MURDER IN CHICAGO

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 33, 8 February 1913, Page 10

MURDER IN CHICAGO

: THE VICTIM HORRIBLY TOttTUIU3D. ; l f ive men and. four women were arrest* »ed in Chicago last month for «, murder which Was committed in on office in the hoatt of the city. Hove, on the afteruoon of 20th December, the-Jwdy of Mr. J. H. Logue, an aged diamond and (jewellety merchant, wae found badly in» ,?uyed, his eye* having been ljurnedVith ,acid ftnd hia skull fractured. The body wrs lying behind the counter, and thft office was in a state of confusion, }> a ving been ransacked for valuables. Lhe diamond merchant liad been cfuelty torturea. for there were 1? knife wounds pn his body. His arms vvere tied behind hib back with rope, and he had been shot in the bndi. A gag was found in nis mouth. Ii had heev fastened by a. strip torn from a woman's 1 nilk sk)rt. 1 here is no doubt that the torture was administered by the robbers when tbeokl man > lehised to disclose wheve he kept precioiw stone* and other valuables. Poetically all that *n<» worth taking had been stolen, but the merchant's stotM of jewels wan kept i« & B afe deposit, and not on tlio pr/imises. • An examination of tho body nuulo & fairly evident that death did not take paco until the \ichm's torture uns ooinJpleto. None of tho kuifc wounds, uo» 'even the pistol shot, could havo been fatal, and it was the blow on his skull which must have killed him. It is believed that the murderers did this in their disappointment at not' fihding the diamonds. The police declare that they have discovered the hiding place Of a gang of, thieves, and after tho arrest of four of the Buspects, the offioers raided a fashionable apartment, and arrested three other men and two more women. Ihe police have ih their possession thousands of pounds' worth of jewellery and precious stones found in the flat, and they believe that they have broken up one of the most important and daring gangs of thieves in the country.