of becoming ’ Ph il l he ir “ i s can t be on the j ob . When the ad e p W g ?“ mm” gathered him in and laid him away in a in the county j ail in 1 9 29 his henchmen “ , , g s , e m to him and trained in his methods carried Lwer in ave when he was freed and had returned to Ch i g there was a great celebration in Gangland in huff! ' ' s of the Big Fellow . From eve ry province of t t

‘ t underworld came representatives to a great me e i ing and when it was over they all departed to “ All A1 ” their rackets crying for Al , and for All .

With no intention of eulogizing him , Cap one unquestionably stands out as the greatest and

most successful gangster who ever lived . What i s Wh en you look at organized crime in Chicago si gnificant is that he is really a gangster, as much you first see Alphonse Ca one a tly and accu p , p so as the celebrated Monk Eastman and Big Jack rat ely described by his vassal s of the underworld ! elig of New York . As a youth he was himself “ l as the Big Fel ow . You may be sure he is that ’ a member of their notorious Five Points gang,

. l to them Gangland s p hrases are as fu l of mea n and the diff erence between him and all other gang in g and as expressive as they are curious and st ers is that he is possessed of a genius for organ i orig nal , and to be the Big Fellow i s to be king . iz at ion and a profound business sense . It was , ’ U un Edwin A . Olsen , nited States District Attorney , Capone s ri se to hi s p resent position of ' who st at ed in 19 2 6 that Capone operated on a gross disputed leadership has been swift , remarkable and inevitable ; and the comp lete story of the beer basis of a year which takes in only l his i licit liquor business . What he rofits from wars of Chicago is his story , his biograp hy . Other p more p ict uresque figures have emerged from the his prodigious gambling and vice syndicates can l shadowy rea lm of Gangland since prohibition and only be a specu ative matter . ' This book looks at King Al urely from an the Volstead Act threw it into bloody strife . Dion p ’ B anion obj ective standp oint . What goes on under his hat O stands out a gaudy fig ure , and so does , “ t or under the hat of any of hi s ilk is a rofound Lit le Hymie Weiss , both of whom challenged , p

o n / mystery as far as this bo k i s co cerned . An d as \ the rule of Capone for a short violent time , and , ’ Cap one s p ublic utterances have been few and they looked like Big Fellows while they lasted , ’ brief , they have been of little service in revealing but they didn t last . Today it is quite plain that nothing either of them ever achieved in Gangland his mental p rocesses . Neither i s this book inter e st ed in the conditions which have made him a history possessed fin ish and p erfection in the same nifli supreme s er of law and order . degree as did the deft and artistic method by B ut he i s a glamorous figure , an actual p art of whi ch they were eliminated and laid away . ’ “ ” the Am erican scene . Legend s already are springing O B anion and Little Hymie and all the others , w up a round him , fiction riters have found him the living and dead , are but thr illing p aragrap hs and inspiration for a vast production of current litera chapters in the rise of Capone . With each suc a flam ture . The magazine stands are e with under ce s sive death Cap one stepped on closer to the world stories and Gangland stories about the man position where Gangland was comp elled to call with the gat who wears a tuxedo and has a liver him the Big Fellow . i ed chauffeur . Over in England Mr . Edgar Wallace W hether you like it or not , and p robably has j ust evolved another thriller , this time in ’ r you don t , Capone has become a figure of na d amatic form , from material hastily gathered n tio al and even international during a visit to Ch icago . The n i terest . Rea ch for yo ur daily visit included a crime tour of ’ newspap er , and you ll find him the city with Commissioner duly chronicled along with Stege of the detective bureau

ll . Lindbergh , Wi Rogers , Henry at his side calling out the spots l Ford, Wi liam Scott McBride , C And so this book will take Bishop Cannon , Charlie hap lin you along the j ourney traveled , John Gilbert and all the

Mr. others who romp daily across by Capone in reaching his

present height . It will show the front p age . you What and When and How - a At thirty three his p osition and Where , but not Why . C ’ has become so firm and secure pone is the world s outstanding as the Big Fellow of the under gangster and for that reason world that his vast affairs move well worth writing about and - ’ machine lik e even when he looking at . Let s have a look . What can we do for Little Jimmy ? ” implored the

agitated Italians . Mr. Murphy was silent for several . n d W minutes thinking . Then he said curtly a ithout a “ ” smile ! Go up and take him . And they di d . And there you have the debut in Chicago of Alphon se Capone who was to rise to a towering position a s the “ ” Big Fellow of the underworld in less than a decade . A great many of the local citizenry will tell you t oday that the debut of Capone together with the advent of prohibi tion was the worst “ break ” sustained by Chicago Since

the great fire .

His first job then was that of a body guard for Colosimo . In order to better understand him it is necessary to examine the new bac kground in which the vice lord had established “ i ” him . B g Jim laid the foundations upon which Capone was

later to build his mighty underworld empire . At the time ? ’ ello . Iss di s the Be eg Jim Colosimo who is spik of young Capone s arrival Colosimo was the master of ’ ’ I am ver glad . Dis iss lett le Jimmy . I am jus callin the notorious old levee distri ct . His principal interests ’ ou ou I y to tell y that am goin to keel you someday were syndicated vice , syndicated prostitution and syn I ’ don t know just when it will bee , but it will come . d ica t e d gambling, a fact unknown by many who believe b e Goo . y organized crime to be a recent phenomenon in Chicago. “ ” ’ The teleph one clicked and charming Vincenzo Cos C olos imo s first appearance in the old levee district had

mano , perhaps the most perfect type of killer ever pro been twenty years before when he was only seventeen u e - d c d by Gangland before prohibition and the machine years old . His first job was as a street sweeper . It was “ ” un g era , had cordially announced to Big Jim Colosimo , the cleanest he ever held . More cunning than intelligent , i ’ “ Ch cago s first great underworld king, that the finger was something of a fist fighter and , above all , peculiarly ” ” on him . talented in the art of making friends oung Colosimo — , y In the picturesque argot of the half world to p u t the soon became immensely popular with his countrymen who ” finger on a man is to mark him for death . Big Jim represented a majority of the population . The politicians for Colosimo had had many fingers put on him , but never in the old levee soon found Colosimo and marked him “ ” wn o . u before had the knowledge aff ec ted him like this . It had their Smart wops like him were m ch in demand c r come at a time when everything seemed going wrong , to keep political ma hines unning smoothly . From then ’ C olosim o s and he trembled and began to perspire . on young rise in the underworld was rapid . Verging on emotional stampede “ Big Jim got in touch The step from street-sweeper to bawdy house proprietor

with his lieutenant , Johnny Torrio , who , for three years had been easy and within a few years he had gathered in ha d been handling these matters in a relentless and high a half- dozen such places together with a few gambling

a . handed manner . When Colosimo had brought Johnny out dives and two c fes The secret of it all was that he could

b sway the voting population at will . Politicians curried his from New York to be his ody guard , he had been—able to enjoy a measure of peace and security . The black handers favor, the big shots among them soon heard Colosimo

again their sinister corre telling them , instead of asking them . No one dared molest “ ” ’ ail . Big Jim didn t admit the brothels , the gambling hells and opium joints owned

id . Johnny Torrio knew that or controlled by him , and as early as 19 1 5 , the year he ri Big Jim was afraid when , on that morning , he called summoned Johnny Tor o from New York , he had become a hi “ i and said to m , Johnny , perhaps you would like to law unto h mself , a maker and breaker of political aspira

3 have another good man to help you And Johnny under tions , a man of countless friendships and , alas , of countless “ ” s tood and said , yes . enemies . And so “Big” Jim left Chicago a few days later for New As he acquired wealth the black -handers began to tor him York . Shortly after he returned bringing with him two ture with their demands and threats . Torrio , as we f burly Italians , both of them young men and graduates of have said , was e fective in dealing with these sinister

the celebrated Five Points Gang of New York , an organi groups , and he not only brought a measure of content and “ ” zat ion of which Little Johnny Torrio was an alumnus . security to Big Jim , but his presence in the underworld

One of these men was a quiet , furtive chap who called seemed to cause another wave of prosperity to sweep over “ ” ’ himself Alphonse Capone , and the other was Frankie Yale . the underworld domain . Big Jim s evil business interests

Alphonse had come to stay ; Frankie began to expand . Vice and crime r would leave just as soon as he had crept slowly into new te ritory ,

S . finished a pecial assignment Well , principally the great steel and in the special assignment had to do d u st ria l centers of the South Side .

with Signor Cosmano , the boy who With the adept Johnny at his

always called his shots . side plus the heaviness of a dvan c

ing age , Colosimo began to mani A few days later a big aut omo of fest symptoms indolence . Feel bile whirled round a corner at high ing safe once more from stray bul speed . On the corner Jimmy , fool lets and powder bombs , he took ishly enough stood taking the air . things easy . Important matters There was a terrific roar , and were left entirely to capable John Little Jimmy fell to the cement , n y . Colosimo did not stir himself his body full of lead . Writhing in pain he was taken to the hospital even in the great reform period when the battering ram of public by the police , who camped outside sentiment began tearing wide holes his door , intending to grab him if ’ ’ in the old levee district . But Johnny death didn t , and death didn t . But , ' took care of matters pretty well , neither did the cops . and continued to operate by the Little Jimmy was a Sicilian and simple expedient of retiring into f he had many Sicilian friends who the bu fet flat and the call house .

thought well of his talents and Colosimo was plainly in decline , were distressed that the law might and his inactivity was regarded

store him away . In desperation with a cold eye by his companions t 0 0k they the matter up W l th one . “ M id and the politicians Lassitude took Me e t M r. I ke Bloom , m a n a ge r of T h e Bi T m g Murphy , a powerful ” firmer hold on him as the days ' Nigh t Fro lic s a p op u l a r wh oop e e j oin t i n m fii 1 u on o c al and underworld char Chi c a go l oc at e d j u s t a rou n d t h e c orn e r passed , and Colosimo spent most of ” - o- - ’ acter from the back the yards from C ol os im o s c a fe . I k e wa s a n ol d his days just sitting in his huge “ ” fri e n of B i J im o os im o. district . d g C l ornate cafe dreaming contentedly .

” B i J im o o s im o a s t h e h ot o ra h e rs an d o i o g C l p g p p l c e f un d h im a. f e w mi n u t e s a ft e r a n e xpe rt ki ll e r ’ e o s it e s e e ra bu e t s i n h is h e a . T h e a s s as s in a t i on t oo k f d p d v l ll d p la c e in C ol os im o s orn a t e c a e .

did - Colosimo changed too , but not so definitely as the ever only twenty five days . He met his doom on May 1 1 ,

. cafe Dale Winter, devoutly in love with him , worked shortly after he and his bride had returned t o Chicago . long and assiduously to make a fine gentleman out of him Death came mysteriously and suddenly in the lobby of and she did wonders , considering the material . But even “ ” his c afe on a sultry afternoon whither he had gone hur in riding togs , in evening clothes , Big Jim retained some rie dl y in response to a mysterious telephone message . The of the odor of the underworld . The transformed Colosimo lost caste with the under mystery of his assassination has not been solved to this day . w Thirty persons were questioned at the time and among them world . It was plain that the king had gone rong , and in were Capone and Torrio . It was all a waste of time even the dumps and dives honeycombed throughout the old , the long session the police held at he adquarters with Little levee district there were whi spers that the finger was again Jimmy Cosmano who came forward voluntarily . Miss Win on Colosimo . And it was . And this time neither Little ter dropped out of the underworld at once without making /J oh n n . l y nor Capone could avail him anything any claims even to the estate of her husband . On March 2 9 , 1 920, Colosimo divorced his wife , Victoria ,

and on April 1 6 he was married to Dale Winter . The cere And so King Colosimo who was growing respectable

rf . r mony was pe ormed in Indiana and the underworld lord came to an inevitable end Johnny Tor io stepped forth .

n a a . n wi th his bride went honeymoo ing t an Indi na resort The As Joh ny had eclipsed his boss , soon too was Capone to ‘ r newspapers smoked with the story of his ma riage and there eclipse Torrio . The end of Colosimo , you might say , was

was a great flare of excitement , except of course in the the beginning for Capone . He and Torrio began doing ’ i s underworld . C olos mo new found happiness lasted how things in a big way as we shall see . smart , too , and were horrified at the prospect of becoming

embroiled in any rough stuff . Wh en one of their trucks l ' was appropriated , as occasiona ly happened , they didn t

oil a gat or reach for a machine gun .

W - hen the toughest beer runners in the business , em lo e e s p y of theirs , wanted to exp lode an automatic over in ’ O D on nel l the territory , Terry and Frankie would have “ ” ’ none of it . Klondike O Don nell bought most of his beer Johnny Torrio an d Al Capone soon had the prohibition w “ ” from them an y ay , so why not let him steal one occasion k n “ ” “ ’ law loo i g silly . All the power built up by Big Jim h ally . W at the hell , chorused Terry and Frankie It s Colosimo over a period of twenty years was inherited or ', only one load anyhow , so why bother about it . We ll just e appropri at d by them and , in their hands , it became an draw a lot of heat on ourselves if we rap those guys . m w ’ ” excellent instru ent ith which to make the city al l wet . L e t em get away with it thi s time . And so no blood was th Under Colosimo e politicians had done business with the r shed for which F ankie and Terry were responsible . They “ and “ ” ’ dapper Johnny they had put him down as a right i i O Do n ne ll ” continued on pleasant terms w th Klond ke , had guy , and so Johnny no trouble in placing large hands and shook hands with him when b e backed up hi s trucks ful of dough here and there where it would mean some h to t eir breweries and bought his beer for distribution .

in . n th g As for personnel , Joh ny and Al could muster a Even when the war broke out Terry and Frankie made m - n small army of pi ps , panders , thugs , come o men , ff desperate e orts to preserve neutrality , and in a measure n - bou cers , pick pockets and other vermin already employed succeeded . in the dives and bawdy houses owned or controlled by ’ i ’ Torrio s vast political drag u nder the administration them . Th s ta lented array was available at a moment s - notice to exert themselves in the beer cause provided of was a convincing argument , and he induced the ex brewer , , i i l to sign on the dotted l ne , st pulating however that he course , the beer belonged to Johnny and A phonse . “ ” The next step in the beer scheme was to acquire a few was to retain the title of ex whi ch meant that Torrio i . o n i two was to be the front He would remain incognit beh nd breweries . Joh ny la d hold of or three , but they ’ ’ - wi Torrio s coat tails should there be any trouble . It ll weren t enough . He went sh oppin g again , thi s time north be interesting to tell you that there was trouble and a ward t o the Gold Coast where re spectability slumbered . long time later the ex -brewer was yanked from behind At the magnificent residence of a respectable gentleman , - i i the aforementioned coat tails . It requ red the combined ostens bly a retired brewer, Johnny presented hi s proposi f i i l e forts of two great newspapers to p erform th s feat , tion , emphasiz ng his po itical pull , and , most of all the - l however . One of them , an afternoon newspaper , appeared fac t that if he , the ex brewer , wou d contribute the half one fine day with a mystery thriller in which the where dozen or more idl e breweries owned by him , nobody need - e h - l abouts of the ex brewer was suggest d althoug his know a thing about it . Th e ex brewer cou d reta in the i i “ ” name was not mentioned . Th s so irritated the Ch cago ex as far as the strapha ngers would ever kn ow for, in n Tribune that Mr . Joe Stenson was unceremoniously u case of any trouble , Johnny would take the rap . covered and tossed roughly right out onto page one where While John ny was forming thi s fam ous partnership he he was well fried on both sides . was not a little dismayed to le arn that two other ambitious gentlemen who were not at all averse to turnin g a hot But to return to earlier and happier days for Mr . d in n dollar here an there the new racket had got a ru ning Stenson , it may quite possibly be that he regarded the broad jump on him . These were Fra nkie Lake an d Te rry partnershi p with Johnny Torrio with misgivings and a

D rug g an , products of the Old Valley District , who were sinking heart . John n y had an unsavory reputation , an d n a to become famous in the an ls of Gangdom as the Damon Mr. Stenson might have had an impulse to tell Johnny to and Pythias of th e beer barons . go straight to our beau tiful

Buddies as boys , they had got lower regions . Instead of thus a i i their e rly train ng under the speak ng however , he did the tutelage of the noto rious Paddy next best thing whi ch was to “ ” The Bear Ryan and had b e stipulate that there was to be i - come adept as wagon th eves , no gun powder competition be which is to say they could pry tween hi m and the D rug g a n merchandise loose from trucks Lake interests . Torrio acquiesced and delivery vans while these and all gentlemen , Frankie , W were in motion . hen the Golden Johnny , Terry , and Joe , walked Era of prohibition dawned hand in hand up to the beer

Frankie had become respecta ble front . and was holding down a job of Before long a score of brew putting out fires as a city fire eries were operating day and w . man At the time Torrio , ith ni ght as in the good old da ys . l manuf a c i on y one or two beer Hoodlums , armed w th auto his r in - tories of own , was t y g matic s , sawed off shot guns and to annex enough to make a good other weapons , aided sometimes n r i showi g, Te ry and Frank e by the police guarded great con were operating as many as six voys as they rumbled over the or seven . Their first brewery - cobble stones . So rapidly were had been acqui red through one they brought up to the beer i i Richard Ph ll ps , a partner in front that Chi cago soon found ’ C olos im o s C afe aft er the death itself dotted with seven or eight “ ” im of Big J . From the afore thousand speakeasies , and the mentioned ex -brewer they had customers were lapping ’ em up acquired a li ttle later the Gam - at twenty five cents a stein , brinu s ff , the Standard , the Ho proving a gain that the public

, man the Pfeiffer and the Stege pays an d pays and pays . Access in Brew g Companies . to these thirst clinics sometimes An d so Frankie and Terry involved short walks down alleys must be remembered as the boys and the presentation of cre d e n who admini stered prohibition in t ia ls , but more often all that n f f w h ot o h in Chicago its first swift kick in O e o th e e p gra p s e xi s t e n c e of J ohn n y was involved wa s a thirst and a orrio e s o “B i " im hi T . s u c c s or t g J C olo s im o . Th i s on e wa s . the p pocket They produced quarter . t a ke n s h ort ly a fte r T orri o h a d foun d G an gla n d t oo the first barrel of a mber afte r o Johnny and Al charged fifty t u gh f or h im . A s e t t l e d c h il l in hi s fe e t ins p ire d him Volstead and they owned the t o s ca m p er o ff to It a l y wh e re h e c oul d b e ou t of dollars a barrel for beer and fi rst trucks and vans that moved r e of h o m “ ang t e au t ma t i c s an d ac h i n e gun s of Litt le protection , the latter item being ” . T mi e over the streets hey were Hy We is s . most important because no

[ 7 ] forget himself with those lads ! ’ Except for the O Don ne ll

gang on the South Side , led by “ ” ’ ll the astute Spike O Donn e , the underworld realm seemed fairly content under the iron ’ tion s war chest , were in a posi rule of Johnny and Al . Their ’ O B an tion to sell protection . They toughest lieutenant , Dion soon had the entire city mapped ion , operating on the North “ out in a systematic way , with Side , seemed to be a right guy , certain definite territories al but Little Johnny secretly ex ect ed lot e d to the various groups . Pun p a break with him any ishm ent came swiftly to those day . The powerful Genna broth who were unwise enough to vio ers over in—Little Italy were a late any of the rules , for Johnny surly , vain glorious lot but still e st ablish e d e n and Al their own loyal . Joe Saltis and Frank Mac t forcement agencies , and there E a rlan e also on the South Side - were skull cracking crews , beer were desperate babies and had running contingents , and regular already caused Torrio much em rra s men t w staffs of killers . It was a great ba s ith the loop poli AI i i n s system , and when Johnny or t c a with their battles against “ ” ’ told you to laugh that one off the O D onn e lls . The newspapers ’ you didn t laugh . Even when the had sizzled with accounts of the ’ O C on n or organization was operating with killing of Jerry , one a maximum of smoothness and of which had hap

