Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1920 — TWO KILLED, TWO WOUNDED [ARTICLE]

TWO KILLED, TWO WOUNDED

Holdups and Auto Thefts Reduced in Chicago in Two-Day Drive. Chicago, Jan. 12.—More alleged criminals, police characters and vagabonds today were in jails and crime in Chicago temporarily had been nullified by the police department’s two-day drive. Approximately 25 pen cent of those arrested were identified 'as “men with records,” the police said. For the first time in many weeks not a holdup was reported from noon Sunday until midnight and only five automobiles • were stolen. The average had been above 25 street robberies and from 10 to 45 motor cars stolen. The police, dressed in civilian clothes, today continued the roundup and it was announced that the wholesale arrests would continue indefinitely. More than half the number held had been photographed by the bureau of identification and the city prosecutor and the state’s attorney were ready to co-operate in prosecution. The judges will be asked to coarnmit all undesirables to the feridewell pending further investigation, instead of discharging them or assessing small fines, the /prosecutors said. Two men were killed while resisting arrest and two others were' wounded. The policemen searched saloons, hotels, gambling houses, cabarets and poolrooms.