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Train-wrecking

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Parent Issue
Day
29
Month
July
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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State legislatures are just beginning to recognize the delibérate wrecking of a raílroad train, when attendeJ with loss of líe, as essentially murder, to be puniahed accordlngly. -The New York leglslature, at ita recent session, passed a law making train-wrecking which resulta in death a crime subject te the death penalty; and in Michigan, uhich does not impose the death penalty for any crime, the legislature passed a law lmposlng imprisonment for Ufe Ín such case3. In Nebraska the guppeme court announces the principie that trainwreoklng implies a general mallce aforethought, which makes it unnecossary to prove particular malice against an individual who may be killed.

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Ann Arbor Register