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Show HOW CITIES RATE IN MURDER LIST New York, Oct, 3. Seven out of 9 about every one hundred thoueand H New Yorkers are murdered, according to figures gathered by an Insurance M journal here. The statistics covering my a Bcore of the larger cities of the - country show, however, that New B 1 York Is a very good place compared K with other American communities, K The rato of homicides per 100,000 pop- ulotlon for some of tho other cities Is M' as follows. K ! Washington. 9 2, Chicago, 9-1, San K Francisco, 10 4; St Louis, 15.5; Nash- Kj ville, 35.3, Savannah, 37.S; Charles- Ki ton. S. C, 423; Memphis, Tenn, G3.4. In England and Wales In 1909, with H a population of 35,756,000 the percen- H tage of homicides was nly OS, H; nn El |