The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-11
'lAR STARTED ON
fHuCS, THIEVES
AND NURDERERS
ayor John Purroy Mitchell
Issues Orders to Police to
Break Up the Gangs In
Testing New York.
EADERS ROUNDED
UP AS FIRST STEP
plice Are Given Adequate
Powers and VIII Be Held
Responsible for Failure to
Do Their Work.
EADERS ROUNDED
4 UP AS FIRST STEP

NEW YORK. Jan. lo.-Mayor Johr
Troy Mitchell declared war TODAY al
organized gangs of the city anc
1sed emphatic orders TO be given the
ice that these bands Of drug fiends
Izderers and thieves must be broker
g q means TO the end, the order
led by Mayor Gaynor, which had
ID construed by the police to forbid
uniformed force TO use their clubs
revolvers in combating the gang
Fs has been rcscinded by consent.
he killing last night of Frederick
aus, prominent German citizen, by
let's that flew in street fight be-
ZEN rival East Side gangs, promoted
mayor S action, After he had made
position plain, Police Commissioner
uglas Mckay started the crusade by
erine q roundup of gang leaders. A
Fe or more had been brought to po.
headquarters by nightfall, and the
nts of the department continued to
Enr the haunts Of the underworld in
NJ search for others.
l)IiAgs Frequent.
3ang outTages, gang street fights and
ug killings have been frequent in the
a few years, and the police have laid
f1r inability TO cope with these evils
'fhc anti-clubbing orders IN force. Po-
y officials recall that the old-time
nv York gang used its fists for the
81 part in It's fights, and under for
n conditions control of II was a COM
'Atively simple matter, With the in.
dnetiou in later years of new for
nj eiemeIts, however, the knife and
revolver cague generally into play,
the menace OF gang operations and
Hence became formidable.
fhe gangs OF years ago had their
Nj points, il was claimed, but no
n claim has heen set up for the mod
bnnds Of thugs who infest various
Fters Of the city, particularly the
ky populated East Side.
MIXING Drug Fiends.
be latter day .'gunman, ns the
n member has become ordinarily to
eallcd, is commonly of the anemic
King type, the police declare. who
My exists off the earnings of his
pan companions and is only danger.
when stimulated by drugs
announcing his intention to break
The gangs that have developed
rg the llnes indicated, Mayor Mitch
ssued statement explaining the
t8tlon.
we cannot expect to stop these
ontrages the first week of the ad.
nstratlon, but they must be
ped he said. II am not at all
6iied with the manner in which the
Zee have handled this question.
nave been, it appears, too toler-
of the existence OF organized gangs
gangsters in this city. They may
been handicapped by the idea that
Eproad that the police may not use
clubs in dealings with gangs l.
sec that the police are given adc-
|e powers, and shall then hold them
tnct responsibility TO pat an end
TINS. We mean TO look fully into
ultons which tend TO develop these
ks. Every one knows that much has
done IN the last few years by way
Feereatlonal facilities, athletics and
1nflnencc OF the scools to minimize
eyii. We must do more TO correct,
EeiI as 10 suppress. But i'll the
ntlme | shall insist that there be no
nLT0m,sn with the oanGsters -