BOMB "SYNDICATE."

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18552, 30 November 1925, Page 15

BOMB "SYNDICATE."

CHICAGO GANG BROKEN UP. (BY CABLB-PMSS ASSOCUTION-CePTBIGHT.) (AUSTEALIAN AND N.Z. CABL* ASSOCIATION.) NEW YORK, November 27. The existence-' df' a/ sinister bomb syndicate, wlifcli offers to bomb any building for payment of anything from 500,000 dollars, and Trhich.- has operated in Chicago for many months, has been revealed by the. confession of a 23-year-old girl and-her male companion. Altogether, forty outrages, including tho dynamiting of homes of policemen and witnesses in criminal trials, us well as the bombing of barbers' shops and stores, have been traced 1 to the syndicate, which, as composed of dozens of persons, headed by Fred Walmquist and Lena Rice. Lena Rice, tired of domestic life, deserted her husband and three children in Michigan and fled with Walmquist. The pair were captured in Chicago when the'police, following a tip from a former member of the syndicate, waited near a hardware store which was due to be bombed at midnight because the management had violated a rule regarding remaining open oh Sundays. Walmquist- and the girl approached shortly after midnight. The girl dropped a package and ran towards a waiting automobile. Both were captured, also the driver of the car, under heavy police fire. Meantime, the bomb exploded, wrecking the front of the store and shattering windows within an extensive radius.