OPEN MURDER
CHICAGO'S CRIME WAVE
THREE KILLED AND. FIVE
WOUNDED
(United Press Association.—Copyright:) NEW YOEK, 12th March.
The resumption of the bootleggers' war and an attempted sensational gaol delivery, which resulted in the death of three persons and the wounding of five others, marked the high point in Chicago Js crime wave to-day.
Two bootleggers were literally torn to pieces by a fusillade of machine-gun bullets while sitting in an automobile in a busy street. A rival gang took this revenge upon iflformers who had helped the police to make arrests in a raid upon a liquor storehouse. A third bootlegger was shot dead while leaving his house.
Six prisoners condemned to death for killing a warden last year attempted to escape from Joliet prison. Three got outside the walls. Only one, however, escaped, but having been supplied with amis by confederates they engaged in a shooting duel with the police, which resulted in tho wounding of two officers and three convicts. -- '
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 61, 14 March 1927, Page 9
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162OPEN MURDER Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 61, 14 March 1927, Page 9
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