BOOTLEGGERS AT WAR.
DESPERADOES IN CHICAGO. ATTEMPTED GAOL DELIVERY’. (Received Sunday, 11 p.m.). 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 have marked the high point in Chicago’s crime wave. To-day two bootleggers were literally torn to pieces by a fusillade 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 arrests in a raid upon a liquor storehouse. A third bootlegger was shot dead while leaving his house. Six prisoners, condemned to death for killing a warder last year, attempted to escape. Three got outside the walls. Only one, however, escaped, but having Keen supplied with arms by confederates they engaged in a shooting duel with the police, resulting in the wounding of two officers and three convicts.—(A. and N.Z.).'
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Wairarapa Age, 14 March 1927, Page 5
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160BOOTLEGGERS AT WAR. Wairarapa Age, 14 March 1927, Page 5
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