A MAN HUNT

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 4593, 19 May 1922, Page 2

A MAN HUNT

AMERICA'S CRIME WAVE. A TALE OF TWO CITIES. By Eleetrio Telegram.—Copyright. (Aust.-N.Z- Cablo Association.) (Received May 19, 10 a.m.) New York, May 17. The most spectacular nmn-hunt that has been for years occurred when all traffic was diverted from "Twentieth Street to Fifth Avenue, where the police surrounded a textilo warehouse. Detectives crossed tho roofs into tho fourth storey of the building and finally arrested four of the city's leading criminals, two of whom slid down greased elevator pillars.' l/oot worth £4OOO was recovered. On tho outside crowds numbering many thousands watched the police siege of the building. Special police in Chicago have been instructed to shoot suspicoius persons who fail to comply promptly with orders. This is being done to combat what tho officials describe as the Labour leaders' dying attempt to terrorise the city by murders and fires.