CHICAGO’S MAYOR
THOMPSON ELECTED UNPRECEDENTED RIOTING AND LAWLESSNESS MACHINE-GUNS AND BOMBS USED (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Rec. 9.30 p.m.) New York, April 5. Mr Thompson was elected Mayor of Chicago by a plurality of 50,000 votes, amid unprecedented rioting, in which machine-guns and bombs were used freely by the police on rival factions. Soon after the polls were opened two buildings were bombed in the precincts of the headquarters of one of the factions. A State senator’s home was fired upon and raked with machine-gun bullets. Two election officials were kidnapped. One hundred gangsters were arrested. All the votes in the Twenty-first Ward were burned by lighted matches being dropped into the ballot boxes. A bomb wrecked a brick barn in which were situated the Democratic Ward headquarters. The effective organisation of the police prevented more serious riots and deaths. Thompson’s supporters have begun a wild celebration, which the police fear will result in additional outbreaks. A. and N.Z.
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Southland Times, Issue 20148, 7 April 1927, Page 7
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158CHICAGO’S MAYOR Southland Times, Issue 20148, 7 April 1927, Page 7
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