three to women, one to race antagonism.

Reclassifying the seventeen murders according to causes, we
have: Six due to women, four to quarrels, five to other
causes, and two infanticides. Added to the manslaughters
previously classified, we have a total of sixty-two killings,
due in twenty cases to quarrels, thirteen to drink, nine to
women, four to disputes over money, one to race antagonism,
five to general causes, three to negligence, two infanticides,
five during the commission of other crimes.

The significant features of this analysis are that about
seventy-five per cent of the killings were due to quarrels
over small sums or other matters, drink and women; over fifty
per cent to drink and petty quarrels; and about thirty per
cent to quarrels simply. The trifling character of the causes
of the quarrels themselves is shown by the fact that in three
of these particular cases, tried in a single week, the total
amount involved in the disputes was only eighty-five cents.
That is about twenty-eight and one-half cents a life. Many a
murder in a barroom grows out of an argument over whether a
glass of beer has, or has not, been paid for, or whose turn it
is to treat; and more than one man has been killed in New York
City because he was too clumsy to avoid stepping on somebody's
feet or bumping into another man on the sidewalk.

The writer sincerely regrets that his own lack of initiative
prevented his keeping a diary during his seven years's service
as a prosecutor. It is now impossible for him to refresh his
memory as to the causes of all the various homicides which he