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CRIME AND ITS INCREASE

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 13, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 2.

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CRIME AND ITS INCREASE.

"FIFTEEN separate murder trials are now pending in the Superior Court," says a San Francisco daily. "District Attorney Byington says that the record of homicides was never so great in this city as it is at the present time. The court calendars are dotted all over with the names of persons accused of taking human life, and the year 1903 will be written down as a red-letter twelve month in the matter of capital crimes committed in San Francisco. The State's prosecutors will be engaged for several months to come in the trials of those now accused of murder. Only one of the fifteen trials is now in progress, and the other cases will have to await the time of the courts." And this city is not exceptional.