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    "ocrText": "J. S. TRACES\n1931 100\npublication of the\naccurate\ned m\nwith the decision of the\nGuard Against Lynching After Sheriff Is Killed\nformation obtainable, W1 ich was very arts in\nse states where crime is\nlittle, and editorials calling upon the under concrol than in others, where\nauthorities to destroy the growing criminal lawyers and lawyer criminals\narmy of criminals before they de- have been active* in the legislature\nstroyed the city. The assassination of and in judicial conventions.\na member of THE TRIDUNE staff laid\nbefore us the question whether to ac-\nCrime Commission Helped.\ncept the situation supinely and by our\n\"It is only just, also, to give credit\ntimidity to invite further assassination\nto the untiring efforts of the Chicage\nor threats of assassination, or to take\ncrime commission and to the investi\nup the challenge of gangland, thus\ngations of regular and special grano\nhurled at our feet. The question was\njuries which, if they have not accom\nonly new as to size.\nplished any striking successes, have\nTHE TRIBUNE has always prosecut-\ncontinuously sapped the base of the\ned attacks on its employés and its\ncriminal structure. Indeed, I attrib\nproperty. The year before, after a six\nute as much credit to the weakening\nmonths' search, THE TRIEUNE, with\nof the whole structure of organized\nthe aid of the police, had tracked\ncrime by these many contributors as\ndown and sent to the penitentiary for\nto the immediate investigators that\nfifty years a man who had criminally\na gangland murderer has been de\nassaulted one of its subscribers.\nIn\ntected and arrested for the first time\nthe present instance, opposed as we\nin Chicago or for the first time in the\nobviously were by organized crime,\nUnited States.\nwith its terrorist methods and ramifi-\nThe progress that has been made\ncations, which at that time were un-\nin six months is just this-that where\nknown to us, a greater degree of or-\nsix months ago resistance to crime in\nganization was necessary. State's At-\nChicago appeared hopeless, we now\ntorney Swanson was asked to appoint\nknow that a vigorous and relentless\na very experienced lawyer to investi-\ninvestigation will apprehend the guilty\ngate this case and to assign his prin-\nBusiness organizations, please take\ncipal investigator to work with him.\nnotice. The practice on the part of\nGiven Loyal Coöperation.\nbusiness houses, which is now univer\ndi\nsal, of confining their self-protec-\nIn Chicago there is no organiza-\ntion to burglary insurance, and the\ntion of crime abating authorities. The\npractice of insurance companies of\ncoroner, the chief of police, the state's\nplacing rates high enough to cover\nattorney, and the sheriff are: inde-\ntheir losses, without the effort on\npendent of each other, nor is there\neither part to catch the criminals.\nany connection between them and the\nmust give way to liberal appropria-\ncourts, and the pardon and parole\ntions for detection. These appropria\npower, such as is found in the federal\ntions in turn will bring down our bur\ngovernment.\nglary insurance rates, which are now a\n\"I am glad to report that all these\nserious tax upon business.\nunrelated officers have lent loyal co-\noperation. The first evidence was un-\nExposé Must Be Wider.\ncovered by Coroner Bundesen. Chief\nThe valuable work of the Chicago\nof Police Alcock arrested the murderer\nCrowd outside jail at Bucyrus, O., after Sheriff George Davenport had been killed when he\nTrime commission in disclosing the\nStanton, who is about to be tried in\nentity of the public enemies and of\n:onfessing killing Davenport, was killed by a deputy.\nthree Negroes robbing a chicken coop. One of the Negroes, who attempted to escape from the jail surprised after\nWisconsin for the assassination of\nJack Zuta, a murder like that of\nthose judges who by the acceptance\n[Acme-P.&A. Photo.]\nJulius Rosenheim, apparently con-\nbf fake bonds and other subterfuger\nhave facilitated the escape of criminals\nnected with the Lingle murder.\nmust be extended to identify individu\nirs of today and the murderers of\nThe present parole board, acting\na\nColosimo. Colosimo operated a restau-\nals and organizations who while os-\nprevious time it is that the former\nupon the street in front, focused on\nunder the advice of Attorney General\nhave eliminated the latter.\nrant and cabaret. The restaurant was\nensibly members of our civilized so\nan automobile that drew up before\nCarlstrom, reincarcerated two serious\nsaid to be well conducted and the en-\nliety are benefiting directly or in-\nBegan in Sicilian Neighborhoods.\ntertainment, I am told, was of high\nthe shop and killed his lieutenant,\ncriminals found at large and who were\nclass. The chief entertainer, under the\nHymie Weiss. Bullet marks were\ncombating the investigation, while\nlirectly from underworld activities.