WILD SCENES
CHICAGO MAYORAL CONTEST
MACHINE GUNS AND BOMBS
FIGHTS BETWEEN FACTIONS
(United Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received April 6, 9.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, April 5.
Mr Thompson was elected Mayor of Chicago by a plurality of 50,000 votes amid unprecedented rioting, in which machine guns and bombs were used freely by the police on the rival factions.
Soon after the polls were opened two buildings were bombed in the precincts of the headquarters of one of tho factions. A State Senator’s home was fired upon and raked with machine gun bullets. Two election officials were kidnapped. A hundred gangsters were arrested. .
All votes in the twenty-first ward were burned, lighted matches being dropped into the ballot boxes. A bomb wrecked a brick barn in which were situated the Democratic ward headquarters. The etfective organisation of the. police prevented more serious riots and deaths. Mr Thompson’s supporters began a wild celebration, which the police tear w>ll result in additional outbreaks. —A. and N.Z.C.A.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10377, 7 April 1927, Page 5
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