7 1 923 . order there was always a little pened on September , Of killing or beating up job to be course Jerry had to go ; he had taken care of, and Johnny and been raising too much hell with Al had it done as a routine good customers and that wa s ’ rrio s matter . But despite all this per why To tough boys put him f ection of organization the busi in a horizontal position during ness was getting tougher every a surprise aff ray in the saloon da . y, and Little Johnny looked of Joseph Kepka It was too bad “ ” - upon the tell tale signs with mis that Spike had been missed , givings . His booze syndicate was for the shooting of Jerry seemed causing him more trouble every rather to intensify matters . ’ r day , and he began to wonder if T h e B ig B oy do e s n t s e e m t o b e di s t u rbe d if y ou b e li e v e To rio regretted , for business someday these persistent little t h e s mi le o n h i s fac e in t hi s p ic t u re . I t wa s s n a p p e d reasons , the slaying of George own in ia mi Fl o ri d a u s t a ft e r h e h a d b ou n c e ou t e han who flares of revolt might not grow d M , , j d Bucher and George M e g , “ ’ " ’ of c ou rt room . I t s e rs ec u t i on n o ro s e c u t ion n a p , t p , onn e l into a consuming co fia g ra t ion . were O D l men , but then it s a y s Al. ’ The booze business had brought couldn t be helped . They had him into contact with a diff erent been ta lking too much about re breed of tough guy from the pimp and the pander and vealing the slayers of Jerry , so there was more banging the pickpocke t associated in the vice business . An occa and these boys folded up in death after a cloud of lead u sio al murder; was all right, but the casualties brought on had cracked into their automobile . That was on September i ’ by th s new business were too many . Johnny s weekly 1 7 , and Torrio had a most uncomfortable time of it when ’ payroll , estimated at more than included a breed a few weeks later the state s attorney , Robert E . Crowe , rla ne of individual who had personal courage and plenty of it . brought about the indictments of Frank MacEa , - r Burglars , second story men , safe c ackers , sluggers for Thomas Hoban and Danny Mc Fa ll . But the most disturb labor unions , had gone into the liquor business feeling ing murder was that of Thomas (Morrie ) Keane , on “ ” o cha n eO t o - that it aff rded them a c go straight for the first December 1 , 19 23 . Morrie and a companion beer runner ” “ ” ’ i “ re e . v to D on ne ll t me in their liv s The ob iou s rewards lured them a William Shorty Egan , for Spike O were “ ” r frenzy compa able to that of the adventurous spirits who turning from Joliet with a truck load of beer . Spike ’ n joined the gold rush of 49 . Johnny k ew that the money had been backing his truck s up to the breweries of Frankie ba d or they were making was j them , but there could be Lake and Terry Dru g g an , both Torrio boys as we have no salary reductions . A hoodlum with a thousand bucks seen , but the price was too high , and Keane and th e loose on community was a dangerous man , especially Egan , were merrily returning to Chicago with seventy “ ” when he went out to play . ba rrels of brew from a brewery whi ch Spike was trying it hi- Alas , Johnny saw that cond ions were not the same to purchase when they were jacked . Ordered to get l as in the old days , when he cou d slap a pimp in the face into an automobile , Keane and Egan dutifully did so . with hi s fist and get away with it. Let him try that stuff They were bound securely and sat in the rear seat for a ’ Ban ion o e the on such vassals as Dion O v r on North Side , few minutes as the car speeded down the lonely highway - w . or Frankie M a cEa rlan e and his barb ire kid brother , wondering at their fate . Suddenly they got it One of the “ ” Koncil i Vincent , or Joe Saltis , or Lefty , or Little Hym e men in the front seat , believed to have been Frank Mac

D rucci . him E rl n Weiss , or Schemer or Red Hoban Oh yes , let a a e , turned round , and emptied an automatic into them .

POLICE BUILDINGS IN CHICAGO

axwe t re et t a ti on . et e c ti e e a ua rt ers C ri min a Court ui di n Th e N e w Crimi n a o rt M ll S S D v H dq Old l B l g l C u Building . ” They were then tossed out into a ditch , Spike had some influence , and , although in a locality known as Beer Cemetery he and his brothers were arrested and in Ke ane was dead probably before he hit jailed several times , and two of them w w s the earth , but Egan , ith half a dozen dicted , there a to come a change in wounds , crawled for miles crying for hel p . their fortunes . As we have seen the great ’ Finally he got into the Palos Park Golf factor in Torrio s power was the vast politi w in fiu e nc 1 9 23 Club just at da n . Believin g himself d y cal e he wielded , but in , the w ing Egan told the only employee there people of Chicago , becoming bored ith at that hour that he was a bootlegger in William Hale Thompson , blew him out of “ ” ’ ff v O D on . the ser ice of Spike n e ll . Mac o ice , placing in his stead William E

Earlan e was arrested and held in a hotel Dever . This brought panic to the under for a few days before being released . world ; the vast system was shot to pieces ;

Under pressure , however, indictments were no Speakeasy proprietor knew just m “ " ” returned in which were na ed Joe Salti s , whether he was in or out ; Torrio n n w Willie Chan el , Joh nyy Hoban , Ralph orked desperately and frantically to Ni m “ ” w Sheldon and Willie e ot h and Mac fix the situation , and he ent about E l a r an e . Incidentally they were tossed with great handsful of dough in an effort into the wastebasket four months later . to bring order again to his realm ; he was

All thi s was bad business and Torrio only partially successful . shuddered to think of the future with all This change in the administration and ’ e or e e a h a n ea r c as u a t Torrio s of these tough boys doing their stuff . G g M g . ly l y its consequent di saster to machine “ " ’ S ou t h Sid e B e e r Wars . e ll Johnny made no public estimate , but if gave Spike O D onn the break he l he had it is doubtful if he wou d have needed , and he again instituted terroristic

fixed the number of gangsters to bite the sawdust in the proceedings in the realm of Torrio . His particular field

a MacEa rlan e . next couple of years at more than 3 00. was that controlled by Joe Saltis and Fr nk ” ’ ’ ll T rri Spike O Donn e could not be brought into the fold , Saltis and M a c Earla ne , now that o o s power was a “ ” although peace was offered him . Spike had come from a doubt ful quantity , operated on the South Side for them - - - fighting family back o the yards district and had a few selves . As a matter of fact conditions were so precarious i friends in the city hall h mself , but his drag was puny that every man or rather every gang realized that until “ ” i . an d insign ficant compared to that of Little John ny . But Torrio could fix things , every man was for himself he would not be brought to terms , and for a long time Torrio was working to bring about the fixing , but he ‘ ’ ’ thi s word coul d be heard in Gan glan d ! Spike O Don n ell realized that he was up against the greatest job of hi s ’ ’ B n ion will never make another dime in the racket. He s ruined vicious career . Over on the North Side Dion O a and ’ " n w everybody else , and o they re going to gan g against his inseparable companion , Samuel Nai ls Morton were ” him . growing in strength and power , and Torrio could see that e hi In th investigations that followed the murder of Ke ane , unless he could get a better grip on s connections , there ” charges were made that the police were persecuting Spike would be trouble from that source . At thi s period the “ ” hi s i n n and boys , wh le the Torrio mob went undisturbed . But government an oyed Torrio by k ocking off a brewery

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1 92 from time to time . In October, 3 , he was fined for came from a weapon owned and wielded by Sergeant

u k . illegally manipulating a brewery transfer , and the strain William C siac , of the Chicago Police force - ’ was too much on his over taxed nerves . Incidentally it was Gangland mourned the passing of Al s brother the

in this period that Mr . Joe Stenson , aforementioned , was next day , instead of celebrating their technical victory

shocked to find his name and address published on page at the polls . Torrio with others important in the high ‘ one of the newspapers . councils of his organization visited at Capone s home . The harassed T orrio began now to show definite signs Every one of the 1 23 saloons in Cicero locked its doors i . of weakening Instead of remaining on the job at th s by order of his majesty , Johnny , and it was the dryest

a . period as he had planned , he decided to t ke a vacation day in the history of the town , before or after prohibition .

And , for the next six months he was out of the city . Part The slaying of Capone together with the hell raised

of his vacation was spent in Europe and in Italy , the place generally during the election , inspired another cyclone of ’ of his birth . In Italy he purchased a great villa for his words from the public officials , particularly from State s

mother . Attorney Robert E . Crowe . Inquests and investigations

He returned in March . This period marks the date of tripped up as usual . Alphonse himself testified at the

his decline , just as it marks the beginning of the rise to inquest , but after some curious sign language between

power of his lieutenant, Al Capone . As Torrio had grown ri i him and Charles F s ch ett , companion of Frank at the ff superior to Colosimo , so had Capone grown superior to time of his death , Alphonse suddenly su ered a loss of

Torrio . It is extremely doubtful that Torrio would have memory .

bothered to return to Chicago if he had known what awaited Despite this technical victory , Torrio found conditions

. . him The beer war was about to begin Blood was to be in his realm growing increasingly unpleasant. A month poured into the beer . The shooting that can still be heard after the election another one of his breweries was knocked

round the world was to break out in the Beer War . off and , surprisingly and significantly enough , this time it was done by Chief of Police Morgan Collins and Captain

Matthew !immer . The brewery was the Sieben Brewery

on the North Side . The police attack on it was one of the most beautifully executed jobs which ever a gangster

looked upon with dismay . Nobody except the leaders ,

Collins and !immer knew what was going to happen , , — hence there was no tip off . With their uniformed men

wondering where and what , Chief Collins and Captain !immer led them after midnight to the big brewery where they swooped down on men guarding thirteen truckloads

of beer , ready to be convoyed through the streets . The

convoy , composed of gang leaders , was arriving in auto The heat in Chicago during those days of cold March ,

1924 mobiles , and , as each automobile deposited its cargo of , was intense for all gentlemen of the gat and the

gangsters , the police gathered them up . It was a great . machine gun When Johnny came slinking home there “ ’ ” aggregation and made a swell who s who of Gangland . were no processions or celebrations in honor of the event . ’ - All the big shots were there . King Torrio , Dion O Ba n ion , Matters in the Torrio Capone camp were too grave for any “ ” - Alt e rie Three Gun Louie , Hymie Weiss and others . display . Newspapers were smoking with propaganda “ ’ State s Attorney obert E . Crowe was the logical against their rule . The man with the gat must go , R fi they cried ; Chicago must wrench itself free from the grip public of cial to receive this prize , but , significantly enough r of crime . The attitude of Mayor Dever was conducive to a Chief Collins delivered it instead to United States Atto ney

. Olsen , a great pain in the neck to all gentlemen of the cleanup His chief of police , Morgan A . Collins , was a fear

f underworld . When asked why this ace of policemen , less man o the highest integrity . He was anathema to , ! i w 1 responded va g e ly that Attorney Olsen had promised Torr o , se strongest point of political contact was in ’ ’ a prompt cooperation , and despite the fact that it was a the state s ttorney s office . Immediately after his return to Chicago Torrio sum police raid , pure and simple , the government was to do men ed his adherents to a meeting place in the Metropole the prosecuting . on im A curious thing about gangsters is that they never Hotel South Michigan Boulevard , where the most “ ” porta nt matter discussed was that of holding their own venture out of doors without first heeling themselves in Cicero whither Torrio had moved headquart ers some with plenty of money . Angelo Genna , whose gaudy career, “ ” h was to end in a few months , was heeled to t e extent of time earlier by comparatively peaceful methods . Cicero , - a western suburb , soon found itself completely over run

by the underworld element . Torrio made it the base of his - gambling and beer runni ng interest , and the town leaped

into national fame as one of the toughest spots on earth . Ingress into Cicero had not been entirely wi thout diffi

culty however , for now they encountered the West Side ’ D ru a n O Donn e lls , also Valley boys with Terry g g and i Frankie Lake , who looked with env ous eyes upon this r - territory . The squabbles between the Tor io Capone and ’ West Side O D on ne lls were of comparative unimportance M c wi in however until late in 1 925 when William S g g , an ’ ass istant state s attorney was murdered one evening when ’ n spending an evening with the O D on e lls . But there were ‘ of frequent disturbances , splitting of skulls , bombing

u . speakeasies , and general trouble over c stomers Another m obstacle in the path of Torrio was Eddie Ta el , a native fi of Cicero , who dabbled in the illicit liquor traf c and was

the proprietor of a cabaret in Cicero . Eddie regarded the ’ advance of the O Don n ells and the Capone -Torrio outfit

with hostile eyes , and he was to die for his unfriendliness

a few months later . On the eve of the Cicero election a second meeting of - the Torrio Capone gangmen was held , this time in the

Four Deuces Saloon , 2 22 2 South Wabash , owned by Capone . Every -ready Al stepped forward with the request that the business of swinging the election be placed in his capable

hands . And it was . The election became a riot , the day e r e a n i ia m s ia c k of h e n r i S g t W ll C u , t e C t a l P ol c e St a t i on , on e was saved for Gangland , but Al lost his kid brother Frank o f t h e o u t s t an di n g foe s of ga n gs t e rs . S e rge a nt C u s ia c k f ou gh t

w . Capone , in the smoke of a pistol battle ith the police i n t h e b a t t le of Ci c e ro a n d won a g re at vi c t ory b y e li m in a t in g ’ ra n a on e rom t h i i The particular bullet which ended young Capone s career P k C p f s l fe .

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Even the happy and carefree Terry Dru g g an and Frankie Lake took it on the chin during thi s troubled period . Having been enjoined by Federal Judge Wilkerson from operating one of their brew “ eries this inseparable pair said Oh , Yeah and proceeded to remove large quantities of amber

fluid therefrom . One night a squad of prohibition officers descended upon them and Damon and Py thias were brought up before the judge and he told them to go to the county jail for a year . Losing an appeal to a higher court Frankie began serving the ’ sentence , but Terry couldn t see it that way . He s et out blithely for California where , months later , he was gathered in and returned to Chicago . He walked through the portals of Sheriff Peter B . f ’ Ho fman s lodging house in November . At this time spies from the North Side reported ’ that O B an ion , in addition to violating the terri “ ri l t o a rights of the Genna brothers , was running ” ’ off Torrio the chin on the subject of s power . ’ ’ O Ba nion s slogan at this time seems to have been “ ” , To Hell With Torrio . The Gen ' nas were su mm on e d and methods devised to punish the revolting vassal .

o Aft e r t h e Cic e ro e le ct ion ri t . M a n i n t h e c a p is Ch a rle s Fris c h e t t i , e r c om p a n io n of Fra n k Ca p on , ( u p p e ri gh t ) wh o was kille d in a g un ba t t le wit h p oli c e . Fra n k wa s a

brot h e r of K in g Al .

' “ " ’ “ " ’ f e a t i s e a n in i e Smilin g Sp ike O D on n e ll s ga n g o h o o dlum s b fore J oe S l b g t hinn g t h e m ou t . ( 1 ) Sp k O D on n e ll an d Ch ie f e r nk D on n e ll a t e r O ’ D onn e ll e s e im s e n Willi am Sh o e m a k r, (2 ) At t orn e y P a M c , (3 ) W l . d c e a d, (4 ) G p R o b a um , mi s s in g , “ " ' “ ” ’ - “ ’ " n e v e D o nn e ll . T i ( 5 ) Sp ik e O D on n el l , (6 ) Ja m e s Bu c h e r, d e c e a s e d, a d St O h e t n c a n obj e ct i s on e of Sp i k e s c a rs .

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and they had read all right , but, too late , somebody dis

covered that they were phony . “ ” ’ Nails taught O Ban ion to wear dinner jackets and to live in fine hotels and how to use his lm if e and fork

and to be a gentleman . He is given credit for also teaching the blustering Irishman that political pull is more potent “ for a racketeer on occasions than pistols . Get the politi ” cian s working for you was a complicated principle which ’ ’ Samuel pounded into O B an ion s head . It is said that “ Nails ” invented the famous phrase “ take him for a ride ”

by which is meant that traitors , spies , squealers and stool

pigeons , were disposed of by being placed in the front seat of an automobile and shot by somebody in the rear “ seat . Curiously enough Nails himself was taken for a ’ r The underworld lost its most fantastic and picturesque ride one Sunday morning , only it wasn t that kind of a ide . “ ” personality and Johnny Torrio lost his most persistent Nails in riding togs was en route from a stable one 1 9 pain in the neck on the morning of November , when Sunday morning to Lincoln Park for a canter . The horse , ’ ’ “ ” Dion O Ban ion s body , heavier by six balls of lead , fell not knowing what a tough guy Nails was , became unruly “ ” crashing among the Chrysanthemums of hi s little flower before they reached the bridle path and Nails was thrown shop at 73 8 North State Street . This flower shop , inti violently to the pavement . The horse then stepped on ' ’ mately connected with some of the most thrilling chapters . . Mr Morton s head A few hours later , legend has it , Louie “ ” B ooz ed om Alt r in the long and bloody story of , stands intact Three Gun e ie , again rented the horse , rode it to a ’ Sch ofi e ld today , and the proprietor, William , stands many remote spot and then pumped a bullet into the horse s head . ’ ’ ’ customers on th e spot where O B a nion fell while he takes A new story used to appear every day about O Ban ion s ’ O B a nion Sch ofi e ld orders for flowers . , in partnership with loyalty to a pal , his bravery , his great love for gun play , “ ” “ ” and Samuel Nails Morton , used the little shop as a his love for his mother and wife , and his Robin Hood r i “ ” blind for his prodigious c iminal activ ties . methods . Here is one on the pal theme . In the days ’ O Ba n ion A glad hand artist , an expert at throwing the bull , before the Golden Era of prohibition was not at this paradoxical mixture of ferocity and sentimentality all averse to sensational holdups . Once he and his mob stepped high wide and handsome through the shadowy planned to “take ” a certain race track which was about realm of the underworld for a dozen years , cracking safes , to open , on the West Side . Wind of this came to the pro m t rs shooting up saloons , terrorizing polling places , figuring in o e , one of whom knew a newspaper man who was — ’ w O Ba n ion . newspaper circulation wars , hi jacking liquor and thumbing friendly ith All being native Chicagoans , his nose at public prosecutors . instead of informing the police , the promoters went to the ’ O B a n ion His ability to thumb his nose at public prosecutors , newspaper man . was called by telephone and “ D e a n ascribable to his own more or less valuable services to the newspaper man said , Say y , I want you to do a ” ’ i . O B a n on certain North Side political leaders , first attracted the favor for me It was okey with , even when the attention of Johnny Tor'rio when Johnny was looking about newspaper man informed him that the favor meant assem for breweries and talented gentleme n to aid him in what ling some of his boys and working as a guard over the was a new and inviting racket . till at the race track . Sure enough on the day of the race , ’ ’ O B a nion O Ba nion with a gang of his hoodlums , all armed , stood , a typical neighborhood gangster from boy ‘ flice s hood had assembled a formidable gang in the persons of around the box o ready for war if anybody attempted , “ ’ “ ” - n i to spring a ything . Later O Ba n on learned from the such men as Samuel Nails M orton , Louie Three Gun “ ” “ ” newspaper man that a fast one had been put over on him Alt erie , Little H ymie Weiss , George Bugs Moran ,

