(From Grand Forks Daily Herald , December 10, 1888.) The Culture of Murder. How Impulsive Organisms Are Prepared to Do Dark Deed...

(From the New York Herald , November 5, 1875.) Boston Detectives—So Called. A Startling Record of their Inefficiency— When Did The...

It would scarcely be safe as a general thing to trust the intervention of spiritual powers for the detection of crime and for the evide...

(From   Puck ,  November 11, 1879 ) Murder as a Luxury.   The Expense of Trying Every Murderer Ever so Many Times. The mania fo...

How murder becomes a virtue and misfortune a misdeed—two suggestive tableaus which every jail in the country has seen enacted. The depra...

` Little Murders (From New York Herald , New York, New York,  June 19, 1873 ) Our Current Record of Rowdyism and Murder. F...

In January 1892, Carlyle W. Harris was convicted of murdering his wife, nineteen-year-old, Helen Potts Harris. It was a particularly ugly...

(From New York Herald ,  January 28, 1872 ) Recent Homicides— The Murder Mania. The community is at present in the midst of a...

Inartistic Murder.   A marked difference between science and art, that has escaped the attention of writers upon intellectual developmen...

Murder in San Francisco.     In response to the question, “Why cannot Murder be punished in San Francisco,” the Oakland Enquirer makes ...

 An editorial on ruffianism from the New York Herald ,  June 11, 1872: The Horrible Murder in Division Street.     We are becom...

In 1869 H. H. Bingham, agent of the Michigan State Prison, issued a pamphlet analyzing the effect of Michigan’s abolition of the death pen...