The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1908-01-05
MUST SHOOT QUICK
Chicago Police Directed
Stop Crime Wave.
CHEF SHIPPY ISSUES ORDERS
BIoodiest Forty-eight' Hours in the
Cify's History Results ia Drastic
MeaSures-Boys and Young MeH
Blamed for Reign Of TerrOF-Mur-
ders, HOid-uRs, aud Suicides Many.

Chicago, Jan. AT the end of forty
Ieight of the bloodiest hours Chicago has
knoFn. Chief OF Police shippy tonight
issued sweeping orders to clear the city of
every criminal Commanding officers read
instructions at the forty-hve stations and
Supplemented them with advice TO shoot
quick" If the suspect makes bad move.
Seeking explanations for the wave Of
crime, Chief shippy thinks he has dis
covered that:
'Chicago's most desperate criminals are
/ boys or young men. hardly out Of their
teens. OF ftty-two hold-up men. whose
exploits have terrorized keepers Of small
stores and saloons within the past week.
and perhaps one hundred in other robber-
lies, nearly every bandit has been youth.
/ They are Of a type brought into c0nsDic-
IuOusness by Vandine. Neideruyer. and
Marx. the car barn bandits.
Their graduation has been through
I Stun homes. corner saloons. neighborh0od
Icigar stores. and pooIrooms. Their text
books have been sporting sheets and score
cards
They have been encouraged by the
escape recently Of Guy Van TasseI. slayer
Of Policeman Luke Fitzpatrick. from "a
death penalty
| City Is ia Terror.
Large sections of the city are in q state
Of terror because Of frequently recurring
crimes of violence. Women, and in some
districts even men, are afraid to venture
out at night The remarkable conditions
are compared with those existing IN
medieval times. when there were no po-
lcemen md highwaymen infested the
streets.
Two patrolTnen killed by criminals, two
robbers mortalIy wounded, two double
murders and suicides attempted, with
the result that both VIII prove successful
as the victims that are neU lingering viii
die. and another murder are the r~~~'
within two days.
Policeman Michael D. Callahan di
day from wound inflicted by a b
/ Dave" Henderson has been identih
his slayer
Detective ". R. Mooney. expired
terday from q bullet alleged to have
liru H1 james -ufA41-t4s an EA-EDllA.
Charles Gilbert Brocket. q door-w
fatally wounded Mrs Pishzah, in
Park, and then committed suicide
Edward A LANCER, ST. Louis
was beaten with a hammer. and is
with q broken skull His slayer Is
known.
John Miller ended spree to-da
fFactuTing his Wife's skull with an It
club, and inhicting mortal wound
himself with razor and pistol
The wounded men VINO are ailege
be bandits are Bert AfcC-aEg. Louis
son. and William Latham.
Two Hundred Are Arrested.
Two hundred suspects have been L
into custody to check the epidemb
crime. Fully one-haIf Of this number
said ia be criminals Who would shoe
I defense Of their liberty. The police
tonight varied their usual careless y
ner of arrestlng suspects from a touch
the shoulder. accompanied with e
natured command To come along
the frontier-like method OF putting
muzzles of cooked revolvers against
abdomens Of men and carefully search. lg
their pockets. Chief Shippy has ordered
his subordinates 10 make hourly raids on
all known rendezvous Of criminals, until
they are driven from the city.