Gu s e nb er but he received the news with great relish . Schemer Drucei , George and Pete g and other ’ B a nion lesser individuals . Torrio and O came to an under It will serve to illustrate the important position ’ ’ ’ standing and O B an ion s territory was established on the O Ban ion occupied to mention a party given in his honor

. North Side . Presently he had , to use his own expression , several days prior to his death The hosts included the ’ ’ B a nion s stepped up into the bucks . O power resulted from commissioner of public works , the county clerk , half a

’ the application of methods quite unlike those of Johnny dozen police lieutenants , and the chief of detectives ,

r . i Torrio and Capone . His realm was built on f iendship , Michael Hughes A d amond studded watch was presented ’ ’ i B nio with pecuniary considerations secondary . O Ban on de to O a n on this occasion . When news of the party pended upon his pals , and his pals depended upon him . got out , there was a great noise and Detective Hughes His death however proved conclusively to the interested explained that he h a d come to the party thinking it was ’ O C onn e r spectator, that the almighty dollar furnishes a stronger to be given in honor of another, Jerry , secretary ’ “ ” basis for the relations between organized crime and ma of the Theater Janitors Union . I was framed , said ’ “ ” - B a n i n . chine politics than brotherly love . O o was ever ready Hughes , and I got out as quickly as I could ’ to ai d and protect anybody in his neighborhood and he The unwillingness of O Ba n ion to take orders from ’ k . O Ban ion new everybody The poor looked upon as a great Torrio , plus his ambition to extend his activities into

m a n . and good , and he never forgot them Across the street forbidden territory brought about his break with Torrio d — from his flower shop stood Holy Name Cathe ral in which and his sensational and sudden death . It is likely that ’ “ ” ’ O Bani on had been an altar boy . Samuel Nails Morton Torrio took O Ba nion under his wing as a matter of policy . ’ ’ was one of O Ba nion s closest friends from boyhood . Mor Torrio put as many boards in his political fence as he could “ ” ’ ton was dubbed Nails when quite a lad because he was lay hands on and O Ba n ion represented a wide plank on “ ’ ’ . B n i n that hard Nails served in the World War and emerged the North Side . But O a o s flamboyant style was irri ’ w i . ith several decorations for bravery and a comm ssion tating to Torrio , and he felt that O B a n ion would bring ’ ’ O Ba n ion s i - Sammy was a great influence on intellectual trouble into the realm w th his high handed methods . Torrio ’ development , if any . He took his blustering buddy by the was a business man first and a gangster second . O B a n ion hand and led him down the booze trail to prosperity and was a gangster . Torrio would rather bribe a policeman ’ B i big dough before Torrio completed the job . In the little than kill him . O a n on would rather bribe him too if ’ floral shop together these two men sat among the carna he didn t want too much . Two policemen once appropriated ’ O Ba n i n 0 tions and the lilies and plotted such booze robberies as the a truck load of beer belonging to o and Torrio . 80 n! a 3 00 removal of gallons of excellent liquors from the They demanded $ to release it . When he was told this - . ! Royal Drug Company on forged permits Ah What a over the telephone by one of the beer run ners , detectives ! i “ swell job that was Six un formed policemen aided in the listening in on a tapped wire , heard him say , Oh , to hell w ’ work of loading the liquor onto trucks , and , when the ith them guys . I can bump em off for half that much . ’ O Ba nion last quart of Old Taylor had been gathered in , Sammy gave Later , the same voice , told that Torrio in the the signal and the cops blew whistles and you and me , meantime had instructed that the cops be paid the money . “ ’ ” scurring down the street in our Model T stopped with We don t want no trouble , Torrio had said . And there ’ i O B a n i screech ng brakes , while Sammy and on moved out you have the essential difference between Torrio and ’ ’ into the traffic . A great yowl , heard all over town , resulted O Ban ion . One didn t want trouble ; the other was always from that job . The permits had looked all right enough , looking for it . “ ” ’ T h e I t b oy of Ga n gla n d , Dion O B a ni on , a n d ' z hi s wi fe . Thi s i s a ra re p ic t u re o f B oo e d om s r i rri p e s on a li t y b o y , t a ke n on t h e d a y of h s m a ag e . ' (Up p e r righ t ) 1! m a rk s t h e s p o t wh e re O B a ni o n wa s kill e d in h i s li t t le fl owe r s h op on Nort h St a t e fl o r St re e t . ( Lowe r p h ot o ) Crowd ou ts id e t h e a l ' h e r ’ ni o s s s i n t i on s op j u s t a ft O B a n s a a s a .

and the beer wars than any other dozen death s . Whereas the other victims of the warfare reached ’ ’ page one of the local prints , O Ban io n s murder and funeral filled the wires of the press associations and landed on page one of the newspapers all over the

country . ’ ’ O Ba nion first began straining the ties that held him O Ba n ion was standing in the center of the flower shop to Torrio by muscling in on the territory allotted to the busily engaged at the pious business of trimming roses .

Genna brothers on the West Side . Warned repeatedly In the rear of the shop a Negro porter , William F . Crutch ’ e l he continued to defy them . O Ban ion believed in free field , was unpacking a crate . C rut c hfi d later testified ’ O Ba nion speech . He talked often and loudly . He liked to sing too , that had just called to him to sweep up a litter and no doubt regarded his alley tenor as something quite of flower petals at the front of the shop . Fortunately

fine and beautiful . The most injudicious remark he ever William delayed , probably thus saving his life . For , just w ’ w made in his long and useless life a s directed to Torrio as O Ba n ion uttered these ords , three men entered the “ ” ’ and his Italian henchmen . To hell with them Sicilians , front door . C rutc hfi e ld relates that he heard O Ba n ion he said when warned directly from headquarters to stay “ out of the Genna territory . You (meaning Torrio ) have ’ got your ideas , and I got mine . We ll quit . i wa o And so the inev table happened . The finger s put \ u ’ O Ban ion , and they killed him and now , six years later, hi s pals are still trying to avenge him . The death of ’ ’ O Ba n ion brought more attention to Chicago s under world

[ 1 5 ] ’ ' ’ Ou t s t a n di n g me m be rs o f Di on O B a nio n s N ort h Si de ga n g a s t h e y lo ok e d in t h e g ood ol d d a y s wh e n O B a ni on fl as h e d a g a t . “ " “ i i t . ( 1 ) G e orge Bu gs Mora n . p re s e n t le a de r, ( 2 ) L t t le K ym W e s s . ki lle d . ( 3 ) Da p p e r D a n Mc c art h y , s t ill up a n d a b ou “ ” r (4 ) Loui e Th re e G u n Alt e ri o ( s om e ti m e s c a lle d St a t e a n d Ma di s on St re e t A l t e ri e ) n ow livin g on a ra n c h in C olo a d o .

of buying flowers for the funeral . As he reached to shake New York . But Frankie had a good alibi . He became a ’ B ’ O a nion s hand , hi s companions whipped out revolvers and part of the wall of silence against which the words of the ’ began firing at O Ba nion . The porter relates that there police banged in vain . Other parts of this wall , incidentally , were five shots in rapid succession , then a short pause , were Alphonse Capone and Johnny Torrio . Chief of Police ’ i ’ and a sixth shot . The sixth shot , fired into O Ban on s head Morgan Collins , explaining why no solution of the murder ’ Ban i n at close range after he had fallen , was extra good measure was forthcoming , stated that O o had been responsible - . just to make sure for at least twenty five deaths in his short c areer, and that , ' ru l C tchfie d relates that he tore out into the front room as a result , a great many people appreciated the fact that at top speed , just in time to catch a glimpse of the fleeing he had been put out of the way. Certain it is that the police , ’ ’ O Banion assassins . An automobile awaited them , they jumped in , including M r . Collins , wept not over s bier . But sped to Ohio Street , turned West and disappeared into the other thousands did . His funeral set a high mark for maize and blur of traffic . To this day no one has ever those that came after . Nothing had been seen in Chicago “ ” caught up with that car . quite like it since the final obsequies were made for Big

Earl ier in this book it has been related that when Jim Colosimo , when the business of laying him away drew Al Capone came to Chicago he was accompanied by Frankie out so many judges and politicians that the affair took on - ’ ’ Yale , of New York . Frankie , a tough killer from the Five the external aspect of a political pow wow . O Banion s i Points gang , frequently came to Ch cago on contract kill funeral scandalized the public . The cortege was made up - . ings . He was adept So proficient was he as a murderer of twenty four automobiles all loaded with flowers , one - that he did a lot of it on the side , probably just to keep in hundred twenty two funeral cars , and wi th private cars ’

. practice as he didn t need the money Anyhow , if you came stretching for blocks . As it wended its way through the ’

i v . well recommended , you could buy Frank e s ser ices All streets toward the cemetery a squad of police on motor ’ a - you had to do was to point out the guy you didn t want cycles cleared path through traffic . The grief stricken ’ and slip Frankie the dough . survivors of the O B a nion gang who had been crying their

We bring this up because a lot of the wise money main eyes out for days , could hardly wait until the se rvices were - tain to this day that the tall , heavy set individual who over and the casket dropped into its hole , in order ’ O Ban ion c walked up to , hand outstret hed , was Frankie that they might devote themselves to avenging lovable ’ . . Alt e rie Yale Frankie was detained by the Chicago Police a few Dion s death Louie , quite beside himself made a hours later as he was about to board a train bound for , particularly hot remark and one that burned official ears .

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T n l l i l i a n B ob ri t z s im n mn s a n d M y , m y , wh a t a t ou gh g u y wa s Eddi e a c Edd e bu s t ed m ore s kul ls t h an Joh n L . Su l v . , " " ’ i D r h in e ri o c am e t o a n J im Corb ett c om bin e d . Wh e n Ca p on e a n d K l on d ke O onn e ll c am e t o Cic e ro , h owe v e r, t h e fi s t fig t g p d

r e . e n d , a n d y ou s e e in t h e p h ot og rap h M r . T a n cl a s h e ap p e a re d in t h e rin g, in hi s s a loon , a n d in t h e m o g u

’ ’ The O Donne lls an d the O Ban ion s and their breed never Spike were still having at each other on every possible “ " could learn murder ni cely and cleanly . They lacked style occasion . Several pot shots had been taken at Spike i wh ch , incidentally , was extremely fortunate for Johnny and he had missed death so narrowly but so neatly so ' i and Al although maybe they didn t see it that way . many times that already the feature writers were mak ng ’ “ ” B a an The murders of two beer baron s, O nion and T cl, something of the detail . To return the compliment , Spike in the space of a few days was too much gunpowder for and some of hi s boys had unsuccessfully tried to do away ’ Mi r n the town to take in one dose , and to reduce and soothe completely with tt e s Foley , o e of Joe s outstanding the ensuing high temperature of public indignation Messrs . hard boys . Frankie MacE a rlane , finding the town too ’ O D on n ell Doherty and were indicted by one of Mr . quiet for his tastes , had gone over into Indiana , where he ’ wa Crowe s grand juries . The public s assured that these had got himself indicted for the murder of a roadhouse “ ” . i desperadoes would hang M r . Crowe pointed to the fact owner who had done business with Spike . But Frank e W “ “ ” ag, “ hi s that he had assigned ace assistant, the hanging beat the rap after a complicated trial . On December ” ’ ’ prosecutor to the case . The assistant s name was William 19 , two weeks after Tancl s death , the Saltis mob revenged McSwi i E . g g n . thems elves plenty for the attempt on the valuable life of ’ ” iff k wo But there was other gunpowder to be sn ed , this time Mr. Foley . They illed t more of Spike s boys , Leo - out on the South Side where the Saltis MacE arlane and Gistin son and Jack Rapport .

The newspapers blazed with the

story of the attempted assassination . The police came to Johnny ’ s bedside with questions and so did representa " ’ t ive s from the of ice of the state s “ ” a t t o r n e y . W h o d i d i t , t h e y

asked , wasting good breath , for

Johnny , coward though he was at

heart , would not violate law No . 1 ’ in Gangland s code , namely that you

must never squawk to a policeman . But they persisted with the question “ ’ ” ing . Don t you know who they were ,

asked John Sbarbaro , an assistant ’ “ ” state s attorney . Oh , hell , replied “ Johnny in exasperation , Of course I ’ ” know . I ll tell you later. But he never

did . Neither could Attorney Sbarbaro pry any information from Capone nor “ ” from Mrs . Torrio . Why should I tell , ’ replied Mrs . Torrio It wouldn t do ” any good . Mrs . Torrio knew her Chi

ca g e . The amiable Al who stood out in the corridor of the hospital room parrying questions with reporters found it m ore difi cult to repress him

self, and once , his emotions bubbled “ over . The gang did it , the gang did ” it , cried Al impulsively and then ,

as if to kick himself, snapped his

mouth shut . When reporters pressed “ ’ him after this , he too said I ll tell e e i s h i i H r t e c a r n wh c h J oh n n y Torri o a n d M rs . T orri o rode a s t h e y we re b e in g f ol ” " . owe a n d re u on H m ie W e i S you later And he did , but in a curi l d fi d p b y y s s a n d c h e m e r D ru c c i . ous way as we shall see . A small boy who had witnessed the got busier than ever, and on January 24 , 1 92 5 , just twelve shooting of Torrio was shown a picture , taken at the “ ’ “ ” ” O Ba n ion days later, he and George Bugs Moran who were cruising funeral of , and he pointed out George Bugs

th e out h r . on S Side , spotted Johnny Tor io and Mrs . Torrio , Moran as one of the assassins George , along with other his Irish wife , driving down the Boul Mich in their limou gangsters , was gathered in and again identified by the boy

a . sine with chauffeur at the wheel . This was sweet !George who picked him out from a group of men Eventually “ ” and Hymie , instructed their chauffeur , Nigger Pellar , M oran was released on bonds (small change to “ ” - not a Negro , to make for the grease ball . The automobile Gangland ) and nothing came of the case . “ ” “ ” darted crazily in and out of traffic in an effort to get into Little Hymie had failed to get the grease - ball but “ ” a position to let him have it but Johnny , who had his attempt had not been in vain . Though he had not ’ ’ Torrio become cognizant of their presence , was trying to escape . killed Torrio , he had killed s career . What s more

‘ He kept well in front until his autom obile finally drew up he ha d c a u s e d the complexion of Signor Torrio to turn

701 1 . . W in front of his little bungalow at Clyde Avenue , a few a definite yellow He had had enough , quite enough hen ’ blocks from Chicago s aristocratic South Shore Country Club . his wounds had healed , Torrio left the hospital by a side

. Johnny jumped from the car , literally dragging his wife entrance A vast body guard engulfed him . Torrio had out after him . But the savage gangsters were upon him thought of a way by which he could keep clear of any “ ” s before he had taken a dozen steps . A dozen shots or more more attack from Little Hymie Weiss . Torrio thought were fired . George Moran , afraid he might miss , had placed of everything . This time he thought it would be fine if he w himself on the running board , and , as the car slowed do n could go to jail and let the law protect him . You will ’ B n he leapt out and , with a gun in each hand , poured lead remember that Little Johnny and O a ion were arrested r ? at the underworld lord . Torrio fell to the cement walk . together one cold mo ning in front of the Sieben brewery “ ” People were beginning to appear on front porches , heads Well , there was a Federal rap awaiting Johnny on that , were sticking out of the windows of apartment buildings . and he had decided that it would be useless and wonderful

The killers , believing that Torrio was dead , made away not to contest it further . Indeed , he induced the authorities ’ v at top speed , taking a corner on two wheels . to let him begin ser ing his year s sentence on February 7 . 27 But Little Johnny Torrio was not dead As , instead of February , the date set by the his hysterical wife bent over his prostrate body , government originally . And so Little Johnny ” he opened his eyes and moaned for a doctor . crept into a jail cell and he selected a jail as

When one came Johnny again brought himself far away from Chicago as possible . It was in to consciousness long enough to whisper that Waukegan , Illinois . The doors of his cell slam the wounds be cauterized . Little Johnny thought shut and we shall see him no more - of everyt hing . Half dead and in agony he could remember that the balls of lead which burned Johnny Torrio , the boy who had been known “ in his body might have been rubbed with garlic on the old east side of New York as Terrible ” and that , though the bullets themselves might Johnny was terrible no longer . He had had not kill him , the poison from lead and garlic enough . What kind of a life did Johnny lead in ” ! ! ? would . Cauterize it Cauterize it he moaned the Waukegan cell He asked and received an everytime he could bring himself up to the “ ” inside room , and he contrived to lay himself marginal of consciousness , and , all the way in down at night in such a position as to make him the ambulance to the Jackson Park Hospital , the inaccessible to the naked eye (and the garlic attendants heard this order again and again . bullet from the outside ) . At the end of his sen And , as they took him in the hospital on the stretcher Little Johnny had another bright idea tence , ten months later, he dropped completely , , out of sight and nothing has been heard in proving again that he could think of everything . im The idea this time was that he be placed in a Chicago of h since . One rumor has it that room away from a window , and far removed he is somewhere in New Jersey , another that he from a fire escape . Later he insisted that his is in Italy . Our guess is that he is in Italy . ’ own body guard be increased . And it was . It is farther away from Chicago s Gangland .

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quarters than the ordinary cell . The beer barons placed in an envelope on the l 6t h a n d t h e last days of

each month and left the envelope in a certain room . Then

they walked out .

” “ Once I peeked , testified Frankie , and I saw Warden ” Westbrook come in and help himself to the dough . Frankie

said that each and every privilege cost them plenty . He said that he paid $100 for permission to attend the funeral of his sister ; that it cost him to get out of jail “ ” f or g ood behavior several months before his sentence .

expi red . Terry and Frankie insisted that neither of them had

ever paid any money personally to Sheriff Hoffman , but Let us now regale ourselves with a performance of ’ ’ their gallant gesture didn t mean a thing . Judge Wilkerson Chicago s most famous municipal comic opera , otherwise regarded the hospitality of Sheriff Hoffman as being in known as the Cook County jail sentence of Terry Dru g g an com t e m t i p p of court and in a crisp way of his he consigned and Frank e Lake . It will be remembered that Terry and ff f - Frankie had been assigned to the custody for one year of Sheri Ho fman to a jail cell for thirty days without f privileges . Sheriff Peter B . Ho fman by Federal Judge James Wilker son . Well , they have , at this time , been serving that The sentence seemed a light one , but it was a sentence sentence for several months . of death to M r . Hoffman as a politician . He entered the jail cell in due time and he has not been heard of around How are the merry alchemists who made a million this town since . dollars or more over there in the old Valley District bearing ? f . D ru a n up under this af liction Are they languishing in cells , Messrs g g and Lake on the other hand sallied ? wondering if the long dull hours will ever pass Are forth from the courtroom to freedom and increased riches . they trying to endure the terrible monotony of existence Although the production of beer on a vast scale as had by scrubbing the long marble corridors and offices of this been practiced in the old days had become an uncertain and ? s municipal institution perilous bu iness , they had already made enough money to

enable t hem to live in luxury . But , o nce a racketeer always ’ Don t be silly ! Terry and Frankie have been granted a racketeer, and Terry and Frankie were presently trying special privileges by Sheriff Hoffman and his warden , Mr . to find outlet for their vast tale nts in the gambling racket .

