The list contains sixty-two cases, and the defendants were of
divers races. These homicides included seventeen committed in
cold blood (about twenty-five per cent, an extraordinary
percentage) from varying motives, as follows: One defendant
(white) murdered his colored mistress simply to get rid of
her; another killed out of revenge because the deceased had
"licked" him several times before; another, having quarrelled
with his friend over a glass of soda water, later on returned
and precipitated a quarrel by striking him, in the course of
which he killed him; another because the deceased had induced
his wife to desert him; another lay in wait for his victim and
killed him without the motive ever being ascertained; one man
killed his brother to get a sum of money, and another because
his brother would not give him money; another because he
believed the deceased had betrayed the Armenian cause to the
Turks; another because he wished to get the deceased out of
the way in order to marry his wife; and another because
deceased had knocked him down the day before.
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