Norwich bulletin., 1916-01-29
STARTLING PLOT OF
 CHICAGO POLICE
Disclosures in Confession Made by Chauffeur Who Drove Car for Ban- dits Who Perpetrated $f5,ooo Bank Robbery.

T
 Robbery.
 Chicago. Jan. 2S-Jnst hours aft ar the sensational $15,000 robbery pf the Washington Park National bank yesterday morning, the Chicago police force tonight was congratulating it- self on the following:
 The arrest of the alleged robbers.
 The confession of Eddie Mack, one come here from New York.
 Criminals imported.
 The receipt of information that criminals had been imported at the instance of certain politicians and po- licemenv to perpetrate series of. | crimes for the purpose of dtscred1ting | the. city administration. putting Nich- olas Hunt, new chief or the detectivei rectly getting revenge on MacLay | Hoyne, states attorney, for his recent | successful prosecution of police graft | cases.
 by the confession.
 Call for a special grand jury to- morrow to take speedy action against the prisoners. Six Police Officials to Be Arrested.
 At least six police officers are ex- pected to be taken into custody be- fore morning. The COnIeSSlOn, aNcOEQEAS " MI. Hoyne, was made by Eddie Mack, one of the bandits. He implicated Harry Brandt, Charles Kramer, owner Of West Side saloon and Alex Brodie
 The speedy solution of the robbery came to the police like rainbow after a long spell of bad weather. For two years States Attorney Hoyne at in tervals has been sending detectives and police officers to prison for pro- tecting criminals. Recently Captain 3e, l cessor as chief of detectives, was con- victed Twelve hundred more pelice- men were needed and in their absence I the regular campaign of the bandits went forward with little check. I Killed Policeman Week Ago. 1 A robbery held up the Cook Tour l ist agency week ago, killed a police
 man and wounded the cashier and es- caped. It seemed the climax of the crime wave until the bank robbery overshadowed it. J Garland Stahl.3 better known as Jake Stahl former football star and baseball manager, is iyice president. He and others at work 1 in the institution, together with a. I number Of depositers lnc1uding a judge lof the municipal court, were held up l by masked men who escaped in an automobile
 CTS met to discuss means of protect l ing their property and civic clubs de- l bated the proper training of boys to save them from careers of outlawry, | for most of the crimes were commit ted by mere youths, largely habitues of poolrooms.
 Work of Obscure Plain Clothes Men. Captain Hunts picked men. were lgoaded to greater efforts, but mean while glory was being reserved for 1 two comparatively obscure plain
 clothes" men on the West Side. They
 were Detective Sergeants John Cation and Michael Vaughen.
 I Tonight Carton and Vaughen apr peared bashfully before Mayor Thomp- | son and received his compliments. The mayor said if the civil service law did not make it possible to reward them as they deserved he would fight l to have the law amended. Carton and Vaughen owe their trf- umph to a case they were assigned to Hast New Years eve-the robbery of the Daily News barns of $444 by five men. They were looking for one Fein Il in that connection and had clue l that a man with peculiar walk also was implicated. The fact that five
 men were in the bank robbery was their only clew.
 Funny Walk the Only cIew.
 Did one of the robbers have a fun ny walk?" Vaughen asked Stahl. I "He did"
 That's Eddie Maek,'' vaughen as serted and they went after him, 'find- I ing him at his home. woman ar
 rested with him dropped remark that Fein might be found at 406 Southwestern avenue. Carton and I Vaughen, reinforced by other detec- lives, made the remaining arrests at this address. As the officers battered at the doors I one of the men in the flat threw out a box containing $7,881 of the stolen
 money. It was picked up by news boy later. He turned it over to J. F.
 Brown, a policeman. The bluecoat
 was inspecting the find when the de-
 tectives emerged with their prisoners.