CHICAGO POLLS
WIDESPREAD VIOLENCE
CANDIDATES KIDNAPPED AND BEATEN
VOTERS EJECTED FROM ROOTIIS
United i’l'S.i Assoeiai ion By lie, 111 Telegraph Copt right. A list raiiun Press Association
(Rc-em-d lIT April. 9.30 a.in ) NEW YORK. !oih April
Kuily m pm is from Chicago indicate an Uli l ts.l.i 1! v !iim \ y poll despite reports of irl-m:,!;.ti< n, violence, k'dnapping .. and iiregularnics, with indications thru the. t**ii es opposing Small and Thoinps<-*i .no leading.
Widespread .'ii-lenoc occurred ; n tie industrial and r*’ <■ i wards. Candidate.-, With kidnapped and beaten, anil voters wen* throw.-i l.odi-y out of polling jtii-t, when filer u-liise.ll In \nte according to inst mi t lulls 1 1 • 1111 hrnid 1 ti lll s. Most- of the victims were ineinliers of the l)ein-*n tceiiun. Oik- '>:in was shot by all am*Tunhde git g e •i-ipi-sed of a man and two women He is expected to recover.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 11 April 1928, Page 5
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148CHICAGO POLLS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 11 April 1928, Page 5
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