Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1909-10-16

there for almost an hour he attracted
the attention Of James Giblin, . team
ster who rooms above the saloon, by
pounding on the floor. Giblin went
down and opened the door, releasing
Rossi.
"Out Of consideration for your gray
hairs we will allow you to have some
air." the robbers said as they thrust
him In, opening small window near
the top Of the chest to prevent the
prisoner from suflocating.
No arrests were made.
A TIP TO THE STATES ATTORNEY.
II States Attorney wayman wants
to make good on the police. and We
hope he will. let him ascertain at
once how many benefit" tickets were
sold to resort keepers In the red light
district BY POLICEMEN. This form
Of blaclmail beats anything In the
country all hollow and the worst Of
II 10 that It u done by POLICEMEN
IN UNIFORM!
TWO BIG BURGLARIDs.
Safe blowers did two neat Jobs In
Chicago between Saturday night and
Sunday morning, August 2S or 20. get.
ting something over $1,000. and awak.
ening the admiration Of the police.
In neither case did the crooks leave
any clew and no arrests were made.
One Job, a double.header. was exc.
cuted In the building at III Illinois
street. within q stones throw Of the
county jail The building IL occupied
by A. r. l.. Mueseler 3 Sons Company,
carriage makers. and F. II. Hollender
4 Co.. beer importers. The crooks en-.
tered the basement, which the Hollen.
der company uses a. . storeroom.
They got SIS from that concerns
safe and also sampled . keg Of i'm.
| ported beer. All unawed by the near.
ness Of the Jail. they Skinned up the
elevator shaft. drawing up the keg
Of beer after them, and tackled the
Mueseler safe. The keg was found In
the morning empty and at hand. on
q desk. was the glass the men used.
"They got nothing from our SAFE ''
A. r. Mueseler said. because they
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
Gerry store Of James Bredin. 617.2a
West 63d street. Some time during
the night they sawed of two iron bars
protecting rear window. Bredin
made Sunday morning visit to his
store and had worked there for halt
an hour before he learned that he had
been robbed, so tidily had the jot
been done.
Then James Woodworth, a neighbOr
residing at CALI Parnell avenue, see
ing the bars cut from the window
asked him through the aperture Il
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 1t was learned
that no one In the neighborhood
which is thick with stores and resi-
dences, heard the noise of the ex
plosion.
MANY POLICE OUT BLACKMAIL
ING.
For some time past hundreds Of po
lice have been out blackmailing bust
ness men, good citizens and disrep
utables out of money for blocks O
tickets to the annual benefit of 9TH,
Policemen's Benevolent Association.
This organization has no Legitimate
reason to exist 1t was started thirty
five years ago and was all right at tina
time. But since then the police hav'
been guaranteed their jobs durinl
good behavior by the civil servic
law.
They have been guaranteed o pen
sion both for themselves, their wild
ows and taxpayers by the pension law