Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1909-10-30

ing the retiring board. Some Of these
are In insane asylums. another 10 blind
and one has only one leg"
Each II drawing full pay from the
city. It 10 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 $l,700 worth Of jewelry and sil.
verware. They also got away them.
selves. as they did in every other In.
stance. Burglars robbed the home Of
Stewart Hodges, a contractor. 1l6
Walton place. taking S1.7O0 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 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 a 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 q 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
It 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 given
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 II
space permitted their publication.
Thugs. outside Of the police, stalk
about the district doing as they please.
So do thieves.
In the Chicago avenue district It is
related that a recent coroner's jury
called to inquire into the death of an
ex.convict contained three safe blow.
ers. one Of whom is out on $4,000
bail for safe blowing.
All North Side detectives or plain
clothes men do not live of the earn.
ings OF prostitutes.
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Wayman Is all riSht.
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The yawp about "vice" fills the
newspapers. but the inefiiciency of the
North Side police. the number Of
North Side burglaries. and the fact
that thieves are never arrested over
there. fills the minds Of the people.
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The Busse administration is doing
wonders In unearthing and stopping
police graft. But this graft is the out.
growth Of previous administration
which taught the coppers that II they
needed anything all they had to do
was to take II.
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NO NORTH SIDE POLICE AROUND.
William Wallice Of Oak Ridge, ILL.,,
was beaten by two masked men while
crossing the Wolla stront hriA~n ~ q