal as aa contrasted with nearly murders murder sL but of these are accounted justifiable that is were due to in insanity unity 74 in self defense resisting arrest and 74 highwaymen were killed that still leaves over unjustifiable murders and only executions or about one execution to twenty muy man lere dorm and it if lynch ings lagg are excepted daft one me in forty what renders these figures most moat et tart arding ling is the fact that persons were ew killed by highwaymen and only 74 highwaymen were killed liquor 7 caused murders jealousy and arcele 2820 the causes of murders murden are unknown but in a country where capital punishment prevails exception except in two or three slates one legal execution to 40 murders seems absurdly disproportionate this may account for the vast increase in mob of which there were 66 65 more anore in 1891 than in 1890 and it is possible that the general inert increase me in murders may be attributed to the immunity accorded to ande assassins sins |