CRIME IN CHICAGO
POLICE COUNTER-OFFENSIVE
FARMHOUSE RAIDED
DISCOVERY OF BOMBS
(Unitod Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright)
NEW YORK, Bth March
Two squads of Chicago detectives early to-day raided a countryside farmhouse near Melrose Park, which the police declared was a factory for turning out bombs in wholesale quantities. El ven men were arrested. Two powerful dynamite bombs, wrapped apparently ready for delivery, were found in a kitchen cupboard and the house was an arsenal in which four shotguns and many revolvers were 'stacked.
The raid of the "bomb farm" was tho first step in the police counter-offensive to thwart the expected general war in gangland for the control of the lucrative southsidc beer and alcohol traffic.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 10 March 1930, Page 2
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