The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-12-21
Den of Thieves and Murder
ers in Fashionable District
of Chicago Raided by the
Police Today.
FOUND EXPLOSIVES
PLUMBER AND GUNS
Authorities Believe Mem
bers of This Gang Killed
and Mutilated a Diamond
Broker, Jos. Logue.
CNational News Association


CHICAGO, Dec. 21.-A torn wom-
ans silk petticoat promises to aid the
police in the solution of the mysteri-
Gus murder of Joseph Logue, the dia-
mond broker who was mutilated and
slain in his office yesterday afternoon.
Today. after arresting eight persons,
| four men and four women. the police
| found one of the most astounding col
[ lections of loot and burglars tools ev-
| er discovered in any raid in Chicago.
Among the things taken was a wom-
ans skirt of material matching that
which formed gag in Logue's mouth.
Rich Piunder Found.
In the flat at 4436 Clifton ave, in
the north side aristocratic district, in
addition to the skirt, trunks and suit
cases packed with plunder, burglar S
tools and explosives and two skeletons
were found. In all nearly a wagon
| load of plunder was taken to police
headquarters. In a basement store
room just below the flat the police dis
covered a quantity of nitroglycerine
and in the same suitcases where the
slightest blow might have caused an
explosion which would have torn the
flat building off the face of the earth,
Illuminating caps.
Scattered through the flat were beer
bottles, whiskey bottles and stubs of
partially smoked cigarettes. IN one
room, evidently occupied by a woman,
was a trunk crammed with hastily
packed woman's gowns. On a bed in
another room mems clothing, careful
ly laid out with burglars tools of the
most approved patterns in the pock
cts, evidently ready for instant use
were found.
Also Captured Auto.
An automobile also figured in the
find. 1t was driven up to the flat while
the police were there It's driver
Charles Duffy, was arrested. 1t is be
lieved by the police that their remark
able discovery today will solve not
only the murder of Logue but will
clear up a greater part Of the automo
bile bandit cases that have mystified
the police.
The flat itself was in confusion. I'm
washed dishes were found everywhere
Jewels, many unset, were found
in queer hiding places. Drills, saws
dynamite fuses, jimmies, flatjacks ant
enough ammunition to supply an arse
nal were discovered. Five automatic
pistols were found in suitcases thai
had been packed ready for removal.
The finding of the skeletons puzzled
the police. They were neatly stoweC
away in one of the closets, in which
hung a quantity of women's clothing
Part of the find was made at the Wind
sor Clifton hotel, where H. P Hamp
ton and Mrs. Hampton were register
ed. Jewels on torn cards on which
they had been mounted were fount
there. After four persons were arrest
ed early today the police later arrested
four other persons. Those being helt
are Frank Williams, an ex-convict ant
chauffeur; Charles Duffy, chauffeur o
! tAC NdA "diSh hlo'S up W thS Slld
der' flat; woman whose name ha
not been given out, said to be the sis
ter of Jimmy Johnson, a convict nov
in prison in Wisconsin; another WON
an whose name also has not been mad
public, saird to be married woman
who visited the Clifton ave flat; MI
: and Mrs. H. P. Hampton; Clyde STRAIT
ton, an ESCAPED convict, and an uni
Identified woman.
One Man Identified.
F. A Carnal, of Havre. Mont. VIII
was in the McVicker building by his
take looking for a certain real estat
firm, saw the men walking down III
stairs. When he read of the robbery b
notified the police and the arrests TO
lowed. He identified Stratton as one @
the men he had seen on the stairs.
Careful examination Of Logue's bod
disclosed one of the most atrociou
murders in the history of Chicago. TIL
mans eyes had been burned out wit
acid, his head crushed with blow
from a revolver, he had been slashe
seventeen times with a knife and the
/ shot through the head. He had bee
, gagged with a strip of silk soaked i
Iohlor0fnrD,