HIDDEN WAR ON CRIME

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17249, 3 May 1930, Page 6

HIDDEN WAR ON CRIME

SPIES’ PERIL IN CHICAGO LOST MAGISTRATE NEW YORK, March 7. The secret “vigilantes” who have been organised by Mr. Randolph and bis Citizens’ Committee to clean up Chicago's underworld’ are understood to be conducting their investigations into the do’ings of tlie- gunmen and; racketeers, but all details of the way them operations are being directed and any facts concerning results already obtained are carefully guarded. IN GUNMEN’S HAUNTS.

Nobody outside the small central committee knows how many brave men are being sent into the dangerous Chicago gunmen’s haunts to secure evidence against the criminals which the police have been unable to obtain. Their identities are carefully guarded, sittde their lives would not be worth a moment’s purchase it’ the inhabitants of the underworld knew who they are,

It is understood that their present 'finest, is chiefly to gain information to show bow it is that the underworld leaders succeed in interfering with court proceedings, and obtain long delays and eventual discharges of criminals who have been arrested but do not serve goal sontenses.

Chicago has a new mystery in the disappearance of the police court magistral e, Mr. J. M. Feron, who vanished a week ago. Nobody seems in a position to say whether bo is tire victim of loss of morirorv, or violence, or whether lie voluntarily disappeared for personal reasons. Quiet inquiries lasting over several days have now been followed by a widespread police hunt for him, MYSTERY OF THE COURTS’. An extraordinary example of the way the Chicago courts grant postponements is now mystifying .Chicago in the case of the trial of Chink Manley and Stanley Klonowski. alleged gamblers, who are charged with embezzlement in connection with the theft of T1U.600 from the Second North-Western State Bank of Chicago iri 1925. Alfred Pa try as, the commercial teller at the bank, is accused of actually taking the money under the ureings of Manley and Klonowski'.

Patryns is now being used as the State’s witness against Manley and Klonowski, as the prosecution contend that they are more guilty than lie. It lias been discovered that the case has been postponed on various grounds 47 times during the past four years and nine months, on ?0 of the occasions with flic consent of the public prosecutor.