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taken to have them all arrested and brought back for investigation and trial.Four at Cedar Lake.aEd” Woods, Ida or Loraine Woods, “Becks” Moriarity and Johnny Turio are positively known to be at “Jack” Burk's place at Cedar Lake, Ind. It is possible that “Saffo the Greek” Larro is also there, but thi-s is not certain.Georgie Spencer, the wife of John J. Jordan, is either at Cedar Lake or is 011 her way, or is waiting in some convenient place, with $5,000 cash which was contributed by the frightened levee criminals for a fund with which the fugitives can escape, if necessary.“Jack” Burk’s place at Cedar Lake is on a peninsula where it can-' not be reached by fend or water without permission of Burk. It could%'*Neasily be defended by a much smaller I force of gunmen than are now knowrn to be there.Moreover, “Jack” Burk keeps the fastest motor boats on Cedar Lake, the fastest automobiles in the county, and could get the whole party a hundred miles away in two hours or less any day.Leathers Phones Warning.Members of the gang remaining in Chicago keep the fugitives fully posted by telephone. Yesterday “Jim” Leathers, who has a saloon at 6 East Twentieth street, called Burk’s place over the phone and sent this message:“You’d all better lay mighty low. They’re raising hell up here.”Apparently the party at Cedar Lake did not take this seriously, for Leathers became more emphatic and went into some detail as to *he steps being taken to send the whole gang to the penitentiary.Leathers was arrested by detectives from State’s'Attorney Hoyne’s office late last night, when he appeared at his saloon, 20 West Twenty-second street. Tie was booked on a charge, of conspiracy to kfll, based on Hoyne’s information that Leath;i met with Colosimo and Vanilli
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Chicago Examiner
Chicago, Illinois, US
Fri, Jul 24, 1914
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