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THE INDIGNANT DEAD
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Only five — although eleven were actually sentenced to death.
Consequently the chance of being hung for committing a murder in this community is as five to three hundred and three.
Almost as little danger of being hung for having committed murder as of being run over by a railroad train or cut in two by a buzz saw or brained by a brick falling from a chimney.
It is really horrible to read the report made to Governor Wiltz.
Of perhaps more than three hundred murderers — for many of these murders were committed by several persons — only three escaped from justice. What became of the rest? Where are the three hundred?
One hundred and sixteen were declared not guilty.
A nolle prosequi was entered in fifty-nine cases.
