POLICE-GANG WAR

Evening Star, Issue 18998, 21 July 1925, Page 9

POLICE-GANG WAR

A BATTLE 111 CHICAGO Gangsters and police shot it out in Chicago at close, .quarters in a revolver fight, resulting in the death of two police sergeants and of [Michael Genua, one of the attacking gang, and the wounding of a third policeman _ and Genua’s two companions. Genua isbelieved to have been a brother of Angelo Genua, gangster, recently assassinated, and the killings are thought to presage a bitter police war against gunmen and beer runners. Superintendent of Police Morgan A. Collins declared the police killers should be indicted and hanged before the day elided. Two of the wounded men may die. Shortly before noon the death list stood at three; — Police Sergeant Charles Walsh, almost instantly killed._ Sergeant Ilolson, died in a hospital. ' Michael Gonna, gangster, died of wounds. The wounded:— Sergeant Michael Conway, shot near the heart, may die. John Seale, .gangster. Albert Anmalic, gangster. The fight burst after a chase of nearly a mile and a-lmlf on Western avenue after the police squad of four sergeants from the detective bureau saw a largo automobile speeding south. The, police car turned and pursued. The gangsters increased the speed of their oar, and at Sixtieth street their driver lost control and the car crashed into an iron fence. The detective sergeant squad came to a stop a few feet away as the gangsters tumbled or jumped from their car, with revolvers and shotguns ready for action. A fusillade of slugs and bullets was launched at the police squad. The first deadly volley dropped Sergeant iHolson, when a slug crashed through his mouth and shattered bis jaw. A bail of bullets riddled Walsh, killing him almost instantly. More than fifty shots were fired, the crashing of firearms alarming the neighborhood. Sergeant William Sweeney, the fourth member of the police squad, virtually single-handed shot and captured the entire gangster crew. Young Gonna had ll.OOOdol in currency when ho was assassinated.