TERRIBLE CHICAGO CRIME.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1676, 17 February 1913, Page 4

TERRIBLE CHICAGO CRIME.

DIAMOND MERCHANT MURDERED , , i . IN HIS OFFICE. . i

A crime of premeditated, atroolty was committed broad daylight in a busy ; office situated in tho heart of Chicago. The viotim was an aged diamond merchant, named- J. H. Logue, whoso body was discovered by the offico boy on returning from lunoh. An examination showed that Mr. Logue had been olubbed, oliloro. formed. ■ gagged, bound, burned with an acid, 6liot, and stabbed. Seventeen knife wounds ,\rero discovered, the jficid had boon, poured into the oyos, the skull had boon fractured, tho viotim's hands securely fastened behind.- the back with a stout rope, while the gag, «aid to be part of a woman's silk skirt,' had been fixed with, safety pins., . : The .office was' ransacked, and books wore scattered in : oonfuslon. Imprinted everywhere wore blood-stained 1 fingerprints. ■ According to the offico boy, Mr. Logue saw only two callers that morning, a man and. woman, the latter bringing a watch which she said she wanted valued. At lunoh-timo tho boy left Mr. Logue alone, and, on returning, found the offioo locked.and in darkness, tho curtains having boen pulled down. Unlookirig the door, he saw his employer's "body behind tho counter. : • 'Next day four • men end four women were arrested oh suspicion of causing Mr. Logue's death. ■ One of tho men, -named Clyde Stratton, is described as a notorious burglar and escaped convict. Soveral revolvers asd a plentiful supply of cartridges were found by the police in the flat the suspects occupied. : Mr. Logue's wifo believes that the murderers,- being disappointed at x the loot found in the office/ as her husband's oustom was to keep tlip most valuable stock in deposit vaults, resorted to torture to make Mr. Logue reveal where he kept his diamonds. -