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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1913
Page
3
Herman Gortz finds a pocketbook with $9,000 in a compartment sewn separate from the cash. The owner boasts of his own honesty yet tries to withhold the reward, while a judge uncovers a hidden stash and reprimands the fraudulent possessor. The case highlights honesty, temptation, and lawful resolution in court.
A long discussion of euogenics and crime traces a Ball family saga in Australia. John Ball senior amasses wealth by sheep farming after a parricide conviction and is thought to prove environment can override heredity. His son John Ball Jr shows promise but murders his father, while Mary Coolidge and others illustrate crime linked to circumstance. An England to Australia link suggests hereditary crime may reappear in earlier generations.
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