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Courts and Criminals

CHAPTER IV
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Drink and jealousy--1.

Scattering (how can you term a "Tong" row ?)--1.
I began to get interested.

Supposing I dug out all the homicide cases I had ever tried, what would the result show as to motive for the killing?
Would drink and women account for seventy-five per cent?
Mentally I ran my eye back over nearly ten years.

What OTHER motives had the defendants at the bar had?
There was Laudiero--an Italian "Camorrista"-- he had killed simply for the distinction it gave him among his countrymen and the satisfaction he felt at being known as a "bad" man--a "capo maestra." There was Joseph Ferrone--pure jealousy again.

Hendry--animal hate intensified by drink.


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