CRIME IN AMERICA
DETROIT KIDNAPPERS
CHICAGO DEVELOPMENTS
LINGLE UNDEE CLOUD
United Press Association—By Klectric Tele
graph—Copyright. (Eeceived 21st June, 11 a.m.)
VANCOUVER,, 20th June.
The Detroit police have arrested five leaders of a gang of kidnappers who occupied a fine suburban residence. One made a confession, involving a high Detroit police official and a leading attorney.
The confession alleges that the gang collected approximately a million dollars in three years. Stories "of amazing torturo are revealed. Tho victims, when kidnapped, were Subjected to horribJo cruelty. Eyelashes were pulled out and hot irons held close to the eyes. In several cases tho victims were trussed up and made the targets of fancy shooting, with bullets grazing their bodies. After this treatment most were willing to sign letters imploring relatives to pay up and not tell.
In Chicago further developments in the crime situation to-day consisted of the killing of Lorenzo Juliano, chief of the South Side alcohol gang, and the disclosure that the murdered reporter Lingle had been depositing large sums of money at his bank monthly and was a very wealthy man, having lost 200,000 dollars on the stock market recently.
One pastor at a meeting of ministers to-day alleged that some Chicago reporters were "no better than crooks themselves."
The 'Chicago Tribune" is investigating the sources'of Lingle's wealth.
CRIME IN AMERICA
Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 144, 21 June 1930, Page 9
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