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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 5, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 18.

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Increase of Crime

Boston's police commissioner reported in the Boston Journal of January 29 that the arrests of last year increased from 57,000 to 68,000. The court fines from $110,000 to $160,000. The total years of imprisonment for convicted criminals from 2,807 to 3,904. A larger number of disorderly houses existed in Boston than ever before in her history, numbering 114. The number of girls between 12 and 17 years of age roaming the streets far from home and late at night is increasing with startling rapidity; 3,829 juveniles were arrested.