What OTHER motives had the defendants at the bar
had? There was Laudiero--an Italian "Camorrista"--he had
killed simply for the distinction it gave him among his
countrymen and the satisfaction he felt at being known as a
"bad" man--a "capo maestra." There was Joseph Ferrone--pure
jealousy again. Hendry--animal hate intensified by drink.
Yoscow--a deliberate murder, planned in advance by several of
a gang, to get rid of a young bully who had made himself
generally unpleasant. There was Childs, who had killed, as he
claimed, in self-defence because he was set upon and assaulted
by rival runners from another seaman's boarding house. Really
it began to look as if men killed for a lot of reasons.
One consideration at once suggested itself. How about the
killings where the murderer is never caught? The prisoners
tried for murder are only a mere fraction of those who commit
murder. True, and the more deliberate the murder, the
greater, unfortunately, the chance of the villain getting
away.
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