CHICAGO'S CRIME WAVE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20481, 5 February 1930, Page 11

CHICAGO'S CRIME WAVE.

AMAZING SITUATION.

BOMBS CREATE TERROR.- |

MURDERS AND ASSAULTS.

By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. NEW YORK, Feb. 3. The crime wave in Chicago—almost unparalleled even for that city—was augmented to-day by the fourth gang murder in as many days and by two bomb outrages, one in a theatre crowded with women and children.

Forty hold-ups were entered in the police records in 10 hours. Cases of shooting, robbery, etc., also continued unabated.

Three hundred women and children were in a theatre at Hinsdale, a suburb of Chicago, when the explosion of a bomb shook the building. The audience stampeded for the exits screaming with fear.

There ensued a crush in the doorways and many of the women and children were in peril of being trampled to death.

The second bomb explosion destroyed three shops and* rocked the entire southwest side of the city early this morning. Thousands of residences within a radius of two miles were shaken. The streets were soon filled with terrified men, women and children, many of them in their night atticje. No one was injured, however.

CIVIC MISMANAGEMENT,

SORRY STATE OF FINANCES*

EMPLOYEES* WAGES CUT. NEW YORK. Feb. 3. The financial position of the city of Chicago continues to be unsettled. To-day 1300 employees agreed to accept a 15 per cent, cut in their wages rather than that 200 of them should be discharged. Numerous suburbs also are faciug financial pressure owing to delay in the collection of the 1928-29, taxes.

Doubts concerning the legality of tho tax law are known to be responsible for Chicago's difficulties. Alleged mismanagement and a spendthrift policy are blamed for the particularly critical financial plight of the city. (