JUDGE'S ADVENTURE
When twenty-four young gangsters appeared in a Chicago Court they were astonished and dismayed to find that the Judge on the Bench was a man whom they had foolishly mistaken for one of themselves—a lawless fellow who knocked around speakeasies (illicit drinking saloons), ready to stick at nothing in the way of crime, says the "Daily Mail." Judge Borrelli explained to the outwitted gangsters that ho had dressed in old clothe", with his cap pulled over his eyes, and had spent many nights in tho notorious haunts of the "Forty-second Gang" in the neighbourhood of Halstead street, Chicago's Street of Nations. "Most of you are of my race, Italian," he said, "and you aro a disgrace to the Italian people. You aro gang thieves, and I am going to put you where- you belong. I will clean up your district, even if I have to do it single-handed."
"Each man," tho Judge explained later, "is a specialist. There are holdup men, hijackers (men who rob bootleggers of their liquor), motor-car thieves, extortionists, and bombers. They all work together. New blood is constantly recruited from tho neighbourhood."
Judge Borrelli is a studious-looking man who wears largo horn-rimmed spectacles. He made light of tho risks he ran.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 30, 5 February 1932, Page 3
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