CHICAGO GANGSTERS
ROUTED IN FIGHT WITH POLICE New York, December 28. Liquor gangsters in Chicago, who attempted to levy blackmail on the Tiremen’s Union, were met by the police and routed after a fierce gifnfight, losing three dead. The Coroner’s jury congratulated the detectives on the clean, efficient execution of three gangsters.
The week-end was celebrated by a police raid upon the racketeers’ convention, when nine men and one woman were arrested. The delegates gathered in the office of the Acme Products Company, which bears the sign: We Raise Money for Churches, Lodges, Etc.” Amongst the captured ten were several who are believed to have participated In the St. Valentine’s Massacre, when seven unarmed men were shot down in a garage.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 82, 31 December 1929, Page 9
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