Wesley Westbrook . It is true that they must undergo the Terry who had acquired himself a beautiful estate in the

r . nuisance of answering roll call every mo ning , but from North Suburbs amused himself with a stable of horses In 2 then on their time is their own and they may come and June , 1 9 7 , betting in Illinoi s was virtually legalized in a - Dru an go as often as they please . Everything was plenty dandy statute approving the pari mutual . In July Mr . g g Dru a n s c for these p rincely inseparables until Mr . g g , who attracted ome attention to himself by rushing into ourt always had a hasty temper anyway , made one of the seeking injunctions against several race tracks .

o . D ru an gravest err rs in his career M r. g g smacked a Terry charged a conspiracy to monopolize racing in newspaper reporter on the nose for making a wise -crack violation of the Interstate Commerce Law in the shipping about these privileges , and the newspaper reporter hit f or of race horses , but by the time the petition came up him right back with a newspaper article which precipitated argument the racing season was over and the matter was a great big investigation in which Sheriff Peter B . Hoff ’ dropped . Terry s move was one of the many incidents r d r man was probed and p ye , and p ye d and probed and the which presaged the great gambling war , of which you shall prying and probing was done by none other than Federal rote c presently hear . Except for this mad rush for the p Judge James Wilkerson . — ‘ tion of t—he law a pronounced characteristic of the true M r Dru an . When Chicago was first informed of these special gangster . g g and Mr Lake were comparatively quiet after their sensational appearance as comic opera privileges , Sheriff Peter B . Hoffman went out and bought - stars himself a false face of indignation and surprise . And then , publicly and on page one , he fired Mr. Westbrook , his The business of manufacturing beer had pretty well

. . ! old friend and warden So grieved was Mr Westbrook that , petered out . But Terry and Frankie should worry As we ’ in Judge Wilkerson s courtroom , he broke down and told have seen they had jumped into the business at the begin “ ” . all , which was plenty The theme song of his testimony ning . By the time the heat from the law was settling over f “ was a waltz to the e fect that the sheriff is to blame . had the town , these princely inseparables made enough money to cause the government to attack them from another

According to M r. Westbrook the Sheriff was greatly angle . Consequently , they are now worrying about the exercised over the fact that poor Terry and Frankie had income tax men , and are now facing trial for income tax to serve a jail sentence at all and he set out, therefore , violations . Terry and Frankie will go down in the records

. to make it as easy as possible for them Special passes as the Damon and Pythias of Gangland but at this writing , at first were issued to friends of the two liquor lords and alas , alas , trouble had come between them , and they are

. the jail was an open house to them most of the time The so mad at each other that they do not speak on the street . - ex warden said that Sheriff Hoffman sent word to him that - A red headed mama it is said , had brought the inseparables Terry was to be permitted to transact his business while , to a parting of the ways . in jail . Other prisoners were not permitted to transact f This was revealed recently when Captain William F . business of course , but , according to the Sherif , Terry was a fine fellow and lots of men worse than he were running Waugh asked leave of Federal Judge Wilkerson to with draw as counsel for Frankie Lake in the income tax loose around town . troubles . The Judge appeared surprised . ? ” How did you do it asked attorneys when Terry ’ “ ” Oh , they re not the good friends they used to be , and Frankie were put on the stand . It was easy , testi “ ” explained Captain Waugh . fi e d H ankie , we paid for it and we p aid plenty . Whe Franki e said this Judge Wilkerson ordered the arrest 0! Frankie pulled what Terry regarded as an unforgivable

Mr. Westbrook , Hans Thompson , former jail guard who offense to their long friendship when he was arrested at - Foe rst a tea dance in company with the aforementioned red headed also had been fired , and Henry , who was secretary

. . mama . Frankie carried the customary gat to the Warden It was to these officials , said Frankie , that ’ much money was paid and often . If you haven t got any more sense than to put yourself ’ in the coppers way , inviting arrest and causing all of this Thompson , sitting in the courtroom at the time , readily ’ ’ “ bum publicity for both of us , we re all through . You might confirmed Frankie s story . Everybody else got his and ” just as well get a soap box and dare the cops to pick you up . I got mine , he said naively . Frankie went on in greater and Dru an detail . He said that he g g paid a month Lake is now in Detroit, doing well in the ice business .

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terms of the pact . He was busy any way with the gov I P S O U , E T ernmen t who had in sisted on his stand ing trial in the Fed eral building on a

booze charge . With him on the same charge wa s Dapper

Dan McC arthy, a

member of his gang. During the process ” Little Hymie Wei ss had got off to a flying start by of thi s trial “Little eliminating Johnny Torrio and he still had about nineteen Hymie ” discovered months left in which to besmear the town with blood , before that the peace ban “ ” the Big Fellow Alphonse Capone , was to blast him into quet had been merely eternity . Capone , however , who could always appreciate “ ” an attempt to throw a good man had come to admire ferocious Little Hymie him off his guard despite all the nasty things he had said and done ; and , and the discovery f as one of his first royal acts , o fered pardon to Weiss a c brings us to ‘ n of t h e G en An ge l o G e n n a , y ou ge s t if he would promise to behave himself and return to the u a int a nce s hi q p with rs t t o b e m u r e re b “ ” n a s , a n d t h e fi d d y fold . While Little Hymi e was considering the Big two of the most sin t h e ort h Si e a n s t e rs . ’ N d g g Fellow s proposals , the Big Fellow was having a tough ister figures who wn time of it right in his o home precincts . have ever skidded - A courageous editor of a Cicero newspaper had under across blood streaked Gangland . Signor John Scalice and a of t ken the ambitious project relieving his town of the Signor Anselmi . Killers de luxe , these men had presence of King Capone and his numerous business activ been summoned from far off Sicily by Mike and Angelo ’ O Ban ion . ities . He used pitiless publicity which , true enough , is a Genna shortly before the death of How long “ ” swell weapon . The editor, Mr . Arthur St . John , made one they had been in town is not certain , but Little Hymie grave error however . He neglected to acquire the services discovered them one day during the progress of his trial “ of a few platoons of infantry . For some time his paper up there in the Federal building . A member of Little appeared regularly with fine attacks upon King Capone Hymie ’ s ” gang —they were all in the courtroom urging the good p eople of Cicero to get behind the cam noticed a stool pigeon for the Capone gang in earnest ’ — i . p a g n and push . Mr . St . John s immediate rewards were conversation with two strangers Scalice and Anselmi “ . a rather terrible One fine fternoon early in March , some The stool pigeon was fingering every North Side t wo tough gentlemen who had warned him repeatedly to keep gangster in the courtroom . Why did these strange hi s mouth shut , picked him up and went off with him . Italians appear so interested in learning the iden ? When he returned to his friends a few days later , they tities of the Weiss henchmen The observant North Side

could hardly believe he was the same man , for M r. St . gangster hurriedly dispatched another one of his com

John had been severely beaten in all visible places . This panions down stairs and outside to determine whether or

treatment inspired another throaty yell from Mr . Robert not any of the Capone boys were about . Sure enough , ? ’ - E . Crowe , but why go into it He ordered that King outside the gangster came upon Al s big armor plated

him i . Capone be haled before forthw th which was done . Lincoln parked around the corner on Adams Street He The king came down to the Criminal Courts Building examined the car quickly and found that it was well - - off . in the style that be fitt ed hl S exalted p osition . He appeared stocked with sawed shot guns and other artillery In a ‘ in a new automobile , the like of few minutes Scalice and Anselmi , whi ch had never been seen before together with a chauffeur who had m on the streets and boulevards of sprung up fro somewhere , got ’ the fourth metropolis of the world . in Al s car and drove away .

It weighed about seven tons , four All this meant but one thing “ ”— tons more than your automobile , to Little Hymie war . He soon its windows were fitted with bullet determined that Scalice and An

proof glass , and it was plastered selmi spent a great deal of their - . a with large sheets of armor plate time in Cicero , although they p ea re d Mr . Capone still uses this dis p to be body guards for “ guised tank whenever he is in Mike and Angelo Genna . Little ” Chicago . To those of us who did Hymie resumed his expeditions not know at this time that King into the Genna territory ; he began “ ” Capone was offering peace to absorbing speakeasies which be

Hymie Weiss , the big automobile longed to the arrogant brothers . wa s taken as overt proof that C a For several weeks Gangland was

pone intended to stay on his comparatively quiet, except for an “ ” throne and to hell with those who unimportant a n d mysteriou s ride ’ didn t like it. murder here and there . The South ’ ’ O D onn ells King C apone s call on the Side were still battling ’ Ma cE a rl n . a e state s attorney came to nothing . Messrs Saltis and on occasions and there was much So did his overtures for peace . - Th e peace proposal had been made muscling and double crossing in “ ” ’ every quarter . Spike O D on at a banquet held in a famous ’ ‘ restaurant just off Wacker Drive nell s greatest personal blow came which still operates under the on April 1 7 when his foolhardy

brother, Walter, was mortally same Italian name . It was pro posed that Gangland should be wounded during an attempt to -u divided in half with Madison terrorize and hold p a roadhou se

in the Saltis country . Walter died Street the dividing line . For a “ ” couple of months Little Hymie on May 9 . “ ” who had cert ain definite m is g iv i ke Ge n n a t ou h e s t of t h e Ge n n a s wh ic h i s Every police official in Chicago M , g , “ ” i ings as to the sincerity of K ng s a y in g a. m ou t h fu l . H i s la s t a c t i n t hi s li fe wa s as well as those in the know ’ t o ki c k a n ambu a n c e a t t e n an t in t h e fac e . un rece Capone s peaceful impul se s, be l d looked forward to an p

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WHOOPEE SPOTS IN C HI CAGO NIGHT L I FE

T h e Wi gwam Ha wt h orn e Hot el Midni gh t F roli c s C ot ton Clu b Gre e n Mi ll

- kicked one of the men in the face . Take that you bastard , much double crossing and pocketing of funds and the said Mike . And thus died the most ferocious of the Gennas . alky cookers finally began to war among themselves . ” Meanwhile Scalice and Anselmi raced on , down streets , It was all very fine for Little Hymie to look upon , and through alleys , beneath elevated railway structures . A all very sad for King Capone to look upon . mob followed them and the mob grew in numbers every The burial of Mike Genna was a great spectacle , and block and Scalice and Anselmi knew there was no escape one of the last . The public became bored with it all , and for them . Wh en they were arrested they had turned into - twenty five days later another automobile , equipped with h f a clot ing store . They of ered no resistance as they were a police gong (Hymie Weiss had thus equipped one of led out of a building into a squad car . You may be sure his machines ) drew up to Anthony , youngest of the Gennas , that the reception these terrible men received at the nearest wh o stood unsuspectingly on the sidewalk , and killed him police station was one that Scalice and Anselmi carried neatly and without undue waste of ammunition . The last with them for a long time . Indeed , the only punishment e rites were p rformed hurriedly , ominously and without dis Scalice and Anselmi really ever received at the hands of - play . Only a few mourners were there ; wild eyed men and a the law was administered during those few hours as guests dozen or more crying women and children . And Tony was of the police . buried at night . The deaths of the police officers inflamed the public The Gennas now saw the hand of doom stretching as none of the crimes of Gangland had ever before inflamed - into their domain . Jim Genna , panic stricken disappeared . it . What M r . Crowe said this time was that Scalice and It is said he returned to Italy . Five years later, as we Anselmi ought to be taken out and hanged by the neck shall see , he was again to return and his presence again without the formality of a trial . As events proved , this drenched Gangland with blood . Only one Genna remained , f or'Sca lic e would have been a swell thing, not only and who to this day is occasionally caught in the polic’e drag

Anselmi but for Mr. Crowe and for the Maxwell Station net ; and is led out at the regular show - ups along with police . For during the long and futile trial of Scalice and the pickpockets , bums and unimportant characters to be Anselmi , an attorney for them was to rise to his feet one laughed at . i - day and, flourish ng a little red note book in his hand , “ ! Amid all this chaos King Capone was compelled to shout I have here , the names of the policemen that Mike permit the killing of three alky cookers who had thought Genna paid every month . Two hundred of them belonged the demoralized state of aff airs in Gangland would enable to the Maxwell Street Station , two squads came from ’ ’ ff ofli c e them to get away with some e ective and profitable double the central , and one from the state s attorney s office .

crossing . The penalty for this unpardonable offense was Well , the defendants were acquitted eventually . A detailed C a m a nia 1 0 story of the long and laborious legal machinations would first paid by Tony p g on July ; five days later

Sam L aven ut o and James Russo kicked in . Sam was require more pages than are to be found in this book . It is interesting to note however that all the alky ” cookers murdered in the forenoon ; James got it after lunch . w i in the Max ell Street district rallied to their defense , The sw ft punishment meted out to these insignificant " feeling, as they did , that their countrymen were being henchmen brought more terror to the alky cookers and

. discriminated against A vast fund was collected . Strangely the beautiful result of it all was that for a long period 1 92 enough the collection of this fund was a great factor in lasting until well into the New Year , 6 , the disturbances

finally wrecking the Genna rule altogether, for there was in Little Italy were few and unimportant .

P P A M O US HOLE S , HAUNTS AND HEADQUARTERS O CHICAGO GANGSTERS

“ e t ri h t ! T h e edn z i H t e r ' L ft o g B o l , f e qu e n te d b y Lit t le Hyim e We is s a n d D ru c c i e t ro o on e r ; M p le c e h a dqu a rt e s f or Cap on e gan g, an d t h e xin Le gt on Hote l, p re s e n t h e a dqu art e rs .

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But now he was back . He was prosperous . He c drove a fine Cadillac automobile , and he called himself Ja k i “ ” Mc G urn . Where had the money for all th s front come from ? One of the wealthy and influential Italians was be

hind Jack now . This individual whom we shall not name ’ had revealed to Jack the name of his father s slayer , and

Jack quickly agreed to the p roposals held out to him .

And so , on February 1 5 , the long and terrible career of

Ora zzio Tropea came to an end . He fell on the spot where ’ Mc Gurn s father had died , and on the same Spot where

suave Henry Spingola had come to his unhappy end . In “ ” quick succession three other collectors died . On February

2 1 , Vito Ba scon e walked to the spot which had been marked B ldielli k w for his death . On February 23 , Eddie a , no n as “ ” The Eagle met a similar fate , and on March 7 , Tony - l i The once powerful and blood thirsty Genna brothers Fin a l was murdered . ’ l u t were now only a bloody memory in Little It a y, b the doom Thirteen days later another ambitious Italian s death ” effi which had hovered over them had not been dispelled by that of Sa mu z zo Sa m oot s Amat un a , interrupted the - successive blast of gunfire . It remained , casting its long cient reprisals against collectors for the Scalice Anselmi

and sinister shadows over that accursed domain , in the defense fund . Sa moot s had lived long and had prospered “ ” persons of John Scalice a nd Albert An s e lmi, s till in the hands as an overseer of the alky cookers in the employee of the

of the jailers , and still being tossed from one court to Genna brothers . He had mourned the old days when his another by adept attorneys who were being paid for every employers were alive and for several months preceding appearance at a bar of justice and ready and anxious to his death had been busy in a grim effort to rally the sadly “ ” “ ” “ ” make as many appearances as possible . The alky cookers depleted cookers and to again stabilize the alky busi over on the West Side were paying and paying and paying . ness . Everything was going smoothly when an earlier sin - Even honest men over there were contributing to the bot found him out . Sa m oot s had hi jacked a truck load of booze “ ” ” ’ t oml e ss fund in order, so the collectors said , that no belonging to Klondike O D onn ell . The booze , billed as dis crimi - ignorant helpless man of Italian blood might be paint , had , in tu rn been re hijacked by two tough youths n a ted a ! ri ag inst because of his nationality . Ah What a who loafed around Bootleggers Corner in the Valley Dist ct , he . a m oot s . grisly crew these collectors were Henry Spingola , a and the rage of S knew no bounds For months brother-in -law of the Gennas who kept himself clean talked at the top of his voice on all occasions about what m through a long and honorable legal career despite his he would do to Wallie Quinlan and Bu my Goldstein , relationship with the Gennas , soon found out that he was neither of whom belonged to any certain gang organization . paying thousands of dollars to blackmailers , extortionists , t On March 1 9 , Sa moo s dropped into his favorite barber bombers and killers , and that he had been unwise in con a moot s shop where he spent a great deal of time . S was the tributing at all . Henry decided that he would play no more “ ” Beau Brummel of Little Italy and many amusing tales are i Ora z zio w th Tropea , known pleasantly as The Scourge , r ; “ told about his fastidiousness and his sa torial splendor B a sc on e Ba ldie lli or Vito , or Eddie , The Eagle , or Tony he owned more suits of clothing than the King of Spain ,

Fin a lli. re cau And so Henry Spingola , despite the utmost p he had a great passion for socks and shirts and often mad e i tions he took w th his life , was placed on the spot, which a great nuisance of himself by insisting on supervising the J a nu ra 1 0 1 926 is stepping into a coffin . His murder on y , , laundering of them . A dozen customers lounged in chairs focused attention again on troubled Little Italy and two in while Sa moot s , lying bac k in the chair, garrulously weeks later , before the police had assembled a plausible structed the barber as to how the shaving should be effected . - s mok ’ theory , Chicago strap hangers gasped at front pages When the towel was spread over Sa m oot s vi sage two men , ing with the murders of Augustino and Antonio Moreci , B t Wallie Quinlan and um my Golds ein , stepped into the wealthy and respectable Italians . Sam oot s room and quickly seated themselves near the door . — All this had been forsee n by the Italians of integrity and arose presently from the chair , stepped to the hall tree and i wealth on the West Side who understood far better than was busily engaged w th a gaudy tie when , through a

mirror he saw his enemies . But it was too late , and before the police the methods of their conscienceless countrymen , , Sa moot s could reach for the gun he carried in an especially and they had taken steps to combat it in their own way . - Bu mm created leather lined pocket, y and Wallie let him And this brings us , for the first time , to a sleek , athletic , , m ot s ! r i . Sa o well mannered little Italian named James Geba d , the son have it And , fell dying to the floor with two “ ” of an alky cooker who had been murdered long before by bullets in his body . He died before he could get the “ ” . Q . G eba rdi correct knot in his tie A few months later , uinlan and Signor Tropea , The Scourge Young , at that

Goldstein were killed . time , spent most of his time around the Maxwell Police Station where he was plenty With the elimination of effi cient with his fists and Sa m oot s from the scene the “ ” often appeared in the West a lky c ooke rs lost their best Side boxing shows as an chance of a restoration of amateur . A few days after the Genna hou s e , u n le s s Pete his father had been placed or Jim should return which on the spot young G eba rdi seemed extremely p robla appeared at the station in a m a t ic a l especially now . The highly emotional state with last of the vicious horde of “ ” a letter , written in Italian collectors to die at the and sig ned with the dreaded hands of the smartly — a d black hand . The letter dressed killer was Joseph G e ba rdi vised Young , whose Nerone , known as Spano the

popularity with the police Cavalier , whose name had was looked upon with dis been whispered by Anthony

favor by certain of his Genna before he died . The

countrymen , to rid the town police had been looking for ” of himself , to disappear ; The Cavalier ever since the penal ty would be death they had overheard that

. e if he failed to obey Lieu whisper , but when th y tenant William Stapleton found him he was cold and advi sed the terri fied G e bardi dead on a marble slab in

to go away for a while . And the morgue , and an ! e ba r G di went away , adopted marked the spot where the

another name , and became new homicide artists had - fi ht e r. a professional prize g found him . z M r. P e t e r P ul l a zi , a b o o e c olle c t or, c a s h e s in .

