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When the police were summoned to the Lolsrdo home
after an uncommonly long time,they found the Maa King's
body lying in a luxurious front room. His face had been
shot away and he could hardly be recognized. Except for
a beautiful velvet pillow which she had tenderly shoved
under his head the body, said the widow, had not been
touched. She did not talk very much, but the little table
in the center of the room with its half-empty glasses of
whisky spoke eloquently on the circumstances of the
mans death. .
With his wife Lolardo had returned to their home from
a loop shopping tour at 3 ocloclc in the afternoon. At
the entrance to the stairway leading to their at, a cheap
and dismal looking place outside, they were met by three
men whom the widow said she had seen many times for
several years. She did not, however, know their names.
All went upstair and Mrs. Lolardo spread a lunch for
the three men who departed at about 3 o'clock. Five
minutes later however there was a knock on the rear
door. Mrs. Lolardo was in the kitchen ironing at the time
and she did not get a good look at them, she said, when
they were admitted by her husband. For half an hour
or more the visitors made whoopee and there was much
clinking of glasses, joking and loud laughing. And then
at 4 o'clock, according to Mrs. Lolardo, the gun-play started.
There was a scramble for the door and when Mrs. Lolardo
walked into the front room she found herself a widow.
The pillow was slipped under his head and the widow wentto answer the door-bell being rung by her sister-in-law,
Mrs. Joseph Lolardo, wife of the well-known body guard.
Anna Lolardo,the sister-in-law,telephoned a funeral ar-lor for an ambulance and the attendants came, took one lnook
at Mr. Lolardo and summoned the police. During the ques-
tioning of Mrs. Lolardo it was nally extracted from her
that she had really got a good look at the lest visitors and,
when a picture of Joe Aiello was pushed in front of her
face, she nodded that one of the visitors was he. Thile
she was still in custody an effort was made to nd Mr.
Aiello but it was unsuccessful, although eighteen or twenty
of his henchmen were gathered together from the dives,
pool-halls and bakery on the North Side. All were paraded
before the widow but she recognized none of them as her
husbands guests. Resolute attempts were made to solve
this murder, and it will be important to remember that
wires were tapped at several places and that Mr. Joseph
Lolardo was heard to say that he would get even with
a certain mob. The murder was never technically solved,
aithough ii: was established that Hr. Lolardos visitors
were not all Italians.
The death of Lolardo again brought moving day to the
Capone alky cookers on the Near North Side. It also
brought control of the Unione Siciliane to Joe Aiello and
what appeared to be a rosy future for his allies. It also
brought a erce and deadly determination to the hearts
of the Circus mob to avenge themselves. A few weeks
later the Valentine Massacre happened.
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We come now to the bloody exercises in which Gang-
land graduates from murder to massacre. The exercises
are to be held in an unpretentious little brick garage at
2122 North Clark Street behind whose well-concealed front
entrance George Bugs Moran has established a whisky
depot in charge of which he has placed two of his toughest
and most capable lieutenants, Frankie and Peter Gusen-
berg. Whisky trucks are kept here when not in use.
Johnny May, a rst-class automobile mechanic, toils over
them when they are off the road keeping them in tip-top
shape mechanically. The garage is an ideal place in which
to hold Gangland's graduating exercises, a fact which had
been established months before, and, since that time the
gentlemen who are to perform the exercises have been
awaiting the signal which will inform them that the most
important North Side gangsters are on the spot and their
time has come.
Since December 18 the observers who are commis-
sioned to make this signal have sat patiently behind tat-
tered lace curtains in two front rooms of the boarding
house upstairs immediately across the street. It is now
February 14, 1929, and nally one of the many ruses
employed by the masters of ceremonies has succeeded for
the big shots of the North Side gang are assembling in
the whisky depot. _Pete and Frank Gusenberg are rst to
slip into the little door. Johnny May, the mechanic comes
a few minutes later. Adam Heyer and James Clark turn
into the door with Dr. Reinhardt H. Schwimmer, the
physician with the hoodlum complex. The "observers"
glance nervously at their watches, mumbling a few words
perhaps about the failure of George "Bugs Moran to
keep this rendezvous. At this time they bend forward to
see still another caller entering the garage. He is Al Wein-
shank, the small-time bootlegger who has stepped in to buy
some goods for his "respectable" little speakeasy at
4207 Broadway. Al has his big police dog, High-ball with
him. The observers are chagrined because George "Bugs"
has not arrived, but believing that he will be along at any
moment, decide to make the long-awaited signal. One of
them slips away to a telephone. End of scene one.
It is now shortly after 11 o'clockabout fteen minutes
since the telephonic signal was made. A youth, George A.
Brichet, loitering at the mouth of the alley behind the
garage, observes a squad car glide noiseless up to
the rear entrance and stop. Three men are in the car,
- --rggir 1» l.. ,two ofthem are in the uniform of policemen. Each carries'a large box-like contraption wrapped roughly with news-papers. Curious young Brichet thinks at he is about
to witness a raid, the first one he has ever seen in his life,
and he races around to the front entrance, just in time to
see what appears to be another squad car stop in front
of the garage. Another group of armed men enter. Young
Brichet pauses. He would like to "bust" right in after
them, but the chauffeur of -the big Cadillac growls at him
to move on. Hurrying northward the youth selects a spot
several hundred feet away _from_ where _he_ca.n at least
steal glimpses and, maybe, when the "pinch" is made there
will be a crowd and he can slip up to the entrance again
when the cops bring em out. End of scene two. 'Inside the glprage six men are all busily engaged in a
conversation. we of them sit on a. little bench in the
corner. Four are standing a few feet away. Johnny May,
the mechanic, is down there under the truck tightening
its bolts. High-ball, the great police dog, is leashed to a
wheel of the truck and, from the six or seven feet of free-
dom thus accorded him, he barks and leaps playfully
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The telephone rings sharply in the little oice which
is built directly in front of the_window, thus obstructing
the rear view from people passing along the street. One
of the men turns and walks rapidly into the oice. Presently
he comes back again, saying that Al Weinshank is wantedon the wire. Weinshank speaks rleipeatedly into the mouth-piece, but there is no answer. e clicks the instrument
impatiently and, nally the operator informs him that the
party hung up. Weinshank, a little mystied, returns to the
oor. Gangland has placed seven men on the spot, and
the graduating ceremonies are about to commence.
A door-knob turns. The men in conversation turn to
look. Two policemen, one holding a large package, walk
easily toward them, followed by two men in street garb-probably dicks think the men who are on the spot. A
cw seconds later and the rear door swings open and two
more men enter. Hard-boiled Pete Gusenberg begins to
snarl. Frankie makes a wise-crack. Just another goddam
raid by some punk coppers. Howd they get here. Some-
body is going to get a swell ride for this bum rap. Oh,
well fortunately there's nothing in the joint now. That's
one good break.
The intruders quickly tear newspapers from their
packages revealing two machine-guns, and now, perhaps
for the rst time it dawns upon these six men here that
this is no time for deant words or wise-cracks. It may
be even that Frankie and Pete or one of the others recog-
nize some of these men beneath their coppers caps and
uni'foIrms,1_and_ that with_recogni92r_.ation comes swift andawllll I'92'!lil.l.Zill-IUII. I-llal-I Llllilr ll-UNI llll CUIIIH KL llliib.
There is a command from one of the intruders, empha-
sized perhaps by a choice bit of blasphemy. Deantly the
two men who have been sitting on the bench rise slowly
to their feet. All turn round, hands raised heavenward,
to the wall. At this moment Johnny May, is spotted
lying beneath the truck. Another command and an oath
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brings him scrambling to his feet and he too takes his
place in line. High-ball is no longer barking. Now he
leaps ferociously at the intruders, his white teeth showing,
but alas Al Weinshank has tied that leash too securely.
It all happens in a few minutes and yet there has been
ample time for Pete Gusenberg, standing at the right of
the line, to realize that this is a mission of murder, and
that his only chance to beat back death is the little auto-
matic revolver in his hi pocket. with B fierce cry and anoath his hand drops lil-lie a plummet to that hi pocket,and his ngers are just closing upon the butt of! it when
the address of the graduating ceremonies commences. It
is delivered quickly, artistically, and with masterful effec-
tiveness. Approximately 150 bullets pour from those ma-
chine guns and only a few fail to nd lodgment in the
doomed men standing there against the white-washed wall
of brick. With the rst outburst of re the doomed men
begin to scream and curse, but the steady rattling stream oflead plays upon them so expertly that only one moves out
of line in an effort to escape. ,he steel bullets tear into
the heads of these men, splintering skulls, splattering
brains. Except for the man on the end who had tried to
escape and collapsed on a chair in grotesque posture,
they fall to the oor in the order in which they had stood.
Now that all are lying on the blood and grease streaked
oor, a second stream of death plays over them, again
tearing into bone and esh.
Six or seven minutes ago Arthur Brichet had been
ordered to move along. Now, standing against the wall
of the building two or three hundred feet away, he can
hear a low rumble from within the garage. Presently
the group of policemen and detectives emerge casually
from the building, step into the automobile, and are driven
smoothly away towards North Avenue. -He sees the
squad car weaving in and out of the traic traveling
rapidly, but not too rapidly. He walks toward the garage.
He can hear the loud continuous barking of a dog. End of
scene two.
Mrs. Jeanette Landsman, who lives at 2124 North Clark
street which is just next door to the garage, hears rattling
gun-re, voices of men screaming and swearing. She
rushed down stairs to the sidewalk and peers through the
window of the garage, but, because of the office cannot
see what has happened behind. She is afraid to enter. At
this moment a pedestrian passes. She turns to him, saying
that she heard shots in there. Ill see if anythings
wrong," says the man sniilingly. And, in a most un-
Chicagoan like manner, steps into the garage. A few
seconds later he bursts out again, shaking, his face ghostly
white. He can scarcely speak. "There's dead menall over
the place, he nally cries as he runs away shouting Ill
call the police."
And the police come. In horror they pause before the
shambles. Both oliicers have seen service in the World
War but there is something about this sight that
is inexpressibly more awful than war. In the dim-
ness of the room their eyes fall upon the gure of a man
crawling upon his hands and knees across the oor. Re-
covering from their rst shock they now rush to his aid.
It is Frank Gusenberg.
More dead than alive
he mumbles something
pretty strange for
him. It is that he
hopes no one will ever
suffer as he suffers.
The oicers, realizing
that Frank is dying,
ply him with questions H Uas they move him
carefully towards the
door, but Frank is
true t_o _the c_o_de ofHIE UZII-WUTIU In
which he has lived so
long and he will say
nothing . . . Squads
of police and detec-
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and photographers and newspaper reporters pour out. The
street becomes jammed and e Clark and Broadway street
oars are stalled in long lines in the narrow street; Up-
stairs behind the little frayed lace curtains the masters
of ceremonies sneak out and downstairs and, singly, dis-
appear into the surging crowd. Their job is done and done
well. The ceremonies are over. In a mowing newspaper
ofllce far away in the direction oi the Loop District, s. re-
write man who has heard the rst story of this holocaust,
sits himself calmly at a typewriter and begins a matchless
story. He taps out the story in a single line, namely that
Gangland has graduated from murder to massacre.
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The whole world reeled before this one in horror and
unbelief. Newspapers everywhere published the amazing
crime and the Valentine Massacre of Chicago was discussed
in the far comers of the earth. Defenders of Chicago's
reputation looked on the atrocity helplessly and in dismay.
Here was a crime which even the cynical Chicagoan could
not dismiss with a supercial gesture. It seemed absurd
now to say that since Gangland murdered only those who
belonged to Gangland why bother about it? George Bugs
Moran disappeared shortly after the crime but before he
left one newspaper obtained one crisp comment from him.
It was this: "Only one gang kills like thatthe
gang." This line was carried over the wires to A!CaponeCorinna__._r-_.-
orwho was in Florida and he had one all ready for it. They
dont call that guy Bugs for nothing," was what the Big
Fellow said.
With each successive smoking _ _newspapers for a solution of the crime and punishment
for its perpetrators swelled in bitter intensity. Thoughtful
persons lled column after column with suggestions as to
how the said conditions which made such a thing possible
might be remedied. Not since the unsolved murder of
McSwiggin, the hanging prosecutor" from the state's
attorney's oice, had public indignation developed such a
temperature. William E. Russell, commissioner of police,
commanded to run the murderers to earth, summoned
Deputy Commissioner of Detectives John Stege home from
a vacation to work on the case. Commissioner Stege at
that time was spending s vacation in Florida and Cuba
with a oup of friends among whom was included Alfred Jake ¬.l..ingle, veteran Chicago Tribune police reporter,
who was later to be put on the spot by Gangland.
During the relent-
less series of investi-
gations instituted by
Commissioner Stege
every Capone gang-
ster in Chicago was,
at one time or another,
haled into detective
bureau headquartersJ and passed in review
before eye-witnesses
whose names were,
for a long time, with-
held from the public.I Three men were posi-
_ tively identied, JackEU McGurn, and John
n ll nn nnedition of the Chicago
Scalice. At the same
time one of the eye-
witnesses identied,
Fred Burke, notorious
criminal, from a pic-
ture in the rogues gal-Iap showing route bellowed to bavo..'5ooa traveled by automobile carrying
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found, to aiaa Ioi-tn Uluk It:-at. loom '01 the alaylnlu Insert! It-out vlow
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lery. Burke did not conne his -
activities to any one gang or city.
Formerly a member of the notori- .
ous Egan Rats of St. Louis, Burke ' had been a machine-gunner with {J
the American Expeditionary Forces
during the World War, and was
wanted in ve American cities for
as many murders at the time of
the Valentine Massacre. This choice
criminal is still at large. Shortly
after the massacre he narrowly
escaped capture in Benton Harbor,
Michigan, where he posed as a re-
spectable citizen. When his little
bungalow was fraided, after the
precipitate ight of Mr. Burke,
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bawl him out for running throughz
Two women identied John, but
they couldnt remember having ever
met Mr. Anselmi before. The case
against Jack McGum eventually
was nolle prossed. As for Scalice
a sad but inevitable fate overtook
him before the day scheduled for
his court appearance and, would
you believe it, he was in company
at the time with his old partner,
Albert Anselmi. These two boys
were always together. We shall re-
turn to them at the proper time.
Seven days after the Valentine
Massacre the police discovered one
of the automobiles which had trans-
ported one group of the execu-
tioners" to 2122 North Clark Street.
Discovery was made in a garage in
the rear of 1723 Noh Woods
Street, three blocks from the Circus
Cafe. The massacre car had beena traffic light. Incidentally the re-
ward for his capture now stands at
the substantial total of $100,000.
Arthur Brichet, the boy who
was told to move on, identied John
Scalice and Jack McGurn as did
one woman eye-witness and bothJohnny Suave "1DI.nghat Ohorta, at loft, with his
body guard, lammy Ialafa-, holding an athlltto
trophy. The "Dl:n.gbat" and Iammy were insep-
arable ln L110 and when Ohorta was found dead
in Ml automobile the potion looked around for
Iammy. lure enough there he was just I few
foot away, his body oating in a small stream.dismembered with a blow-torch,
gasoline had been poured over the
parts and then set are in an effort
to destroy all identif_yi_ng_ marks. It
was denitely established with the
discovery of the automobile that it
had been faked to resemble a
were eventually indicted. McGurn was arrested in a room
in the Stevens Hotel where he was holding gala with a
sinuous blonde, Louise Rolfe, now known to fame as the
blonds alibi." No machine guns were in Jacks luxurious
quarters, but he was not entirely without protection for
over on the bureau within convenient reach was a .45
automatic pistol and a .32 revolver. The woman who iden-
tied Jack also said that she had seen him before with
a number of men who played around the Circus Cafe on
North Avenue.
As you might expect when the police nally came uipon
John Scalice he was with his old partner, Albert Anse mi.police squad car. The garage had been rented several
days before the massacre, and, according to the owner,
the renters, three men, gave their addresses as the Circus
Cafe. Au exhaustive investigation from the automobile
angle of the Valentine horror which took many months
nally left detectives with nothing more than a number
of ctitious names.
A raid made on the day following the massacre found
the Circus Cafe not o en for business. Doors were locked,tables overturned anti! Messrs Maddox, Capprezzio, Hum-
phreys and Rocco Belcastro, the big bombing boy, were
nowhere around.
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on the morning of February 14, l and, after kindly and
smilingly posing for photograph. I they departed.
Where was George Bugs Moran on the da his gallantlieutenants were put on the spot? And how did it happen
that George himself failed to show up at 2122 North Clark
street in response to the invitation that it would be to hisadvantage as a truck load of hi-jacked liquor would beoffered or sale. All these questions were asked on every
hand before the bodies of his men had been removed from
the blood and grease on the cement oor. Well, there wasnothing exciting about the answer when it nally came,
several months ater. Sitting in the olce of Commissioner
Stege the man who held the throne once occupied by Dion
O Banion and Little Hymie"Weiss,said
very plainly that he was at home at the *
time, suffering with alight touch of the
"u." This looked bad for those roman-ticists who had argued that Bugs act-
ing on a hunch, ha remained away from
the spot at the last minute, and that,
as a matter of fact he was one of the
hundreds who packed the narrow street
in froiii, of iilé Eai-age iifiaen the perfo-
rated bodies of his men were discovered.
Moran left Chicago a few days later
for Canada and did not return for sev-
eral months. One day he suddenly ap-
peared at the detective bureau, pro-
tected by his lawyer. "Bugs" is very
self-conscious and nervous when in this
institution, but he had obviously care-
fully prepared himself for the ordeal
of saying yes and no. It may be inter-
esting to record that, when asked con-
cerning his relations with Pete and
Frank Gusenberg and all the other vic-
tims Moran replied: I didnt have5 .' F
ever in that gar in my life; it looked too much like the
oral shop to me.
