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EVIDENCERegarding Shooting of 4 Pdficeinen in Chicago Y Vice DistrictAN IMPORTED GUNMANIs Said to Have Been Leader Jn the Plot to Slug and Maim Detectives of the Morals Squad! —Released From Prison Last Spring. * ^ ,i-\ \jrIASSOC1ATED PRESS TEf-EGRAMl TChicago, July 22.—All the evi* denee gathered by the state’s attorn ney in. connection with the shooting Thursday night o£ four police meu ini the viee district was ready to be sub* mitted today to the grand jury* Feeling his way into the tangle o§ influences in the vice district. Mac-* Lay Hoyne, state’s attorney, laid hM hands on Roeeo Vanelle, or Robert tcnille, as he was known in Mon* tana, alleged imported gunman*' wounded in the foot Thursday night* Hoyne declared that Venice was a( leader in a plot to slug ana maim tha detectives of the morals squad and} that the detectives were only save® by being involved in a sudden shoot* ing affray with two other po!icemec| vho took them for gunmen. |In spite of laek of confirmation! from New York of Venit.e’s eastern! affiliation with New York gunmen* Hoyne declared that his information! about the man was correct. “Bigg Jim” Colosimo, cafe proprietor in the| vice district, arrested yesterday foil obstructing justice, was free' todajfl in $5000 bond and was to be ques* tioned’ before the grand jiirv. \Robert Vanella was found guilty of murder in the seco.nd degree.Jn| Billings, Mont., Jan. 25, 1908, for} the killing of Rafael Arosse. He waa( sentenced to 50 years in the neiu* tentiary. jJoe Faza, who was one of the prim cipal witnesses against Vanella, wa^ threatened with death during ., the! trial and two months later was mys* teriously.murdered at Taft, .Mont* Another state’s witness, Viricenti Langeny, disappeared shortly after* Ward. ' \As a result of a campaign begun byJ the prisoner mostly in New York! City, Vanella was released on parole! by the state board of pardons last} spring. (
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Newark Advocate

Newark, Ohio, US

Wed, Jul 22, 1914

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