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ed the trio didn’t, net more than $1,000 in loot. Arrest, .of the elder Williams brother led to the roundup of the gang, the. state's attorney's office said. Jerome was picked up by Chicago police Saturday as a suspect in the murder of Mrs.Esther Libert, mother of five cbil-• • •dren, who was slain cm Chicago’s West side several weeks ago.Implicates Other*While in custody, police said, heimplicated his brother and Mart-cino, and that ‘'started the ball rolling.” When Wilbur was picked up Tuesday police said they recovered a revolver which was stolen during a. stiok-up of a Harvey service station. It is believed all three men were at liberty under parole when apprehended.IMancino was caught by surprise at his home at dawn Tuesday. After police announced, their pres-» itence at the front door, they reported, Mancino —* gun in handleaped through a side window. He failed to account for the. presence of Leo Gnaster of Chicago Heights, deputy sheriff of the Homewood-station, Cook county highway police, who grappled with Mancino and recovered the weapon without a shot being fired. ** »In the detail were four detec-• •tives from the Shakespeare- police', station and four deputy’ sheriffs led by Lieutenant. Charles. Grupp of the Homewood station.' \An Old Revolve^Police said the revolver, a .3?? calibre, was an “ancient mode) made by the Charaes Arms .company and one quickly identified as the “peculiar” gun used in the . holdup of the Spur gas station in Chicago Heights on February 24.| Mancino was sentenced to a term in the Pontiac penitentiary in 1933 after being convicted of(Continued on page 2)* *• »99
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Homewood Flossmoor Star
Homewood, Illinois, US
Fri, Mar 14, 1947
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