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Show More Criminals To-day. "Tho number of crlmluals Is on the Increase and tho number of heinous offenses grows less as civilization advances," ad-vances," said a New York criminal lawyer tho other day. "This may seem parlcloxlcnl, but it Is easily oxplalnod. New laws aro continually bolng made constituting now crimes, and whllo the number of tho violations of tho law grows larger, tho number of atrocious atro-cious crimes diminishes. If you will consult tho criminal statistics you will bco that the lncreaso Is almost entirely in the now and lighter of-fonsos." |