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manager, aud “Saffo the Greek,” whoseright name is Larro, that tlie men would surrender themselves provided they were 1 given immediate right to bail.•‘We don’t have to make deals of that ! kind, we lt;-an get our men. anyway,” was bis answer to the proposition, j Captain Max Xootbaar declared his in-i dependence of the Kenna-Coughlin doiu-inatiou cf the tenderloin and said that j his policemen would close Freiberg’s notorious dance hall, in which Alderman } “Bathhouse John” Coughlin is reputed i half owner.: Nootbaar After Freiberg’s.Late last night Captain Xootbaar sud-i denly changed his tactics in proceeding against Freiberg’s notorious Twenty-second street dance hall, aud instead of | raiding the place at 1 o’clock, as he ex-j pected to do earlier 1n the evening, he sent a squad of investigators to the place.“My men have been instructed to make detailed reports on what they see and hear,” he said. “We will proceed against the place slowly and when we get snffi-cient evidence will put it out of business entirely, instead of merely ruiding it.”But the police activity had its effect. Only about twenty couples were in the i place at 1 o’clock this morning.‘ The resorts of John J. (•’Immune”) Jor-i dan and Bert White and the Cadillac Cafe were also practically deserted, their receipts falling far below their expenses.The exodus of levee characters with whom State’s Attorney Hoy lie wants to talk proved futile yesterday when, on information obtained by the Examiner, Hoyne detectives were dispatched to Cedar Lake. Ind.. where, at Jack Burk's hotel, many of the missing characters j are tc be found. ‘One Hoyne man went to Aurora, where “Becks” Moriarity. one of the missing men, is racing his string of thoroughbreds.In the Cedar Lake colony are said to be Ed and Lorraine Woods. “Saffo the Greek,” “Frenchie” Von Bever, Harry Hopkins, Harry Maibaum. Jakie Adler, “Jakie” Woolfram aud a dozen or more of the lesser lights. It was wild that John Turio planned to go to the lake from Chicago by automobile at the earliest opportunity.Nootbaar to Close Freiberg’s.The return of “Ike” P.Jooni, manager of Freiberg’s, to Chicago was regarded as significant of the fight that is to come on the closing of the levee landmark.Cuptain Xootbaar declares that he can close the dance hall nightly at 1 o’clock because of a recent Supreme Court ruling. This ruling is that any part of a building in which there is a bar used during the open hours for a liquor sales room must be closed with the bar at 1 o’clock. Liquor is served openly before 1 o’clock In Freiberg’s dance hall and for this reason. Captain Xootbaar contends, the place can be closed.Bloom would not admit that his sudden return had anything to do with the newest outbreak in the cankerous levee.“My vacation was up and I came back, that’s all there is to it.” was his only answer to questions.Gleason Promises Aid.Thief of Police Gleason sent a letter to State's Attorney Hoyne in reply to one received by blm Tuesday from the prosecutor, who asked for all statements made by witnesses of the shooting.The chief, who assured the State's Attorney that he could have any and all statements whenever he desired them, said his letter was merely a matter of form. He also assured Mr. Hoyne that the police department welcomed his cooperation in a Case of this kind and desired to co-operate with him.
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Chicago Examiner
Chicago, Illinois, US
Thu, Jul 23, 1914
Page 9
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