Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-06-25
NO POLICE PROTECTION.
And the Citizens of Chicago Have to Organ
ize for Mutual Defense Against Thugs
and Cut-Throats.

And the Citizens of Chicago Have to Organ
and Cut-ThrOats.
Special Telegram to the Globe.
CHICAGO, June 34---That portion of the
west side which is bounded by Harrison
and Jackson, Morgan and Throop streets,
has been infested for long time by alarg
num0Cr Of roughs, toughs, and cut-throats
but is especially the socalled William street
gang" which has made life in that neigh
borhood anything but safe and pleasant.
The records of the police and criminalcourts
bearthe names of many evil doors who hail
from that locality, but it is a noticeable
fact that nine out of every ten of those ar
rested go scot free and laugh at justice
Lately the attitude of these thugs has becom
so defiant and their acts of lawlessness and
violence so frequent without punishment
or detection following, that the respecta-
BILE residents of the streets most affected
have been obliged to take steps to protect
themselves. After a meeting Friday night
held at 346 Van Buren, street at which a
committee was appointed to confer with
Chief Doyle, another meeting took place
last nigh at the same place.
Some sixty or seventy property owners
were present, and numerous speeches we're
made expressive of the dissatisfaction
felt By them at the want of protection
afforded their families and property by
the municipal authorities. i was pointed
out by some speakers that those few po-
l1cemen assigned to duty in that point of
the west side were for physical reasons,
unable to cope with the small army of
thieves, thugs and robbers plying their
nefarious avocations there, their beats being
altogether too large. The committee con-
sisting of A. n. Linscott, ]. L. Lincoln and
E. S. Warren. Jr., reported they had an in
terview with the chief of police, who told
them he sympathized with the sufferers,
and he would try and make the police ex-
ert themselves to punish and prevent
crime in their neighborhood, but that the
force of men at his disposal was too small
to do all that ought to be done there. He
suggested as the best means to afford re
lief, active cooperation on the part of the
citizens with the police authorities. He
meant by that to say the citizens should
organize for the purpose of helping in
the detection of criminals, and to furnish
evidence in court in order
to insure their conviction.
Chief Doyle added that so far there had
been a lamentable deficiency in this re-
spect. A good many criminals had been
arrested from time to time, but they gen
orally had come off best in the end for the
reason the citizens didn't come forward
and offer evidence against them. per-
manent organization was then effected, A.
N. Linscott being elected president, and
Mr.. E. S. Warren secretary, and the new as
ISOLATION was christened "the Citizens
League of the Eighth and Eleventh wards"
A committee of three members, consisting
of Messrs. Linscott, Warren and j. d. Rob
erts, was appointed to pick out seventeen
other members of the organization from
names suggested at the meeting to make u p
permanent committee of twenty. AS mem
bers of this committee were named besides
those mentioned Messrs. H. Palmer, David
Marpoole, j. o. Whitney, 7. O'Brien, =.
Benz, Geo. Barkhoff, NJ. McMullen, j.