— ’ A Ga n gla n d Vic t im Wi lli a m B . M c S wi g g in . a s s i s t a n t s t at e s at t orn e y , a s h e looke d wh e n e a rni n g h i s re p u t a t ion a s “ " ’ wh i om a n W it h m e m e rs O f t h e O D on n e ll m ob . t h e h a n gi n g p ros e c u t or. He wa s s h ot b y m a c hin e g un bullet s le in c p y b

’ t . department , shor ly after the long series of investigations limped into Crowe s office on crutches See these legs , “ “ ‘ t ’ had beg un into the mystery ! It was Al Capone , together he said , pointing , Well , I was over calling on my swee ie i ‘ w th three of hi s henchmen , Frank Rio , Frank Diamond , at the Beauty Parlor , when some of these grease ” ’ ” M wi in McCullou h M wi i . cS and Bob g . Sergt . c S g g n was positive . balls let me have it The g g murder continued a had i i mystery but the mystery of the Beauty Shop shooting He inside informat on , he said , wh ch he had given ,

e Tw . to th authorities . o material witnesses were also named , had been solved i Mc Swi in Edward Moore and Will e Heeney . M oore proved , however , As an aftermath of the g g murder there were th at he was in the loop , and nothing of value was gained a series of raids in Cicero with such outstanding haunts “ ” “ ff The from questioning Heeney . of vice being temporarily knocked o as The Ship , ’ ’ ” “ t ” But the dead man s father s charges inflamed the public Stockade , and The Haw horne Smoke Shop , all Capone “ ? ” still more , and the question Wh o killed Mc Swig g in was institutions . Despite this gesture on the part of the police “ ” now ? wi in linked with another one , Where is Capone But the Mc S g g case pointed very definitely to the fact the “ Al was nowhere to be found . The atmosphere was entirely Big Fellow of Gangland was not Little Hymie Weiss , " ’ too O Donn e ll . much for him , and , shortly after the first smoking or William Klondike or any of the others The “W a r . headlines announcing the murder pp e a e d , Alphon se was in Big Fellow was Al Capone hen I wanted to open a ” his - r d n great armor plated automobile , speeding over the high saloon in Cicero , said Ha ry Ma igan , ow er of the saloon “ w - Mc Swi in i ays to a secret hide out somewhere in Indi ana . in front of which g g fell , I got a v sit from Al ’ . But he came back . He came back a few days later in a Capone . He told me I couldn t go into business there But “ grand manner which must have been impressive to Little I finally got some political pressure myself and opened ” a . r Hymie Weiss . Capone dicta ted the terms by which he up nyway Al came around sho tly after and told me ’ the would surrender to the detectives from Mr . Crowe s offi ce , that I would have to buy my beer from him , and not ’ ls . O Donn el . and h e was met at the Indiana state line . Capone is not So I did a King Al could see the handwriting on the front ages a great t lker , but he says plenty when the public is occa p i n s on ally favored with his utterances . An d this time it got however, and he k ew that peace in Gangland was about dynam ite . as desirable to Chicagoans as good beer . “ ’ ’ M wi in Wh D nne lls Of course I didn t kill cS g g , he said . y The O o have been going great guns except ki “ ” should I ? I liked the d . Only the day before he got for one Federal rap which they could not beat in k off s t nocked he was over at my place and when he went the courts . This concerned their disa erous raid on c home I gave him a bottle of Scot h for his old man . If the Morand Gove rnment Warehouse in the Valley , their ’ I d wanted to knock him off, I could have done it then , old stamping ground . The warehouse contained thousands ’ ? ’ “ ” couldn t I We had him on the spot . I m no squawker , of barrels of excellent whi sky and it was James Fur Mc wi in but get a load of this . I paid S g g and I pai d him Sammons who conceived the bright idea of siphoning it i ” plenty , and I got what I was pay ng for . with a hose . And so one night , a watchman making his ’ Mr. Capone s precipitate flight had looked bad but he rounds , discovered that bars on a window of the second “ had a good answer for that question , too . I was afraid floor had been cut and that through a small rubber hose i that some saphead copper would plug me on sight , just to of great length now ly ng on the ground , thousands of ” get himself promoted . Capone was released three days gallons of the precious liquid had been siphoned . He gave after his surrender. At this time it was reported that the alarm . When Pat Roche , ace of the investigators , “ ” “ ” Fu r Sammon s havin with Klon dike h , g fallen out , ad com su rveyed the scene , he gave instructions that the equip m i “ ” tt ed . the murders out of revenge And so , one day , Fur ment should not be disturbed and that the matter was to

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“ made , jokes were cracked about the soup on the menu “ ” fi and the pineapple dessert , and a police of cial , there by v special in itation , gazed on in amazement .

Capone made the speech of the evening . What he said u has not , nf ortunately been preserved for posterity , just TURN! , as he delivered it , but the wise money had it that the Big Fellow ’ s words were freighted with sincerity on the “ we ’ ” “ ” don t want no more trouble theme . Little Hymie

listened sullenly , remembering how Frankie and Molp s

Volpe had behaved themselves only a few days before . “ ” “ It was okey with Little Hymie , this peace idea, but he put forward one stipulation which the Big Fellow alone

heard . It was that Frankie Rio and Volpe be placed on the spot where “ Little Hymie might transform them into A t the na me of J e s us e v ery kn e e shou ld corpses . The conference ended without any of its rep re “ ” n n i B e d in hea v e n a nd on ea rth. se t at ves being aware of what L it tle Hymie h ad demanded

And so King Al the Big Fellow stepped forth as an and what the Big Fellow had replied . They learned later . , “ ’ ” He said , I wouldn t do that to a yellow dog . emissary of peace . Unfortunately for prosperity in Booze “ dom he flopped . Except for one unfortunate little shooting “ “ And so there was no peace in Gangland , and Little ” affray involving Vincent Schemer Dru cei , one of Little ’ ” ’ Hymie was marked for death . He was soon to be pushed Hymie s most highly prized aids , Capone s efforts might aside . His murder represents perfection in the art . It have been unsuccessful . We hurry to the facts . Th e was the most masterfully planned and executed of any of ’ Schemer, paradoxically enough , went in for paintings and Gangland s crimes including even the Valentine Massacre ‘ good music and beautiful things . It was passing strange which was to come after . how this esthetic hoodlum who wept copiously at the Civic Opera could top off an evening in company with his Little Hymie set out however to get the Big Fellow “ ” - dyn amic little chief and George Bugs Moran whose first and a few days after the ill fated conference , he and artistic sensibilities had developed no further perhaps Bugs” Moran made an unsuccessful attempt to destroy f than Mutt and Je f . For in their company the Schemer Capone on South Wabash Avenue near the Four Deuces

. was often called upon to torture a stool pigeon , or in Cafe whither they had trailed him from Cicero Capone w m ira culou s l e n ou h a lt hou h cha uff eu r Ton veigle a traitor to the cause into the front seat of an got a a y, y g , g his , y “ ” . . Ross died behind his wheel Little Hymie , bitterly dis automobile for a long , long ride But the Schemer could r do it . And how ! It was he who represented the class of appointed , retu ned to the little flower shop and was

. s the Weiss mob , just as the aristocratic touch in the good moodily silent for a long time He stood on the pot in ’ ’ O Ba nion old days when O Banion held sway was provided by Samuel the flower shop where had died and , gazing “ ” ff in Nails Morton before he fell o his horse . The Schemer through the huge plate glass window , stared at the ” was l a rgely responsible for the fact that Little Hymie scription in stone across the street ! was induced to move into more pretentious quarters on At the na me o J e s us ev e r kne e s hould Diverse f y y Boulevard , although headquarters still remained n n a rt ch ofi l B e nd in hea v e n a d o e h. above the S e d Flower Shop . One sultry August afternoon Little Hymie and the Another surge of energy a few days later inspired Schemer, dressed in the correct mode , strolled nonchalantly another desperate eff ort , this time in the very heart of the down the Boul Mich . As they were passing the Harvester ’ Big Fellow s country . For the second time a cavalcade building whom should they meet but two of Capone ’ s “ of glistening motor cars passed slowly by the Hawthorne M ol s children Frankie io and Tony Volpe . Now when , R p Hotel while machine guns poured hot lead into buildings gangster meets gangster, the result is that gats fly out of and windows and fu rniture . No bullets found lodgment - pockets especially made and leather lined to hold them , in the hated Capone gangsters however. and that is exactly what happened on this summer after noon . Many shots were fired , and many , many people out Little Hymie was too busy these days to be bothered ’ there on the world s most regal street , some of them by the old premonition that he would come to an early v i n i isitors to Ch cago , were throw into fearful panic . And and sudden end . His gang was grow ng in numbers and those who were visitors in dollars and in pres went back to Muscatine , tige . Gangland looked and Valley Junction and upon him in admiration

Des Moines and New and amazement . So York and told every great was the respect body that what the with which he was held papers s aid about Chi that to some he twas c’ago was true and even really the Big Boy in worse . But nobody was brains , class and cour killed or wounded . age . So many hoodlums The only result of wanted to go along with the bloodless affray was him at this period that ’ that Capone s peace there wa s a waiting ’ conference didn t mean list ; the wealthy Italian a thing . It was held on the West Side who had shortly after the battle , backed Jack Mc Gurn, and all th—e Big Shots now fearing reprisals were there Joe Saltis , from the Big Fell ow rl n Frankie M ac Ea a e , bought his ambitious

Ralph Sheldon , Hym ie protege a job as one of ’ Weiss , Vincent Drucei , Hymie s chauffeurs . It Capone and some of his cost Unf ort un “ ” “ ” f or L i l lieutenants , Klondike ately tt e Hymie ’ n e ll and Myles O D on , most of hi s time at this and amiable Spike ” period was spent in try ’ O Donn e ll from the ing to prevent the law c South Side . Gats were i “ ” from cat hing up with J oe S a lt s a n d h i s a id , Le ft y K on c il wit h a t t orn e ys , a t t im e of t h ei r f a m i “ parked outside w th the ri f r m u r e r of h r " his ally , Big Joe Saltis ou s t a l o t h e d J o n Mi t t e s F ole y . Th e y were a c qu it t e d . - “ " i Koncil top coats as per agree I t wa s re p ort e d t h a t Lit t le Hymi e We i s s c h a s e d t wo wi t n e s s e s t o M on who w th Lefty , ' W rie t t r e h wi e i t n a . . . O B n a o n s ot mi ment , all enmity was a W y t h Hy We s s . O n t h e rig h t , was being tried for the ‘ “ was I ran k M ac D on n e ll a n ot h e r a t t orn e . forgotten , whoopee . y murder of John Mit

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T h e World Fa m ou s G a n g n la n d Sla yin g o h St . V a l e ' n i n whi c h ti e s D a y , 1 9 2 9 , s e ve n m e m b e rs of G e orge " ‘ " ’ Bu gs M ora n s m ob we re lin e d u p a ga in s t a wa ll i n a ga ra ge a n d m owe d down b y

t wo m a c h in e g u n s . Th i s

p ic t u re s h ows t wo vi e ws . i t in T h e v c im s , re a d g from p righ t t o l e ft , a re Ja m e s h Cla rk , J o n n y M a y , Ad a m i E y e r, D oc t or R e n h a rdt H . e Sc h wim m r, an d Pe t e Gu s e n T h t h e i i be rg . e o r v c t m , ‘ I ra n k G u s e n b e rg , wa s a li ve wh e n p olic e a rriv e d a lt h ou gh h e h a d t we n t y-s e ve n bu lle t s

in h i s b o dy , an d wa s t a ke n t o a h o s p it a l wh e re h e di e r’ “ huddles with John Dingbat Oberta , as well as to read

his mail . There was an interesting letter from relatives

of Hillary Clements , the Sheldon gangster, who had been wa missing several months , and Joe s implored to mark the spot where he had left the body so that it might be

given a decent burial . But it was not until five weeks later

that the body was found and , would you believe it , the spot was a vacant lot behind the house where Hillary ’ s

survivors lived . 1 92 Gangland ushered in the new year , 6 , by removing

one John C os t en aro, a Sheldon beer customer, from the

scene and , so far as this reporter can determine Mr . Cos f tenaro has not yet been found . E forts to completely do

away with Theodore Anton were not so successful . Theo “ ” w w The artistically efficient homicide of Hymie Weiss drove dore , known as The Greek , o ned the Ha thorne Arms ,

home to every ambitious hoodlum in Chicago the grim headquarters of the Big Fellow . Theodore had been a lesson that the man of destiny among them was Alphonse pretty tough guy in his day and had come to the Capone i h recom Capone , and that the best possible life insurance was a gang w t a creditable career in the prize ring to r rese ved seat on his band wagon . The prestige of the mend him , but as the years rolled on something happened r him an d No th Side gang vanished like puffs of smoke in a wind to , he made a big nuisance of himself by de storm when ne ws of his demise was blazoned across the ve lop ing the evil of his ways and the ways of his com “ r town . Vincent Schemer D rucc i bowed apparently to panions and tenants . Anton ca ried sweetness and light the inevitable for when King Al suggested that another to the point of hinting that he was through with sin and ’

truce be held he was smart enough to acquiesce . But the vice and that Capone s lease on the building would not be

. Schemer had mental reservations as we shall see . renewed And so Anton the Greek was soon missing roll - call around the Hawthorne A rms Hotel and a long The meeting took place in the Morrison Hotel on , , , 6 long time afterward his body , or what was left of it , was October 2 1 , 192 , and the size of the representation was removed from a hole of quick-lime in a vacant lot in in itself a tribute to Capone . The Big Fellow himself was Burnham , Indiana , near the backyard of Johnny Pa tton , not there , but the terms which were laid down by ’ Bu rnham s boy mayor and a good friend of Al Capone; a Anthony Lombardo and Maxie Eisen , the eminent “ Jewish racketeer, had come from him , and you may On the South Side , believe it or not, Edward Spike ’ be sure that no stipulations were made this time . O D on ne ll was accused of having designs on Joe Saltis , “ ” ’ “ ” l - Even Klondike O Donn e l was represented . His delegate Lefty Koncil and their blue eyed boy , John Dingbat

was instructed to say yes to everything and not to sit Oberta , the eminent ward committeeman . Wh ether true “ ” w . Hru e around ith his fingers crossed either Unfortunately or not , Koncil and Charles Big Hays b c , were fired ” ’ ’ Joe Saltis , still in jail awaiting the verdict on the charge at on March 1 1 as they were touring in Spike O Donn ell s “ ” Mitt r of murdering e s Foley , could not get a leave of territory . Lefty and Hrubec jumped out of the car and

absence , but he was represented by the Schemer and were running at top speed for shelter in an apartment

George Moran . Ralph Sheldon was there , and so was house lobby , when , overburdened by bullets , they collapsed “ ’ “ ” ’ ” O D onne ll . Edward Spike Tony Lombardo , a big shot in death . Spike O Donn e ll did this foul murder, sai d “ in the Unione Siciliane , an important Italian political Joe Saltis to newspaper reporters I am not in the beer C a organization , represented racket. On the day of his re

pone as did Maxie Eisen , lease from the county j ail , “ ” the eminent Jewish racketeer Lefty , who was a rather - and stink bomb thrower . Lom nasty tempered little fellow , bardo laid down the territorial snarled on page one that he Drucci lines . and Moran were had been pushed around long fi p re s e nte d with the entire North enough by certain persons on m Side , li ited on the south and the South Side and that he

west by the Chicago river , on himself intended to go in for

the east by Lake Michigan but pushing in a big way .

extending north as far as the Meanwhile Vincent D rucci, Arctic Circle . The South Side was as leader of the North Side “ ” equally divided between Spike , gangsters , had not been com ’ an d Sheldon Saltis , but don t ple t e ly paralyzed by the peace

you believe a word of it . No conference . He had , indeed , peace pact in history has ever been quite busy following Al

stifled a congenital homicidal Capone around , a privilege he impulse , nor did this one . The had reserved mentally during L eague of Nations itself could the meeting and everywhere not alleviate the sad condition the Big Fellow went the of affairs along the South Side Schemer was sure to follow .

beer front where , incidentally , When he went to Hot Springs , a f e w days before t he conf e r ‘ Arkansas with a large body ence , Mr . Saltis had ordered guard to rest up for the a p the dynamiting of one of hi s p roa chin g mayoralty election customer’ s saloons because the in Chicago he did not know it , i propr etor, Mr . Joseph Kepka but the Schemer went along , had refused to help Joe pay too , taking with him numerous ’ ’ . . O Brien s W W legal bill . ff - sawed o shut guns , auto Another swell homicidal m a tics and other instruments

impulse , wearing smiles and of warfare . In Hot Springs the saying yes all over the ban “ Schemer” made an unsuccess D rucci quet hall , was Schemer , ful attempt to murder the Big

but it was destined never to be Fellow , but it was done so

given another good play . quietly that news of the affray v i On November 9 the terror reached the newspapers only z i e d jurors announced that by leakage . K ncil i Saltis and Lefty o were i “ ” “ ” When King Al returned to V n c e n t Sc h e m e r Dru c e i, s u c c e s s or t o Lit t le Hymi e not guilty of murdering Mit e i s a r f i Chicago late in March the at W s s a l e d e o t h e Nort h S d e G a n g. Thi s i s a n e arly h - m os he re l ters Foley and Big Joe went p ot o gra p h of t h e op e ra lovi n g h oo dl um , t a ke n a ft e r h e h a d p was considerab y s e n t t o h t i home to fall into numerous p a u gh ni g n a j a il c e ll. mixed with gunpowder and

courtroom in a squad car in custody of were played to empty seats . No politi i n three detectives . c a s wept copious tears over him ; or Tragically enough for the Schemer bent over his c'asket to kiss him as had - one of these detectives was a hard boiled been done for Sa muz zo . In the com a r t iv l sergeant named Daniel Healy . It was p a e y short parade to the cemetery Healy who had picked up the Schemer you couldn ’ t find a single automobile i and one of his henchmen , Henry Finkel draped , as at the Weiss circus , w th

stein , as they stood sunning themselves cloth sig ns urging you how to cast your

ers e . on Div y Boulevard Picking up ballot . Already decent folk had become

hoodlums was a passion with Sergeant weary of these displays , and the police Healy who thought that it brought him had announced that squads would be

good luck . Once he had walked into a in attendance to seize gangsters . But

South Side saloon and helped himself Al Capone was there . And so was “ ” to an automatic belonging to Joe Saltis . George Bugs Moran , and Maxie Eisen , ’ u en b r The automatic was in Joe s coat and Frank and Pete G s e g , Potatoes “ f M cC art h Joe had the coat on at the time . Oh , Kau fman , Dapper Dan y , Jack ” “ ” ’ ? Mc G u rn you re a tough g uy , with a gun , eh , Dingbat Oberta , Frankie Ma cE a rla n e . . . inquired Mr . Saltis . Sergeant Healy and Mr and Mrs Joe Saltis D ru i offered to return the weapon but Joe , Mrs . cc was consoled by Mrs . Dion ’ B i O an on . wi sely enough , flatly refused . At any The Big Fellow derived a rate no sooner had Sergeant Healy de great wallop of the fact that here was posited D rucci and Finkelstein in a jail one of his enemies for whose death he

cell , than an attorney appeared with a would not be blamed , and he came fear ' writ of habeas corpus . Out came D rucei lessly , even blithely . There is no record ‘ and his henchman , and into the squad however that Alphonse wept any tears “ ” ’ car , enroute to the courtroom . D rucei on Bugs Moran s shoulder because of

u . occupied a rear seat , with Sergeant their mut a l loss The Big Fellow was ffi Healy and one other o cer . Finkelstein ' getting all the breaks just now , and he H e re i s B ig T im Mu rp h y . Ch ic a go s ff sat with the driver . Enough di erent r was sitting pretty on top of the under p re m i e r ra c ke t e e , a n d a u t h or of t h e “ stories have been told about what hap lu s c i ou s c a m p a i gn s l o ga n ! Vot e f or B i g world . One fine morning the Big Fellow — ’ ” T im r h H e ou s in o f in . pened during the next five or ten min Mu p y s a c m e . discovered that he had become famous B i Ti m wa s s ai n in a a m blin wa r utes to stretch from the Rienzi hotel on g l g g , His position had made him quite visible re c e n t ly c lim a x e d wi t h t h e a s s a s s i n a t i on Dive rse . . y Boulevard to Melrose Park “ " to the great naked eye of the public o f fre a ke in e ra c ke t e e n e ws However it is not important after all Al d J L gl , r For a time this attention may have , e p a p e r r p ort e r . ” these years what Mr . Drucei said to Mr . tickled his vanity , but there is heat

