CRIME IN CHICAGO.
REIGN OF ROBBERY. FEWER POLICE; MORE BANDITB. LEISURELY BURGLARS. Unttert Press Assn.—rnec. Tel —Convrigm (Received Jan. 8, 1.45 p.m.) NEW YORK, Jan. 7. Because its civic exchequer is hard up Chicago recently dismissed 500 police, and the reign of robbery and violence has been tremendously accentuated. Sixty-seven burglaries have been reported during three hours early last evening. Five bandits thoroughly ransacked the residence of Charles Manton Richter. They had cut 'the telephone wires, and one stood on guard while the other four spent an hour leisurely going through the house securing ■£sooo. Mrs Richter sportingly agreed to turn her jewellery over to them if 'they would not alarm a boy and girl who had just been put to bed. The burglars entered into the spirit of the occasion by smiling pleasantly when the boy, aged eight, came from his bedroom for a drink of water. “I am just an old college chum of. your father,” said tho leading bandit to the startled lad, who returned to his room satisfied.
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Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17913, 8 January 1930, Page 8
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