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> CHICAGO’S KEYSTONE THRILL.
CHICAGO, June 14. The joke is on the police this time! Detective Tom Meagher received a long-distance call from the Chief of Police in the town of Fondulac, Wisconsin. “We have a tip where you can arrest Albert Jennings, escaped convict, also wanted on new charges of forgery,” said the chief, who added fhat he had traced a. call from Jennings to his wife in the Western States, and fhat the desperado called from the Triangle 66699 Chicago. Detective Meagher certainly wanted to arrest Jennings badly, but the telephone company told him that the number mentioned was strictly private and at first refused to give him the address.
Finally, Meagher learned that the telephone was located at No. 830, in Seventy-fifth Street. Machine guns and gas bombs were hurriedly assembled in a squad car for Jennings, known as a desperate character. The police party then rushed to the address given. It was found that, it was a suburban police station, with Jennings safely in a cell. He had been captured three days ago and had phoned bis wife from a pay telephone inside the station.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 10 July 1931, Page 12
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