"Every white woman who killed her husband between 1905 and 1918, was exonerated or acquitted"

The number of murders committed by women in Chicago between 1875 and 1920 increased by 420 percent.

Men did most of the killing in the city: murders committed by women accounted for only 6.6 percent of the total. But very, very few of the women who killed their husbands during that time ever went to jail. "Every white woman who killed her husband between August, 1905 and October, 1918, was exonerated or acquitted, totaling 35 consecutive cases." These acquittals were carried out by entirely male juries who believed two things:

1) Women - especially white women - were innocent and not responsible, by reason of their gender.

2) Men, white or black, rich or poor, native born or immigrant, were, by their very nature, brutes.

The jurors were usually right about the men.

From: Murder City by Michael Lesy

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393060306/ref=olp_product_details/002-71600...



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