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Liquor’s Share in Crime

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 17, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 48.

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Liquor’s Share in Crime

In Prussia liquor is responsible for the following proportion of crime, according to official statistics: murder, 46 per cent.; manslaughter, 63 per cent.; serious injury to the person, 74 per cent.; lighter injuries, 63 per cent.; resistance to the authorities, 76 per cent.; breach of the peace, 54 per cent.; rape, 60 per cent.; offenses against public morals, 70 per cent.