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Newspaper
Chicago Eagle
Location
Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1909
Page
2
A purse snatching in a fashionable neighborhood ends with a thief fleeing toward Elm Street. Police suppression rumors swirl as Inspector O'Brien faces graft accusations, vigilante talk grows, and a North Side crackdown is proposed amid multiple burglaries.
In a chaotic report two masked burglars robbed G Rossi saloon at 29 Chatham Court, locking proprietor in an ice box for nearly an hour before releasing him. By dawn, $74 theft noted, and no arrests followed. Aft erward two safe blowers carried out separate burglaries, netting over $1,000.
The body of Miles O'Donald, 65, of 375 Franklin Street, was found in the river near the north pier by Capt. Carland and life-saving crews. He had disappeared from home Thursday. Police believe the cut on his forehead occurred as he fell in, though plain clothes detectives accuse every drowned person of suicide.
Matthew A Reed, Civil War veteran, wandered onto the North Side and was taken to the Chicago avenue police station. Veterans Association will send him today to the Soldiers Home in Milwaukee after a furlough to Chicago. he says he was robbed. In a separate incident on Aug 31 two men were shot, one killed. initial police reports named John Hennesey as the cab driver slain and John Lenahan injured.
The State's Attorneys of Illinois back Cook County State's Attorney John E. W. Wayman in his anti graft campaign. They pledge support personal financial and moral and offer to assist in investigations and to raise a secret service fund. Resolutions from the association praise his battle on jury tampering graft and labor rackets and vow readiness to aid in Cook County.
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