A day or so later Joe Aiello also appeared at the bureau
concerning a little matter of murders--the murder of
Lolardo particularly. Chief, two years ago de Chief
O'Connor, he tell me to get out of town, said Joe, and
I go, efen though I never do nothing wrong. Chief, I
like your Chicago. I wants. live here and be a respectable
man in my bakery. Before Joe left, he denied ever having
met anyone by the name of Moran.One thing is certain. The Gpolice did not particularly¥rieve over the passing of the usenbergs, Pete and Frank.hese boys had been raising hell in Chicago foi' many Jeers,
and while news of their violent eaths
. did not exactly inspire rousing cheers, the remarks made several days after
the massacre by Chief of Detectives
John Egan concerning the average life
of the gangster may not be interpreted
as coming from a saddened heart. "The
average life of the Chicago gangster,"
said Detective Egan, is about 30 to 31
years, and that rate Pete who was about
36, had lived ve or six years beyond his
allotted time. Frank Gusenberg who
was 38 years old, was about seven or
eight years over-due at the morgue.
They must have been mighty careful
of themselves to last as long as
they did.
Chief Egan said that Clark, being
32. was a year or two late, while Al
Weinshank had his coming to him for
the past four or ve years. Johnny May,
said Chief Egan, was bumped off right
on schedule, and Adam Hyer who was
only 29, got cheated out of a year.
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MR. SA|.m
Pollack Joe Saltis lost a great deal of prestige
in Boozedom in 1928 when he submitted to capture
and was settled in the Cook County jail for two
months on a charge of violation of the liquor laws.
The feat of clamping a beer baron in the can
was not accomplished with all the ease of falling
off a log, however, for Mr. Saltis made himself
scarce except to his beer clients for 139 days, by
actual newspaper count, before he was nally ap-
prehended. The newspapers made a great deal of
noise about the search for Mr. Saltis and, every
day for 139 days, you could open up your newspaper
and see in very large type the numbers 102 days
and no Mr. Saltis or 103 days and no Mr. Saltis
and so on and on up until the day Joe was brought
in mumbling Im out of the beer racket, and this
is a bum rap. The public took a great deal of
interest in the newspaper count, which, until the
Dempsey-Tunney ght was looked upon as the
longest count Chicago had ever seen. It had all
the wallop of a serial story with the hot stu
continued until tomorrow.
When Joe was emptied from the jail cell he
made straight for the ower shop in the back-of-
the-yards district where his affairs were being
ably directed by his lieutenants, amiable John
Dingbat" Oberta and Paddy Sullivan. Joe was in
a tranquil condition of mind for the next few
weeks, but panic struck him and the Dingbat"
when they came upon a newspaper story which
said that all hoodlums in
Chicago were to be submitted
to a mental test. If found of
unsound mentality, as most
assuredly they would be, sug-
gested the story, they would
be confined for treatment. Joe
and the Dingbat may not
have been afraid of machine
guns, pistols, automatics and
pineapples, but words like psy-
chology, phychiatry, psycho-
pathic, were monstrous andr.
QE;cate of high and normal intelligence. And so, a
few days later, Chicago was treated to the spec-
tacle of Pollack Joe and Johnny Dingbat
Oberta in the office of the police commissioner
proudly waving certicates of mental health. We
wont have to play with no blocks," said Johnny
and Joe as they walked away, and then, catching
himself, he said, I mean we won't have to play
with any blocks. Safe from connement in the
bug house Joe and Johnny and their henchmen
now began to look around for Edward Spike
ODonnel!. Joe hadn't had a shot at Spike for
many months and the strain was telling on him.
Besides rumors were reaching Joe that Spike
was about to make a great beer offensive and had
surrounded himself with a formidable gang of
muscle men. One of them, strangely enough was
the redoubtable Frankie MacEarlane and his kid
brother, Vincent. The underworld gossiped for a
long time about the split between Saltis and Frank
who had been pals from the very beginning. The
truth was that MacEarlane could no longer endure
the nasty-nice Dingbat. As we have seen Mac-
Earlane was at heart a bank~robber and, just to
keep in practice, used to wander around knocking
over a safe here and there. When Saltis was in
jail the Dingbat tried to clamp down on Frankie,
telling him that he would spoil the real dough for
all of t_hem if he persisted in the bank-busting
tendency. Aw, hell," responded Frankie, It
takes real brains to hoist a bank. And to hell with
this Sunday School outt. Ill make some real con-
nections. The fact that his boss, Saltis, was in
jail was proof enough to Frankie that he was in
with a wrong bunch of guys.
Saltis saw no real obstacle from the Sheldon
mobsters who, it was then being rumored, were
having internal trouble. Sheldon, suffering from
tuberculosis aggravated by constant breathing of
gun-powder, was ordered by his physician to seek
strength in the purer atmosphere of Arizona. He
did so, leaving his mob in
charge of Danny Stanton, an
arrangement which was
okeyed by the Big Fellow, Al
Capone. Stanton, a former
member of the four horse-
men" group of taxi-cab slug-
gers which also included John
Mitters Foley, had for his
right hand men, Hugh "Stub-
by" McGovern' and William
~ Gunner McFadden, both
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been precipitated when the
Dingbat, who pretended to
be book-learned couldn't rattle
off a denition of psycho-
paresis. But Little Johnny re-
stored himself in his bosss
estimation when he hit on the
scheme of having their own
personal psychiatrist examine
them and give them a certi-at
Irlnth I10. body guard of the I1; Iouorw,
Alphonso Capone. Iran; I'll an-outed la
21:11:-dolphin with A1 and nntonooil to 0 nu:
imprisonment in jn for can-gin; oonool,-1-all
weapon.
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~ " been brought up from baby-
hood in the famous Ragan
Colts gang. At this time Joe
Saltis, nding it diicult to
buy beer elsewhere and im-
possible to manufacture it,
made connections with the Big
Fellow. King Capone wel-
comed Big Joe but told him
to behave himself and to stay
out of Danny's territory.
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can on the ova or the Iur You-, 1989. by George Ialonoy, nun: to ma for Iiahul labs Quinllll, bourbon bu-on.
As Joe was therefore able to concentrate on
"Spike" O'Donnell, while Danny Stantons mob
enjoyed peace and prosperity until another gang,
headed by Michael Bubs Quinlan and George
Maloney, moved up to the beer front, doing a spe-
cialty business in Canadian whisky. Bubs
Quinlan rst came to underworld attention as a
body guard for Tommy Tuit, notorious South Side
gambler, while Maloney, a killer of great capabil-
ities, had been in business for himself for many
years. He would work for any individual or any
organized gang, and his services were always in
demand. Maloney carried two revolvers, both of
.38 caliber, in leather-lined pockets. Maloney is
said to be the rst Chicago gunman to saw off the
barrels of revolvers of .38 caliber. With the pos-
sible exception of Frankie MacEar1ane. Maloney
was Chicago Ganglands most terrible killer. Ma-
loney, unlike MacEarlane, had a touch of dash and
romance about him, and already legends have
sprung up about his deeds and his strange and
paradoxical personality.
Meanwhile Saltis, wearying of the routine of
life on the South Side, was spending more and
more of his time in Wisconsin where he had pur-
chased a great estate. The Dingbat had proven
himself a capable lieutenant and Joe came to Chi-
. s 1?cago seldom and then only in emergencies. On
October 11, 1928, while Joe was in Wisconsin, the
rst outbreak of gunplay took place between
"Dingbat" and the ODonnell mob. Little Johnny,
his body guard, Sammy Malaga, and a member of
his mob, George Darrow, were parked near
Spike's home in an automobile. What saved
Spil-:es life on this occasion was the timely
arrival of the police. Spike," jumping out of his
car, had tackled Darrow and was holding him
when the police squad car came up. Oberta and
Malaga took to their heels after ring several
shots, and the police arrested both Spike and
Darrow. Both were charged with disorderly con-
duct when it became plain that Spike would not
charge Darrow with attempted murder. They paid
nes and Spike climbed onto a soap-box to an-
nounce formerly his re-entry into the beer racket,
an announcement which came as a staggering sur-
prise to most Chicagoans, including the police,
who did not know that Spike had ever been out
of it. And, as a matter of fact, he hadn't. Yes
sir, said Spike, "Pm now in the beer racket. I've
got a bunch of blue-eyed Irish boys who won't
stand any pushing around either. A lot of guys
had better wise up to themselves and lay off.
And with that "Spike returned to his blue-
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tl It-1 td Ch tW1llI Imolinf lllbni-G 1'l»Olhl-II 9,111 H-1-"lid-II?!-Ill! dared on. onoyw-mar:-no on on-po I p 0, up no o aoneq 0 an
marry-maker: won unable to identity Ionoy an the llor.
eyed Irish boys, most of whose names had inci-
dentally ski appended to them. His companion
in jail for disorderly conduct, George Darrow, re-
t1u'ned to the South Side and met violent death nine
days later. Not because he needed the money but
because his was an exuberent nature brimming
over with vitality and needed expression, George
occasionally regaled himself by a stick-up or a
road-house hold-up and on this occasion he was
eiciently shot and killed. Meanwhile the Stanton
gang was doing a little shooting with the Quinlan
gang which had been prospering via the muscle
route into the Stanton preserves, and on October
14, 1928, a stray machine gun bullet intended for
Bubs reached instead his companion, Ralph J.
Murphy, a bartender, and Murphy was killed in-
stantly. The machine gun was operated by Hugh
Stubby McGovern, standing in the basement of
a house across the street. From that day on Mr.
McGovern was a marked man for George Maloney,
the boy with the sawed off .38 set out for him.
While George was tailing McGovern, the atten-
tion of the police was directed to a sensational
unsuccessful attempt made by Leo Mongoven and
Frank Foster, North Side gangster, to shake-
down an ex-racketeer, Abe Cooper, who had be-come a broker and had gone straight. Abe with-
stood the shake-down and was being hustled
into an automobile, parked on LaSalle Street in
the loop, for a "ride" when, suddenly he whipped
out a revolver and began ring. Frankie disap-
peared into the crowds, but Leo, seriously wounded,
fell to the pavement. The incident stands out as
an excellent example of what happens to gang-
sters who attempt to quit and become respectable.
Cooper was one of the few who was able to enforce
his new standing but it took his old trusty gat to
do it. Quiet in Gangland for a period. On Decem-
ber 29 George Maloney, still trailing, Stubby
McGovern, dropped into the Granada Cafe, a fam-
ous South Side night club and, would you believe
it, across the room he spied McGovern and William
"Gunner" McPadden, making whoopee with the
aid of two young women. George gured that he
had spent enough time looking for "Stubby" and
that he would nish the job now and to hell with
the hundreds of merry-makers there assembled.
George got to his feet, walked slowly over to Mc-
Govern's table and, shooting from his pocket, n-
ished Stubby with two bullets. He then directed
that famous .38 toward Mr. McFadden and he too,
with two bullets in his body, went skidding out
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onto the dance oor, very much a dead man. Bythis time the noise had attracted the attention of
a policeman outside, Officer Timothy Sullivan, whohad been detailed to the Granada to look for auto-
mobile thieves. Timothy came puffing into the
[50]cabaret just in time to see Maloney, huddled be-hind an over-turned table, gently depositing his.38 on the oor. Oicer Sullivan took possession ofboth Mr. Maloney and the .38. It aint mine,"said George, indignantly. I never saw it before.
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plnolod. u um photograph graphically ohronlclu. in n drug store tn the Valley which ho owned as I. blind for his more
romunontin but more dangorouu activities. "Wallis" who wan tried and aoquittad for the murder of nan: Thu Boar" Iyu,
hon or the om Talley Gang In pro-Volstosd dun. nally ouno to a. tun stop la 1 saloon shortly gnu: In and "Dummy"
had murdered lunar-so Ia:nootI" Annual, Gonna lieutenant, In 5 bu-bu lbw.
I heard the shooting and jumped behind this table
for protection. A few days later Mr. Maloney
regained his freedom on bonds and, just outside
the county jail, met his boss, Michael Bubs Quin-
lan who shook hands and gave George a fresh .88,
all nicely sawed-off and loaded. Now Maloney and
Bubs devoted themselves to a sear-eh for other
members of the Stanton gang, one of whom was
[511the deceased McGovern's tough brother, Michael,
who was reported to be living only for revenge.
On March 20, 1929, three months later, Bubs and
Maloney, driving in an automobile, came upon
Danny Stanton standing on a corner talking with
two friends, Raymond and William Cassidy, not
hoodlums. They stood in front of the home of
Miss Jewel] Webb, Raymonds sweetheart. Well,F
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the shooting began, and Raymond Cassidy fell to
the side-walk dead, victim of a bullet intended
for Stanton. This dreadful marksmanship gave
credence to the belief that Quinlan must have
done the shooting, because Maloney had never
been known to miss his man. Neither "Bubs nor
Maloney was arrested for this murder, but it in-spired young Michael McGovern to more serious
elforts to avenge his brother's death. How many
attempts he made to kill Maloney will never be
known, but he made several. One occurred on
July 6, 1929, and was partly successful, for, when
Maloney went on trial for the murders of McPad-
den and McGovern,he moved about on crutches. He
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was in a greatly weakened condition, but the trial
didnt last long. No witnesses could be produced
who had seen Maloney and the .38 together, and
he was acquitted. Although Maloney lived longer,
he did not make any more public appearances with
his .38, so we will bring his career to a close here.
Early in 1929 he was sent to a hospital as the
result of an automobile accident, in which he had
attempted to knock an interurban train o its
track. In the hospital he contracted pneumonia,
an enemy which no .38 could beat back no matter
how deftly handled, and George Maloney, killer de
luxe, died on May 6, 1930, at the age of SB.
While Bubs and Maloney were regaling the
South Side with gun-play, William Klon-
dike ODonnell was carrying on the West Side
tradition for toughness. "Klondike," as we
have chronicled, had surrounded himself with
men so tough that he frequently saw t to con-
vince them that, while they were tough, he was
much tougher, very much tougher. At this period
Klondike was particularly troubled over the out-
side activities of George Red Barker, Mike
Reilly, George Clifford, Frank Si Cawley and
Thomas McElligot. Barker, a slugger for union
officials in Chicago labor we-rs, had served a peni-
tentiary sentence for his activities as a st-slinger
and terrorist. On his release he joined the Klon-
dike"mob and found beer-running child's play. With
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plenty of extra time on his hands Red conceived
the idea of appropriating a few unions for himself,
an idea which he disclosed to the other afore-
mentioned four, who were enthusiastic. Presently
these ve very tough boys had ousted the officials
of the coal teamsters and hikers union, and were
now laying plans for appropriating control of the
Mid-West Garage Owners Association. This in-
volved driving out Dave Albian, alias Cock-eyed
Mulligan." It was a hard job but they did it. A
certain garage owner decided however that he
would not get upon the Barker bandwagon, and
one night while Red and his playmates were
gunning for the recalcitrant one, they shot a gar-
age attendant to death and severely wounded a
policeman who had interferred. Eventually George
went back to the penitentiary, not for the murder
and shooting,but for violating his parole by leaving
the state. He had ed to California. Well, with
Red in Joliet, Klondike fell into a huddle over
the matter and decided that now would be a good
time to show Red how tough he was. He became
determined on this course following the crazy
murder on March 15, 1929, of William J. Vercoe
by George Clifford. The murder occurred in the
Pony Inn, 5613 West Roosevelt, scene of the Mc-
Swiggin assassination. Vercoe, known as "a clown
for the hoodlums," loved to recite blood-and-
thunder verse for the amusement of his gangster
friends. On this occasion, Vercoe, well-plastered,
stood at the bar reciting a certain verse in which
one line was Youre a coward. When Vercoe
came to this he unwittingly pointed to Mr. Clifford,
who with Mike Reilly was drinking at the bar, and
Mr. Clifford cried out, whos a coward?" and
before Ivir. Vercoe could say I didnt mean you,
Mr. Clifford had shot and killed Mr. Vercoe. Well,
this was too tough, and on April 14, 1929, Clifford
and his bosom pal, Mike Reilly, went on a long,
long ride. Their bodies
were dumped in the alley
behind theHawthorneHotel
in Cicero. On May 29, 1929,
somebody else beat them to
Thomas McElligot. He
was killed in the basement
of a Loop saloon. On Sep-
tember 4, the end came for
Mr. Frank Si Cowley,
who was also taken for a
ride. George Red Barker,
released from the peniten-
tiary later on, was a very
much convinced man, and
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The authors of this pleasant narrative have
introduced you from time to time to their favorite
evil men of GanglandJohn Scalice and Albert
Anselmi who, you will remember, were imported
to Chicago from Southern Italy in 1925 by the
Imperial Genna brothers. Scalice and Anselmi,
grim and mirthless fellows, were a perfect deni-
tion of the word sinister. You would have been4 s" ti
mor that King Capone had placed himself on
the spot for the Philadelphians in order that he
might have the comfort and security of a jail cell
until the Valentine Massacre probe, investigation,
heat or what have you had gone the way of
most Chicago probes and investigations of Gang-
lands crimes. Public temperature was so high at
this time that Capone did not want to be foot-loose
anywhere, and he probably got the idea of going
to jail from his old master, Johnny Torrio. But
even in prison, whither he was consigned for one
year, Capone could notentirely escape from the
stench of the Valentine Massacre. Three months
after his conviction the prison authorities began
receiving letters from a garrulous and somewhat
foolish lady addressed to the Big Fellow. In the
course of prison routine these letters were opened
uncomfortable sitting in the same Yale bow] or - and, because of the sensational nature of their
Soldiers Field with themm0re uncomfortable
than walking down a, dark alley at midnight with
Little I-lyrnie Weiss or Scherner Drucci. On May
8, 1929, the sensational long run of the terrible
drama called Scalice and Anselmi came to an
abrupt end. Pumped full of bullets, burned and
beaten, their bodies were found in a lonely stretch
of country in the bleak Indiana state line district.
Scalice and Anselmi with one, John Ginta, a Ca-
pone gangster, had been taken for a terrible ride,
and one of the stories at the time had it that John
and Albert had plotted to over-throw the Big Fel-
low himself. A coup was planned. Capone was to
be seized at a given signal during a banquet held
somewhere in Chicago. You can easily imagine
what Scalice and Anselmi planned to do with
him. The banquet began. The signal was given.
