That impassive observer of U. S. vagaries, the insurance men's Spectator, last week reported the country's 1928 tally of murders. The tallier was fatherly and literary Dr. Frederick Ludwig Hoffman, statistician of the Prudential Insurance Co. since 1894.
Memphis. Tenn., as usual, had the lead in rate60.5 homicides per 100,000 population.
Chicago, as usual, had the lead in numbers498. But Chicago's rate per 100,000 was only 15.8, letting it out of first place among the six largest U. S. cities. Big Detroit committed 16.5 murders for each 100,000 of its population. Across the river, Windsor, Ont, had an estimated rate of only...
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