The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-08-21
Dynamiting of Gamblers
House Result Of Refusal
to Pay Levy.
POLICE At WORK
Say Former Employees of Victims Try
to Get Part of Prosperity by Plan
to Brighten Kings.

Chicago, Aug. PA plot to levy
blackmail of $1,000 a week upon the
gambling kings of Chicago has been
uncovered by the police and Pinkerton
detectives.
Arrests, it is claimed. will be made
within a few days. and with the cap
ture of the leaders of the blackmailers
the story of the recent attempts to
dynamite the homes of Mont Tennes
and Blind John" Condor and the sa-
looms of John f. O'Malley and James
OLeary will be made public.
Chief Shippy and Captain OBrien of
the detective bureau said that they
were on the trail of the men who
caused the explosions and that the
Pinkerton Detective Agency, working
in the interests of Condor, had uncov-
cred clews which point to certain men
who have made living for years by
preying upon the gamblers
Search for Dynamiters.
The last attack upon the homes Of
Tennes, 404 Belden avenue has caused
the police and detectives to redouble
their efforts to capture the persons re-
sponsible for the dynamiting. The po
lice say that if the dynamiters continue
their work it will only be matter of
time until some one will be killed.
1t was reported that some of the
work was being done by several men
who have been in the employ of the
boss gamblers for several years in
minor capacities and that these men,
seeing the thousands of dollars rolling
into the Golfers of their employers, de-
termined to bleed them of part of the
profits taken from the public. The
leader of these men is said to be a
brother of famous international
crook.
When asked about this phase of the
case Chief Shippy said:
Il received information several days
ago that Paddy Guerin, a brother of
Eddie Guerin, the man who made the
sensational escape from Devils Island
might know something of the dynamit-
ing. 1 looked up this clew and person
ally I am satisfied that Paddy Guerin
had nothing to do with the explosions.
have just had talk with Captain
OBrien, and I believe that we will have
the men in custody within a short
time"
Captain O'Brien declined to give the
names of the men whom he has under
suspicion. He said he would have them
under arrest within few days. and in
timated that he had information which
pointed strongly to their guilt.
Blame Former ConstabIes.
In gambling circles there was a ru-
NOR that a gang of former Cook county
constables were at the bottom of the
trouble. Several years ago the own
ers of the different racing plants around
Chicago had a hard fight to keep a half
dozen Cook county constables from
making raids a. the tracks. Several
raids were made at Washington Park
and other places. "Dickey'' Dean, Big
Ed" Kelly and their followers kept the
bookmakers busy for several weeks
The Pinkertons finally circumvented
them and the constable's raids ceased.
The police say that the men con-
cerned in the two recent attempts to
dynamite the Tennes home have evil
IDENTIFY planned a systematic way of
dynamiting in the hope that they can
strike fear in the breasts of the gamb-
lingleaders and receive a weekly sti-
pend for keeping their hands off and
allowing handbook making and other
forms of gambling to run along with
out drawing the attention of the public
to the violations of the law. With
Tonnes, OMalley. Condor and OLeary
paying sums to them, the blackmaflers
could do a stroke of business which
would net them nice incomes without
work.
To Brighten; Not Iniure.
The explosion at the home of Tennes
Monday night and the explosions which
took place in Condon's home on Michi-
gan avenue and in the saloons of O'Mal-
ley and O'Leary were evidently planned
to brighten and not to injure any one.
the police say. Chief Shippy says that
nitroglycerin and not dynamite was
used. He says that the man who caused
the explosion evidently tossed a small
bottle of nitrogIycerin in the yard and
then fed unobserved during the ex-
element caused by the explosion
Tennes is not alarmed by the at
tacks which have been made on him.
but he does not care to have his wife
and children frightened. Nefghbors
said yesterday that Mrs Tennes and
the children were going to leave Chi
cago for a time Tennes probably will
stay here and fight his own battles.
several residents IN the nelghborhoOd
are frightened and some are said to
be preparing to move.
That there are so many warning fac
tions OF gamblers in Chicago gives the
dynamiters a good chance to carry out
their plans. It is limited that one big
combination of gamblers which is IN
friendly TO Tennes. OMalley and others
has a part in the explosions and that
they are furnishing money to carry on
the work.
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