All Capone henchmen arose but, instead of seiz-
ing the Big Fellow, they tool: possession of
Scalice and Anselmi. Capone, it is said, did not
believe the story of the treachery of these men
until, sitting there behind the spaghetti, he wit-
nessed the signal.
Eight days after the long. long ride of Scalice
and Anselmi, the Chicago newspapers sizzled with
the story of the arrest of Al Capone and his
aide-de-camp, Frankie
Rio, in Philadelphia
charged with carrying
concealed weapons. The
arrests were made by
detectives who had met
Capone in Miami where,
by this time, he had
purchased and improved
to suit his own peculiar
needs, a vast estate.
There was more sizzling
when a day or so later,
Al and Frank, were
consigned to a county
jail cell for one year.
Along with the tidal
wave of economiums on
the elciency of theD . . .1 hiladelphia police and
courts, came the inter-
esting current of ru-......L .._..Jl A... i .-. i.92I. PFUall MU. U.U It 924lll92.}Ilvcontents,sent to States Attorney John A.Swanson.
The letters were written by Mrs. Frank Beige, re-
cently wed. Her husband was sometimes described,
correctly or incorrectly, as the Big Fellows per-
sonal executioner. Beige may have been expert
at handling a machine gun and in putting an
enemy on the spot, but he was a terrible dub at
handling women, particularly Mrs. Beige. Any
way, without his knowledge, Mrs. Beige, rambled
on and on something after the following manner:
You lmow what Frank has done for you. He's got
to get out of town pronto for the other mob are wise.
His life isnt safe here. So you got to get us $10,000 in
Of course the Big Fellow never saw the letter,
a fact which never occurred to the naive Mrs.
Beige. When no reply came to this one, she wasted
more paper and wrote on the following:
I'm asking you for the last time to send that $10,000
and get it to us fast. Frank's sick of you leaving him
to hold the bag. He cant get out of town without the cash
and he can't stay here without being taken for a ride.
You kick across or Frank will go to the police and spill
Ralph Sena:-.=, elder hr?-.:=:' o. - we-,...:e, e-= he er-ear .
me attorneys recently during his trial um conviction
Income ta: fraud. lalph was sentenced so three year:what he knows. Remember: everything.
In thus talking out of turn Mrs. Beige made
a great many wild and reckless statements about
what Frank thought
and would do. Frank,
as a matter of fact, did
not know how little
wifey was trying to help
him along. When the
Big Fellow failed to kick
in the $10,000 she again.....l..l__-..-..-.1 ! t92-:i92n -HUI-.l.l UBBUU llllll e
All right. You're just
as good as putting _Frank
on the spot, by leaving no
stranded here. Well, how'l.l
you like getting the ngeron yourself ? Franks going
to tell everything he knows.
He remembers fteen shoot-
ings he did because you
ordered him to do them.
Hes going to tell just who
killed McSwiggin for a
starter. And hes going to
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got you. Yes, and then
he's going to tell about
your sending him to New
York, along with others to
let daylight through
ankie Yale. Of course
he's going to sing aboutthat Valentine day alfair 4 Q;
And how are you going tolike that Mr. Al Brown." '-"L
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Beige was required to ' .'
come to Mr. Swansons
oice, where, confronted with these letters, she
continued in an even higher crescendo with the
result that she was kept in semi-custody by
detectives for fear that something might hap-
pen to her. Her husband was eventually arrested
and held for three days. Strangely enough no
lawyers came forward to attempt his release. But
Frankie Beige stood up and took it on the chin,
which is why, maybe, that hes still a member of
Capones gang. What he said in response to ques-
tions was, in effect, that his wifey was just trying
to make some easy dough, by shooting off her
mouth. Mr. Beige had never met Mr. Capone and
Mrs. Beige was crazy when she said that he used
to sleep out in the corridor of Capones room in
the Hotel Metropole until relieved by another
guard, Louis Little New York Campagnia.
Capone and Frankie Rio did not return to
Chicago until March of 1930. During the interval
little of importance occurred in the Big Fellows
realm either as regards business or blood-shed.
His affairs seemed, indeed, to prosper while those
of his enemies, the Aiello-Moran outt, seemed to
be alicted by an evil fortune. The Enforcer
of the Big Fellows business, Frank Nitti and
Hymie Loud Mouth Levine held forth from
headquarters in the Lexington hotel, deciding with
nality who should be killed, who should be
bombed, whose trucks should be hi-jacked. One offl
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OI-pone rug-stars in 1. saloon In u fur.-ion Inter
Daymuueroofllo. Arrutoualntpoctll
I'll indicted largely on the testimony or Guano:
bl!-Illtlo 039014, who illd that I glltol Salad in
I01 Iona! room was the one which nd the
hill bn.1.Ietu._In this Mature D01 load In hing
gnu-Boned by Dorcas: Ila:-mu; I. landown-
Lowrr photograph non pollen looking at the
lpot when the bon were found.
the more sensational, though unimportant, affrays
during the lull was between Tommy McNichols
and Jimmy "Bozo" Schupe, small time West Side
bootleggers. On July 31 Tommy and Bozo held
a duel on Madison street, Tommy standing on one
side and Bozo on the other. They killed each other.
James Walsh, a beer-runner, was murdered in De-
cember by Charles Babe Baron after a prize-
ght at which Walsh,during an altercation,slapped
"Babe" with his sts. Two days later the body of
Patrick King, criminal of sorts, was found in the
deserted gambling joint owned by Terry O'Connor
on South Wabash Avenue. On January 27, 1930,
Johnny Genaro, a grade C bomber for the Ca-
pone outt, was put on the spot by James Belcas-
tro, another Capone bomber, but did not die. John-
ny and Belcastro have since made up and are
getting along nicely, according to reports. If you
hear any loud noises it may be Johnny and Jimmy.
On February 3, 1930, Joseph Jada, companion of
Jimmy Walsh on the night Walsh was killed, was
shot to death in his automobile near the Green
Mill Cafe, a famous whoopee joint where inciden-
tally, at that time, Texas Guinan was holding
forth. The next day Julius Rosenheim, supposedly
an informer, was lled with bullets and dumped
into a snow bank near his home, and all was quiet
until February 24, when Frankie MacEarlane, in
a hospital under an assumed name, was be-set byQ Q35
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Johnny Patton, the "boy mayor" of lurnhem, and e eloee mend oi Oepone.
three rats as he called them! as he lay in bed,
one foot propped high in the air in a cast. Frankie
chased them oil with a couple of .45s he had man-
aged to conceal from the authorities. How did
Frankie get his foot all shot up, and how did he
get in a hospital for treatment without the shoot-
ing getting into the papers. True enough the hos-
pital authorities reported that they had a patient
suffering from an accidental shooting. But, when
the police came to look over the patient, they didn't
recognize Mr. Frankie MacEar1ane.
Who tried to kill you ? asked the police after
the shooting. Frankie looked at his questioners
in great disgust. Instead of answering directly he
began a volley of oaths, half to himself. Can
you imagine the rats trying to get me--me,
Frank MacEarlane! And then, looking toward
the police, he added: You'll nd em in a ditch
some of these days." The assailants of MacEar-
lane had climbed a re-escape to get into his
room. While Frankie was in the Bridewell hospi-
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disorderly conduct, the Gangdom and political
circles were startled to read in the morning papers
of the passing from this life of Johnny Dingbat"
Oberta, on March 6, just ten days after the at-
tempt to kill MacEarlane. Oberta was not found
in a ditch, however, although his body guard,
Malaga was removed from a water-lled ditch.
Willie Niemoth, a member of Saltis mob, at that
time sought for complicity in a bank robbery in
Maryland, was reported to have done the job for
MacEarlane. Another suspect, Big Earl Her-
bert, also a Saltis mobster disgruntled over the
authority of the sneaking nasty-nice Dingbat"
was suspected of having done Frankie a good turn.
During his questioning Herbert deplored the fact
that Dingbat insisted on going about in a limou-
sine. He should have got himself a roadster,
said Big Karl. Why so? asked Commissioner
Stege. Oh, so that his friends couldnt ride behind
him, replied Herbert.
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While small armies of
newspaper reporters,
movie-tone representa-
tives and other chron-
iclers of the merrie
tayles of the day camped
outside the prison from
which Capone was to be
released in March, -the
Big Fellow contrived
with the aid of the prison
authorities to slip away
unobserved. There was a
great hue and cry all over
the land. What had hap-
pened to the king of the
underworld? Had the
gangsters bumped him
off-yet? Where was he
hiding? Certainly he
couldnt remain undis-
covered for very long.
The Big Fellow was too
big. Would he return to
Chicago? The authorities
hadn't asked him about
that Valentine day affair
yet? He's not in Chi-
cago, nor will he be, saidJ .
ing will never be known
unless the Big Fellow can
' nd, time enough some
day between his Miami
court appearances to dic-
tate his memoirs. These
undoubtedly would make
excellent reading and
Big Fellow as much less
of an ogre and bugaboo
than he is generally re-
garded. The Big Fellow
might turn out to be not
quite so big, and maybe
others you never heard of
would grow and grow in-
to the craziest propor-
tions you could imagine.
Certainly the Big Fellow
frowns on a big casualty
list in the ordinary course
of operation, and who
can say that at the fam-
ous truce and party he
did not insist that there
be only one or two bomb-
ings per week, or one
killing per gang everywould probably reveal the
Deputy Commissioner of
Police John Stege. Ive
given orders to arrest
him on sight and throw
him in the can. If he
comes here there wont Upper photograph! Gangland; molt lemon: widow, Ire.
I101-eace OBei-re, mere-led the ":D|.ngbet" eer the murder
of her rlt lmlbenn, Hit Hm Inrphy. Iow ehe neural the
peeling of the "nI.ngbet." Lower! The lilonde Alibi of leek
Icurn. I-oulee loilfe wee errelted ln e room In the ltevene
Intel with Ink Icliiurn, believed to have operated one of the
machine [nae which mowed down IIYII Iorth llle Qengltere
in the Telenne De! Ieeeeore.thirty days? Also that
these measures be taken
when all other less vio-
lent ones, had failed?
Business is business,
whether grocer or boot-
be a moments peace for
him, and he knows it. Four days pass.
"Hello, chief, what have you got on me '3" well,
well, I'll be damned, if it isnt the Big Fellow
himself, right here in Chicago, sitting in the office
of Mr. Stege. With him were a couple of lawyers,
a group of politicians but no visible body guard.
After a time the Commissioner permitted the re-
porters and photographers to pour in. The Big
Fellow sat and smoked a cigar while they plied
him with questions, most of which elicited merely
a cold look from him.
Commissioner Stage accompanied Capone to
the office of the United States district
attorney where the same questions
were asked by the Big Fellow, and
apparently, received the same re-
sponse as from Mr. Stege, for the Big
Fellow went free. The reporters tried,
but failed apparently to keep up with
him, for he disappeared. A few days
later it was reported that King Ca-
pone's return to Chicago had been
principally to effect lasting peace in
the half-world, and that every mob-
ster of importance in the city includ-
ing the Moran-Aiello mob, had been
represented at a famous banquet andlegger and King Al is no
grocer. At any. rate the representatives who
attended the Big Fellows banquet went away
with some new_ideas in their heads, and a slogan
on their lips, ALL FOR AL, AND AL FOR ALL.
Within a few days the Big Fellow had disappeared
again to turn up nally in his palatial home in
Miami, Florida, where he has remained to this
writing. Much of his time is spent resisting the
authorities in their indefatigible attempts to bring
about his retirement from the community.
For months Gangland was more quiet than it
had ever been and then, over on the North Side
came rumors of dissention in the
, Moran ranks. Teddy Newberry, rst
T lieutenant of Moran in charge of the
A bourbon brigade, became embroiled in
a squabble over prots. Teddy com-
plained that he wasnt being cut in
according to his deserts, and Bugs
was unable to effect a settlement.
One ne summer day Teddy told
Moran to go to hell, and a few days
later Teddy discovered an attempt
was being made to kill him in his
apartment on Pine Grove on the
North Side. A few days later Benny
Bennett a tough boy just out of New
truce, where again pacts were made
and agreements effected. Exactly
what transpired at this famous meet-Ieeteurent at 3222 loath Webeeh
Avenue, once e eeloon end brothel
Owned. by Alphene Oepone.
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posedly from a spokesman for Bugs
to meet him at a certain place, and.
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heard from since the tele-
phone rang. On November 17,
the body of Johnny Billiken"
Rito, a Newberry bourbon
hustler, who had formerly
worked for the Gennas, was
found oating down the Chi-
cago river. The manner in
which Billil-cen had been dis-
posed of was unusually horri-
ble, for he had been thor-
oughly chopped up and the
pieces bound together with
hay-wire. The disappearance
of Bennett together with the
later absence of another New-
berry aid, Harry Higgins who
hailed from St. Paul, gave
credence to the grim rumor
that Gangland killers, seeking
to destroy the corpus delicti,
had established a crematory
somewhere on the Near North
Side where business competi-
tors and disgruntled gang-
sters were incinerated into
the ashes of oblivion. Ah, a
new spirit in Gangland! VVhoe
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Wo Itomoth lid P:-ankle Iaclrlano ma!
have bun important eon in Joe Islets bu: ma-
chine but they were bank robbers under the skin-
Iiomotn I-an lulled in Ohlclgo 1.-coon-11 and hur-
rild under nun gnu! to Ialtlmoro. Iaryhnd,
when he was convicted la short ox-do: 0! oom-
piisity in i pay roii rohbiry ma-u"i year: iio.
Ito:-noth is believed. to have slain Johnnie Ding-
llnt" Oberlin ll 0 personal hvor for Iclnsul.victim as was Michael Quirk.
George Druggan, brother of
the famous Terry Druggan
was terribly wounded and he
is at this writing in a hospital
ghting for his life. A few
hours later in Chicago Thomas
Somnerio, Capone leader, was
strangled to death and his
body ung in an alley on the
West Side. One of the mourn-
ers for Mr. Somnerio was a
Gangland Queen, Margaret
Mary Collins, who had been
the sweetie for ve other
gangsters, all departed. Some-
body put Somnerio on the
spot, and it was said that a
woman had done it. More hor-
ror was produced by Gangland
four days later when a river
tug churned up the hay-wired
body of Eugene "Red" Mc-
Laughlin. Aloysius Kearney,
hard-boiled gangster doing a
specialty business in labor
racketeering, became the cause
of another murder mystery
when his bullet-ridden body
said that killers have no imagination? At this
writing New York friends of Benny Bennett are
running around town with long faces uttering re-
wards for word of their missing playmate who
would come out west. Newberry eventually
stepped into the Capone inner circles, taking with
him Signor Frank Citro, he of the motionless
eyes and expressionless face, better lrnown as
Frankie Foster. All we ever got from Bugs
was a reputation," explained Teddy and Frankie.
Well, the war was on again. Moran and the
Aiellos pressed northward into the grea? road-
house and summer resort area in the Northwest
suburbs.
The rst shot in the new war, now going, was
red on May 31, and the victim, Peter Plescia, an
Aiello organizer and collector, fell dead in the
mouth of an alley. On May 31. Phillip Gnolfo,
former Genna killer had been a pail-bearer at
Angelos funeral, was slain in his automobile. A
few hours later on the same day two more Aiello
boys bit the bricks-Samuel Monistero and Joseph
Ferrari. On June 1 came deadly reprisals in the
sensational Fox Lake Massacre. Four men and a
woman, Mrs. Vivian Ponic McGinnis, wife of an
attorney, sat around a table in a roadhouse. Sud-
denly one of the men, turning his head saw a ma-
chine gun pointed towards him. He got up and be-
gan running. The rattle of the machine gun began
and he went down, as did two of his companions.
The woman was seriously wounded. One of the
victims was Sam Pellar, who, you will remember
used to work as a chauffeur and handy man for
Little I-lymie Weiss and was walking across the
street with his boss on the famous day that Little
Hymie fell before machine gun re. Joseph
Bertsche, brother of Barney Bertsche, was another
[W]was discovered on the morning of June 9.
Kearney had been a friend of Red McLaugh-
lin and an unsuccessful effort was made to nd a
connection between the murders. From bills in
his pocket it was disclosed that he was a collector
for the National Garage Owners Association. It
was this association which, a few weeks before,
had inspired criticism from the then Commissioner
of Police, William Russell and Col. Robert Isham
Randolph, president of the Chicago Association
of Commerce, for waging a campaign to have all
automobiles found parked at night without lights
towed into garages. The cost would be $5.00 to
the car owners--a pleasant racket which, strangely
enough, didnt go over. Samuel Malta, president
of the association, questioned by police said:
Ir_n strictly a business man. There is no racket-
eering or hoodlumism connected with my organi-
sation. 1 oiont know Kearney very well. He had
worked for me only for a week. I was paying
him $40 a week to collect bills. Don't give me
any hoodlum talk. Im a business man and dont
go for that." It was becoming warmer and warmer
in C-hicagos loop at this time for those gentlemen
of the gat. Jail sentences instead of the customary
nes were being handed out. As a result of this,
hoodlums hit upon a practice of parking their auto-
matics in cigar stores, speakeasies and other places
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The elimination of Racketeer Aloysius Kearney
on the morning of June 9 was hot stuff and it
sizzled on the front pages of all the newspapers
up until 1 oclock-the hour when Alfred Jake!
Lingle, Big Shot police reporter for the Chicago
Tribune, was assassinated in the midst of a
crowd in a subway station, just off Michigan
Boulevard.
After this Racketeer Aloysius Kearneys de-
mise was relegated to the inside page-s or even
kicked out of the papers altogether. Compared to
the murder of a newspaper reporter, the murder
of a racketeer was absolutely insignicant. Are not
racketeers knocked off every day in Chicago? Now
who had ever heard of a newspaper reporter being
put on the spot?