Healy and what Mr . Healy said back in the great naked eye of the public , ’ rize fi ht er to Mr . Drucei , for the altercation came to a tragic end when no matter whether you re a king p g , king ’ a bullet from Mr. Healy s revolver buried itself in Mr . aviator, king movie actor, king author or just plain ’ “ D i - rucc s heart . Instead of going to a courtroom the squad governmental king this heat grows unbearable at times car turned right around on the spot and proceeded to the and you will find yourself running everytime you see a king . ’ D ru cc i s - county morgue where Mr . body was propped up on You run for the sole reason that you want privacy , you a marble slab . want to live your own life . Now when King Al began Of course there was a great hue and cry from the ankling it away from the following crowds he had two family and from the surviving members of the Schemer’ s reasons . (1 ) To live his own life and (2 ) to live . gang all of whom had become experienced in surviving , Wh en King AI found himself in the Loop District af ter by now . Crying murder , murder , murder they rushed to hire attorneys to see that justice was done , justice in walloping King George at the mayoralty election he looked this case being the prosecution of M r . Healy . At the around carefully and was amazed to see that a lot of coroner’ s inquest a few days little gamblers were doing a later four prominent criminal great big business wi thout hav lawyers spat many mouthfuls ing a king who had a standing of ch oice interrogations against army . This condition was ob a simple story related from the served simultaneously by f ” stand by M r . Healy . In e fect George Bugs Moran and

e r . it was that M r. Druc i had Barney Be tsche In their de called him a punk copper and sire to levy tribute from these ’ mbler M r a s e s s s . had reached for Mr . Healy s little g , Capone , r gun , but Mr . Healy having a Be tsche , Moran and , a little

. A longer reach , got there first later , the nine or ten iello

An d Sergeant Healy went back brothers of the North Side , to his job of picking up hood ushered another period of war lums just for good luck . The fare into Chicago . smart big city boys bespoke At the same time Bertsche , themselves out of the corners Moran and the Aiello boys of their mouths that Sergeant further developed the scope of Healy would get his in a very this growing crime syn dicate i k u ! short while , but at th s writing by hoo ing p with Jack uta, he is still up and about arrest over lord of a chain of vice

ing hoodlums over in the tough resorts on the West Side . Jack “ Valley district just for good and his chief lieutenant , Solly ” luck . Vision , had been having a The funeral of the Schemer rather tough time of it all by was no shabby affair judged themselves owing to the close - by upper world standards , but , proximity of several of their judged by the standards of pleasure institutions to similar

Gangland it was a terrible flop . dives owned and operated by Whereas the last tributes to “ Monkey -Faced ” Charlie Gen ’ O B a n ion Messrs . Weiss , , ker, and another choice char “ ” w a s i Nails Morton , Angelo Genna 1 acter, kno n Mike de P ke ( ) R alp h Sh e ldon , forc e d b y t u b e rc ul osi s t o re t ire a s m Am a tun a Sa oots . and had e e r o f t h e o “ " Heitler l a d S u t h Side ga ng . (2 ) Joh n Mit t e re r ole y , - been complete sell outs with s h ot t o e a t h o i d b y J e S alt is . Pole y , a Sh e ld on ga n gs t e r, Mike de Pike had defin te “ " “ i , wa s a oo b o s a i h i s m ot h e r wh a t if h d i l not even stand ng room the g d y d . e d s e l a Capone connect ions while Mr . " ” l litt le b e e r s om e tim u . - fina rites for Schemer Drucei M o n k e y F a c e d C h a r l i e ,

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peace pact . A hoodlum of proven talent , Claude Maddox ,

was placed in charge of operations , and the first blow

struck by the outraged N ort h sid e rs came on August 1 0,

when Anthony K . Russo and Vincent Spicuzza came to a

tragic end . But Capone was king and the unattached “ ” i hoods were flock ng to his standards . Others were deserting less powerful leaders and were casting their

fortunes with him . One of these , at this time , was Jack rn Mc G u , who had found himself t em p ermen t ally incapable

of association with such men as Moran , Pete and Frank

G u s e n be rg , Leo Mong oven , Barney Bertsche , Teddy New

berry and most of the others . King Capone admired M r.

M cG urn and saw great possibilities in him . Two other

gentlemen of the underworld , now famous , now devoted n their services to him . They were Joh Scalice and Albert

In the warfare for control of loop gambling the great Anselmi , free at last from courtroom appearances , and ’ i i . d scovery was made by K ng Capone and Messrs Bertsche , ambitious to get into action . The Big Fellow s criticism

Moran and the Aiello brothers that , although pineapples of the new alliance on the North Side was first made i are not indigenous to Chicago , they flourish as marvelously in October when several automobiles , all equipped w th here as do potatoes in Ireland , if , of course they are culti machine guns , visited the Aiello headquarters which were a v ted properly . The laboratory experiments of these rival in a small bakery on Divi sion Street and deposited several gang mobs may be said to have been made during their hundreds of bullets all over the place , without , however , efforts to form a gambling s yndicate of the Loop gambling causing any casualties . - - - joints and , having formed it , to gain utter and absolute Th e Aiello Moran Bertsche !uta mob now began to control . The small fellow who ran a little game behind make nuisances of themselves in a big way . An ambush was v the counter was extremely averse to paying le y either laid in the Atlantic hotel in the loop . From their front “ to Al or Moran . This and other ramifications including room the killers covered a cigar store across the street the protracted abdication of the reigning gambling king , in which the Big Fellow occasionally made appearances . all too involved to be discussed here , brought on the great Luck was with him or else his lookouts were ma rvelously pineapple period . A pineapple , if tossed into a building efficient for the Aiello killers upstairs were surprised one f properly , will make an insu ferably loud noise . Windows a fternoon to find themselves trapped by the police . On

. bounce out of their frames , entire walls keel over , the same day another ambush was uncovered , this one people scramble about in terror and the owner or across the street from the residence of Tony Lombardo . r i re proprietor of the building , su vey ng the ruins , Eleven Aiello boys including the leader , Joseph Aiello , “ ’ marks , Well , well , I can t imagine who should have done were soon fuming in jail ce lls while lawyers flew about ” . W such a thing to me , or why But you may be sure that trying to obtain writs of habeas corpus . hile still guests he is telling a big lie . It was just this sort of thing that at the detective bureau an observant oflice r spotted three began happening to the gamblers who cried robber when men loitering in front of the bureau and seized them . “ ” i n inv ted to join the sy dicate , being formed by the Big Th ey were all Capone men , Louis Little New York ie i n i ca rr . Fellow and the North Side mob . So prevalent did pineapple C a mp a g a , Frank Beige and Sam Marcus . All cultivation become that the joke mongers the country over light artillery and were waiting , merely to offer cond soon began using the word pineapple as a synonym for lc nce s to Joe Aiello and his boys . These incidents t a

Chicago . Another reason was responsible for the fact that gether with sporadic warfare in the Loop gambling country “ ” Ht the Aiello brothers , of whom there are nine , began playing brought more and more heat upon the Big Fellow . ’ around with Moran and his new buddies , the Bertsche and had become the favorite person to blame for everything

! . . uta mob The Aiellos , long respectable merchants , de and now the position became increasingly intolerable Bu l ‘ vou t y desired control of the Unione Siciliane , a powerful an election was coming on , a typical Chicago e let O Italian organization which at this time was under the and Capone could not yet shake himself away from t! —u leadership of Anthony Lombardo , who , as we have seen , city . Chicago was stirring , the pent p feeling again - wra i had stepped out as an ally of Capone and had represented the Crowe Thompson machine , was about to vent its him at the peace conference following The atmosphere buzzed with prophecies “ ” the demise of Little Hymie Weiss . as to what would happen at the polls

And there , roughly sketched , you have when Judge John A . Swanson got through ’ the new scenery which appeared on the with State s Attorney Robert E . Crowe , underworld stage following the re - elec and when Louis Emmerson was done with tion of William Hale Thompson . With Len Small . Crowe and Governor Small “ ” s - Bug Moran behind them , the Aiellos had been in oflice for seven and one half felt that the Big Fellow might be e fli - years , and defeat was to over take them . cie n t l a y opposed , and when they p During the campaign Chicago produced roa che p d Mr . Bugs he took the matter a bumper pineapple crop , and the fruit under advi sement and spent s everal days was dirt cheap . Senator Deneen and his thinking it over before he acquiesced . Big candidate for the state ’ s attorney ’ s George Moran must have deplored the ofiic e , Judge Swanson both received sad condition of affairs in his once proud , mob which compelled him to align him pineapples at their homes on the same a n evening . Other persons who were not n e self with Italian orga nization . For - years Bugs allowed himself to be widely gleeted include Ex judge Barney Barasa , quoted as saying that his first principle Municipal Judge John Sbarbaro , Larry -in - was never to let an Italian racketeer Cuneo , brother law and secretary to

Crowe , and Morris Eller , political boss of get behind him either in an automobile , a short saunter down the street , or in a the Valley District . At this time you will business enterprise . be interested in kn own in g that the Gusen

The underworld began to whisper bergs , Frank and Pete , spotted their old Mc G u rn early in 1 927 that more and bloodier playmate , Jack , driving on the warfare was imminent . Meanwhile Capone North Side . They trailed to a cigar store i had been attend ng to established busi in the Mccormick hotel , a short block off 2 7 ness as usual and on July , one of his the Boul Mich on the Near North side . new competitors in Burnham paid for When they entered , cautiously , and with his usurpation with his life . At the same hands gripping gats , they found their I k e Ro d e ri c k ro fe s s i on al b on s time he began muscling in on the , p d quarry busily talking in a telephone m an . I t wa s I k e wh o ba ile d Di on ’ Near North Side beer and alcohol busi O B a ni on ou t of a j a il c e ll follow booth . Now telephone booths , even in in h e fa m ou s i e b e n b re we r ra i - t . ness , thus violating the terms of the g S y d Chicago are not made with bullet proof

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n . Big Fellow , thinking himself again securely U was murdered He was Salvatore Canale and he was killed fortu nately Big Tim no longer lived out in his beloved in front of his home one hot summer evening . But the - — - back of the yards district . His place of residence now was Aiello mobsmen continued to tug away annoyingly at the a charming little bungalow on the North Side , in pleasant Capone outfit , terrori zing alky cookers , throwing pine - Rogers Park . It was within cap pistol hearing of another apples here and there , and taking pot shots at any Capone n bungalow in which resided Joe Aiello . O e warm June gangster they could find . It was not until September 7 , - 1 92 8 night the front door bell of the Murphy domicile began , however , that they succeeded in making a really i k . to ring and ring and ring , and Big Tim , who was ta ing important k lling The victim was Tony Lombardo , Capone a nap , got up sleepily and went out . Nobody was there , lieutenant , and head of the Unione Siciliane and the manner except a couple of bullets and so the author of the priceless in which he was eliminated was inexpressibly daring . The ’ ” line , vote for Big Tim Murphy he s a cousin of mine scene of his assassination was in front of Raklios res t a uran t rolled down the concrete steps a dead man . on Madison street, just west of Dearborn and little

Capone had left the management of his empire largely more than a block from State and Madison streets , the “ ” ’ n . in the hands of Frank Nitti , known as the e forcer and world s busiest corner The time was P . M . Countless “ ” i k Harry Greasy Thumb G us c , convicted pander who thousands of busy loop workers scurried about the streets , had charge of a choice killing squad . Harry was ably for it was nearing the rush hour and the loop was soon “ assisted by Hymie Loud Mouth Levine . These boys suc to be emptied of the office workers . c e e de d in convincing Mr . Aiello and Mr . Moran that they At the immaculate Tony with his body guards , l r f could not prosper in Chicago unless drastic measures were Tony Ferraro and Joseph L o a d o, left the o fices of the taken to get a strong hold somewhere . There is a ta le , Unione Siciliane in room No . 1 102 Hartford Building , 8 “ ” probably apocryphal , that J oe and Bugs negotiated South Dearborn Street . Next door , it may be said , Tony ffi - at this time for the services of the eminent Frankie Yale , maintai ned an o ce of the Italian American plan , a private ’ whom we have met before . At any rate Frankie s greatest loan bank . Walking North they turned west on Madison mistake of his long life was in alig ning himself with the street and had not proceeded more than fifty feet when a - 2 r Aiello Moran gang , for his punishment c ame on July , group of men detached themselves from the c owd and

1 928 in New York . The mystery of his death still intrigues quickly formed a circle around them . Shots rang out and the New York police and , every time a Capone man drops when the police could establish a semblance of order in the - r . into New York to see a fight or sta t one , the detectives panic stricken crowd , they saw M r Lombardo , face in the

off . push him to jail and ply him with questions concerning gutter , lying in a pool of his own blood Ferraro lay dying ’ ’

B n ion s . L l rd o the sad fate of Dion O a pet hatred On the night a few feet away . o a was captured a block or more ’ “ of Franki e s murder detectives established the fact that away as he darted into a shoe store . I was pursuing one of “ three long distance telephone calls had been made from the killers , explained Joe , and I would have caught him ’ ” the New York home of the mother of a Capone gangster , if you hadn t butted in . Joseph however denied that he “ ” i ’ C a m a n a . Louis Little New York p g , to Chicago One was with the slain men or that he was Tony s body guard . “ ” was to the Hotel Metropole in Chicago , kn own at that I just happened to be passing , he explained . Still the time as the headquarters of Frank Nitti , another was to police held heavy hands on him and they were still trying the home of a prominent Chicago citizen and the third to a to pry information from him regarding the Mafia King “ . L olard o certain garage in Cicero . With these clues you can write when an attorney appeared was an innocent ” “ your own th riller . bystander, the attorney declared , and unless he is imme ’ The Aiellos felt terribly about losing Frankie and they dia t ely released I will file a petition for a writ of habeas ” l felt more terrible on July 2 5 when one of their own boys corpus . One line of questioning was that L o ard o him

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in t h e a e i t ri . e h C lu m t D s c t ( 3 ) Roc c o P a n lll , w o , in Lo n don , d ec la re d t h a t a d olla r in Ch ic a go wa s m ore p owe rful t h an “ " a n o ic e room . 4 T h e o wi t t h mi i M y p l b ( ) b y h e s le s ol p s V olp e . t h e b oy won de r of Gan gl an d . (5 ) Al Ca p on e , t h e B ig Yell ow. b r o K in of t h e a a , T on y Lom a d , g M fi

n e . a n d a li e ut e n a nt f or Alp h on s e Cap o t ( Le ft ) M ad i s on a n d De arb orn St re e s wh e re L om b ardo wa s a s s a s s in at e d on e

s umm e r a ft e rn oon . a s u a in o L ola rd o s u c e s s o t o on om b a a s h e wa f n f “f " P q l , c r T y L rdo. s ou d in hi s a p art m e n t a te r e n t e rt ain in g t h re e ri e n d s .

Not e t h e B ourb on a n d t h e win e .

L ola rd o - - - When the police were summoned to the home to answer the door bell being rung by her sister in law , ’ m he - ti e t the i . L ola rdo after an uncommonly long , y found Mafia K ng s Mrs Joseph , wife of the well known body guard . body lying in a luxuriou s front room . His face had been L olardo the —in —lawt ele hon ed e Anna , sister , p a funeral par shot away and h could hardly be recogni zed . Except for lor for an ambulance and the attend a nts came took one look a beautiful velvet pillow which she h ad tenderly shoved , L ola rd at M r. o and summoned the police . During the ques under his head the body , said the widow , had not been t ion in L l r g of Mrs . o a d o it was finally extracted from her touched . She did not talk very much , but the little table that she had really got a good lo ok at the last vi sitors and in the center of the room with its half-empty glasses of , when a picture of Joe Ai ello was pushed in front of her whisky spoke eloquently on the circumstances of the ’ face , she nodded that one of the visitors was he . While man s death . she was still in custody an eff ort was made to find Mr. b With his wife L ola rd o had returned to their home from Aiello ut it was unsuccessful , although eighteen or twenty ’ of his henchmen were gathered together from the dives , a loop shopping tour at 3 o cl ock in the afternoon . At - the entrance to the stairway leading to their flat a cheap pool halls and bakery on the North Side . All were paraded , before the widow but she recognized none of them as her and dismal looking place outside , they were met by three ’ husband s guests . Resolute attempts were made to solve men whom the widow said she had seen m any times for this murder, and it will be important to remember that . di several years She d not , however know their names . , If w ires were tapped at several places and that Mr . Joseph All went upstairs and Mrs . L ola rd o spread a lunch for ’ L olardo was heard to say that he would get even with the three men who departed at about 3 o clock . Five b . Th e k on a certain mo murder was never technically solved , minutes later however there was a nock the rear ’ . L ola rdo s l r although it was established that Mr visitors door . Mrs . L o a d o was in the kitchen ironing at the time were not all Italians . and she did not get a good look at them , she said , when L l r they were admitted by her husband . For half an hour The death of o a do again brought moving day to the or more the visitors made whoopee and there was much Capone alky cookers on the Near North Side . It also k i clin ing of glasses , jok ng and loud laughing . And then brought control of the Unione Siciliane to Joe Aiello and ’ 4 L ol r - at o clock , according to Mrs . a d o, the gun play started . what appeared to be a rosy future for his allies . It also

There was a scramble for the door and when Mrs . L olard o brought a fierce and deadly determination to the hearts l i walked into the front room she found herse f a w dow . of the Circus mob to avenge themselves . A few weeks T h the he pillow was slipped under his ead and widow went later the Valentine Massacre happened .