\n\"It has been said with considerable\nThe assassinations which have\nState's Attorney Swanson has been\nmade Chicago notorious began in the\nname of Dale Winter, an American\nmade upon the stones of the cathe-\ngirl, for some time enjoyed a success\ndral,\nthe pillar in this investigation in the\nustice that Chicago, as the transpor\nSicilian settlements. The victims were\nBy this time gang murders had\nface of savage attacks from quarters\nation center of the continent, the\nSicilians; the motives presumed to be\non the stage as well as in the cabarets\nprincipal market of America, must in-\nblackmail. Pistols Or shotguns would\nWhen Colosimo was divorced from his\nbecome celebrated, and whether more\nwhere he should have expected whole\nhearted support.\nvitably be the center of criminal ac\nroar on some crowded street of\nwife and shortly after married Dale\nnumerous than before or not, they\nlivity and the central market of stolen\nLittle Hell, as the neighborhood was\nWinter, the event was widely reported,\nbegan to attract first the attention\nFederal Officials Take Hand.\ngoods. On the other hand, we cannot\ncalled. The police arriving on the\nand when shortly afterwards Colosimo\nof the city and afterwards the entire\nBy happy coincidence the investi-\nscape the fact that unless the legit:\nscene would find a murdered body\nwas assassinated in his restaurant\nworld.\ngations of the United States district\nmate market can destroy the crimina\nand no witnesses would admit knowl-\nand when the new wife, in a panic,\n\"On April 27, 1926, an assistant\nattorney, George E. Q. Johnson, into\nparket, in its turn it will be destroyed\nedge of the killing. Subsequent mur-\nrenounced all claim to his estate in\nfavor of the divorced wife, the matter\nstate's attorney named McSwiggan\nthe income tax frauds of the profes\nby the criminal market. The problen\nders were imagined to be in revenge\nwas killed by machine gun fire in one\nsional criminals reached the stage of\nis more serious than one of mere repu\nand blood feuds among the immi-\nwas set down as one more revenge\nsuburb. On Jan. 6, 1927, the home of\nprosecution at this time and the con-\nation. It is a problem of economic\ngrants were continuous. For a num-\nof Sicily.\nviction by him of outstanding gang\nxistence and life itself.'\nAld. Thomas Wallace, one of the best\nber of years these assassinations were\nAnother series of murders to at-\nmen in the city council, was bombed.\nsters not only removed them from ac\nconfined to the Sicilian quarter and\ntract more than passing attention\nIn 1928, on the eve of the county elec-\ntivity but clontributed its full share\nto a people utterly unknown to the\nwere those of Dean O'Banion, Big Tim\nticn, the home of Senator Charles S.\nto the breakdown of the supremacy of\nrest of the citizenship.\nDiamond Joe Esposito,\nDeneen and John Swanson, candidate\ngangland.\n,\nSeveral years ago, realizing that\nRed McLaughlin, and the victims\nfor state's attorney, were dynamited.\nIt was Judge Lyle, sitting in the\nnest of lawlessness among the for\nof the Valentine day massacre, includ\ning James Clark and Dr. R. H.\nOn Feb. 2, 1930, Julius Rosenheim, an\nFelony court of Chicago, who intro-\nign criminals was growing in our\nommunity, I went to Washington and\nemployé of the Chicago Daily News,\nduced a-new chapter into our criminal\nSchwimmer.\nwas killed within a block of his home.\nhistory by treating the principal\nersonally asked President Coolidge to\nnstruct the agents of the federal gov-\nO'Banion, then \" Hymie \" Weiss.\nReporter Lingle Killed.\nscoundrels, burglars and murderers as\nrnment to deport the alien criminals,\nO'Banion was considered a hard\nOn June 9, 1930, Alfred Lingle, a\nthe felons they are, without the defer-\npolice reporter of THE CHICAGO TRIE-\nence to which they had been accus-\ngave the necessary orders, but the\ncharacter, and great surprise was ex-\nnited States government moves slow-\nUNE, was shot and killed in the sub-\ntomed from other judges. Judge Lyle's\npressed when he entered into partner-\nway under Michigan avenue while on\nconduct appeared the more sensa-\nand it is only in recent months\nship with William Schofield, a florist\nat progress has been made in this\nrection.\nof good reputation, with a shop on\nhis way to the horse races, and on the\ntional in that it stood out in such vio-\nlent contrast to a number of other\nState street, near Superior street, op-\nsame dav T eland Reese, reporter of\njudges whose courts were mere rat\nThe Colosimo Murder.\nposite the Roman Catholic cathedral\nholes for the\ncrimir\nThe first murden\n)'Banion was killed in the shon and"
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