Well here it was at last. City editors all over
the land looked at the ashes and told themselves
that Gangland had at last stepped over the dead-
line. The underworld at last had tried to intimi-
date the upperworldi What would those cynics
say nowthose cynics who were always coolly
pointing out that gangsters never killed any ex-
cept gangsters? The murder of Reporter JakeLl]'1gl ;5_:kth0l.1ght the city editors, would surely in-HUI-:Q492 inn 1--. -an-.-Ispire uluuagu nun ;
Well, there you are. It seemed obviousas
obvious as a bill-board that debonair Jake Lingle
was murdered for only one reason-that he was a
newspaper reporter full of the low-down. It
seemed to a tearful and sympathetic public that
Jake Lingle was just another ordinary news hound.
A good news hound of course, a rst class one,
but still just an ordinary police reporter-one of
those seedy-looking chaps who plays cards up
in the press room, and comes down to work every
day with the ancient query- Whats doing
chief ?"
And so, with determination in their hearts to
call this terrible threat from Gangland, they
buried Jake Lingle--the martyr. It was a marvel-
ous funera]. It was greater than the deant
funeral the underworld had thrown for amaz-
ing Dion OBanion. It was greater than the laying
away of Little Hymie Weiss or Schemer Drucci
or Mike Genna or Dingbat"Oberta. It was greater
in every way, but it was greater most of all be-
cause it was a funeral on which the church did not
turn thumbs down. In that one respect Gangland
was terribly eclipsed. Jake Lingle, the reporterwas buried by the Church. Gangland could not{unnvn + oi-aaeevau I-eel-eu-
of the "martyred reporter, at 125 North Austin
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for eighteen feare, l:.e.e been described elnee hie neleeelnetlon
on lune 9 in e enbwey just oil lendolph It:-let end Echlgan
Avenue. Lu tnveetttetion now under ere; may determine
whether this einietee charge 1| true or not.
Avenue. One newspaperman who went there to
weep as well as to write said that it was more
betting a eld marshal than a modest newspaper
man. Jake lay in a silver-bronze casket--better
than the caskets in which Frankie Yale and Schemer
urucci had reposed. it was anked by oral crosses
and lighted candles and draped with an American
Flag. Flowers! Flowers! They were everywhere!
Jake would have liked that, for he loved ower
and when he lived always had them in his lapel
and in his rooms. A_ police reporter who loved
owers!
But the most impressive touch of all-a touch
which had never graced the funeral of an under-
world king-was the _]gng,__long procession, oi
policemen whiéh msn~_ch5d___in_jhe__1'ne;§l_T There
Wei<TE'6ps everywhere, everywhere. They rode on
horses, they marched solemnly in line, white-
gioved, swinging their sticks. And behind them
in beautiful symmetry came representatives from
the re department. Behind the re department
came the bands! What racketeer in heaven or in
hell could boast that a band had marched behind
his mortal remains? But Jake had four Great
Lakes Naval bands and three bands from as many
lso had a military escort.posts of the Arneriean Legion. And Jake, the The funeral was held on June 12 from the horw teportel Wh had been murdered by Gangland.
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The terrible truth that the bloody hand of Gang-
land had-struck below the belt this time came
upon those who saw the two beautiful little chil~
dren of Jake Lingle as they tried to play in the
sunshine on the front lawn. Big Shots from the
upperworld came to pay respects to JakeArthur
W. Cutten, the stock broker who could lost-?"'l5
r'nillio'1i "in a day, and m__E .___Carl_s_t,i:om, the
attorney general. and Sam51gl___49..__E£t§>_l_S_on, the
corporation counsel, wh6"92'92?as said to be the power
behind the throne in Chicago municipal affairs,
and a small army of the toilers from the staffof the T nyears. 1 iang usselL_comrnissionergijgpolige,
headed the pallbearers. Jimmywlurphy, veteran
repoi-.er, _i-te-:1 his hands to the casket as it was
borne out of the ower-filled room, as did Eddie
Johnson the ace "photog" for the Tribune. The
long funeral cortege formed at Gareld Park and
Central Park Avenue and moved impressively
down Jackson Boulevard to Our Lady of Sorrows
church. Pageantry of ags. Muied drums! Ah!
Let Gangland see this and tremble! The casket
bearing Reporter Jake Lingle was lifted from the
hearse and borne into the church. Attention! Thel detachment of Illinois naval reserves led by Capt.
Edward Evers and Lieutenant Commander Elmer
Carlson stiffened! So did the Legion units, the
Peoples Gas, Commonwealth Edison, Board of
Trade and Medill-Tribune posts, each in brilliant
uniform. The Very Rev. Jerome Mulhorn, a close
friend of this reporter whose friendships were end-
less celebrated the requiem high mass, and when
the services were over the military escort again
formed. Led by the mounted police the escort
marched again down Jackson Boulevard to Gareld
Park to disband. The funeral cortege proceeded
on the Mount Carmel, where the sailorAlas! Alas! The better element this time had
given a racketeer a funeral-and the swellest of
them all! '
It seemed incredible and yet the facts elo-
quently told that it was true. In less than three
years the sixty-ve-dollar reporte_ra B§llB1'y_c0m-
mnsurate with ms aEiIify,_1-lie newsP{1Il91_§qid_-_:
HR deposited to h__is_ personal gco -
fnafely $30,000. An appalled and fascinated public
ecause it was felt that now the
mystery of Gangland was about to be dispelled-
saw, under those headlines, the amazing story
of the murdered reporter's frenzied stock market
speculations-hov5 in 1929. lg Lmd run ups paperprot of i8§,Q00. '1-Iis stoQt market ,igh_ts_wm|
" 1§??iend,_the page co1gmissioner,_V_Yill_ia_rr1 jj,_ll._uss§lll . . ._The_diamond heft-_a gift, frorn,_,Al
Capone. Could it be fen
o t e i Fell w? Well well well! Now there . _g:___9 . , , _ _.
was the time during the McSwiggm case when
they had the Big Boy in custody over there in
'the state's attorney's oice, and the Big Boy would
take no food-except what Jake Lingle went out
and got for him. Of course he was a friend of
Capone.
A great moral outcry! Imagine a newspaper
man, working for a nominal salary, on assignments
necessitating association day after day, week after
week, year after year, with men whose pockets
were stuffed with money, who could betray his
newspaper, who could fall before temptation. Oh,
well, the moralists have it! '
As an aftermath of this discovery that
lads, standing at the grave of Jake
Lingle, the reporter, red a salute. A
naval bugler sounded taps, and that
was the burial of Jake Lingle-re-
porter.
Reporter? Yes, indeed a reporter,
but what else? The clods of freshly
turned earth on Jake Ling-ies grave
had scarcely dried and crumbled to
dust when Jake Lingle, the reporter,
scrutinized on page one, began to turn
into Jake Lingle, racketeer. Tragically
enough, it became increasingly appar-
ent that suave Jake Lingle, for eigh-
teen years a reporter in the shadowy
realm of Gangland, had himself been
92t_ouched by the shadows.
That martyr funeral had been
held too soon-three days too soon.av-
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cia] affairs 0 t e sixty ve Q01] a IAII I-IIGI-I IUIED WITH III-HA3! IOIOII. u funeral 0! _ _ _. . K §-L
'week pblice re orter were spread opt
nder the Big headlines_thatigke
Lingle'sfurieral'h¬l6nged to Gangland."Inks" Idngls, Uhiosgo lrrlbnns reports:-. slats by Gangsters, was one at
ls most lsnprssslvo ova: hold in Chicago. Ono nowsjlnpsr described it ll
betting s Hold Isrshsl. I-lsgla was hurled a martyr. lines tho fll-llltll
an lnsssgstlon has sclossa that hp Iss mlrdorod, not bseaus In
wsssrsportI=,bnttnsplhollt.
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ake Lingle racketeer, and,
borrow a phrase, the un-
official chief of police of Chi- s--_
cago," the Commissioner of
Police, William Russell re-Lgfped his job. SQ did DeputyJ mmissioner of e eci esaolin Ste e Elie Brave an
dauntless fellow who had
slapped Louie State and Mad-
ison Street! Alterie in the
face. The righteous demanded
that they resign. A new com-
missioner, Captain John Al-
cock was appointed. Mayor
Thompson told him to run the
crooks and the gangsters out
of town, and he began by
raising hell with the police de- '
partment. Another shakeup. His subordinate
Deputy Commissioner Norton, ably assisted.
States Attorney John A. Swanson commissionedlist Roche famous federal investigator, to solvet Tfi-rT§Te murci'er. . i e
The investigation looked good in its early
stages but later developments indicated rather
plainly that some of the many resolutions which
many organizations had passed concerning Jake's
high moral character were rather premature.
It was found that the snub-nosed .38, with
which the racketeering reporter had been assassi-
nated, had been purchased months before by our
old acquaintances, PH-ankie Foster and Teddy New-
berry, the disgruntled Moran henchmen who hadgeuerted to enlist under the banner of the Big
ow.
Foster was apprehended in Ms Angeles,
whither he had ed two days after the murderwith a Baive extrlilanation This town? tcéo hot forme." uring e investigation ac uta, the
Moran lieutenant, was taken into custody and
questioned at the detective bureau. When his in-
quisitors were done with him, he strolled up to
Lieutenant George Barker, who had arrested him,
and said, They'll kill me before I can get toMadliso Street. You brought me here, now take
me ac . Alphonoo Capone. the ll; follow 01' Olufland,
taking It our In Ilorma when In has a oat
unto.F .
Oh, I'll take you as far as
Madison," said Barker, and
they started-Zuta in the rear
seat accompanied by Sollym»~.__b_ Vision, with Albert Bratz infa the front seat.
c Zuta had good grounds for
his fears. Bullets soon started
to y about brilliantly lighted
State Street, a street-car mo-
torman was killed, an innocent
bystander wounded, but Mr.
Zuta slipped away unhurt, as
did the attacking automobile
with the aid of a smoke screen.
Jack Zuta was, however,
living on borrowed time,and on
August 1st he was shot to death
where he had been hiding since the State Street
episode at a resort hotel on upper Nemahbin lake,
near Waukesha. His lieutenant, Solly Vision, has
not been seen or heard from, and it is rumored
that he also has been slain. Papers taken from
Zutas clothing indicated that boozedoms prots
are still good as indicated on a balance sheet of
July 23, 1936, which showed a prot of $35,225.06.
Albert Bratz, in whose home Zuta had been hiding
and whose automobile Zuta had been using, has
also disappeared. Zuta's connection with the
Lingle slaying is still a mystery as far as the public
is concerned. Chicago police intimate that Zutas
death might have been due to the Capone gangs
intention of taking control of the north side booze
territory of the Moran gang and some signicance
was attached to the recent return of Alphonse
Capone to Chicago. "
"Who Killed Jake Lingle and Why? is as
take its place up there with the other Big Question,
"Who Killed McSwiggin and Why? If big a mystery as ever. Maybe it will eventually
ERRATUM: Since the printing of the Chapter on
McSwiggin, the authors have learned that Harry Madigan,
former owner of the saloon in front of which William
Mcswiggin was killed, has been incorrectly quoted on page
28 regarding his relations with Al Capone.
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We now come to the last days of Johnny Torrio, the
Big Boy who wasn't quite big enough. His song and dance
are just about over, and we shall see him presently as hebounces out of his own show, leaving the spotlight entirely
to Al Capone who is plenty big, and growing bigger.
After paying his respects to the memory of Dion
O'Banion by slinking after midnight into the North Side
funeral parlor where the body lay awaiting burial on the
morrow, Johnny returned to his bungalow on the South
Side with a feeling of uneasiness as to the success of his
plans for bringing peace and quiet to gun-shot Gangland.
The grieving survivors who had sat around the room in
which O'Banion's coffin stood heavily banked with owers
seemed deliberately to ignore him as he had stepped fur-
tively into the l'00rn. Maybe they resented the fact that
Casey and another body guard of swarthy-complexion
were with him. At any rate Johnny, awkward and un-
comfortable, had mumbled some asininity to the effect that
it was tough that Deany had to go, and then had bowed
out. Johnny knew his visit had been a complete op.
He had kidded no one, not even the pompous politicians
whom he had met there and who had seemed as uncomfort-
able as he, although for entirely different reasons. His
own oral offering, a modest wreath which read simply
From Johnny" had been booted out into the
alley, and Al Capone's gaudy tribute too had
been kicked to pieces. The spies had rushed
to him with this information. Not a single
word had been exchanged between him and
those chief mourners. But there had been a
reply, louder than words. It glittered from the
eyes of Little Hymie" Weiss, and Louie Al-
terie and "Bugs" Moran, and Vincent Drucci,
and Leo Mongoven, and Frankie Foster and
all the rest of that surly mob. What it said
to Torrios presence at O'Banions wake was
this: OH, YEAH?
The ancient cynicism that every man has his
price had been cherished and worked for all
it was worth by Johnny Torrio during his long
and successful career as an underworld leader.
But keen as was his understanding of human
nature, until right now he had never understood
so poignantly that alliances formed by DionO'Banion had been built on something stronger
than a bankroll. It was
f!lBl'l l5l'1lp, loyalty and affec-
tion. In his ability to inspire
affection from his thugs and
murderersOBanion had never
been equalled by any leader
in Gangland, although Capone
himself was later to sur-
round himself with a group of
loyal and devoted henchmen.
The murder of O'Banion
had struck deeper than Torrio
had expected, for now the
heart of every follower of the
amazing Irishman burned
with a consuming re of re-
venge, and the result of it
was the spectacular elimina-
tion of the Gennas and the
precipitate ight of Torrio
himself to the safety of a
jail cell.mm ldttto I;-nah" Wotan, luoooooor to Dion 0'Il:n.l.on,
In the don when he woo a more bank robber and tough
guy. "Little Iymlo" poooonod a bl-ow-tot-on personality
no you ought to be able to loo from this pllotolraph.
I'll H11 you for tn.l.o." was only pu-1 or what he all
when this pl-oturo in-I Doing made.And now we come to the little blow-torch who steppedu to leadership in the North Side gang. At the grave ittle Hymie" Weiss had wept and vowed revenge, and
had said that there would be no leader. We'll just carry
on as one gang," he had said. Of course this was apple-
sauce. Every 0'Banion successor knew that Little Hymie"
was something of an extraordinary fellow, brainy andwith "guts" and that whatever he might any would go.
Well, Little Hymie" lost no time in getting intoaction. A few hours after the funeral he inaugurated therst of what was to be a long series of genitive e13>edi-tion into the preserves of Torrio and apone an thedoomed Gonna brothers. To the end of his days he alwaysreferred contemptuously to them as grease be ls, a. phrasehe persisted in using even when iscussing them with
0Banion. It was Weiss who was the neculi of revolt in
the rst place, for he nourished a deadly hatred for the
Italians which he could ill-conceal, Legend has it that
he ordered an expedition of vengeance into Capone-land
immediately on his return from the cemetery and before
the tears had vanished from his eyes. The tale is Probably
apocryphal, but Little Hymie" was capable of impulsiveaction. It was his ability to get things done in a hurry,
that enabled him to swell the prots of his gang until
they were all enormously wealthy. In many respects thissardonic Pole was Ganglands most amazing personalityand, had he lived he would surely have become the BigFellow. Weiss was a man of tremendous courage despitehis slight stature. He was capable of unbelievable rages,and long periods of moody silence. From the oral shop,
above which he had elaborate offices, he could stand on the
spot where 0'Banion had fallen, and, looking through the
huge plate-glass window, see the beautiful facade ofHoly Name Cathedral and the famous corner-stone whichma 1
At the some of Jun: every hue should
Bead in heaven and on earlb.
For long periods he would gaze moodily at it and then,
turning suddenly on his heel shout a
blasphemous order which would sendhis henchmen scainpering into action. Little Hymie" who ha a premoni-
tion of an early death, once said that
although he didn't expect to live
long, he did expect to live long
enough. His premonition was a good
one, for he was to live but twenty-
two months and fteen days, count-
ing from O'Banions death.
For more than forty days Little
Hymie" failed to nd an opportunity
to take a shot at either Signor Ca-
pone or Torrio, although he land
his men toured their territory almost
constantly. And they toured in the
nest automobiles that money could
buy, and every automobile was
equipped like an arsenal. On January
12 spies in the Capone terri-
tory whispered to Little
Hymie" that the grease-ball" was pruning himself in
front of his hote , the Haw-
thorne Arms. Eleven power-
ful limousines and touring
cars glided by the hotel, and
from every one of them came
a volley of gunre. But no
one was injured, except an
old lady who was passing and
a small boy, neither seriously.
lt is said that Al sent $5,000
in bills to the old lady. Every
building in the block, how-
ever, was sprinkled with lead
and neitherTorrio nor Capone
had to scratch their heads
to think who mi ht havemade the attack. Ifymie had
failed, but he still had about
19 months more to live. He f.
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got busier than ever, and on January 24, 1925, just twelvedays later, he and George Bugs Moran who were cruisingon the South Side, spotted Johnny Torrio and Mrs. Torrio,his Irish wife, driving down the Boul Mich in their limou-sine with a chauffeur at the wheel. This was sweet! Georgeand I-Iymie, instructed their chaueur, Nigger 'Pellar,not a Negro, to make for the grease-ball. The automobiledarted crazily in and out of traic in an effort to get intoa position to let him have it" but -Johnny, who hadbecome cognizant of their presence, was trying to escape.He kept well in front until his automobile nally drew upin front of his little bungalow at 7011 Clyde Avenue, a fewblocks from Chicagos aristocratic South ShoreCountryClub.Johnny jumped from the car, literally dragging his wifeout after him. But the savage gangsters were upon himbefore he had taken a dozen steps. A dozen shots or morewere red. George Moran, afraid he might miss, had placedhimself on the running board, and, as the car slowed downhe leapt out and, with a gun in each hand, poured leadat the underworld lord. Torrio fell to the cement walk.People were beginning to appear on front porches, headswere sticking out of the windows of apartment buildings.The killers, believing that Torrio was dead, made awayat top speed, taking a corner on two wheels.But Little Johnny Torrio was not dead. Ashis hysterical wife bent over his prostrate body, 2,
When one came Johnny again brought himselfto consciousness long enough to whisper that Ithe wounds be cauterized. Little Johnny thought _,he opened his eyes and moaned for a doctor. 5 r.