[42] brings him scrambling to hi s feet and he too takes his and photographers and newspaper reporters pour out . The - place in line . High ball is no longer barking . Now he street becomes jammed and the Clark and Broadway street a U leaps ferociously at the intruders , his white teeth showing , cars are st lled in long lines in the narrow street . p We in sha nk i but alas Al has tied that leash too securely . stairs behind the little frayed lace curta ns the masters dis It all happens in a few minutes and yet there has been of ceremonies sneak out and downstairs and , singly ,

Gus e nb r . ample time for Pete e g , standing at the right of appear into the surging crowd Their job is done and done

e . The c . the lin , to realize that this is a mission of murder , and well eremonies are over In a morning newspaper ofli ce that his only chance to beat back death is the little auto far away in the direction of the Loop District , a re w ha s h matic revolver in his hip p ocket . With a fierce cry and an rite man who heard the first story of t is holocaust, ‘ s oath his hand drops like a plummet to that hip pocket , sit himself calmly at a typewriter and begins a matchless

. in and his fingers are just closing upon the butt of it when story He taps out the story a single line , namely tha ha s o . the address of the graduating ceremonies commences . It Gangland graduated fr m murder to massacre is delivered quickly , artistically , and with masterful e ff ec tiv n e e s s . Approximately 1 50 bullets pour from those ma chine guns and only a few fail to find lodgment in the doomed men standing there against the white -washed wall of brick . With the first outburst of fire the doomed men begin to scream and curse , but the steady rattling stream of lead plays upon them so expertly that only one moves out of line in an effort to escape . The steel bullets tear into the heads of these men , splintering skulls , splattering a br ins . Except for the man on the end who had tried to escape and collapsed on a chair in grotesque posture , they fall to the floor in the order in which they had stood . Now that all are lying on the blood and grease streaked

floor , a second stream of death plays over them , again tearing into bone and flesh . Six or seven minutes ago Arthur B ric h et had been The whole world reeled before this one in horror and ordered to move along . Now , standing against the wall unbelief. Newspapers everywhere published the amazing of the building two or three hundred feet away , he can crime and the Valentine Massacre of Chicago was discussed ’ hear a low rumble from within the garage . Presently in the far corners of the earth . Defenders of Chicago s the group of “policemen and detectives ” emerge casually reputation looked on the atrocity helplessly and in dismay . from the building , step into the automobile , and are driven Here was a crime which even the cynical Chicagoan could smoothly away towards North Avenue . He sees the “ ” not dismiss with a superficial gesture . It seemed absurd squad car weaving in and out of the traffic traveling now to say that since Gangland murdered only those who ? “ ” rapidly , but not too rapidly . He walks toward the garage . belonged to Gangland why bother about it George Bugs He can hear the loud continuous barking of a dog . End of M oran disappeared shortly after the crim e but before he scene two . left one newspaper obtained one crisp comment from

. 2 1 24 — Mrs Jeanette Landsman , who lives at North Clark It was this ! Only one gang kills like that the Capone ” a street which is just next door to the garage , hears rattling g ng . This line was carried over the wires to Al Capone -fi re “ , . gun voices of men screaming and swearing She who was in Florida and he had one all ready for it . They ’ ‘ ’ ” rushed down stairs to the sidewalk and peers through the don t call that guy Bugs for nothing, wa s what the Big ofii c window of the garage , but , because of the e cannot Fellow said . see what has happened behind . She is afraid to enter . At With each successive smoking edition of the Chicago this moment a pedestrian passes . She turns to him , saying newspapers for a solution of the crime and punishment “ ’ ’ . that she heard shots in there I ll see if anything s for its perpetrators swelled in bitter intensity . Thoughtful wrong , says the man smilingly . And , in a most u n persons filled column after column with suggestions as to

Chicagoan like manner , steps into the garage . A few how the said conditions which made such a thing possible seconds later he bursts out again , shaking , his face ghostly might be remedied . Not since the unsolved murder of “ ’ “ ” ’ i . can wh te He scarcely speak . There s dead men all over McSwi in s ” g g , the hanging prosecutor from the state “ ’ ’ the place , he finally cries as he runs away shouting I ll ff attorney s o ice , had public indignation developed such a call the police . commis smne r temperature . William E . Russell , of police ,

And the police come . In horror they pause before the commanded to run the murderers to earth , summoned ffi shambles . Both o cers have seen service in the World Deputy Commissioner of Detectives John Stege home from

War but there is something about this sight that a vacation to work on the case . Commissioner Stege at f is inexpressibly more aw ul than war . I n the dim that time was spending a vacation in Florida and Cuba ness of the room their eyes fall upon the figure of a man with a group of friends among whom was included Alfred “ ” n crawling upon his hands and k ees across the floor. Re Jake Lingle , veteran Chicago Tribune police reporter, covering from their first shock they now rush to his aid . who was later to be put on the spot by Gangland .

It is Frank Gu senbe rg . During the relent More dead than alive less series of investi he mumbles something g a tion s instituted by pretty strange for Commissioner Stege him . It is that he every Capone gang hopes no one will ever ster in Chicago was ,

ff . suffer as he su ers at one time or another , ff The o icers , realizing haled into detective that Frank is dying , bureau headquarters ply him with questions and passed in review as they move him before eye - witnesses carefully towards the whose names were , door , but Frank is for a long time , with true to the code of held from the public . the half- world in Three men were posi i t ive l wh ch he has lived so y identified , Jack long and he will say Mc G urn [ll] , and John nothing Squads Scalice . At the same of police and d et ec flfl time one of the eye t ive s appear in auto witnesses identified , M a p s h owi n g rou t e b e li e ve d t o h ave be e n t ra ve le d b y a u t om obil e c a rry in g mobiles , horns honk n s r i Fred Burke , notorious V ale ti n e Ma s a c e k lle rs from g a ra ge , in wh i c h t h e ir a u t om obile wa s la t e r ing , gongs clanging . n 1 r f fou d, t o 2 2 2 Nort h Cla k St re e t , s c e n e o t h e s la yi n g. (In s ert ) Fron t vie w criminal , from a pic - a 1 rt h a r ee Taxi c bs draw up of 2 2 2 N o Cl k St r t . ture in the rogues gal '‘ d n his w lery . Burke di not confi e I o women identified John , but ’ activities to any one gang or city . they couldn t remember having ever i Formerly a member of the notor met Mr . Anselmi before . The case M t ous Egan Rats of St . Louis , Burke against Jack cG urn even ually i - w had been a mach ne gunner with a s nolle prossed . As for Scalice the American Expeditionary Forces a sad but inevitable fate overtook during the World War, and was him before the day scheduled for w wanted in five American cities for his court appearance and , ould as many murders at the time of you believe it , he was in company w the Val entine Massacre . This choice at the time ith his old pa rt ner , criminal is still at large . Shortly Albert Anselmi . These t wo boys W after the massacre he narrowly were always together . e sh a ll re escaped capture in Benton Harbor, turn to them at the proper time . re Michigan , where he posed as a W Seven days after the Valentine le . t s p e c ta b citizen hen his lit le Massacre the police discovered one ( e bungalow was raided , aft r the of the automobiles which had trans precipitate flight of Mr . Burke , f xecu police discovered three machine ported one group o the e t ion e rs to 2 1 22 North Clark Street . guns and several hundred bullet s . Discovery was made in a garage in In escaping Mr . Burke shot and the rear of 1 723 North Woods killed a traffic c0p who wanted to Street , three blocks from the Circus bawl him out for running through “ “ ” Cafe . The massacre car had been wit hi s oh nn u a e in a t . e rt a a t e t h a traffi c light . Incidentally the re J y S v D gb Ob . l f , w - b o u ar S a mm a a a h o i n a n a t h e t i c dismembered ith a blow torch , for his capture now stands at dy g d , y M l g , ld g l “ i ” t r op h y . Th e D n gba t a n d S a m m y we re i n s e p gasoline had been poured over the the substa ntial total of $1 00 000. ar a ble in li f e an d wh en Ob e rt a wa s fou n d de a d parts and then set a fi re in an effort Brich t i n hi s a u t om obi e t h e o i c e ooke a rou n f or Arthur e , the boy who l p l l d d to destroy all identifying marks . It ur e e n ou h t h e re h e was u s a f w “ S am m y . S g j t e wa was to to move on , identified John s definitely established with the fe e t a wa y , h i s b od fl oati n g in a s m a ll s t re am . Scalice and Jack Mc Gurn as did y discovery of the automobile that it ” one woman eye - wit ness and both had been faked to resemble a were eventually indicted . M c G u rn was arrested in a room police squad car . The garage had been rented several d wi i in the Stevens Hotel where he was hol ing gala th a days before the massacre , and , accord ng to the owner , i w sinuous blonde , Lou se Rolf e , now kn o n to fame as the the renters , three men , gave their addresses as the Circus “ ” ’ i x a . x blonde alibi . No machi ne g un s were in Jack s lu ur ous C fe An e haustive investigation from the automobile quarters , but he was not entirely without protection for angle of the Valentine horror which took many months 45 over on the bureau within convenient reach was a . finally left detectives with nothing more than a number automatic pistol and a . 3 2 revolver . The woman who iden of fictitious names . t ified Jack also said that she had seen hi m before with A raid made on the day following the massacre found a num ber of men who played aroun d the Circus Cafe on the Circus Cafe not open for business . Doors were locked , Nort h Avenue . i tables overturned and Messrs Maddox , C a pp rez z o , Hum hre s bi As you might expect when the police fin ally came upon p y and Rocco Belcastro , the g bombing boy , were

i w . a i h n i . nowhere around John Sc l ce he was t his old part er , Albert Anselm

Three months later, however, when public temperature ha d dropped a few degrees , these choice gentlemen ap p e a re d at detective headquarters where they suffered them ‘ ‘ ‘ selves to be interviewed by reporters and C enn mis s io n e i

Stege . All had nice , detailed stories as to their movements

’ o t wi e r m s e c a s t ro ( 1 ) John n y Ge n aro , on e of Ca p on e s a dep t b om b t os s e rs . fell u t h a n ot h e r Ca p on e b om b , Ja e B l , o at e an a n ’ “ w ” e a s t o e n Joh nn y wa s p u t on t h e sp ot . I n t h e h o s p it a l J hnn y vi ol d G gl d s c ode b y s qu a kin g t h a t B lc r gage d s e n h e an i n orm e r f ra re t o h m e t t om m on t o a ll e n t e m e t wo ki ll e rs t o d o t h e dirt y work . ( 2 ) Juli u s B o im, f o u c . a fa e c g l n h e a rs of t h “ ” t n of th e u n de rworld wh o wh is p e r a n d s qu awk an d inf orm in t o t e e wr on g gu y s . o moia l a t e ti on h a s a gai n b e e n s e nh e im i foc u s e d on t h e li fe a n d a c t ivi ti e s o f M r . B o , s n c e t h e m u rd e r of J a k e Lin gle . o r 14 1929 and t r i and v r ha in o t oo h n the morning of Februa y , , af e k ndly e e in t t garage my life ; it l oked muc like the i t ” sm lingly posing for photographs , they depar ed . floral shop to me . A day or so later Joe Aiello also appea—red at the bureau concerning a little matter of murders the murder of “ L ola rdo particularly . Chief , two years ago de Chief ’ ” “ O C onn or w , he tell me to get out of to n , said Joe , and f I go , e en though I never do nothing wrong . Chief, I i like your Ch cago . I wanta live here and be a respectable

man in my bakery . Before Joe left, he denied ever having

met anyone by the name of Moran .

One thing is certain . The police did not particularly u e of Commissioner grieve over the passing of the G s nberg s , Pete and Frank .

occupied by Dion These boys had b n raising hell in Chicago for many years , and while news of their violent deaths

did not exactly inspire rousing cheers , the remarks made several days after the massacre by Chief of Detectives John Egan concerning the average life of the gangster may not be interpreted “ as coming from a saddened heart . The ” average life of the Chicago gangster, “ who s hundreds packed the narrow treet said Detective Egan , is about 3 0 to 3 1 of e rf o in front the garage when the p years , and that rate Pete who was about rated bodie s of hi s men were discovered . 3 6 , had lived five or six years beyond his Gu se nbe r Moran left Chicago a few days later allotted time . Frank g who 3 8 for Canada and did not return for sev was years old , was about seven or - . eral months . One day he suddenly a p eight years over due at the morgue p ea red at the detective bureau , pro They must have been mighty careful “ ” t ect e d by his lawyer . Bugs is v ery of themselves to last as long a s - self conscious and nervous when in this they did . institution , but he had obvi ously care Chief Egan said that Clark , being fully prepared himself for the ordeal 3 2 , was a year or two late , while Al of saying yes and no . It may be inter Weinshank had his coming to him for esting to record that , when asked con cerning his relations with Pete and the past four or five years . Johnny May , off r Frank Gu se nberg and all the other vic said Chief Egan , was bumped ight ’ t im s M r , o an replied ! I didn t have on schedule , and Adam Hyer who was ’ d 29 . nothing to o with those guys . I wasn t only , got cheated out of a year

(U e r h ot o ra h omi n e k A ie o mi n or m e m b e r of t h e ort h i e n ow b p p p g p ) D ll , N S d ga g . ( L e r p h ot o grap h ) Th e la st p u li c ap p e a r

a n c e of D omi n e k Ai e ll o. cate of high and normal intelligence . An d so , a

few days later , Chicago was treated to the sp ec tacle of “ Pollack ” Joe and Johnny Dingbat ” Oberta in the office of the police commissioner l “ p roud y waving certificates of mental health . We ’ ” won t have to play with no blocks , said Johnny

and Joe as they walked away , and then , catching “ ’ himself, h e said , I mean we won t have to p lay

with any blocks . Safe from confinement in the “b ug ” house Joe and Johnny and their henchmen ” now began to look around for Edward Sp ike ’ ’ “ nn l O D o e l. Joe hadn t had a shot at Spike for Pollack Joe Saltis lost a great deal of prestige m 1 9 2 many months and the strain was telling on him . in B ooze do i n 8 when he submitted to capture “ ” and was “ settled in the Cook County j ail for two Besides rumors were reaching Joe that Sp ike was about to make a g reat beer offensive and had month s on a charge of violation of the liquor laws . “ ” surrounded himself with a formidable gang of The feat of clamping a beer baron in the can muscle men . One of them strangely enough was was not accomplished with all the ease of falling , the redoubtable Frankie MacEarlan e and hi s kid off a log, however , for Mr. Saltis made himself 1 3 9 brother, Vincent . The underworld gossiped for a scarce except to his beer clients for days , by long time about the sp lit between Saltis and Frank actual newspaper count , before he was finally ap who had been p als from the very beginning . Th e prehended . The newspapers made a great deal of truth was that MacEarla n e could no longer endure noise about the search for Mr . Saltis and , every “ ” - 1 the nasty nice Dingbat . As we have seen Mac day for 3 9 days , you could open up your newsp aper E a lan - r e was at heart a bank robber and , j ust to and see in very large typ e the numbers 1 02 days 1 0 keep in practice , used to wander around knocking and no Mr . Saltis or 3 days and no Mr . Salti s over a safe here and there . When Salti s was in and so on and on up until the day Joe was brought “ ’ “ j ail the Dingbat tried to clamp down on Frankie , in mumbling I m out of the beer racket , and this telling him th at he would sp oil the real dough for is a bum rap . The p ublic took a great deal of all of them if he persisted in the bank -busting interest in the newspap er count , which , until the “ ” “ tendency . Aw , hell , resp onded Frankie , It Demp sey-Tunney fight was looked upon as the takes real brains to hoist a bank . An d to hell with longest count Chi cago had ever seen . It had all ’

thi s Sunday School outfit . I ll make some real con the wallop of a serial story with the hot stud ” nections . The fact that his boss , Saltis , was in continued until tomorrow . j ail was proof enough to Frankie that he was in When Joe was emp tied from the j ail cell he with a wrong bunch of guys . made straight for the flower shop in the back -of the-yards district where his affairs were being Saltis saw no real obstacle from the Sheldon

mobsters who , it was then being rumored , were ably dir ected by his lieutenants , amiable John “ ” having internal trouble . Sheldon , suffering from Dingbat Oberta and Paddy Sullivan . Joe was in a tranquil condition of mind for the next few tuberculosis aggravated by constant breathing of ” “ - weeks , but panic struck him and the Dingbat gun powder, was ordered by his p hysician to seek u when they came up on a newsp ap er story which strength in the p rer atmosphere of Arizona . He said that all hoodlums in did so , leaving his mob in

Chicago were to be s ubmitted charge of Danny Stanton , an

to a mental test . If found of a r r a n g e m e n t w h i c h w a s oke e d unsound mentality , as most y by the Big Fellow , Al

assuredly they woul d be , sug Capone . Stanton , a former “ gested the story , they would member of the four horse ” - be confined for treatment . Joe men group of taxi cab slug and the “ Dingbat ” may not gers which also included John “ i ” have been afraid of machine M tt ers Foley , had for his “ guns , p istols , automatics and right hand men , Hugh Stub ” McG overn p ineapples , but words like p sy by and William ” holo h i r M cPadd n c g y , p ych at y , p sycho Gunner e , both

pathic , were monstrous and tough boys de luxe who had

inexp licable terrors , and their been brought up from baby first quarrel i s said to have hood in the famous Ragan been p recip itated when the Colts gang . At this time Joe ” Dingbat , who pretended to ’ Saltis , finding it difficult to - be book learned couldn t rattle buy beer elsewhere and im off a definition of p sycho possible to manufacture it , p aresis . B ut Little Johnny re stored himself i n his boss ’ s made connections with the Big estimation when he hit on the Fellow . King Capone wel Fran ki e B i o, b ody guar d of t h e B i g F e ll ow,

own Alp h ons e C a on e . Fr an ki e was a rre st e d in comed Big Joe but told him scheme of having their p ' wi en t en ce e r ersonal sychiatrist examine Phi la delp hia t h Al an d s d t o a y a s to behave himself and to stay p p im ri s onm e n t in ail f or carr in co n c e a e p j y g l d ’ c rtifi them and give them a e wea p on s . out of Danny s territory .

oh n c a i a n e s l m i wo a n n ’ m o s s in i h i n r i e nn a h e J S l c e d Alb rt An e . t of G gla d s t s t e r figu re s . Im p ort e d t o t s c ou t y b y M ke G t y e h i i s e ro m ros e m a d t eir d e b u t in a s e n s a t i on a l g un ba t t le n wh c h Mi ke a n d t wo p o li c e m e n we re kille d . Fin a lly re le a d f p i wi n u m rs i i e ll o wi t h h re s u t c u t o n t h e y a lli e d t h e m s e lve s t h C a p o e . R o h a d t t h a t t h e y d re a m e d of ki ll in g t h e B g F w t e l h ot o i re n a in a n a u t o t h a t t e y t h e m s e lve s we re p u t on t h e s p . ( L we r p c t u ) x m a rk s t h e Sp ot wh e re t h e y we re fou d d e d m obi On t h e n i n St a t n e le I d a a e li .

be onto the dance floor , very much a dead man . By cabaret j ust in time to see Maloney , huddled - this time the noi se had attracted the attention of hind an over turned table , gently depositing his

u 3 fl . f a policeman o tside , Officer Timothy Sullivan , who . 8 on the oor Of icer Sullivan took possession of “ ’ had been detailed to the Granada to look for auto both Mr . Maloney and the . 3 8 . It ain t mine , ‘ “ ufiin mobile thieves . Timothy came p g into the said George , indignantly . I never saw it before .

