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Judge Lyle Fixed Saltis’ Bond at $30,000, Allowing Him to Hurry to Hospital to be With Boy Whose Stury Had Soft ened Man Who is Regarded by Many as “Toughest” Judge on Gangsters in Chi cago, Chicago, Nov. 25.---(P)-—Fate, ever changing men's destinies, brought “Big Joe’ Saltis, “public enemy” and retired beer baron back to Chicago asking for and receiving mercy from Judge John H. Lyle, mil itant foe of gangsters. As a father whose child was near death. Wednesday night, Saltis, once de scribed as “the cruelest gangster’ in Chicago was secure from the law at his sanctuary at Winter, Wis., where he could ianish, or sneer, if he chose at the efforts of Chicago police to bring him to the bar of justice as a vagrant. But in the form of a mo tor car fate stepped in to change his mind. The telephone at Saltis' hang-out rang Wednesday night and conversa tion that followed brought the infor mation that his 14 year old son, Emil had then taken to a Chicago hospital, critically injured. One car had bowl ed him over, and another following in its Wake, had run over him, crush ing his skull. Law or to law, Saltis came back to Chicago—and surren dered, “To surrender to the law he told James Burke, his attorney, “but I'd like to make bond. I want to be with my boy,but I don’t want to dis crace him by being arrested in the same room with him.” Burke sized up the situation quick and telephoned the judge. “To know,” he said, “you habitually jail the people you class as ‘public enemies.” I know you show them as little quarter as you can——but in a sense like this vell, judge, the boy may be dying this very minute,.” Judge Lyle, too, was quick to act. “tilmoet von and Saltis at the Snglewwood police station at once and arrange to free him on bond immedi ately, so he can stay at the hospital without‘fear of being annoyed by the police.” It was no sooner said than done. Judge Lyle fixed the bond at 330,000 which was approved without delay, and set the case ahead for next Tues day, allowing Saltis to hurry to the hospital to be with the boy whose injury had softened the man who is regarded by Many as the “toughest” judge on gangsters in Chicago.
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Wilson Daily Times
Wilson, North Carolina, US
Fri, Nov 28, 1930
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