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92*92of everything. Half-dead and in agony he could Hremember that the halls of lead which burnedin his body might have been rubbed with garlic 5and that, though the bullets themselves might I
would. Cauterize it! Cauterize it! he moaned _,'lThe newspapers blazed with thestory of the attempted assassination.The police came to Johnny's bedsidewith questions and so did representa-tives from the oice of the '§tIatesattorney. Who did it, theyasked, wasting good breath, forJohnny, coward though he was atheart, would not violate law No. 1in Ganglands code, namely that youmust never squawk to a policeman.But they persisted with the question-ing. Don't you know who they were, asked John Sbarbaro, an assistantstate's attorney. Oh, hell, repliedJohnny in exasperation, Of course Iknow. Ill tell you later." But he neverdid. Neither could Attorney Sbarbaro
pry any information from Ca one norfrom Mrs. Torrio. Why should I tell, replied Mrs. Torrio It wouldnt do
any good." Mrs. Torrio knew her Chi-cago. The amiable Al who stood outin the corridor of the hospital room
parrying questions with reportersfound it more diicult to repress him-self, and once, his emotions bubbledover. The gang did it, the gang didit," cried Al impulsively and then,as if to kick himself, snapped hismouth shut. When reporters pressedhim after this, he too said Ill tellyou later." And he did, but in a curi-
ous way as we shall see.
A small boy who had witnessed theshooting of Torrio was shown a picture, taken at thefuneral of 0'Banion, and he pointed out George Bugs Moran as one of the assassins. George, along with othergangsters, was gathered in and again identied by the boywho picked lum out from a group of men. EventuallyMoran was released on $5,000 bonds small change toGangland! and nothing came of the case. Little Hymie had failed to get the grease-ball buthis attempt had not been in vain. Though he had notkilled Torrio, he had killed Torrios career. What's morehe had caused the comcililexion of Signor Torrio to turnazdenite yellow. He ha had enough, quite enough. Whenhis wounds had healed, Torrio left the hospital by a sideentrance. A vast body uard engulfed him. Torrio hadthought of a way by which he could keep clear of anymore attacks from "Little Hymie" Weiss. Torrio thoughtof everything. This time he thought it would be ne if hecould go to jail and let the law rotect him. You willremember that Little Johnny and lJBanion were arrestedtogether one cold morning in front of the Sieben brewery!Well, there was a Federal rap awaiting Johnny on that,and he had decided that it would be useless and wonderfulnot to contest it further. Indeed, he induced the authoritiesto let him begin serving his year's sentence on February7, instead of February 27, the date set by the- government originally. And so Little Johnnycrept into a jail cell and he selected a jail asfar away from Chicago as possible. It was inWaukegan, Illinois. The doors of his cell slamshut and we shall see him no more.
, Johnny Torrio, the boy who had been knownon the old east side of New York as "Terrible
Johnny" was terrible no longer. He had had
- the Waukegan ccll? He asked and received annot kill him. the poison from lead and slrliv i i l enough. What kind of a life did Johnny lead ina-. -everytime he could bring himself up to the -marginal of consciousness, and, all the way inthe ambulance to the Jackson Park Hospital, the__ "inside" room, and he contrived to lay himselfII .dow"n at night in such a position as to make himinaccessible to the naked eye and the garlic attendants heard this order again mi again .' I I bullet from the outside!. At the end of his sen- And, as they took him in the hospital on thestretcher, Little Johnny had another bright idea, . . __ _ '
- i 0' 1' rite'='r§'i5.~?..a.',- Jim.-a prosperous
business.roving again that he could think of everything.The idea this time was that he be placed in aroom away from a window, and far removedfrom a re esca . Later he insisted that hisown body guard Q increased. And it was.
[20]T tence, ten months later, he dropped completely
out of sight and nothing has been heard inChicago of him since. One rumor has it thathe is somewhere in New Jersey, another that heis in Italy. Our guess is that he is in Italy.It is farther away from Chicago's Gangland.
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Let us now regsle ourselves with a performance ofChicago's most famous municipal comic ogera, otherwise
known as the Cook County jail sentence of erry Druggan
and Frankie Lake. It will be remembered that Terry and
Frankie had been assigned to the custody for one year of
Sheri Peter B. Hoffman by Federal Judge James Wilker-
son. Well, they have, at this time, been serving that
sentence for several months.
How are the merry alchemists who made a million
dollars or more over there in the old Valley District bearing
up under this aliction? Are they languishing in cells,
wondering if the long dull hours will ever pass! Are
they trying to endure the terrible monotony of existence
by scrubbing the long marble corridors and ofces of this
municipal institution?
Dont be silly! Terry and Frankie have been granted
special privileges by Sheri Hoffman and his warden, Mr.
Wesley Westbrook. It is true that they must undergo the
nuisance of answering roll call every morning, but from
then on their time is their own and they may come and
go as often as they please. Everything was plenty dandy
for these princely inseparables until Mr. Druggan, who
always had a hasty temper anyway, made one of the
gravest errors in his career. Mr. Druggan smacked a
newspaper reporter on the nose for making a wise-crack
about these privileges, and the newspaper reporter hit
him right back with a newspaper article which precipitated
a great big investigation in which Sheriff Peter B. Hoff-
man was probed and pryed, and pryed and probed and the
prying and probing was done by none other than Federal
Judge James Wilkerson.
When Chicago was rst informed of these special
privileges, Sheriff Peter B. Homan went out and bought
himself a false-face of indignation and surprise. And then,
publicly and on page one, he red Mr. Westbrook, his
old friend and warden. So grieved was Mr. Westbrook that,
in Judge Wilkersons courtroom, he broke down and told
all, which was plenty. The theme song of his testimony
was a waltz to the effect that the sheri is to blame."
According to Mr. Westbrook the Sheriff was greatly
exercised over the fact that poor Terry and Frankie had
to serve a jail sentence at all and he set out, therefore,
to make it as easy as possible for them. Special passes
at rst were issued to friends of the two liquor lords and
the jail was an open house to them most of the time. The
ex-warden said that Sheri Hoffman sent word to him that
Terry was to be permitted to transact his business while
in jail. Other prisoners were not permitted to transact
business of course, but, according to the Sheriff, Terry was
a ne fellow and lots of men worse than he were running
loose around town.
How did you do it?" asked attorneys when Terry
and Frankie were put on the stand. "It was easy, testi-
ed Frankie, we paid for it and we paid lenty." WhenFrankie said this Judge Wilkerson ordered! the arrest of
Mr. Westbrook, Hans Thompson, former jail guard who
also had been red, and Henry Foerst, who was secretary
to the Warden. It was to these officials, said Frankie, that
much money was paid and often.
Thomcpson, sitting in the courtroom at the time, readily
conrme Frankie's story. "Everybody else got his and
I got mine." he said naively. Frankie went on in greater
detail. He said that he and Druggan paid $2,000 a month
[I1for quarters in the jan hospital which are more desirable
uarters than the ordinary cell. The beer barons placed?1,000 in an envelope on the 16th and the last days of
each month and left the envelope in a certain room. Then
they walked out.
Once I peeked, testied Frankie, and I saw Warden
Westbrook come in and help himself to the dough." Frankie
said that each and every privilege cost them plenty. He
said that he paid $100 for permission to attend the funeral
of his sister; that it cost him $1,000 to get out of jailfor 4:-dood behavior" several months before his sentenceexp; , .
Terry and Frankie insisted that neither of them had
ever paid any money personally to Sheriff Hoffman, but
their gallant gesture didn't mean a thing. Judge Wilkerson
regarded the hospitality of Sheriif Hoffman as being in
compternpt of court and in a crisp way of his he consigned
Sheriff Hoffman to a jail cell for thirty days-without
privileges. _
The sentence seemed a light one, but it was a sentence
of_ death_ to Mr. Hoffman as a politician. He entered the
jail cell in due time and he has not been heard of around
this town since.
Messrs. Druggan and Lake on the other hand sallied
forth from the courtroom to freedom and -increased riches.
Although the production of beer on a. vast scale as had
been practiced in the old days had become an uncertain and
perilous business, they had already made enough money to
enable them to live in luxury. But, once a racketeer always
a racketeer, and Terry and Frankie were presently trying
to nd outlet for their vast talents in the gambling racket.
Terry who had acquired himself a beautiful estate in the
North Suburbs amused himself with a stable of horses. In
June, 1927, betting in Illinois was virtually legalized in a
statute approving the pari-mutual. In July Mr. Druggan
attracted some attention to himself by rushing into court
seeking injunctions against several race tracks.
Terry charged a conspiracy to monopolize racing in
violation of the Interstate Commerce Law in the shipping
of race horses, but by the time the petition came up for
argument the racing season was over and the matter wasdropped. Terrys move was one of the many} incidents
which presaged the great gambling war, of whic you shall
presently hear. Except for this mad rush for the protec-
tion of the law--s pronounced characteristic of the true
gangsterMr. Druggan and Mr. Lake were comparatively
quiet after their sensational appearance as comic opera
stars.
The business of manufacturing beer had pretty well
petered out. But Terry and Frankie should worry! As we
have seen they had jumped into the business at the begin-
ning. By the time the heat_" from the law was settling over
the town, these princely inseparables had made enough
money to cause the government to attack them from another
angle. Consequently, they are now worrying about the
income tax men, and are now facing trial for income tax
violations. Terry and Frankie will go down 1n the records
as the Damon and Pythias of Gangland but at this writing,
alas, alas, trouble had come between them, and they areso mad at each other that they do not speak on the street.
A red-headed mama, it is said, ad brought the inseparables
to a parting of the ways.
This was revealed recently when Captain William F.
Waugh asked leave of Federal Judge Wilkerson to with-
draw as counsel for Frankie Lake in the income tax
troubles. The Judge appeared surprised.
Oh, they're not the good friends they used to be,
explained Captain Waugh. -
Frankie pulled what Terry regarded as an unforgivable
oifenae to t eir long friendship when he was arrested at
a tea dance in company with the aforementioned red-headed
mama. Frankie carried the customary gat.
If you haven't got any more sense than to put yourself
in the coppers' way, inviting arrest and causing all of this
bum publicity for both of us, we're all through. You might
just as well get a soap box and dare the cops to pick you up.
Lake is now in Detroit, doing well in the ice business.1 l 92
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"Little Hyniie Weiss had got oif to a ying start byeliminating Johnny Torrio and he still had a out nineteen
months left in which to besmear the town with blood, before
the Big Fellow" Alphonse Capone, was to blast h.im into
eternity. Capone, however, who could always appreciatea good man had come to admire ferocious Little Hymie
despite all the nasty things he had said and done; and,
as one of his rst royal acts, offered pardon to Weiss
if he would promise to behave himself and return to the
fold. While Little Hymie was considering the BigFellow's proposals, the Big Fellow was having a toughtime of it right in his own home precincts.
A courageous editor of a Cicero newspaper had under-
taken the ambitious project of relieving his town of the
presence of King Capone and his numerous business activ-ities. He used pitiless publicity which, true enough, is aswell weapon. The editor, Mr. Arthur St. John, made one
grave error however. He neglected to acquire the servicesof a few platoons of infantry. For some time his paper
appeared regularly with ne attacks upon King Caponeurging the good people of Cicero to get behind the cam-paign and push. Mr. St. Johns immediate rewards wererather terrible. One ne afternoon early in March, sometough gentlemen who had warned him repeatedly to keephis mouth shut, picked him up and went oft with him.When he returned to his friends a few days later, they
could hardly believe he was the same man, for Mr. St.John had been severely beaten in all visible places. This
treatment inspired another throaty yell from Mr. RobertE. Crows, but why go into it? He ordered that King
Capone be baled before him forthwith which was dune.The king came down to the Criminal Courts Buildingin the style that betted 1118 exalted position. He appeare
in a new automobile, the like of
which had never been seen before
on the streets and_boulevard-5 Of
the fourth metropolis of the world.
It weighed about seven tons. f? 1'
tons more than your automobile,
its windows were tted with bullet-
proof glass, and it was plastered .
with large sheets of armor-plate. -
Mr. Capone still uses this_ dis-guised tank whenever he is inChicago. To those of us who did |
not know at this time that King =
Capone was offering peace to
Hymie Weiss, the big automobile
was taken as overt proof that Ca-
pone intended to stay on- his
throne and to hell with those who
didnt like it.
King Capone's call on _the
state's attorney came to nothing. ~
So did his overtures for peace. _
The peace proposal had been made
at a banquet held in a famous
restaurant just oil Wacker Drive
which still operates under the
same Italian name. It was pro-
posed that Gangland should be
divided in half with Madison
Street the dividing line. For a 4
couple of months "Little Hymie" '
who had certain denite misgiv--Si
Eh" Going tolghllt of u ,1 l l .
haved himself and
strictly observed the
terms of the pact.He was hbutiy any-way, wit e -ernment who hag:-
sisted on his stand-
ing trial in the Fed-
eral building on a
booze charge. With
him on the same
charge was Dapper
Dan McCarthy, a
member of his gang.
During the process
of this tri_al Little
Hymie" discovered
that the peace ban-
quet had been merely
an attempt to throw
him o his guard
and the discovery
brings us to ac-
quaintanceship with
two of the most sin-
ister gures who
have ever skidded
across blood-streaked Gangland. Signor John Scalice andSignor Anselmi. Killers de luxe, these men hadbeen summoned from far oil Sicily by Mike and Angelo
Genna shortly before the death of OBanion. How long
they had been in town is not certain, but "Little Hymie
discovered them one day during the progress of his trial
up there in the Federal building. A member of Little
Hymie's gang-they were all in the courtroom-
noticed a stool pigeon for the Capone gang in earnest
conversation with two strangers-Scalice and Anselini.
The stool pigeon was ngering every North Side
gangster in the courtroom. Why did these two strange
Italians appear so interested in learning the iden-
tities of the Weiss henchmen? The observant North Side
gangster hurriedly dispatched another one of his com-
panions down stairs and outside to determine whether or
not any of the Capone boys were about. Sure enough,outside the gangster came upon Als big armor-plated
Lincoln parked around the corner on Adams Street. He
examined the car quickly and found that it was well-stocked with sawed-o shot-guns and other artillery. In a
few minutes Scalice and Anselmi,
together with a chauffeur who had
sprung up from somewhere, gotin Al's car and drove away.
All this meant but one thing
to Little Hymie --war. He soon
determined that Scalice and An-
selrni spent a great deal of their
time in Cicero, although they ap-
peared to be body guards for
Mike and Angelo Genna. LittleHymie" resumed his expeditionsinto the Genna territory; e began
absorbing speakeasies which be-
longed to the arrogant brothers.
For several weeks Gangland was
comparatively quiet, except for an
unimportant and mysterious ride
murder here and there. The South
Side ODonnells were still battling
Messrs. Saltis and Macliiarlane on
occasions and there was much
muscling and double-crossin inevery quarter. Spike 0gon-
nell's greatest personal blow came
on April 1'? when his foolhardy
brother, Walter, was mortally
wounded during an attem t toterrorize and hold-up a !08dgl0l.lSE
in the Saltis country. Walter died
on May 9.
Every police olcial in Chicagoangels Gonna, youngest of the Gon-
nu. and the li.-at to be nu-an:-on by
u Iorth lids tanrltorl.
nnaowiilanlaings as to the sincerity of King
Capone: peaceful impulses, be-' ll-o
saying a saouthral. Ill loot act in
to kick an ambulance attendant in
Ill]thllllloibi
shotloo.as well as those in the know
looked forward to an unprece-
it it
'
dented display ofreworks rom
Gangland any day.
It came on May 26.
Angelo Genna, out-
standing of the six
Genna brothers, was
the rst to e.
Angelo who had
built up an "allay"
business on the
West Side in Little
Italy, enjoyed pro-
tection from the
police, particularly
from the police of
the Maxwell Sta-
tion in his district.
He had once staged
a great party in a
loop hotel attended
by State's Attorney' Robert E. Crowe
l.IJ.$lLOII-Y Gonna. es. "tin." tor the and four of his de-
Gonna brothers. tectives. Other pub-
lic oicials had at-
tended, including a
judge of the superior court. Crowe made the principal
address to the sleek Italian gangsters, many of whom are
now dead. Sticky with wealth, and power the Gennas were
a ghastly mob at the time OBanion and his boys began
to push them around, and they strengthened their ties
with Capone as well as smuggling a number of their
countrymen into Chicago purely for killing purposes. An-gelo had married a daughter of a prominent Italian and,
foolishly enough, had established her in a beautiful apart-
ment far up north on Sheridan road. Angelo was
driving from this apartment westward over Ogden Avenue
in his long powerful sport model automobile on May
26 when an automobile containing four men darted along
side his machine and deposited a dozen or more slugs
into his body, killing him instantly. Angelo was given a
great funeral, greater even than OBanion had been given.
More owers, more politicians, costlier casket. It may
have been that the remaining Gennas wanted to impress
Little Hymie. If so, the gesture was futile.
Little Hymie continued his forays into the Genna
country around Taylor Street, determined to wipe out the
entire mob. Illustrative of his courage and recklessness a
police squad came upon him and George Bugs Moran
one evening as they strolled nonchalantly down Taylor
street. What are you birds doin' here?" asked one of
the friendly officers; dont you think its pretty hot over
here for you?" A volley of oaths greeted the query.
Hell no, declared Moran, I wish one of these wops
would show himself. I'm nuts to blow oil some grease-
balls head.
Well, the next Genna to die
was Mike, most ferocious of
them all which is saying a lot.
He departed this life on June
13, 1925, just eighteen days
after Angelo became defunct.
Along with the two masters of
murder, Scalice and Anselmi,
Mike was touring about his
domain looking for Little
Hymie and Moran who were
reported in the neighborhood.
