[Courts and Criminals by Arthur Train]@TWC D-Link bookCourts and Criminals CHAPTER XI 13/53
The writer procured a new indictment against the assassin--this time for perjury--and he was sentenced to another additional term in prison.
What induced this sudden and extraordinary change of mind on his part can only be surmised. These two cases are extreme examples of the mediaevalism that to a considerable degree prevails in New York City, probably in Chicago and Boston, and wherever there is an excessive south Italian population. The conditions under which a large number of Italians live in this country are favorable not only to the continuance of ignorance, but to the development of disease and crime.
Naples is bad enough, no doubt. The people there are poverty-stricken and homeless.
But in New York City they are worse than homeless.
It is better far to sleep under the stars than in a stuffy room with ten or twelve other persons.
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