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Continued From First Page,and the source of the protection he has enjoyed, or face indictment for obstructing justice.Colosirno appeared badly shaken i when he came from the grand jury room yesterday, and the prosecuting j officers believe that it is only a j question of a few hours or days at j most when he will decide that it is } better to give testimony than to receive a penitentiary sentence.“I have the goods on Colosimo, so that there is not a loophole through which he can wiggle,” said State’s Attorney Hoyne yesterday. ”1 shall give him a chance to save his neck by making a clean breast of the rotten conditions existing in the Kenna- f Coughlin ruled levee. Should he ignore this chance the consequences will be upon his own head, because I have him now, and I’ll give him just what such a character deserves.I won’t even promise him immunity. But as one man to another 1 would say to him that he had best tell all and then go into another line of business.”This statement sent shivers of | minous foreboding up and down the fisted spine of what was once Ohio’s organized underworld.simo Tells of Trip.psiino, before being forced into kind jury room, told Mr. Hoynehe wanted to make a statement, two went into conference. Colo-fio insisted that he knew noth-of the conduct of Turio or Van-e or any other of the levee characters. ! Hlt;; told Mr. Iloyne that on the night ofthe shooting, in company with “Solly’’ Friedman, he had gone over the levee district “on a business trip” in an automobile, later returning in front of Freiberg’s dance hall.when the shooting actually occurred Colosimo said he was standing in front of Freiberg's dance hall with Michael Ryan and within twenty feet of Detective William Schubert. Colosimo declared that he paid no attention to the passing crowd ■which followed Detectives Amort and Merrell, and that when the shooting started he thought it to he the explod-hunch of firecrackers by some hangover celebrant of the Fourth of July. He denied to Mr. Hoyne that be knew anything at all of any plot to kill or maim Morals Inspector W. C. Dannen-
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Chicago Examiner
Chicago, Illinois, US
Thu, Jul 23, 1914
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