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Review: Entertaining little volume that does point up the difference between how crime was viewed in 1908 versus today. Smaller crimes of forgery, scams, bank embezzlement, were treated much more harshly than they are now. Of course, their jails were not all filled with drug felons. But the positively most wonderful thing in this book was the very detailed description of the murder of William Marsh Rice, the founder of Rice University in Texas. It didn't open for classes til 1912, four years after this book was written, and twelve years after Rice was murdered by his valet, Jones, under the instigation of a lawyer namend Albert T. Patrick, who forged a will so that he would receive Rice's millions, not Rice University. And in the end Jones, who chloroformed Rice, went free!
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