1901 http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=WSQiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=36MFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1877%2C2877636
1908 http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=I8VUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=uI8DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5782%2C4833890
1910: http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=IbEgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=VmkFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1364%2C549770
1926 http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=vg9PAAAAIBAJ&sjid=n0wDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2737%2C406813
1930 http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bpAxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=y00DAAAAIBAJ&pg=3442%2C7174612
I was unclear, sorry. I did not mean to say that there were no mass murders previously; I meant to say that there has not been a cluster of so many mass murders in such a short period of time.
When I was a boy, we all shook our heads in wonderment at the phenomenon of “running amok,” which was known to happen in Indonesia, a place so far away that it might as well have been a fairy tale. Nothing similar was happening here.