One man had
killed a girl who had ridiculed him; and one a girl who had
refused to marry him; another had killed his daughter because
she could no longer live in the house with him; one, an
informer, had been the victim of a Black Hand vendetta; and
the last had poisoned his wife for the insurance money in
order to go off with another woman. There were two cases of
infanticide, one in which a woman threw her baby into the lake
in Central Park, and another in which she gave her baby
poison. Besides these murders, five homicides had been
committed in the course of perpetrating other crimes,
including burglary and robbery.
Passing over three cases of culpable negligence resulting in
death, we come to thirty-seven homicides during quarrels, some
of which might have been technically classified as murders,
but which being committed "in the heat of passion," in
practically every instance resulted in a verdict of
manslaughter. The quarrels often arose over the most trifling
matters.
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