POLICE GANG WAR.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 23 July 1925, Page 7

POLICE GANG WAR.

A BATTLE IN CHICAGO

THREE KILLED AND THREE WOUNDED.

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 Genoa, one of the attacking gang, and the wounding of a third policeman and Genna’s two companions. Genna is be. lieved to have been a brother to Angelo Genna, gangster, recently assassinated, and the killings are thought to presage a bitter police war against gunmen and beer runners.

Superintendent of Police Moran A. Collins declared' the police killers should be indicted and. hanged before the day ended. Two of the wounded men may die. Shortly before noon the death list stood at three :

Police Sergeant Charles Walsh, almost instantly hilled. Sergeant Holson, died in a hospital. Michael Genna, gangster, died of wounds. The wounded: Sergeant Michael Conway, shot near the heart, may die. John Scale, gangster. Albert Anmalie, gangster. The fight burst after a chase of nearly a mile and a half on Western Avenue after the police squad of four sergeants from the detective bureau saw a large automobile speeding south. Th© police ear turned and pursued. The gangsters increased the speed of their car and at Sixtieth Street their driver lost control and the car dashed into an iron fence. The detective sergeant squad came to to a stop a few feet away as the gangsters tumbled or jumped from their car, with revolvers and shotguns ready far action. A fusillade of slugs and bullet s was launched at the police squad. The first deadly volley dropped Sergeant Olson when a slug crashed through his month and shattered his jaw. A hail of bullets riddled Walsh, killing him almost instantly. More than 50 shots were fiTed, -the crashing of firearms alarming the neighbourhood. Sergeant William Sweeney, the fourth member of the police squad, virtually single handed shot and captured the entire gangster crew. Young Genna. had 11,000 dollars in currency when h© was assassinated.