Somewhere, the spot has never
been marked, there was an en-
counter in which, apparently,
the North Side men got the
worst of it. At an rate Mikeautomobile. But the ..ost ferocious of all the Gennasraced on at crazy speed. The gavements were wet and
slippery for there had been a nu den downpour early that
morning. As their automobile shot down _Western Avenue
at Forty-Seventh Street, Mike was recognized by DetectiveMichael J. Conway, who, with two other o'lcers,_sat in a
parked automobile. They pursued the automobile, with
gong sounding and horn roaring. At 59th Street, = truck
turned directly into the path of the on-coming Genna
automobile, now going faster than ever, and there was a
terric screeching of brakes as Mike attempted to avert
a collision and death. His automobile swerved around like
a top and then skidded into I. concrete lamp post, com-pletely wrecking the machine. At this moment the police
drew up. What's the bi idea, demanded Oicer lson,leaping out of the automobile, didn't you hear our gon '2"For answer there was a roar from the revolver of Scagice
and Anselmi, and the top of Officer 0lsons head was blown
oil, and an aged mother who was deaf and four young
brothers were left to mourn him.
Almost before
the officers could '
draw their revolv-
ere there was a
second blast and
Oicer Walsh died;
a third blast and
Officer Conway,
terribly wounded,
fell to the pave-
ment. Scalice and
Anselmi began to
run down the street
which by this time
was lled with bor-
ror-stricken people.
Mike Genna ed
in a different di-
rection across a va-
cant lot.
Olcer Sweeny
selected the Genna
to pursue, and
across the lot he
went, ring his re-
v°l"*9T W91? few Iota Gonna, one of the two living
paces. Sweeny wasgaininéeon the sav-
age nna whenGonna In-other-n. Io Isn't in Ohioalo
however, for ho was chased out of
town by "I-ittio Iymlo" -Wdoo.
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and his murderers sped on at
a terric pace, thinking that
they were being pursued when,
as a matter of fact, Hymie and
"Bugs" retired to their own
preserves, possibly with a
wounded henchmen in their. r . . __'_
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hoot arena |-suntan have boon put on the spot at
u: oonor.
Illlsuddenly Mike
turned in his tracks, took careful aim and pulled the
trigger. Fortunately for Sweeny the cartridge did not
explode, and Mike turned to resume his ight. Sweeny now
stopped and took aim, and a bullet tore into Gennas leg,
severing an artery. Genna, bleeding to death, continued to
run, leaving a trail of blood behind him. He jumped over
a fence and rushed for the doorway of a basement into
which he disappeared. In the meantime unexpected help
had come in the person of
Oicer Rickett who had been
"sssing on a street car andhad seen the running battle.
Both officers dashed into the
basement. Mike lay in the
darkness of a corner. More
dead than alive he raised his
weapon, pointed it at the men
and again pulled the trigger.
There was an explosion this
time but the man was dying
and his aim had been unsteady
and the bullet went wild.
Death had Mike Genna in his
cold grip by the time two aza-
bulance attendants arrived
with a stretcher to bear the
wounded bootlegger o to a
hospital. As they laid gentle
hands on him, Mike again
brought himself to conscious-
ness. With a great and last
e'ort, Mike raised his leg and
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kicked one of the men in the face. Take that you bastard,"
said Mike. And thus died the most ferocious of the Gennas.
Meanwhile Scalice and Anselmi raced on, down streets,
through alleys, beneath elevated railway structures. A
mob followed them and the mob grew in numbers every
block and Scalice and Anselmi knew there was no escape
for them. When they were arrested they had turned into
a clothing store. They oered no resistance as they were
led out oi a building into s squad car. You may be sure
that the reception these terrible men received at the nearest
police station was one that Scalice and Anselmi carried
with them for a long time. Indeed, the only punishment
Scalice and Anselmi really ever received at the hands of
the law was administered during those few hours as guests
of the police.
The deaths of the police officers inamed the public
as none of the crimes of Gangland had ever before inamed
it. What Mr. C1-owe said this time was that Scalice and
Anselmi ought to be taken out and hanged by the neck
without the formality of a trial. As events proved, this
would have been a swell thing, not only for Scalice and
Anselmi but for Mr. Crowe and for the Maxwell Station
police. For during the long and futile trial of Scalice and
Anselmi, an attorney for them was to rise to his feet one
day and, ourishing a little red note-book in his hand,
shout: "I have here, the names of the policemen that Mike
Genna paid every month. Two hundred of them belonged
to the Maxwell Street Station, two squads came from
the central ofllce, and one from the states attorney's olce."
Well, the defendants were acquitted eventually. A detailed
story of the long and laborious legal machinations would
require more pages than are to be found in this book.
It is interesting to note however that all the alky cookers
in the Maxwell Street district rallied to their defense,
feeling, as they did, that their countrymen were being
discriminated against. A vast fund was collected. Strangely
enough the collection of this fund was a great factor in
nally wrecking the Genna rule altogether, for there wasmuch doublecrossing and pocketing of funds and the
alky" cookers nally began to war among themselves.
It was all very ne for Little Hymie" to look upon, and
all very sad for King Capone to look upon.
The burial of Mike Genna was a great spectacle, and
one of the last. The public became bored with it all, and
twenty-ve days later another automobile, equipped with
a police gong Hyrnie Weiss had thus equipped one of
his machines! drew up to Anthony, youngest of the Gennas,
who stood unsuspectingly on the sidewalk, and killed him
neatly and without undue waste of ammunition. The last
rites were performed hurriedly, ominously and without dis-
play. Only a few mourners were there; wild-eyed men and a
dozen or more crying women and children. And Tony was
buried at night.
The Gennas now saw the hand of doom stretching
into their domain. Jim Genna, panic-stricken disappeared.
It is said he returned to Italy. Five years later, as we
shall see, he was again to return and his presence again
drenched Gangland with blood. Only one Genna remained,
who to this day is occasionally caught in the police drag-
net; and is led out at the regular show-ups along with
the pickpockets, bums and unimportant characters to be
laughed at.
Amid all this chaos King Capone was compelled to
pennit the killing of three a1ky" cookers who had thought
the demoralized state of affairs in Gangland would enable
them to get away with some effective and protable double-
crossing. The penalty for this unpsrdonable offense was
rst paid by Tony Campagnia on July 10; ve days later
Sam Lavenuto and James Russo kicked in. Sam was
murdered in the forenoon; James got it after lunch.
. The swift punishment meted out to these insignicant
henchmen brought more terror to the alky cookers and
the beautiful result of it all was that for a long period
lasting until well into the New Year, 1926, the disturbances
in Little Italy were few and unimportant.
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Little Hymie" Weiss was proud of the havoc he had
wrought to the grease-balls. More condent of his
strength now than he had ever been, he devoted himself
to drumming up more business, to tightening his forces
and to adding more and better murderers to his gang.
During this period he enlisted the services of the infamous
Gusenbergs, Pete and Frank, who were to die a few years
later in the Valentine Massacre. Frankie Foster, a dapper
chap was also a new member, as was Terrible Teddy New-
berry, the big bourbon boy. At the same time Little
Hymie spent a great deal of time trying to woo Big Joe
Saltis and his mob away from their loose-connection with
Capone. Little l-Iyrnie" knew such an alliance would be
a mortal blow to Capone, and so he picked out the precise
psychological moment in which to eect so desirable an
alliance. Joe was having a tough time of it out south. Mac-
Earlane was too restless to conne his activities to the
_South Side, and_the O'Donnells continued to make inroads
into their domain.
When Big Joe began turning an attentive ear to the
seductive proposals of Little Hymie the germ of discon-
tent within his gang developed into open revolt. Ralph
Sheldon, tubercular but tough, favored remaining with the
Big Fellow, and a complete break followed ust about thetime Angelo Genna was living his last lays. Sheldon
seceded taking with him such formidable gorillas as John
"Mitters" Foley, Danny Stanton, Big Karl Bates, Hugh
McGovern, William McPadden, Prank De Laurentis, John
Tuccello, Danny _McFall, Ed Lattyak, Hillary Clements,
Benny Butler, Stink Bomb Donovan and others, most of
whom are now dead.
Big Joe now had two tough gangs to battle besides thepossibility of having the Sheldon forces augmented by
Killers from the Big Fellows sta. Frankie lvlacEarlane,
worth a hundred ordinary gangsters, still remained loyal
to his Polish chief however,although Frankie looked upon Big
Joe's association with one John
"l.Jingbat" Oberta with markd
disfavor. He didn't mind the
fact that Pollack Joe liked to
read a book occasionally and
went in for grammatical nice-
ites and never let go by an op-
portunity to correct his choice
and original English. Every-
time Frankie would say some-
thing like to hell with them
bums, they ain't got no guts,"
Joe would hasten with rebuke
Don't saythem bums'Frankie
and don't say ain't got no'."
Frankie could endure this, but
John Dingbat O'Berta whowore spats and played golf and -
talked like a ok, was too
much, and Frankie was sure
that Dingbat was a wrong
guy. It may be that Saltis was
attracted to Dingbat not so
much for the reason that he
was s Pole as that he could
make ne political speeches at
gatherings back-o-the-yards,
and looked like s gentleman
whether he was or not. Except
for the snifing at "Din bat"however, sairs were fairly
well ordered in Joe's camp.
The rst casualty in the
new shake-up along the South*1
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"Gentleman" Joe Ialtis not looking tor "lplko" O'Don-
nell. -roe has 1. wall-trained smile. It loos ltl stat! on
all oocaslons--oven when -loo is exploding cartridges In
the direction of gentlemen he doesn't oars lo mach for.Side beer front was George Big Karl" Bates a Sheldon
man. In addition to taking his life, the Saltis killers also
helped themselves to his sizable bankroll of $2,000. The
next month, Au st, another Sheldon traitor died at thehands of the giltis killers. He was William "Buddy"
Dickman, a close friend of Bates. Buddy's life was particu-
larly desired. He had been close to Big Joe Saltis and he
knew too much to live. Saltis lived in terror that Buddy
would squawk, sooner or later. IAnd so, as you can see, affairs were groing nicely with
Polack Saltis and Frankie MacEarlane. or a few weeksthey took things easy, except for one more unsuccessful
attempt on Spike ODonne l's life. In this affray, staged
in front of the O'Donnell home during the luncheon hour,
the O'Donnell automobile was reduced to the outward aspect
of a battered tin-can. October 4, 1925, a spectacular attack
was made on the Sheldon headquarters in the Ragan Colts
Athletic Club, a notorious spot for a quarter of a century.
Hundreds of bullets were red, but none of the Sheldon
hoodlums were iniured, although a haiigeron Charles lielly,was killed. A few days later indefatigable Joe added
another scalp to his belt, this time it was s old employee,Ed Lattyak, a Sheldon gangster. Durini this Eleasant. pe-riod the alliance between Big Joe and ittle ymie" was
completely effected, and two of Chicago's toughest Poles
now strode, arm in arm, across the realm of Boozedom,
shouting Kosciusko here we come!" To celebrate the _fact,
the Saltis boys, staged a great robbery at the International
Harvester Company's o-ices, and so great was public indig-
nation that the police, armed with search-warrants, set outin the back-o-the-yards district looking for Mr. Saltis.
While they were looking Joe and- Ding at" helped them-
selves to another pot shot at Spil_ie_ O'Donnell on _O_ctober16. Three days later they iathered in one of "Spike's" men,Pasquale Tolizotte and too him for his last ride. A month
later both gangs staged a free-for-all battle on a busy
street and, for the rst time, Joe came out with an O'Don-
nell bullet in one of his broad shoulders and, for almost two
weeks, Joe settled down to inactivity. On December 3
matters continued and the Saltis gang murdered two more
"traitors" just for practice. The life of one of the victims,
Dynamite Joe" Brooks, was rumored to have been de-
manded by the chief Saltis bomber, "Three-Finger" Pete
Kunski out of professional jealousy. _ Three-Finger" Pete
was a rare bird and most elcient in blowing away the
apeakeasys of those who did not use Saltisbeer. it is sad
to relate that Pete himself came to an end in keeping with
his profession. He always carried a tube of nitro-glycerin
in his vest pocket although against orders! and one day
while running away from an-
other fuse, he stumbled and
fell. There was a loud explo-sion and the¥1couldn't nd Peteanywhere. nall! some onediscovered a han two ngers
of which were missing. It was
Three-Finger Pete. However,
the other victim to die with
, Dynamite Joe Brooks was
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pendent operator who bad been
shining up to the Sheldons.
If you think that this is war
you ain't seen nothing yet. The
shooting was yet to begin in
earnest. Joe and Frankie could
not sleep well at night because
of the fact that they knew their
- t hatred, John Mi'|:ters"Finley, was well and healthy.
John Mitters" however was a
deft duck and he was to live
for a long period before their
bullets found him. In the mean-
time a New Year, 1926 had ap-peared on the calendar. Over
in Little Italy Ssmuzzo Ama-
tuna, an ambitious chap wastrying to rally the old Jenna
forces. This, together with thegrafting of the collectors of the
calice and Anselrni fund,
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The once powerful and blood-thirst Genna brotherswere now only a bloody memory in Little italy,but the doom
which had hovered over them had not been dispelled by
successive blast of gunre. It remained, casting its long
and sinister shadows over that accursed domain, in the
persons of John Scalice and Albertilnseln-.i,still in the hands
of the jailers, and still being tossed from one court to
another by adept attorneys who were being paid for every
appearance at a bar of Justice and ready and anxious to
make as many appearances as possible. The alky" cookersover on the West Side were paying and paying and aying.Even honest men over there were contributing to the bot-
tomless fund in order, so the collectors said, that no
ignorant helpless man of Italian blood might be discrimi-
nated against because of his nationality. Ah! What agrisly crew these collectors were. Henry Spingola, a
brother-in-law of the Gennas who kept himsel clean
through a long and honorable legal career despite his
relationship with the Gennss, soon iound out that he was
paying thousands of dollars to blackmailers, extortionists,
bombers and killers, and that he had been unwise in con-
tributing at all. Henry decided that he would play no more
with Orazzio Tropea, known pleasantly as The Scourge,"
or Vito Bascone, or Eddie Baldielli, "The Eagle, or Tony
Finalli. And so Henry Spingola, despite the utmost precau-
tions he took with his life, was placed on the spot, which
is stepping into a coin. His murder on Januray 10, 1926,
focused attention again on troubled Little Italy and two
weeks later, before the police had assembled a plausible
theory, Chicago strap-hangers gasped at front pages smok-
ing with the murders of Augustino and Antonio Moreci,
wealthy and respectable Italians.
All this had been forseen by the Italians of integrity and
wealth on the West Side who understood far better than
the police the methods of their conscienceless countrymen,
and they had taken steps to combat it in their own way.
And this brings us, for the rst time, to a sleek, athletic,
well-mannered little Italian named James Gebsrdi, the son
of an alky cooker who had been murdered long before bySignor Tropes, The Scourge. Young Gehardi, at thattime, spent most of his time around e Maxwell Police
Station where he was plenty
efcient with his sts and
often appeared in the West
Side boxing shows as an
amateur. A few days after
his father had been placed
on the spot young Gebardi
appeared at the station in a
highly emotional state with
a letter, written in Italian
and signed with the dreaded
black-hand. The letter ad-
vised Young Gebardi, whose
popularity with the police
was looked upon with dis-
favor by certain of his
countrymen, w rid the tovm.
of himself, to disappear;
the penalty would be death
if he failed to obey. Lieu-
tenant William Stapleton
advised the terried Gebardi
to _go away for a while. AndGebailrdi went away; adopted -snot er name, an became '- -.-. _,_a professional prize-ghter. a' £*'§ '1 ";w
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But now he was back. He was prosperous. He
drove a ne Cadillac automobile, and he cal ed himself Jack
McGurn. Where had the money for all this 1'ront" come
from? One of the wealthy and inuential Italians was be-
hind Jack now. This individual whom we shall not name
had revealed to Jack the name of his father; slayer, and
Jack quickly agreed to the proposals held out to him.
And so, on February 15, the ion and terrible career ofOrazzio Tmpea came to an end. I-Io fell on the spot where
McGurn's father had died and on the same spot wheresuave Henry_Spingola had come to his unhaspy end. Inquick succession three other collectors died. n February
21, Vito Bascone walked to the spot which had been marked
for his death. On February 23, Eddie Baldielli, known as
The Eagle" met a similar fate, and on March '1, Tony
Finalli was murdered.
Thirteen days later another ambitious Italian: death
that of Samuzzo Samoots" Junatuna, interrupted the elli-
cient reprisals against collectors for the Scaliee-Anselmi
defense fund. Samoots had lived long and had prospered
is an overseer of the allay cookers in the employee of the
G-Erma brothers. He had mourned the old days when his
employers were alive and for several mouths preceding
his death had been busy in a grim eort to rally the sadly
depleted cookers and to again stabilize the alky busi-
ness. Everything was going smoothly when an earlier sin
found him out. Samoots had hi-jacked a truck load of booze
belonging Klondike O'Donnell. The booze, billed as
paint, had, in turn been re-hijacked by two tough youths
who Ioafed around Bootleggers Corner in theValleyDistrict,
and the rage of Samoots knew no bounds. For months he
talked at the top of his voice on all occasions about what
he would do to Wallie Quinlan and Bummy Goldstein,
neither of whom belonged to any certain gang organization.
On March 19, Samoots dropped into his favorite barber
shop where he spent a great deal of time. Samoots was the
Beau Brummel of Little Italy and many amusing tale are
told about his fastidiousness and his sartorial splendor;
he owned more suits of clothing than the King of Spain,
he had a great passion for socks and shirts and often made
a great nuisance of himself by insisting on supervising the
laundering of them. A dozen customers lounged in chairs
while Samoots, lying back in the chair, garrulously in-
structed the barber as to how the shaving should be effected.When the towel was sgread over Samoots' visage two men,Wallie Quinlan and ummy Goldstein, stepped into the
room ans quickly seated themselves near the uoor. Samootsarose presently from the chair, stepped to the hall-tree and
was busily engaged with a gau y tie when, through a
mirror, he saw his enemies. But it was too late, and beforeSamoots could reach for the gun he carried in an especially
created, leather-lined pocket, Bummy and Wallie et lurn
have it. And Samoots, fell dying to the oor with twobullets in his body. He died before he could get the
correct knot in his tie. A few months later, Quin an and
Goldstein were killed.