plenty of extra time on his hands Red conceived

the idea of app ropriating a few unions for himself , an idea which he disclosed to the other afore

mentioned four , who were enthusiastic . Presently these five very tough boys had ousted the offi cials

of the coal teamsters and hikers union , and were now laying plans for appropriating control of the ’ Mid -West Garage Owners Association This in

- volved driving out Dave Albian , alias Cock eyed

Mulligan . It was a hard j ob but they did it . A certain garage owner decided however that he

would not get upon the Barker bandwagon , and “ ” one night while Red and his playmates were

gunning for the recalcitrant one , they shot a gar age attendant to death and severely wounded a

policeman who had int erfe rre d . Eventually George

went back to the p enitentiary , not for the murder sh o tin b and o g , ut for ! iolating his p arole by leaving

the state . He h ad fl ed to California . Well , with “ ” “ Red in Joliet , Klondike fell into a huddle over the matter and decided that now would be a good “

time to show Red how tough he was . He became determined on this course following the crazy 1 5 19 2 9 murder on March , , of William J . Vercoe

by George Clifford . The murder occurred in the ’ t h e s i e r. n c e Fra n kie M a c E a rla n e , G a n gd om s m os t ru l s k ll O a m e m b e r o f t h e S a t i s m ob ra n kie i s n ow re o rt e h u s t in 56 13 l . F p d l g Pony Inn , West Roosevelt , scene of the Mc “ " ' i s e n e m . b e e r f or Sp ike O D on n e l l , a S a lt y Swi in g g assassination . Vercoe , known as a clown was in a greatly weakened condition , but the trial - for the hoodlums , loved to recite blood and ’ didn t last long . No witnesses could be produced thunder verse for the amusement of his gangster 3 who had seen Maloney and the . 8 together , and - friends . On this occasion , Vercoe , well plastered , he was acquitted . Although Maloney lived longer , stood at the bar reciting a certain verse in which he did not make any more p ublic appearances with “ ’ ” one line was You re a coward . When Vercoe his . 3 8 , so we will bring his career to a close here . came to this he unwittingly p ointed to Mr . Clifford , Early in 1 92 9 he was sent to a hospital as the e who with Mike R illy was drinking at the bar , and “ ’ ?” result of an automobile accident , in which he had Mr . Cliff ord cried out , who s a coward and attem ted to knock an interurban train off its “ ’ p . before Mr Vercoe could say I didn t mean you ,

. track In the hosp ital he contracted pneumonia , . Mr Clifford had shot and killed Mr . Vercoe . Well , 3 an enemy which no . 8 could beat back no matter 14 1 2 this was too tough , and on April , 9 9 , Clifford how deftly handled , and George Maloney killer de al , and his bosom p , Mike Reilly , went on a long , q e , 6 19 3 0 3 8 . died on May , , at the age of long ride . Their bodies While B ubs and Maloney were regaling the were d ump ed in the alley

- South Side with gun play , William Klon behind th e Hawthorne Hot el ” ’ O Donn ell ‘ Ma 2 9 19 2 9 dike was carrying on the West Side in Cicero . On y , , “ tradition for toughness . Klondike , as we somebody else beat them to M E ll i o t h c . have chronicled , had surrounded himself wit T h o m a s g H e men so tough that he frequently saw fit to con was killed in the basement a Se ! i of a Loop saloon . On p ince them that , wh le they were tough , he was

tember 4, the end came for u . much tougher , very much to gher At this p eriod “ ” Mr . Frank Si” Cawley , Klondike was p articularly troubled over the out ” who was also taken for a side activities of George Red Barker , Mike “ ” ride . George Red Barker , f “ ” Reilly George Clif ord , Frank Si Cawley and , released from the p eniten i Thomas McEll g ot . Barker , a slugger for union t ia ry later on , was a very officials in Chicago labor wars , had served a p eni much convinced man , and t en tiary sentence for his activities as a fi st -slinger he is still believed well and “ and terrorist . On his release he j oined the Klon healthy as a devoted Klon A Wh oop “ J oin t a ll ’ ” - . a s t e re . dike mob and found beer running ch ild s p lay . With dike henchman p l d

[ 5 4 ] mor that King Capone had placed himself on the spot for the Philadelphians in order that he might have the comfort and security of a j ail cell

until the Valentine Massacre probe , investigation , heat or what have you had gone the way of most Chicago probes and investigations of Gang ’ land s crimes . Public temp erature was so high at this time that Cap one did not want to be foot-loose

anywhere , and he probably got the idea of going

The authors of this pleasant narrative have to j ail from his old master , Johnny Torrio . But introduced you from time to time to their favorite even in prison , whither he was consigned for one — r r evil men of Gangland John Scalice and Albe t year , Capone could not enti ely escap e from the

n i stench of the Valentine Massacre . Three months A selm who , you will remember , were imported to Chicago from Southern Italy in 1 9 2 5 by the after his conviction the prison authorities began receiving letters from a garrulous and somewhat Imperial Genna brothers . Scalice and Anselmi ,

r foolish lady addressed to the Big Fellow . In the grim and mi thless fellows , were a perfect d efin i c ourse of pri son routine these letters were op ened tion of the word sinister . You would have been uncomfortable sitting i n the same Yale bowl or and , because of the sensational nature of their ’ ’ — cont ent s s ent . . Soldiers Field with them more uncomfortable , to State s Attorney John A Swanson re than walking down a dark alley at midnight with The letters were written by Mrs . Frank Beige , “ nt l ce y wed . Her husband was sometimes described , Little Hymie Weiss or Schemer D rucci. On May ’ er 1 2 9 correctly or incorrectly , as the Big Fellow s p 8 , 9 , the sensational long run of the terrible drama called Scalice and Anselmi came to an sonal executioner . Beige may have been expert l at handling a machine gun and in p utting an abrupt end . Pump ed fu l of bullets , burned and

r enemy on the spot , but he was a terrible dub at beaten , thei bodies were found in a lonely stretch An w . . handling omen , p articularly Mrs B eige y of country in the bleak Indiana state line district . Mrs w a way , without his knowledge , . Beige , rambled Scalice and An selmi ith one , John Ginta , a C on and on something after the following manner ! pone gangster, had been taken for a terrible ride , and one of the stories at the time had it that John ’ You kn ow what Frank has done for you . He s got - and Albert had plotted to over throw the B ig Fel to get out of town pronto for the other mob are wise . ’ 1 0 000 His life isn t safe here . So you got to get us $ , in low himself . A coup was lanned . Ca one was to p p ” be seized at a given signal dur ing a banquet held cash and do it quick somewhere in Chicago . You can easily imagine Of course the B ig Fellow never saw the letter , what Scalice and Anselmi planned to do with a fact which never occurred to the naive Mrs . him . The banquet began . The signal was g iven . Beige . When no reply came to this one , she wasted All Capone henchmen arose but , instead of seiz more p aper and wrote on the following ! ing the Big Fellow , they took p ossession of “ ’ 1 0 000 I m asking you for the last time to send that $ , Scalice and Anselmi . Capone , it i s said , did not ’ v and g e t it to us fast . Frank s sick of you lea ing him believe the story of the treachery of these men ’ w w to hold the bag . He can t get out of to n ithout the cash ’ , wit until sitting there behind the spaghetti , he and he can t stay here without being taken for a ride . n e sse d the signal . You kick across or Frank will go to the police and spill "

! . what he knows . Remember everything Eight days after the long , lo ng ride of Scalice n and A selmi , the Chicago newsp a ers sizzled with p In thus talking out of turn Mrs . Beige made the story of the arrest of Al Capone and his great many wild and reckless statements about - - aide de camp , Frankie what Frank thought

Rio , in Philadelphia and would do . Frank , charged with carrying as a matter of fact , did concealed weap ons . The not know how little arrests were made by wifey was trying to help detectives who had met him along . When the C apone in Miami where , Big Fellow failed to kick by thi s time , he had in the she again purchased and improved addressed him ! to suit his own eculiar p ’ All right . You re just needs , a vast estate . as good as putting Frank There was more sizzling b on the spot , y leaving us ’ how ll when a day or so later , stranded he re . Well , Al fi and Frank , were you like getting the nger ’ consigned to a county on yourself ? P 1 a nk s going to tell eve 1 vt hi n g he knows . j ail cell for one year . He remembers fifteen shoot Al ong with the tidal ings he did because you wave of economium s on ordered him to do them . the efficiency of the He ’ s going to tell just who killed Mc Swig g in for a a h a on e o e r b rot h e r o f a on e a s h e a e a re it h Philadelphia p olice and R lp C p , ld Al C p , p p d w ’ h i s a t t orn e y s re c e n t ly du rin g hi s t ri a l an d c o n vic t i o n f or a n starter . And he s going to a courts , c me the inter n t e n e wh in c om e t ax fra u d . R a lp h wa s s e c d t o t h re e y e a rs i n t h e tell about y you had him t n t i ar —be esting current of ru p e ni e y . bump Ben Newmark e w re foun d .

Of course Mrs . Beige was required to ’ come to Mr . Swanson s f of ice , where , confronted with these letters , she the more sensational , though unimportant , affrays continued in an even higher crescendo with the during the lull was between Tommy McNichols “ ” - h result that she was kept in semi custody by and Jimmy Bozo Sc upe , small time West Side 3 1 detectives for fear that something might hap bootleggers . On July Tommy and Bozo held n pe to her . Her husband was eventually arrested a duel on Madison street , Tommy standing on one and held for three days . Strangely enough no side and Bozo on the other . They killed each other . - lawyers came forward to attemp t his release . B ut James Walsh , a beer runner, was m urdered in De “ ” r u cember F ankie Beige stood p and took it on the chin , by Charles Babe Baron after a prize ’ fi ht which is why , maybe , that h e s still a member of g at which Walsh , during an altercation , slapped ’ ” Capone s gang . What he said in response to ques Babe with his fists . Two days later the body of tions was , in effect , that his wifey was j ust trying Patrick King , criminal of sorts , was found in the ’ to make some easy dough , by shooting off her deserted gambling j oint owned by Terry O connor

. . 2 19 3 0 mouth Mr Beige had never met Mr . Cap one and on South Wabash Avenue . On January 7 , , “ ” Mrs . B eige was crazy when she said that he used Johnny Genaro , a grade C bomber for the C a ’ l to sleep out in the corridor of Capone s room in pone outfit , was p ut on the spot by James B e ca s the Hotel Metropole until relieved by another tro , another Cap one bomber , but did not die . John “ ” C a m a nia n s u guard , Louis Little New York p g . y and Belca tro have since made p and are

Capone and Franki e Rio did not return to getting along nicely , according to reports . If you

hear any loud noises it may be Johnny and Jimmy . Chicago until March of 1 9 3 0. During the interval ’ 3 1 9 3 0 little of importance occurred in the Big Fellow s On February , , Joseph Cada , comp anion of

- Jimmy Walsh on the night Walsh was killed , was realm either as regards business or blood shed . shot to death in his automobile near the Green His aff airs seemed , indeed , to p rosp er while those

- Mill Cafe , a famous whoopee j oint where inciden of his enemies , the Aiello Moran outfit , seemed to “ ” tally , at that time , Texas Guinan was holding be afflicted by an evil fortune . The Enforcer ’ forth . The next day Julius Rosenheim , supposedly of the Big Fellow s business , Frank Nitti and “ Hymie Loud Mouth Levine h eld forth from an informer , was filled with bullets and dump ed headquarters in the Lexing t on hotel , deciding with into a snow bank near his home , and all was quiet 2 4 Ma cEarlan e finality who should be killed , who shoul until February , when Frankie , in h i- - bombed , whose trucks should be j acked . One of a hosp ital under an assumed name , was be set by

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’ Benny hasn t been seen or victim as was Michael Quirk . heard from since the tele George Drug g an, brother of ’ . Novemb er l 7 Dru an phone rang On . , the famous Terry g g the body of Johnny “ B illiken ” was terribly wounded and he Newbe r / b Rito , a g y ourbon is at this writing in a hospital *" wh . hustler , o had formerly fighting for his life A few worked f or the Gennas , was hours later in Chicago Thomas n ri f ound floating down the Chi Som e o, Cap one leader , was strangled to death and his body fl ung in an alley on the

West Side . One of the mourn mnerio ers for Mr . So was a

Gangland Queen , Margaret

Mary Collins , who had been the sweetie for five other

gangsters , all departed . Some body p ut Somn erio on the

spot , and it was said that a

woman had done it . More hor ror was produced by Gangland four days l ater when a river tug churned up the hay-wired ” e M ac E a rl a n m a had established a crematory ' e y body of E ugene Red Mc J oe S a lt is b e e r m a h Al t e . somewhere on Near North b e rs u n d e r t h e s kin . Laughlin oysius Kearney , Side where business competi hard -boiled gangster doing a tors and di sgruntled gang specialty business in labor s t ers were incinerated into racketeering , became the cause

. of another murder mystery the ashes. of oblivion Ah , a new spirit in Gangland ! Who when hi s bullet-ridden body ? A t 9 said that killers have no imag ination this the morning of June . “ ” writing New York friends of Benny Bennett are en a friend of Red McL a ug h running arodnd town with long faces offering re wards for word of their missing playmate who l would come out west . Newberry eventua ly h e a on stepped into t \C p e inner circles , taking with

‘ ’ Frankie Foster . All we ever got from B ugs was a reputation “ explained Teddy and .Frankie .

Well , the war was on again . Moran [and the Aiellos pressed northward into the great road house and summer res ort area in the Northwest suburbs . I ’

. u now enough , didn t go over Sam el Maltz , president The first shot in th e new war , going , was uestion ed b ! 3 1 v of the association , q \ y police said fired on May , and the ictim , P ter Plescia , an “ ’

I m strictly a business man . There is no racket Aiello organizer and collector, fel . dead in the e e ring or hoodlumism connected with my organi mouth of an alley . On May 3 1 Philli Gnolf o , p , ’ ’ i n zat o . did n t know former Genna killer had been a i pall-bearer at I Kearney very well . He had ’ h is worked for me only for a week . I was paying , . Angelo s funeral was slain in automobile A ’ ’ 40 w few hours later on the same day two more Aiel o him $ a eek to collect bills . Don t give me l ’ ’ lu . b — M fi r r any hood m talk I m a business man and don t oys bit the bricks Samuel or st e o and Jos ep l ” 1 go for th at . It was becoming warmer and warmer Ferrari . On June came deadly reprisals in the sensational Fox Lake Massacre . Four men and a Poni Mc inni woman , Mrs . Vivian c G s , wife of an ” f i h nd e u a o t . nes were being d As a result of this , attorney , sat around a table in a roadhouse . Sud ' hit u on a ract ice d e nl hoodlums p p of parking their auto y one of the men , turning his head saw a ma m at ics i in c gar stores ” sp eakeasies and other places chine gun pointed towards him . He got up and be j ust outs i de the loo wh ile ransacting business p t . gan running . The rattle of the machine gun began and he went down , as did two of his comp anions .

The woman was seriously wounded . One of the victims was Sam Pellar , who , you will remember

us day that Little

gun fire . Joseph ; B ertsch e , brother of B arne Bertsche , was another h a t t h e n o l e a a r in y W p p k g l a w m ea n s t o ga n gs t e rs .

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— P UT T HE re a e in e ri f ( k ) , bu n e re p ort e r , wa s s h ot own i s u b S ON SPOT Al d J L gl T d n a. wa y , j u s t 0 3 R a n d olp h t re e t a n d i c hi a n o u e r ’ a a t 1 o c oc k in t h e a ft e rn o on a s h e wi t h a b on t M g B l v d l , l d y ou h , we re h ri e d a lon g wit h a c rowd t owa rd s a t rai n o u n f or t h e ra c e s a t a s hi n “ " b t on a rk . T h e b on o u t h s t e e b ac k f e w b - d W g P l d y p p d a. p c e s , wh ip p e d ou t a s n u n os e d re o e r, s h ot a ke in t h e h ea kil i n v lv J d , l g h im in s t a n t ly . Gang Alas ! Alas ! The better element t hisw time had — came given a racket e er a funeral and the swellest of e chil them all ! ih the sunshine on the front lawn . Big Shots from the It seemed incredible and yet the facts elo upp erworld came to pay resp ects to Jake—Arthur quently told that it was true . In less than three

. 1 5 — W Cutten , the stock broker who could lose years the sixty-five -dollar reporter a salary com million in a day , and Oscar E . Carlstrom ; the mensurate with his ability , his newspaper said attorney general , and Samuel A . Ett els on the , had deposited to hi s p ersonal account approxi corporation counsel , who was said to be the power mately An appalled and fascinated p ublic behind the throne in Chicago munici al affairs , p — fascinated because it was felt that now the mystery of Gangland was about to be dispelled

saw , under those headlines , the amazing story ’ of the murdered reporter s frenzied stock market — 1 2 sp eculations how , in 9 9 , he had run up a paper reporter, lifted hi s hands to the casket as it was fl fl owe -fill p rofit of His stock market ights with borne out of the r ed room , as did Eddie “ ” his friend , the p olice commissioner, William F . Johnson the ace hotog for the Tribune . The p — long funeral cortege formed at Garfield Park and Russell ! The diamond belt a gift from Al

Central Park Avenue and moved impressively Cap one . Could it be true that he had been a friend ? ! down Jackson Boulevard to Our Lady of Sorrows of the Big Fellow Well , well , well Now there r McSwi in fl . Muffl ed church . Pageantry of ags dr ums ! Ah ! was the time du ing the g g case when they had the Big Boy in custody over there in ’ ’ the state s attorney s office , and the Big Boy would take no food—excep t what Jake Lingle went out

and got for him . Of course he was a friend of

Capone .

A great moral outcry ! Imagine a newspap er

man , working for a nominal salary , on assi gnments

necessitating association day after day , week after

week , year after year , with men whose p ockets .

were stuffed with money , who could betray his

newspap er , who could fall before temptation . Oh ,

. by the mounted p olice the escort ! formed ' Led well , the morali sts have it marched again down Jackson Boulevard to Garfield

Park to disband . The funeral cortege p roceeded As an aftermath of this discovery that on the Mount Carmel , where the sailor lads , standing at the grave of Jake

Lingle , the reporter , fired a salute . A

but What else ? The clods of freshly turned earth on Jake Lingle ’ s grave had scarcely dried and crumbled to dust when Jake Lingle , the reporter , scrutinized on p age one , began to turn into Jake Lingle , racketeer . Tragically enough , it became increasingly appar ent that suave Jake Lingle , for eigh teen years a reporter in the shadowy n realm of Gangland , had himself bee touched by the shadows .

That martyr funeral had been held too soon—three days too

l ‘ e JAK E LINGLE B URIE D WITH MI LITARY HONORS . 1 h e fu n ra l of “ " w on e Ja ke Li n gle , Ch ic a go T ribu n e re p o rt e r, s la in b y G a n gs t e rs , as of e r e s c ri e it th e m os t im p re s s i v e e v e r h e ld in Chi c a go . O n e n e ws p a p d b d a s in h u n e ra b e fitt in g a Fie ld Ma rs h a l . Lin gle wa s bu rie d a m a rt yr . S c e t e f l c a n in v e s ti ga t i on h a s di s c l os e d t h a t h e wa s m urde re d . n ot b e au s e h e

r r t e it . wa s a re p o t e , b u t in s pi of