CHICAGO ELECTION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 111, 7 April 1927, Page 7

CHICAGO ELECTION.

- UNPRECEDENTED RIOTING

MACHINE GUNS AND BOMBS,

< NEW YORK, April 5. The Republican candidate, Mr William Thompson, was elected Mayor of Chicago by a plurality of 50,000 votes, The election was. accompanied by unprecented rioting, in which machineguns and bombs) were used freely by the police on rival factions. Soon after the. polls were opened two buildings were bombed in the precincts of the headquarters of ,one of the factions. A State Senator’s home was fired upon and raked with mach-ine-gun bullets. Two election officials were kidnapped. A hundred gangsters were arrested. All the 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 headquarters. The effective organisation of the polioe prevented more serious l-iots and deaths

Mr Thompson’s supporters began a wild oelebration, which the police fear will result in additional outbreaks. — A. and N.Z. cable.

The candidate opposing Mr Thompson was the Democrat, Mr William Dever.