With the elimination of
Samoots from the scene the
alky cookers lost their best
chance oi a restoration of
the Gennn house,unless Pete
or Jim should return which
seemed extremely probla-
matical especially now. The
last of the vicious horde of
collectors to rho at the
hands of the smartly
dressed killer was Joseph
Nerone, known as Spano the
Cavalier, whose name hadbeen wllistpered by AnthonyGenna ore he died. The
police had been looking for
The Cavalier" ever since
they had overheard that
whisper, but when they
found him he was cold and
dead on a marble slab in
the morgue, and an X
marked the spot where the
new homicide artists had
found him.
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The scene now shifts to the West Side where Klondike
O'Donnell and his horde of homicidal hoodlums, inspired
by their elimination of Eddi Tancl, have been continuing
a sporadic but ruthless warfare against the growing power
of King Capone in Cicero. To the Big Fellow" it is appar-
ent that drastic action must be taken against these enemies
who are now reported to be trying to rob him, not only of
his liquor customers, but of his political protection.
At this time police were confronted with what the news-
papers called the Beauty Shop Mystery. This institution of
beautication at 2208 S. Austin Ave. in Cicero was bathed in
machine-gun re on April 24, 1926, and Miss Pearl Wilson,
the proprietress, could not, for the life of her, explain to the
police why such a thing could have happened. The police
wondered whether or not a new racket had started, say a
beauty shop war, when their attention was attracted to an
automobile which was parked around the corner. On tracing
its license it was learned that it had been registerd by one
John Burns. This was one of the numerous aliases em-
ployed by James Fur Samrnons, and so a hunt for him
was made but without success. It was even rumored that
Fur had been terribly wounded in the machine-gun re
and either dead or in the hands of one of Ganglands physi-
ciansmen who treat wounded gangsters for a price and
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do not notify police. If their patient dies his gotta dia-
poses oi the body. But Fur' could not be loca and
nally the police ceased to look for him and the incidentof the Beauty Shogllliystery was abandoned as insolvable.
During these ys there were rumors that politicalsrotection in Cicero was about to shift from Capone to the
'Donnel] gang, a rumor which was worked for all it was
worth by Klondike in his sales talks to the roadhoulo
owners and dive keepers. To some of them the rumor
took on the aspect of truth when it was reported that
William McSwiggin, ace prosecutor, in the oice of State:
Attorney Robert E. Crowe had been seen frequently in
Cicero in company members of the 0Donneii gang,two of whom, curiously Qlldlll, he had unsuccessfully pm-
secuted for the murder of die Tancl. Other old-timers
in Cicero scoed at this however and pointed to the factthat McSwigfin was rnerelf out in Cicero having a oodtime, some 0 the ODonnel gangsters had been bis class-
mates in high school. Anyway it was strange that a public
ofcial should chum around with the underworld ent ,and it certainly was embarrassing to Al Capone the figsFellow whatever the reason for it miglht be. 'l"he g
people of Chicago who did not know of t ese strange asso-
ciations between hoodlums and prominent public ofciala,were, therefore profoundly shocked when, in the early
street editions, o_ the morning newspapers they read t-Qt
William H. McSwiggin was one of three men killed bymachine-gin bullets in front of the saloon of John Madigan
at 5613 est Roosevelt road. The other two victims, his
companions were James Doherty and John Duffy, the men
he had tried for the murder of Eddie Tancl.
In this murder the public saw a climax to the killings
of Gangland, and the question Who Killed McSwiggin"was on the lips of every strap-hanguer for weeks. Inchgna-
tion and excitement were intense. emands for an answer
to the question peristed and, in the endless columns of
newspaper space devoted to the murder, a vast number of
dilferent theories were advanced and discussed in detail.
' One of the _stories relate_d that as Klondike O'Donnell,his brother, 1vicSwiggin, uoherty, and Duriiy rode into
Cicero a Sicilian, standing in the shadows o a building
they had passed, raced to Ca-Eone's headquarters, where theig Fellow was _at dinner.
He listened to the messenger:
news as he ate and, wh he
had nished, he calmly walked
to the rear of the hotel, took
out the machine guns from I
closet, and went out, followed
_ _ by three men.
"¢ " An eye witness to the mur-
der, said that e greet snmme
bile sped past the four men as
they walked out of the road-
-. house and that ne spit out
of what seemed to be a tele-
phone mouthpiece" projected
through the rear curtain.
McSwiggin fell mortally
wounded at the rst blast,
while Duffy and Doherty
_ walked for some distance bo-
_ fore they fell in pools of their
"" blood. More than two-hundred
bullets were red. Klondike
pulled McSwiggin's body into
his automobile and had it taken
to the O'Donnell home, but
later it was again placed in the
car and taken and dumped on-
to a spot in a street of a suburb
adjoining Cicero _so, as Klon-
dike later explained, that _no
one would know that McSw1g-
gin was with gangsters.
Another story has it that
Klondike had paid $40,000 to
McSwiggin and wanted to get
it back again.
"I know who killed my son, ing Ir was toa nysopw atoppomac Inn s _latudol for "Par" Itmmoaa, on of "ondikfs" Isano.'h:noIl- s! "Three-nger" lack wane. said Sergeant Anthony Mc-
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I eGurn. es they suspect. who edvlled
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believed to bhlleego Ienrsters end
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henlcuming the suspect; o In-en;
shouted from the window at o house
and told the prisoners to ght. A de-
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rented the houee ts tint of leum.
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UAGO SUNDAY TRIBUII
DEJI, 1930
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s Attqfhey Tells" qr
War on Bnine
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C_I1i|I_IlI from .
.-f -._f -71 1* 1 [
an uiaderetandin: of the problem: or .
ganised crime oreatee. 5" - _
Than came. -with coil HQ!-BChIIeh1
and in!-he methodical manner at thl-92
ohms player to whom llr. Johu.eon~
ln.d_iikenea huneeit. t-be eoonmt el
alpeicla or the eroee eecon. -
When we pmeenL"'he eaid, that.
Ralph Chpone tool $1,871,009 In three!year: tron beer Ind Jlmbllnl Illat-4::-'-ta! under a blazing iizbt the new .
actor in the problem otuime, . .1
"That {actor in crime with richee. 1;
"__We pmvei too. that JOCK Gull!
lalt S1,04_9.0U0 from gambling II Line:-years. _0£ eourae t.hat'e power. The
_measuring in 41o_Ilare of that power,it-ea the citizen at 1 Illmce the 411- I
{=5-once beiwern normal Crime Ind air;
m,-i'n|a'I or orzunlled crime. Of course;
_ there alwlyl erili be crime, §ut it will
be urmai crime instead of abnormalmime. ' ' '
1,-"Norma! crime Ineaka dmm theicy. ' - . ' ':;"O1-nnieel crime dz-ivae own the
boulevard in a toetiy el.r- -
'l'e.ntaciee 61 0|-nailed Orin:- .
= "Organized ertnse hae appalling
qmilicaliona. The more ricioul gauge
an getting Into the Qietributlon ol.eounterfeit money and namptim. Thel-
ija-ckerie btlni DON ol!_l.n oouuteut ponay. Ia can! compain. Ob-iounlr he oee not are to; But the 1
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1-lllllllt the federal diet:-lot attorney GEORGQ 8- 0- Jomrsonr.
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up Int him he became loquacioua
1 U-mu he was ineoient, euch being
notion of how to enforce hie cog.
lion that he ehould he crazed gm,
a ball: of equality. Obviously he
0 Ilmviewn Ind. to eeemung
ueltlone ea to hie hank enoeiu, Let c.4Nc'sTEn;s* I-OE ~_ -___.../ _
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Iiactthiak1?: Pf ! _DI-rt ox omueu,
}the etete at-Ifllnola
federal an-vice tho
the mmmmieuu
Icrlbee to a eoienm -on
the eonetituqnu of the
.But were an-v:..ei0le1emental nee:-e-atinnaaltb '
<the constitution Whiokjlee
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oantrovenyaeto wanting
lea IBM her er a Ind h -
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with Inlet Jew entordn: I8!!!-1" pltqn. "
bu Sure eune 11;
vel.0delL I92rIt.It{Q91-my for we en:-ruutlen at ell -,
eeriotmehr lewne-lIlI¥III1eumewtth which no uerendlteelllee6urtenaee1en-nu-henitueeeee. The
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very inundation etenee I001! WU
ergaalled eodety end government
§thll1lrItpulntMennl'aeetwhbll-w enloroement the violent Withmung 3: lttuml ta zitrruue thepdllclg, when 1.. __I.erlII I-mean an omeere wh¢% pdnee int!
Bribee oered to prohibition elellbeve we from lI0.0M! to $50.00! l
em epeaking of lpecle instance!-
Briuu of 85,000 mean nethln: to CID!
iii iii.
92 Pettybribelrunnlngltuiilii$1000 en very trequem. When rev
mmemblr that men! Gentle: III
don]; $1,I00l3::ryouu:Ilee92 bow cruel e temute. n tb I'llemmeenuuaunuuooa. h:_'.lg!:*'lhet:.Maereti!;h.tt::.r
mm mlh ?"°°" "3 ruunerl. murdu-ere. we pureheeere et
Ofrwlud nrimevlrniehtorl murder tune pheeuuummd uIn re. It bun ekilltul detenee I 1;-mm 5,3195 q mu. 5 mgWI!make no wmpmlnt or met. I the My gag,
It bl B The meet cenephauem 1.116 power QHJI-IC92lIl"l emee m11> mm with °° I92" "1 WI fa! crlminele 1» Ilnom ere not bold
mane; ie need tn reach jurwe
reech wttnelll. in reeds
and when It. le peid out tor murder
cleee the live of eume witnenee
ism government than 1: become: ;
anenem. In e. number at an-eee whereand haderl
Knowinl that I do
with pug-uni nausea.
led Elect en lmmigren.
It dole Indeed. tor ll the amrb.-.1 at
tome; wee epee-kin; Ne countenance
betrnye the phyeieel august at e nun»
;re'ro1tea by e bed imell.
The eleet. he uenunueti. "oi iiuet
eshy termiuelugy upon the untutnred
immltrlnt newly errell upon these
ehoru in often deplornblc It he a gm
Ie be emepte the wore heron
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laufooinl to §liI>IllII_|I"lIllit-Ill Ii#ili-0 ldli-" '?.~'z ".:"-- *' ~'
5-? who "*'
" ll "14 W]igco in In vow! ill?orilhisall lrlmn in I9 I92l'=_l_1»;;;'f__f_'*_f_,
, ' h"'°"'°"""' "°m- ".'p'=::e:;'uoaheo tho ma
that .Fnhich; in_onr great dtion.--run"-ant!
iiiion on nlit92I their into tho an I. _ _ 92m Iply into politic; In In-In! iliI1ll'l2§* I-. ae-
Ll ~ gm; nit the aoeinlve an-tor in wrolld _._nl_:1'_l|_:nl. than tho Idlitllhi Ilcltotnlr.1 --.
ll
Ir Gonvnrol I111? 1|-om1' D bumrodl-.-I awn ,-' hm n 0 tho ituia I'I'I'lIled
and llh the
clone oI_On9ou'| prbllmlnlrf*-" --tioaiw. :53:-uIuu_ -1.1 "51:"5 """-i"" ""°" ' "1'rizm. '1-new i-'_'-.-E:-erieen eeene '_;n_ *92'erI_1 deiiriiw Ge e; itll I-in-: '7°l'JII."min'"5"- -3 '"'lK:'m3 o ihlvn nnnoe...gcisetonr orlinlntloill 4114,11 °"[' 4,5;-n' | h, no nnni - _:::leauawho have 01' *5 P. re Ht
' I! main tiira.-t.%:'.".-"--:.f=en4.: !!'iI_1i.._. I ,or WI." he; :11-w92¢1z' 1- -I-=~ A-'" §.nnier0.bll' pan or the on-In nontri-
[Ion] of nrnni:-ed crlmo to D0-
|11'.i<_aI ction: goal tor the l92Y'-3° ;of thug: and slugger: to lntimllilio
llieeuon--enema. mos. oreventlnl H1
honent ¢0unt_ni iiw 5IJ75iIi-_ _ _I§;. 'Bl;Bi-ibulorol '-
'"0rg-nnluxi crimeor crime I11!!-
cheg pg dlliinguinhetl hum ht I0?-. pal crlnin that we shall niwtyl bl"'*'*Iii.h 1:|lpre8ti'ltl 110 ORR! Phi?
with-which ilw ouforc-ini iiaac-esinn 10 6&1. Firot. it ll ll-IO iI money tor the eon-uption er odi-
on:-I orghe in-. Beoond. it bu hull ml with which to deland men ml
oduri nod no tu-rorbo witnellen. The
-nect of lhh B 10 undermine the-=
-_1rQr§? fhdlubn ltnnéi upon which
organised iiiety .n.nl govorumoni§g3|__ . - _ L . 4 92"41 hi! nrlt llhlf of nontlni. Idth
hw enforcement tho fhll-wr Ii!-b
mhnq now nttenmtl to non-not the' A uh n L111 H1-I1 togm p!J'!1l!l |_:_.l|Lggl__". ' '. ;._ --- .1.-;:_ ::......_e.. __..,, ....______I ;, sfxauean Ill nlliccrl who do pdlin It!!!-
"-Bribee entered to pminbiiion new
. ggvo nan from ll.000 tn ¥$0.000.' I
gm peaking at npecic tnltl-noel.
Bribe: or $5,000 moi-n nothing In crime
tjiih riches. . - _ - K
92 Fnii? iabii fiiiiii 'u11i| 35% ta L060 pro vorr troqnent. when you
* remombvr that on! deputies one' -"Tm on," In ..id, "mun!IIYI-hill '__
Ir Johnson.-!r:i;=:'9I92!!onon;'h to
nite; ntudiod innate. at in-n
hind tor-non.riyt:$ur_ yen:-n. n nowLhoroulhi nnderlrtnniiing ti_xnir"i?: crazed an nitogetbu vicious man
iiy, Mr. Johnnon hnnot nn¢er-stem!
is7Iii_¬5 iwk awn ;-...-:g:i=§= an gun-
man II plcturooqno gures. F:-om
their lth, whinh he delcriboii _ll un-
lpeolcibiy lthy. -to tho mcn_th¢n-
solves, who, he llld, no human in i
form only. Ito hon found evory phase
ot their not-lt! in bl lolihoomonnd
oiiflels - -~. ~ 1
niobo and they jnoy jhe! lIll_I-I1
my mejuw Etthe tooth Ind
When robbed Ind .boi-11.1 '
Joke thnirown tribunnlotilln
out I grain. thy have no rllwune
tonnyothgr. A.IiHyni,1n|n-intnnd
out, giunour in thrown aver these
thilll W ducripon of them an la-oer
I511-om, crime Hap. ilk; kings.
ind lain! in tho ky I-ri.l'i.0ci92q'.
92K.'hOI'1n[ that I do. this I806!-I me
1 nninneeun:mm1;n-£-.---
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;tornoy was spanking Ilia countenance,
bnirnyn u phyliml digguit cl Q ml-ti i
rcvnltail by I hail IIIIQIL
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policl lttampted to question them, and Polionnm jinn Dainty, Ibo
fatally woudeq Steinem. o lnlmnrz I-_u=u=.1
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toga ltiil shrouded in 1 ho !
.hopo was virtually nblndonn for
I1' persons ltm mining an 1 nmlt
oflho llllkinf 01' th Ihnlnnr 012111
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67" H tion ie not cannot be the controlling factor .
..-git region o aeneaa. D; 10 0 4'54? 3
AH 'Dimélliqfg and ita agencies are one or the greateet auzil.§92RufJ vicewhich spura the Racketeer and Gangster to crime and mrnior. !,9@m' _
Thoiolloeing account deals brifly with a 550.000 O00 Betion-willI'éla.mb- -ling monopoly controlled and operated by°Ohicago°Backeteere,@angetere and so-"_' e
called iluecle-men. ,
' neral Here Bureau, Inc., 1b}l 3. Dearborn St Chicago. Ill. leaae p i
Telegraph, Telephone and "Printers" or mtomatic-typelrriting tape irachine "wine"from the Chicago office of the American Telephone and Telegraph co, Ir. I, I, J I
Getter! with a Nation-ride hook-up which enables the General Howe Bureau, Inc., to .
quote fluctuating betting odd: from all Race-Tracks to Bookmaker: and Gemblere in 3
every City and Torn throughout the United States and Canada. The ew York City atotfice'a of the General Hews Bureau Inc, ia located at 50'-+2 Grand Central Depot, -Fham Street, Telephone inn-ray-Hill £335; Hr. P. J. Burne ie lanager. it
HOTE: - Consult the Telephone directory of any City or large Town for a * 1?!
listing of General News» Bureau, Inc. ehoee bueineee coneiate of aelling Bane-Track i »
quotations to Bookmakers and Gamblere furniehed by their epecialueri creea oi em-
ployeoa operating from every nce Track holding a meeting. The groatelt of the .1
"Betting Commieeionere" throughout tnia Country and Canada are on private 'Ion.- -
listed" gambling telegraph wiree operated by expert telegraphere. Theee non-
lieteci wiree with their "drops" are coded in numbera an followa: lT5; 3110;
}|+?; 359 and 360 at the 1.-nerioen Telephone and Telegraph Company's officee.
