Reclassifying the seventeen murders according to causes, we
have: Six due to women, four to quarrels, five to other
causes, and two infanticides. Added to the manslaughters
previously classified, we have a total of sixty-two killings,
due in twenty cases to quarrels, thirteen to drink, nine to
women, four to disputes over money, one to race antagonism,
five to general causes, three to negligence, two infanticides,
five during the commission of other crimes.
The significant features of this analysis are that about
seventy-five per cent of the killings were due to quarrels
over small sums or other matters, drink and women; over fifty
per cent to drink and petty quarrels; and about thirty per
cent to quarrels simply. The trifling character of the causes
of the quarrels themselves is shown by the fact that in three
of these particular cases, tried in a single week, the total
amount involved in the disputes was only eighty-five cents.
That is about twenty-eight and one-half cents a life.
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