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Evidence in Chicago Vice District Shooting Goes to Grand Jury.Chicago, July 22.—All the evidence gathered by the states attorney in connection with the shooting Thursday night of four policemen in the vice dis-trict was “ready to be submitted to-day to the grand jury. Feeling his way into the tangle of influences in the vice district., Maclay Hoyne, state’s Attorney. laid his hands on Rocco Venille, or Robert Yanella a-s he was known in i Montana, alleged imported gunman, wounded in the fobt Thursday night.Hoyne declared that Venille was a a leader in a plot to slug and maim the I detectives of the morals squad and that I the detectives were onlv saved by be-*/ vmg involved in a sudden shooting affray with two other policemen who took them for gunmen-.In spite of lack of confirmation from Hew York of VenUle^s alleged eastern affiliations with New York gunmen, Hoyne declared that his information about the man was correct.“Big Jim” Coloaimo, cafe proprietor in the vice district, arrested yesterday for obstructing justice, was free today in $5,000 bond and was to be questioned before the gTand jury.VANELLA PAROLED PRISONER.Billings, Mont., July 22.—Robert j Vanella, as he is known here, reported | under surveillance in Chicago in connection with the recent shooting there in the segregated district-, was found guilty of murder in the second degree in tliis city January 25, 1908, for the killing of Rafael Axosz. He was sentenced to fifty years in the penitentiary.As a result of a campaign by the prisoner's mlother in Hew York city, Vanella was released on parole by the state board of pardons last spring.
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Fort Wayne Sentinel
Fort Wayne, Indiana, US
Wed, Jul 22, 1914
Page 29
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