CHICAGO GANGSTERS
COMPLETE BREAKDOWN OF LAW FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ALARMED. (Pre«s Association—By Telegraph—Copyright) NEW YORK, December 25. (Received Dec, 26, at 10 p.m.) The Chicago correspondent of the New York Times says that Chicago gangsters and their murderous operations have secured such a firm grip upon various large cities, notably New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and St. Louis, that the Federal Government is alarmed at the practically complete breakdown of the law, and must take a hand in checking the menace. Secret conferences are being held in Washington, in which the (Federal Prosecutors from several cities are consulting the Department of Commerce officials, who administer th e immigration laws. It established the fact that the majority of professional murderers are imported from abroad, Chicago recently had several amazing cases of murderers being fiecd because the witnesses had been driven away or slain. New York is said to bo the headquarters of a gang of criminals collecting heavy tribute in all principal cities through liquor, vice, and gambling operations,.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20291, 27 December 1927, Page 9
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