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Number Three. A second part of the movement's publicity was not so inadvertent. The same day that the news of these two events became public, an article appeared in the Saturday Evening Post. It was the first of a series by Mr. Child telling of his national crime survey. He opened with a bombardment of facts : The whole of England and Wales in one year had less than 200 cases of homicide and the city of St. Louis, unaided, had more; Phila delphia has more murders than the whole of Canada, etc., etc. One life insurance company found that for every 146 murders in this country 69 indictments are found, 37 convictions are obtained and only 1 person executed. Mr. Child advanced similar statistics for burglaries, robberies, holdups, etc., etc.
Simultaneously the press of the country carried stories to the effect that persons are being murdered in Chicago at the rate of more than 1 a day—227 murders since Jan. 1, 1925.
The anti-crime wave began to rise.