The Detroit times., 1909-12-06
CAPTURED Af TER
Is YEARS. PURSUIT
Chicago Police Believe They have
Slayer of Politician Behind Bars
Murdered During Fight.

CHICAGO. Dec G.-After a search
lasting fifteen years the police be.
I lleve they have one of the murderers
( ot Gustav Collander. a Swedish north
side politician. behing the bars. John.
ME Bingham, the accused. was ar
: rested as pickpOcket by Detectives
Reed and Morgan of the central dc
( tail al Wesr Ohio and North Clark.
SITS. in company with Thomas Lyons
and George Davis.
An indictment charging Bingham
with tho murder still is pending ia the
! criminal court, and States Attorney
Nayman ana Chief OF Police steward
I VIII be consulted as to the possibility
: uf bringing him to trial.
ON TWO occasions the Chicago police
thought they had Bingham in theif
grasp, but each time he evaGed them.
ana ne has been lost sight OF for many
years. Shortly after the murder on
Nov. q. 1891. Bingham was arrested
IN Portland. ore. and sentenced TO
five years The Chicago authorities
outaincd his pardon. hoping To brig
him here for trial but nc foiled This
oy insisting on serving his term
! When he left the Oregon prison he
.eluded the Chicago men and was
next heard OF iH ST Paul, where he
receh ed tour years sentence. at
the expiration az which he again rs.
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The murder Of Gus Collander Has
one ol series OF political disglaees
holne by the city during that decade.
Collander was a swedish saloonkeeper
OF great political strength and had
affiliated with the Democratic machine
IN the old Twenty-third ward. now the
Twenty second In the spring cam
paign he had been knitted by a Demo
cratic loss named O'Malley aid II,
revenge turned his influence To the
Republicans in the autumn.
The Saturday night before the cleo
ton he was in his saloon at Oak and
Sedgwick.sts with about twenty coun-
trymen and while they were deriding
OMalley. several members of the
then notorious "Marketst gang"
hurst into the saloon and began 20
pick quarrels but being outnumbered.
soon left II was then thought they
had hoped TO do up" Collander
Collander was in the polling place
at III Oak-st. the night of the elec-
tion when two Young toughs entered
and asked how the precinct had gone.
one of the Judges said the Repub-
lieans were easily ahead and the men
disappeared. IN a few moments they
returned with an armed gang and
ordered all in the polling place TO
throw up their hands
"I'l not throw up my hands for any
body said Coliander.
"All right we've got YOU spotted
any how one of the men said. and
began shooting at the ward boss
Collander fell fatally injured In the
abdomen. but at the hospital rallied
long enough to give a description "
the man who shot him
The young man who was presi-
dent OF Democratic pleasure club
that rented hall on Wells-st. for the
Saturday night before election Last
spring. bought s. worth of tickets
from this man -th2t was the fel-
low who was aiming az mc-the preSi-
dent OF that club was Collander's
dying statement suppressed at the
time by the police.
Policeman Nicholas Michaclg. who
defended the ballot box i'm tho m"loH.
was shot in the lcf iligh and J r.
Walters. clerk of election was shot
in The left arm above the elbow