some measure of peace
Etan Patzくんの行方不明事件に関してNYPDが会見を開きました。Etanくんは殺害されていました。
measureはもちろん「寸法」ですが、some measure of peaceのようにmeasure ofで使われるときには、「程度、度合い」という意味に変化します。奇しくもこれは日本語と同じ発想、「犯人が、事件のあらましがわかったり、遺族にはせめてものなぐさめ（some measure of peace）となれば...」という意味になります。（UG）
PS 本日も単行本とたたかっています。みんなの貢献を期待します。
Etan Patz Suspect Arrested 33 Years After Boy Vanished in New York
Police today arrested a former grocery worker in the 1979 murder of Etan Patz, apparently ending a mystery of what happened to the 6-year-old boy that has haunted New York City for three decades.
Pedro Hernandez, 51, confessed to police that he lured Patz to his death with the promise of a soda. He took police back to the basement of a Manhattan boedga and showed them where he claimed he strangled Patz.
He said he stuffed the boy's body into a plastic garbage bag, carried it to another location in the Soho neighborhood and dumped it in the trash.
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said Hernandez provided no motive for the killing.
Patz, a handsome blond boy, vanished on the first day he was allowed to walk to the school bus stop alone on May 25, 1979. Friday will be the 33rd anniversary of his disappearance.
Kelly said detectives were drawn to Hernandez in recent days because Hernandez had told family members and friends as early as 1981 that he had "done a bad thing and killed a child in New York."
It was one of those family members or friends who alerted police following renewed interest in the case when police excavated the basement apartment of a building on the same block last month where Patz lived and Hernandez worked.
Kelly said police had informed Patz's parents, who have for years wondered what happened to their 6-year-old son.
"We only hope these developments bring some measure of peace to the family," Kelly said.
Patz's father, Stan Patz, was "a little surprised, but after all the things he has gone through he handled it very well," said Lt. Chris Zimmerman, head of the NYPD Missing Persons Unit.
