CHICAGO'S CRIME WAVE

North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17748, 14 March 1927, Page 5

CHICAGO'S CRIME WAVE

— Press Association-

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FIGHTS WITH POLICE. MACHINE GUNS IN ACTION.

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NEW YORK, March 12. The resumption of the bootleggers' war and an attempted sensational gaol delivery resulting in the death of three persons and the wounding of five others, marked a high point in Chicago's crime wave to-day. Two hootleggers were literally torn to pieces by a fusilade of machine gun bullets while sitting in an automobile in a busy street.

A rival gang took this revenge upon informers who had helped the police to make an arrest in a raid on a liquor storehouse. A tbird bootlegger was sbot dead while leaving bis bouse. Six piersons cond'emned to death for killing a warden last year attempted to escape from the Joliet prison. Three got outside the walls. Only one however, escaped, but , havirig been supplied with anns hy confederates they engaged in a shooting duel with the police resulting in the wounding of two officers and three convicts.