A "drop" is equivalent to an office, F
The General News Bureau, Inc. and ite agencies are atriving deaperately
te secure a membership in either the Associated Prees, United Preee or the Inter- ,'
national ees Service, thereby gaining n recognition which would enable them to .
manipulate ,"within the lee . The General News Bureau, inc. deal! BI<=192>~IiY617 in T
Bnce Track Service". This Race Track service disaeminntee betting odds, reports cf
the progren of races and announces the reeulte and pay-off prices to Bookmaker!
and Gamblers,G
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M3General New: Bureau, Inc. desiring to gain abeolute control of this,
huge gambling monopoly have completed nrrangenente to taco over control of the 1ol- 1.,
lowing competitive companicl: The Empire lien Company, - National nlewe Company. - V,The merican Continent News Set-vice, - Daily Running Horne and the Daily Racing Hform, all of whom dealt exclusively in "Race Track Service . A
The following ehaice-down tnntice were uled by thin Chicago-mob of
Eonketeere on e New York Ci outfit, -_Dur_1ng larch. 1939. the General Q2: .' - "1 r - - U. ; i. lIl1O'Ue._.liDBureau, Inc. operating fromtzllosoarbcr gtggi 3: sailed M than IjmnYork City officee, located at 5 2 Gran 8P1'5||| Inc, 361 I, 36th st., _IeI York city, that they Ionlg 1:119 2° :32: PMGeneral Howe Bureau. Inc. in with their racket; ehihog :°ou°.3l:1'aken' udllRacing mm-aioen-eheeta . zreatened in even 0 I _ a to tn chlugmmob. __after c rtain acts of intimiriatione, Ialmin Prell» 1n°- '5' G - 1 ¢, immediately aet about to realize on theirterm The General News Bureau. n, ' 9 , had been forced to change-,,,,,,,,w, April, 1930. e month latennlalmllat ;:::;_1%:1n8 corporation w_,_3°Oh_ _ , ,J.4.
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by members of the Gambling fraternity: ._
June Qth, 1930, Alfred J. Llngls, known as "Jal|:s' Lingle the unofficial
Chief of Police of Chicago and s racksteering reported on a Chicago daily paper was
shat and killed for double-crossing Chicago -backeteers on gaaling privilegei.
n;;k,IIL1n61¢ was the business agent or go-between tor Police Commissioner Iillialn
Russell and Deputy Coxmnissioner John Stage, the no whose influence was sufficient
to prevent the Police from annoying the Boolcnakers and Gamblers buying "lace track
service from the Ggneral yen Bureau, Inc. the rigid probe following haze"
Linglels death resulted in a public demand that Pelics Uolmissioner Iillian a=|.=11
and D¢P92ltI.U0l'iiilI1OIl6I' John Btege resign, which they did within a weak. J. I.
Began, General Manager of the General Iews Bureau, Inc, was a close friend and as-
sociate of "Jake" Lingle's for years.
A Arnold Rothstein, notorious gambler, was shot and killed Iowembsr 34, 1926
in Iew York City, the case closing with so ouch watery that it'resu1ted in severe
official reprimands oi the Aces of the New fork City Detective Bureau - Detective
Sergeants - Daly, Green, flood and ccrdss - also Inspector coughlin than in com-
mand. he late Joseph A Iarren, former Police commissioner of lee York City
whose sudden death not long after he left office was attributed to worry over
failure to penetrate the Rothstein mystery.
Gerald I. Jerry Buckley, Detroit Radio Announcer was shot to death in
the lobby oi the La Salle Hotel, Detroit, lich, because he dared to expose
Gamblers and Racketeers.
' ' In Kansas cm», October as, 1930 sou; Ieissman was shot and killed by
the Ianager of the General News Bureau, Inc. for daring to question the actions of
this Nation-wide huge gambling monoply controlled and directed through the General
News Bureau, Inc. Chicago, Ill. _
Governor Roosevelt's ultimatum - New York Journa, August ll-I», 19,30!
Saratoga-Springs, N. L. Aug. 134, 1930 - Gambling house operators and employees
walked the streets today as City and County Officials, obeying the Governor-s
"_3!J,._l92,5!-"A, contin921_nd to clg the lid tigt-ly on Saratogae llot only were the
Big Lake House gaming halls in darkness but even City horse-rooms were deserted,
Racing charts had been removed and Special leased wires from the Track cut off".
Excerpts from recent itelnl released by the associated Press! '
Chicago, Nov. 36. A P! James "rm-" ianunons today. became the_ninth of Chicago's 28
public ene."_'e:" to be take: out of the beer, bullet and betting business. He
went back to State Prison at Joliet to serve years more of a murder sentence
because of a ruling by Attorney General Garlstrom that he was not eligible for
FIFO]-e after having had his lifs sentence conrmited.
Newark, I. J. Hos, 25 A P} Toes pour bullets in diamond-belted New Jersey
racket oat-on. Ritchie ioiardn, Firit Ferd recketeer fell to the getter in {rent o
his home today, 16 slugs from a shotgun in his body. Police said the racketeer's
activities were so numerous, including pmbling, beer-running and alcohol that he
may have made enemies in anyone of his enterprises. Sixteen gunmen, gamblers and
gangsters have been killed in and near Newark in the last two and a half yeara.
NOTE: - 25,000 copies of Racing run-down-sheets distributed through the
United States mails daily, vital essentials without which Boolnnakers and Gambling
on horse racing would be all but inpossible and Telegraph, Telephone and "Printer"
gambling wires, aiding and abetting Vile, crime and murder. are the Polial and
Interstate Connerce Gonmieeion authorities aware of the doninatiné -B11" 95 I-
scrupuloue politicians and criminals.
attention is called to the peculiar vicious character of this Race track
service which constantly attempts to destroy the influence of the various "Vice and
Grime Committees", Present racaeteering and ganster troubles cannot cease, until
the Federal, State and Junicipal Governments deal effectively with the cause of
them, one of the greatest of "which causes" is the activities oi the General News
Bureau, In-C. and its Agencies which controls a. lotion-wide gambling monopoly,
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Dear Sir:
There is attached hereto, azéot possibleinterest, a clipping taken from the__ hicahlieilyliens, Chicago, Illinois, and one 1'1-an the icago
American, Chicago, Illinois, both under date or
March 19, 1951, relative to the Lttorney Genera1.'s
remarks concerning the concentration of recordinveeygatife agencies in Ghioayii, Illinois.
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municipal airport into the crowd
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All the Arts of the Spggsays Randolph, Are in the Effort to
. TH-P ind C@nvi¢t1h¢ Cwinéls 9?. th<:;Cit¥Z§ l7£§° i§TlL§§
Ghicago do Itlll working lo
l stomp out its underworld gangs.
j Recently George .I'. Q. Johnson,
Uwtieo. Slates District Attorney,
toldoenote subcommittee of the
difficulties encountered in con-
victing AI Capone and some of
the other lenders. In the follow-i
of the jomoue "Secret Ii-I" eo-
plotns how that organisation of
citizens operotce in aiding the
outhorttics. .
EBT IS BLNDO . B! ROB 1% LPH
I-IE Secret Bin ' sounds like s
romantic fiction, but it is the
newspaper pseudonym for the
Citizens Committee it-Ir the
Prevention and Punishment of Crime,
a special committee of the Chicago
Association of Commerce, organised
in Fehruaay, 1980, during my first
term as president of that body. I
appointed the committee with the
authority oi the executive commit-
tee of the association, and because;
I refused to tell the newspaper men]
the names of the members of thej
committee one lnnrnslistio wenittsi
dubbed it "the Secret Six. i
hecauss, quite unconsciously, he had
given us the weapon of the psychol-
ogy or tear and the rats of the un-
derworld began to scurry because}
they didn't know where this mys-.
tsrious ferret was going to strike.
The tear persists today, and because
some of the biggest and the fattest
rats have been trapped in the last
two years the fear has grown and
many oi the rats have squealed and
betrayed their brothers. It all came
about in this way:
Under the corrosive inuence oi
the most corrupt and degenerate
municipal administration that ever
cursed a city a poiiiico-criminal al-
liance had been formed between civil.
administration and the gun-governed
underworld tor the exploitation oi
the citizen, and e "I¥ll1=li-"' @011,-trol was epreed i cover all of Gook
County. The "syndicate" had brains
and g92vis. The civil administration.
lacked jralns and courage. lo tho
Payndicai-s" became Jhe invisible.I
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; easies,were not solicited tor business. .
{ but had their assessment of beer and_
booze delivered to them whether they
wanted it or not. and even Had lo:
take "syndicate" pretaels and potlby
' hhips and u'se the sy'nd.im.ts"=lilten@
iiféi. .5y-ndicita" strong-arm;
men tools over labor unions. particu-1
iarly_in the service industries, and
3 the -citizen paid the "syndicate"-
{ price for much that he ate and drank
and even for the crease in bis trous-
era.
The citizen was not much eon-;
each other, even when they were
shot down in batches of seven, as
they were on Bt. Valentine's Day In
F1929. The citizen did not otten get
caught in the cross-re, and it was;
no affair of his. He liked his booze
with a kick in it and he didn't care
whether it came from Bermuda or
Canada or a hath tub in Maxwell
[street as ion; as it looked, misc
and acted like booze. I
We are a complacent people and
ithis condition might have continuedwithout much protest it uis Invisible
government had not become oom-
lplecent iteeli. Euecg LL-do it eon-
"tsinptuous and organised crime made
the mistake of attacking organised
business. A contractor's superinten-
zdent was shot. The contractor he-
Ilonged to the Association of Oom-
;merce. He wanted to know as-hat he
paid dues Ior and what we wane2*
- corned when rival boo-tieggers killed;
lacing to ,do about it. The answer ',
fwas a conference between the exec-.
iutivs committee of the aseociatim
land the State's Attorney. The quas-
fon was_what might he done to stop
crimes or violence in Chicago. . _ _
» -'Ihe Ht-ate's Attorney had a eon-|
istructive suggestion. I have a stat! |lo! invuni-oI'l." he said. whose;_,d92ity it is to dig up evidence rei-
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lo one another. I! you can supply}
-these men with money enough to run
with the wolf peck and buy Informe-
tlon from the jeckale who trail the
peck you can get the klnd of evi-
_dence we need to eecre oonvlctione.
;Wlt.h that kind of evidence end wlth
money enough to prctat wit-.:e% iany er the Aneietant State! Attor-=1inure on my etatt can aecure ounrvto; j
_ Lions, and without It th_e beet law}-er
'h'| the city can't. t '
1 We undertook the job, end the ti:-at
problem was one of weye end noeenl, g
: men end money. Some aiEthe con-I' tereee were not eold op the pIen._
qiough yet," eeid one oi
"Every tlmewe have e gengkllling
we have the collateral benet ht get-
ting rld of an undeeirehle citizen or
two. Ithlnkwe oulhttoweltirntll
they hill one ed no." ' ~ '"
- I euggeeted that the alternative did
not make e very etrnn[ appeal to me
Zheceuee I happened to he itendiq'
tout tn £1-ant, and he eeld he wee not
an-m-any mm-en: u e eecrlflee plum-._
The eucceee 0! the plan wee finally;
_ ured when one at our enoet lhnu-1
tie] - end puhlio-eplrlted oitieent
e: "1 uiuut thing! ere hedenolllll
k i have very IPOtili_l_tllhl
Mowing howhedthey ere. Ithtnk
an rrwwllne Ilene the rlelti "I umrt think mam ale bee";
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_ , e eervlee under the_dn-eebenhlp
_1lexe.nder Jeinte, who menu _ _
hum agent cl the nqai-omega,
ihuuee 2»: this dlatrlot. I110
Tllent cooperated generooely byill] him e leave of eheenoe for
jpurpoee end we were fort921Iieh'
?eecm'tng hire heceuee o! hle alilltf,
=lnt=eri¢v and lone mm-Inner h . .
blind oi work. Hie beet r 1
jeiion eeme from the underwv o92
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it! meet vehement and meet "
:1ll'l0I1I eplthetl. - . ..g Ihn I OrgenleetlaOur plan of orgenlntlon weeYoda eugge-me by the aim:
iney end we have never nought r.
{mm my or the tunctlone crane"
#8!!! constituted euthoritlu. Ii
have only furnished them .wtth
Iertre. weapon end we have had {g
neet hind of cooperation Iron: the
police end the proeecuton, Itete andlnatlonal. " . * .- .1.-A
We ule the eervlcee -econ"-e¢i3
;»entlo Crime Detection Ialnnm-1'10! Northweetern University. rug
for identifying fetal bullet: kg
-teat hulleta tor uee tn foreneie hel-
lllen: the violet ray for nhaunirec:-et writing and idenutymg id
__e-ea tor reveelln: to:-zen.-e and 5:51
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lng handwriting experte; mania;-Q, @-
the art of making plaetle meld; ig-Fthe reproduction 02 ohjecta, per-IQ-'_'
Hmlcroecople exalnlnetlone of verto '_Lklnds: end chemical end he.cterlolo[l|-
eel anelyaee, to eey nothing or the ug
idecwr. out uncanny machlne thatif-ripe up the moot accolnpllehed Ill-I.
lethoia 13:11! 1-; -
All of theee ereextremely valuable"
de, and they euppiement the work-'§ctre.lned detecttvee tn mekinitlve deduetlone. There ere
Betectivee whole experience and '
inicne opereting euhj#.lve."y';. 'Eco amazing reaulte. but the Showt k I-Ioimee of ction h very largdy
Q fiction and the heat detectlvee 20- erethoeewhnhevethemoetEeyheet eoureee of lnfonnelon. Io-92ueet.hteile1actwereeort!IQ,,
rte of devioul end extn-legei
ethode of eecurlnl Int 'lhd blOOd Itlihli Photonjphjg pfxh
o able or ot.herw1ee,_wh1eh It may eej'neceeeery to keep In the 0rlI.n.l]"
form for purpoeee Q! evtdmeez<
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?"there is honor among thieves. " "
'l"here isn't any such quality in the
-Intercity. There is fur whim seafla
lips, but there is nothing akin to
loyalty in it. The criminals are all
first cousins of Judah and there is
'not one of-them who would not sell
his own brother tor a price it he
thought he could do it without de-
tectlon.
"Thirty pieces of silver" was the
price o! the Crucifixion. The current
market price of betrayal ranges be-
tween a "C" note $100! or a Grand
81110!. We buy this kind of in-
formation at the market and pay for
it C. O. D. Sometimes we buy had
into:-matlon, but we never buy a gold
brick from the same man twice. 11
they want to continue to do business
with us the information must prove
up under our investigation. It
usually does. -
3?. s b. 3 i' Help Given to Anthorltlu. .
In spite cl the fact that A1 Capone
made public acknowledgment when
92 he was convicted that the ecret Bi:
-had licked him, we do not claim the
credit for the long series oi convic-
tions of public enemies accomplished
by the State's Attorney and the
United States District Attorney. We
have been helpful in apprehending
lcriminals, in developing evidence, tn
the protection of witnesses and in
doing many things for the prosecu-
tors which they were not able to
do for themselves, and they have
been kind enough in man. Pqbq
acknowledgment of the value and
effectiveness of the service.
We are not required to account for
the money we spend except to a.
small auditing committee whose per-
sonnel changes monthly. This com-
mittee destroys all money records
every month after it has given its
certicate that it has examinedthe
accounts. The purpose of this is
obvious. The continued existence of
the records might jeopardize many of
the agents and operatives of the
committee.
llany oi the ringleaders of the
"syndicate" are now in jail, but the
biggest step in breaking up the
.P°iii.iB0-Criminal alliance that had
become the invisible governmenfwas
ptaken in the municipal election a
year ago when the thieves were
turned out oi the temple and a new
administration pledged to good gov-
iernment was elected by an over-
Lwhelmlng majority. The Secret Bi:
doesnt claim the credit tor this, but
the Association of Commerce had a
group has been sitting with the new
administration as counsellors in tho.iottodolwiiliit, and the samecii1a'en' _3,... . _ .-,. . in §Q
reorganisation at the municipal92 92i- &.".;.:.1'.." '5; n" i " l ' ' re picked a ion
better qualified than Anton I. cu-
mak by training, experience and nat-
ural capabilities to reorganim the
city government and bring order out
of chaos. The first appointment he
made as Mayor was that of Colonel
A. A. Sprague to the post at Oom-
miasioner oi! Public Works. Ooionef
lprague is a leading citlsen of Chi-
oago, s. wholesah grocer, a director
of banks and railroads, a man of
courage, ability and integriiz. Hi
had served the city well in the mme
office under Mayor Dover, and there
was no one better qualified for the
post, which he accepted at great per-
sonal sacrifice. At the time of his
appointment he was chairman or the
Citisens Committee for the Preven-
tion and Punishment of Crime.
For Corporation Counsel, the Kayo!
appointed Francis X. Busch a had-
ing member of the bar and a lawyer
oi! ability and integrity. who had held
the post under the Darer Adminis-
jtratlon. -
The Mayor also appoint a Civil
Service Commission of outstanding
ability and integrity and it has been
busy weeding out the actnn in the
police and other city departments
which had come to the top thmu:
bribery and corruption under the
previous administration. To the post
oi"City Sealer, who is the inspector
of weights and measures. he appoint-
iadi a merchant whose principal busi-
ness is selling bottling supplies to the
citisen who prefers wholesome horns-
Ibrew to had Capone beer.
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l j Ideals! etreannasa 3?-
Ap iommimiout at Roll, iii
cermak chose an eiilioer selected by
the Oitissns' Advisory Omnmittee
without regard to poli G Ihar
inuence. In hot. the IIIIIIFM-d
never seen er spoken be Captain
James-P. Altman before he smst tar
him on -the recommendatim el the
committee. and he made all I790!!!"
lnant without ear an-Incl iv li-
tain Altman is a police
thirty-one years
Qghemaly intelligent, U hl
courageous, and is admirably quali-
fied tor the ditoult task d rebuild-
,ing a demoraiised police dspll'tIIlIlI1-
{For Chief ot Detectives. the Ill!"
appointed Captain .Wil1iam I109
maker, who knows the wars ill 1-5°idenlaens oi the underworld ad
handles them without l1'U- . -
5 It has been well said that W0 Ft
ithe kind of government we all D-
titled to, but we don't sat sod sw-
ernmsnt unless we demand 11- WI
have made the dem1nd in_GIlGl0
and we are get!-int ll-lIII'1 3- F
mend. We are not IIf0!'@il- *9
dont expect to make a IPOUOI MW!
.4 ; or a metropolis. but we do not
propose to be exploited lonl W I
Plot out rats who would not come Ohi-
iol their gutters except for the greedithat brings them out en male to set
_the easy money that the prohilili-I01!
laws have tempted them with. The
llattclt Of them have B088 iI'lPP9dv
lbut there is still a lean and IIUBIIY
lam-as otlothers andwewill have toloontlnue to tight them nnnl the
when atone out oi antimal-
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