Pettersson says that the results do indeed support
the broken window theory.
Born in October 1875 in Sweden, at around the age of 17 Pettersson went to sea.
Pettersson never made it past Australia and died in
Sydney of a heart attack on May 12, 1937.
The two married in 1923 and returned to Tabar Island, but during Pettersson's sojourn, the plantations had languished.
Later, Jessie and Pettersson left separately for Australia, and Jessie
continued on to Sweden, where she died of malaria and cancer in May 1935.
Pettersson survived and made it to shore on the island of Tabar,
one of the hundreds of islands that today make up the island nation.
With a pile of kids and no one to care for them, Pettersson returned to Sweden to find a wife
and stumbled upon Jessie Louisa Simpson.
At some point Pettersson caught the eye of King Lamy's daughter,
Princess Singdo, and the two married in 1907, three years after his arrival on the island.
On Christmas Day 1904, Carl Emil Pettersson stood at a crossroads- either
he was going to be eaten by hungry cannibals or become a member of the Tabar people.
Finding himself under a hibiscus bush and
surrounded by a fair number of the local people, Pettersson knew he was in trouble as the Tabar were
known to engage in cannibalism.