Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1909-09-04

failed to get into the inner compart.
ment and there was no money In that,
anyway"
In the other job the crooks got
$1,000 In small change from the gro.
cery store OF James Bredin, 617.Z3
West 63d street. Some time during
the night they sawed of two iron bars
protecting a rear window. Bredin
made a Sunday morning visit to his
store and had worked there for half
an hour before he learned that he had
been robbed, SO tidily had the job
been done.
Then James Woodwork, a neighbor,
residing at GAIT Parnell avenue, see.
Ing the bars cut from the window,
asked him through the aperture n
anything had happened inside the
store during the night.
Bredin thereupon asked the cause of
his neighbor's curiosity. and when in.
formed Of the cutting OF the iron bars
he went to the little balcony where
the safe Is kept and found 1t blown
open. Subsequently It was learned
that no one in the neighborhood
which is thick with stores and resi-.
dences, heard the noise of the OK.
pl0si0n.
MANY POLICE OUT BLACKMAIL-
ING.
For some time past hundreds OF DO.
lice have been out blackmaiiing busi-
ness men. good citizens and disrep-
utables out OF money for blocks of
tickets to the annual benefit Of "the
Policemen's Benevolent Association" !"
This organization has no legitimate
reason to exist. 1t was started thirty.
five years ago and was all right at that
time. But since then the police have
been guaranteed their jobs during
good behavior by the civil service
law.
They have been guaranteed a pen
sion both for themselves, their wild.
ows and taxpayers by the pension law.
The taxpayers have to pay the
money for the pensions. Why should
they be obliged to fork over add.
tiOnal money to 0blige lot OF lazy
"bulls?"
Clerks,
LabOrers,
Mechanics,
Merchants,
Have to pay for their own life in
surance.
Why not the "bulls?"
PLAIN CLOTHES MEN NOT WANT.
ED.
Chief Steward Is right In making
the plain clothes bulls" travel
beats They kept eternally begging
aldermen and others to get them
places as plain clothes guys" and
then did nothing but insult citizens
and occasionally take a peanut or
something else.
A system that permits plain
clothes men of the kind Chicago has
been having Is sure guarantee of
the destruction OF the police force.
SHOOTS AT 4 WOMAN.
Benjamin Hayden made an unsuc-
cessful attempt Tuesday night to shoot
his sister.in-law, Mrs. Esther Fries.
3072 Ridge avenue. Hayden and his
wife separated about two weeks ago,
Mrs. Hayden going to her mother,
Mrs. T.. Nelson, at 3O72 Ridge ave.
nue., where her sister also makes her
home.
Hayden called and demanded to see
his wife. Mrs. Hayden went upstairs
and Mrs, Fries ordered Hayden to
leave the house. Instead OF doing so
he drew revolver, pointed 1t at Mrs.
Fries, and fired.
The bullet went wild and before he
could fire the second time Mrs. Fries
closed the door. Hayden continued to
fire, and there are four bullet holes In
the door The police were called but
Hayden had disappeared.
SNEAK THIEF ESCAPES.
Hazel Violet Marsh. who halls from
PubelO, Colo, and regrets having left
her revolver at home, Is Inundated
because a thief whom she thought she
had safely trapped in the basement OF
her home escaped through window
on Aug, 3lst while the police were on
their way to get him.
Miss Marsh, 22 years old, Is staying
with Srs. James Schermerhorn, 6l20
Kimbark avenue.
Miss Marsh was alone In the house
when she discovered the presence OF