CHICAGO’S CRIMINAL GANGS
GUN FIGHTS WITH POLICE.
three killed in one battle.
By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. New Y r ork, Dec. *29.
Liquor gangsters in Chicago, who attempted to levy blackmail on the Tyremen's Union, were met by the police and routed after a fierce gunfight, losing three dead.
The coroner’s jury congratulated the detectives on the clean and efficient execution of Type gangsters. The week-end has been celebrated by a polied raid upon the Racketeers’ Convention, when nine men and one woman were arrested.
The delegates gathered in the office of the Acme Products Company, which bears the sign: “We raise money for churches, lodges, etc.” Amongst the captured ten were several who are believed to have participated in the. St. Valentine’s Day massacre.
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Taranaki Daily News, 31 December 1929, Page 14
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