Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1909-10-23

dition. II they we're called before the
examiners this would be discovered
and they would be told what was
threatening them. The record would
be a continuous one. II not, there Is
no use beginning It.
There would be nothing like there
Is at present-forty.one cripples await.
ing the retiring board. Some Of these
are in insane asylums, another Is blind
and one has only one leg"
Each is drawing full pay from the
city. It Is planned next year to ap-
propriate $500 for the work.
There has been not only an entire
absence OF discipline in both Chicago
avenue and North Halsted street, but
burglars are said to have been hold.
ing higher revel there than ever be.
fore In the history OF Chicago.
Forty.six burglaries have been com.
mitted In this district within q few
weeks. and all have been entirely sue.
cessful except the one on Walton
place. where the thieves only got away
with $1,7OO worth Of jewelry and sill.
verware. They also got away them.
selves. as they did in every other In.
stance. Burglars robbed the home Of
Stewart Hodges. a contractor, 116
Walton place. taking $1.7OO worth Of
jewelry and silverware and leaving
about $4,000 worth behind when they
were scared away by the arrival Of a
maid.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Hodges were at a din.
ner party. Olga Jensen. the maid,
went out for few minutes and when
she returned discovered the burglars.
The robbers ran when she entered.
This occurred within very few
blocks Of the station. and the Chicago
avenue station itself would be bodily
carried of II the electric cars and elec.
trio lights did not make such glare.
A young man named Charles z. Eos.
ter and lame friend were brutally
slugged and almost killed at the cor.
ner of Clark and Center streets while
two plain clothes men from North
Halsted street station were tapping up
booze In the saloon of one Of their
relatives only few feet away.
OF course no arrests were made, but
1t is currently reported around the
North Halsted street district that the
slugging was done by other policemen
who belong to the Pin Brigade.
Be this as It may, the lieutenant at
the North Halsted street station.
when called up by phone about the
matter said that mo arrests had been
made because the mother OF one of
the victims had failed to come In
with some more facts about It."
The people of the district have giver
up putting any dependence on the po
lice at all and an investigation Of the
records of some of them divulges facts
that would convulse the community i
space permitted their publication.
Thugs, outside of the police, stall
about the district doing as they please
So do thieves.
In the Chicago avenue district 1t Ii
related that a recent coroners jury
called to inquire into the death of an
ex-convict contained three safe blow
ers, one of whom Is out on 100000
bail for safe blowing, q.
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The Eagle has employed a great de-
tectiye agency to furnish facts about
the plain clothes and some other
men in the North Halsted street po.
lice district. The daily reports, re-
ceived from 1t, about the doings of
some of these men. would astound the
public II published.
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All North Side detectives or plain
clothes men do not live of the earn.
ings OF prostitutes
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Wayman Is all right.
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The yawp about vice" fills the
newspapers, but the inefficiency OF the