Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-21
In Custody in Connection With
Chicago Murder.
GANG MEMBERS, IT IS SAID
Police Believe Some of Them Were
Concerned in Safe Blowing.
DYNAMITE IS FOUND IN FLAT
Body of J. II. Logue, Diamond Mer-
chant. Discovered in Office
at Noon Hour.

| CHICAGO, December 21.-Eight per-
| sons. four men and four women. are I'M
/ der arrest in connection with the sensa-
iona. murder of j. II. LoSue. diamond
| merchant. in McNicker's Theater build
! lnS and the police strongly inclined
| TO believe that they have succeeded in
-; breaking up a dangerous gang of auto
! mobile bandits. At least some OF the
| prisoners are suspected of either partici-
] fpating in, OF knowing something about.
| nearly all of the daring safe bowinSS
and other criminal depreda tons that have
| taken place in Chicago in the last fort
/ night.
! Following the arrest of four persons
! late yesterday. detectives have been
! bringing others in one by one. The fifth
| is man said by the police to have a
prison record and the sixth is a chauf-
| feur alleged to have been driving the
nocturnal bandits about town. The sew
enth and eighth prisoners are a married
woman and friend of hers whose iden-
| tity the police refuse TO divulge
Explosives in Apartment.
! Early today search of the North Side
| fiat where some of the suspects were ar
rested was made and quantity of
| dynamite and ntroglycerin. together
with caps used in discharging explosives,
was found. Many skeleton keys were
discovered.
! Capt. Halpin received telegram from
the state penitentiary at Columbus. Ohio,
asking that clyde Stratton. one of those
arrested, be held. he was an escaped
| convict for whose capture a reward OF
$50 had been offered
t. 1,1-( Mt
Halpin to the arrests last night of STRAIT
ton and Edward Hampden, arrested with
Stratton, and two women, one claiming to
be the wife Of Hampden and the other
the wife of Toronto Jim" Johnson. a
safe blower now serving twenty-year
term in tho WauSun Wis. penitentiary.
The identification of the men was dra-
matte. and the police believe positive. by
a. Carna,. former district attorney OF
Hill county. Mont.
Carnal saw two women rushing out OF
the building where the crime was COM
mitted al about the hour when the dla-
mond broker was slain.
Unfamiliar with the downtown district.
Carnal had wandered into the theater
building. believing he was entering the
First National Bank building, where he
had business. His description of the two
men led to the arrest of Strafton ana
Hampden i'm North Side fiat about
twelve hours later.
Both women under arrest are blondes
and a blonde woman had been seen on
many occasions in Losue's office.
Chauffeur Is Questioned.
The chauffer arrested is employed at a
North Side garage, and is said to have
driven Stratton and Hampton on a num-
Der of trips about the city. He was
questioned at length by the police and
is said to have given important informa-
ton in regard to the whereabouts of the
men under arrest previous to the discov-
cry of I.ogue's body.
The motive for the crime puzzled the
police for time. but carly today Capt.
Halpn gave it as his opinion that rob-
berry had actuated the crime. Jewels and
money to the value Of probably $1,000
were said to be missing. The police said
nothing could be learned in Logue's life
that would cause him to be murdered for
revenge.
Six suit cases found in the apartment
occupied by Stratton and Hampden con-
tanned five uncut diamonds. a number of
gold rings. with the sets removed,
quantity of silverwarc and jewclry.
Seventeen Knife Wounds.
The body of I-ogue was discovered at
the luncheon hour yesterday. cut to
shreds. gagged, bound, with a bullet hole
in the back, skull fractured and eyes
burned out with acid. The body was
lying on the floor behind the counter
in his small office
No less than seventeen deep knife
wounds were inflicted. The skull was
fractured in several places. a thick gag
made of q part of woman's silk skirt
and held by safety-pns had been forced
into the mouth. The hands were securely
tied behind the back with half-inch
rope The office had been ransacked.
Desk drawers and books were tossed
about in confusion.