CHICAGO POLICE ROUND UP 3000 CRIME SUSPECTS

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6850, 4 March 1929, Page 8

CHICAGO POLICE ROUND UP 3000 CRIME SUSPECTS

KNOWN CRIMINALS PICKED UP ON SIGHT—UNDERWORLD RAIDED CHICAGO, Jan. 21. Three thousand persons were arrested between Saturday nightfall and Monday dawn in ono of tho most sudden, widespread and successful police drives in the history of Chicago. Raids were conducted against every known habitant of the gangster, gunman and robber. Where doors were locked, doors were smashed open. Tho theatre district swarmed with plain clothes men, seeking the “dress suit crooks’’ and police patrols were booked for hours ahead, so swift were the arrests. The drive was Police Chief William Russell’s answer to a week of crime marked by 102 robberies in which four

persons were fatally shot ami severa, others seriously wounded. Two-thirds of the city's force of 6000 policemen were kept on doublo duty over Sunday to insure the success of the drive. Besides the raids, police had random squads at work everywhere, making arrests at street corners —anywhere they might come upon persons witn police records or who were unable to give satisfactory accounts of themselves With every police district in the city participating, arrests were made by the hundreds every hour. In the outlying sections, after the drive had been in progress several hours, oilicers found evidence of the result. At one place they came upon several men hastily dismantling five stills and loading them on trucks in an alley. Up to 4 a.m., Jan. 21 the raids Had resulted in the seizure of 75 shotguns end pistols. Sunday, while the raids were in progress, only two minor holdups were reported.