The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-12-16
THUGS RULE A CITY.
The Chicago People Are Stunned by
Wholesale Murders There.
THE BANDITS SEEM TO RULE.
Killing and Robbing at VIII ana
the Police Seem PoWerless
to Check Spread Of
LaWleSSneSS.


Chicago seems to be in the hands
OF gang of robbers and bandits, who
kill and rob the people Of that city
with impunity. The coroner's report
made last week shows l25 murders in
Chicago in the last year. Not one
person was hung. Measures for
checking of street and saloon mur-
ders, holdups, burelaries and other
crimes, which have been boldly com
mittei in the last month, was dis
cussed at a mass meeting. Among
the speakers at tha gathering were
Alderman MaVor, States Attorney
Dineen, former Judge O. H. Horton,
and representatives Of the Hamilton,
Marc lette and Lincoln Bicycle CLUBS.
These clubs had members killed oy
foot pads.
Chicago has at last awakened tc
the fact that human life is the cheap
est c. % modify within it's borders. Of-
icialS reluctantly admit that Con-
stanttnople, Algiers, border cities oi
the Southwest and even Macedonia
afford more protection to peaceful
citizens than the secopd city IN the
United States. Within the last 10
days ia persons have been robbed
and eight murdered by robbers. Ii
all the other cases there was violence
the victims were not only robbed
but beaten.
The wanton murders By the car
barn bandits and their subsequent
spectacular capture have awakened
the conscience Of Chicago. Following
closely upon these stirring events was
the cruel murder Of James Fullen-
wider, a prominent attorney, who wa>
shot down in cold blood while running
away from 100 foot pads. These mur-
derers have not yet been captured
perhaps never will be.
The reign Of crime has reached
such stage that sorely afflicted porr-
tions Of the city are talking of vigl-
lance committees. Mass meetings
were held last week in Eaglewood and
Hyde Park to form plans for Vigor-
Gus warfare on the foot pads, thugs
and murderers. The chief of police
has formed flying squadrons'' OF
young, fearless officers, whose duty il
is to swoop down suddenly upon por-
tions OF the city hunted by the muir
derous gangs and drag them to the
station. This plan works we'll fo1
one raid. After that the saloon
keepers and managers Of dives tele-
phone to other resorts and the thieves
and thugs scatter to points of safety
To stranger, Chicago must seem
like a desperate frontier post. Mer
20 armed and the windows Of resi-
dences are barred like jails. This
is an absolute necessity, learned
through bitter experience. There is
undoubtedly burglars trust, and NJ
house escapes visit unless it is Sc
curely barred 0r guarded by watch
men. In some cases one house ha:
been robbed as high as fifteen. time:
within three years.
Women live in constant terror o.
robbery and assault. The Chicago
thug is not content to despoil hi
victim, but be must MAIN or Kill II
addition. 1t avails nothing to give
up ones valuableS cheerfully. The
sandbag, or knife or revolver will be
used just the same, the theory OF the
robber being that then an unconscl
Gus victim will tell no tales.
1t is agreed that the parole system
and indeterminate sentence do more
than all other things to keep Chicago
infested with thugs. Under the pa
role system a thug can get out o.
prison almost on the return train
No 'useful' man is permitted tt
waste: his time in jail. He is needed
for street work, ard his friends sex
that he gets out, Il by any miracle
the law is able to convict him.