deceased had knocked him down the day before. One man had
killed a girl who had ridiculed him; and one a girl who had
refused to marry him; another had killed his daughter because
she could no longer live in the house with him; one, an
informer, had been the victim of a Black Hand vendetta; and
the last had poisoned his wife for the insurance money in
order to go off with another woman. There were two cases of
infanticide, one in which a woman threw her baby into the lake
in Central Park, and another in which she gave her baby
poison. Besides these murders, five homicides had been
committed in the course of perpetrating other crimes,
including burglary and robbery.

Passing over three cases of culpable negligence resulting in
death, we come to thirty-seven homicides during quarrels, some
of which might have been technically classified as murders,
but which being committed "in the heat of passion," in
practically every instance resulted in a verdict of
manslaughter. The quarrels often arose over the most trifling
matters. One was a dispute over a broom, another over a horse
blanket, another over food, another over a twenty-five cent
bet in a pool game, another over a loan of fifty cents,
another over ten cents in a crap game, and still another over
one dollar and thirty cents in a crap game. Five men were
killed in drunken rows which had no immediate cause except the
desire to "start something." One man killed another because
he had not prevented the theft of some lumber, one (a
policeman) because the deceased would not "move on" when
ordered, one because a bartender refused to serve him with any
more drinks, and one (a bartender) because the deceased