Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-25
AN ALARMING INCREASE
 OF CRIME IN CHICAGO

Chicago, Nov. 24.-The unprecedent- ed increase in the number of maio. :, and minor crimes in Chicago over the weekend was caused by curtail4 ment of street lighting due to the ef- forts of the municipal lighting plant to conserve on coal, accordins to Chief Of Police John Garrity. Today the entire police force devoted it's at tention to the problem of solving the murder mysteries of the slast two or fhres days and in an 9effartt to arrest some of the robbers. safe bloWers and anf lks tlBiessss who osserateet prac-- ! tlssa with iinp1nity Satursay and Sufday nights Fl
 h the arrest of sixteen youths, mostly foreigners. the police stated to- night they had captured eight murder CTS and had cleared up the mysteries surrounding 15e robberies. but with that announcement it was learned that the murders and robberies were an accumulation of offenses during the last three years. So far 1s2 arrests have been made as a result of the week -end orgy in crime during which forty aeldups, three murders twenty eighb automobile thefts, three pistol dusis, an absconding bank cashier, and numerous safe blowers were reported to the police.
 Immediately after Chief ,Garrity is- sued his statement atributing the in- crease of crime to the decrease of coal and lights the Commonwealth Edison
 Company which provides electricity in Chicago for private consumption 1 announced they could help solve that problem and would furnish the city
 with enough electricity to assure the lighting of all municipal lights, pro yided sharp curtailment is made iI the use of electric advertising signs by mercantile establishments.
 One of the most spectacular epi- sodeS of the crime peak occurred early today when thieves mounted or all automobile attempted to hold UT
 pr. E. w. Fishman in Sheridan Road l fashionable driveway. Dr. Fischmar i was making an early morning call tC 1 the, bedside of Q. patient and as hi. automobile passed the slowly driver one containing the bandits they or. l dered him to stop. The doctor insteat 1 opened wide the throttle of his car ] For several blocks up Sheridan Roat
 the chase continued with the would l be thieves pouring shot into the bacl ! of the physician's car. The shots go i too thick for Dr. Fischman and he fl 1 nally abandoned his car and escaped 1 on foot into an alley.
 1 While the police were investigatin, the doctors report another squad wa l called out on tip that a regular saf blowing party was being held on tn South Side at the Merry Garden cafe 1 A patrol wagon full of uniformed mel
 was sent immediately but, they arrive, i a bit too late, though they saw tn cracksmena speeding away in an auto 1 mobile with $2,5o0 which they had ,ob tained from the safe The police gay chase, firing their pistols continuall at the escaping robbers, but appar ] ently effected no damage either. to tn ! car or it's inmates. No arrests follow 1 ed.
 Later another automobile race wa i staged when detectives from tn states attorneys office learned tha l James M. Miles. alleged defaultin ] vice; president and cashier of tn
 Standard Trust and Savings Bank, fia
 been seen in Dixon. Illinois. Miles, i is charged, absconded after a short age of s25,000 was found in his ac
 counts Saturday night. Agents fror the states attorney,s office immedi ately were sent to Dixon, and arrive there just after their. quarry left in high powered car, driving east. Lat
 tufliSIlt llte FdtG tWdS sSllfi Oll BltH LII pursued leading, according to all re
 ports.
 .To the police department's 5ugges
 tion that policemen in civilia. ! clothes patrol the streets instead c
 uniformed men. States Attorne Hoyne entered a sharp protest today saying: "The citizens would. not kno1 , whether tfls policeman was a holdd
 man or not and some policemen worl take advantage of the change and tur
 robbers themselves. This is not
 mere guess, as some of them alread
 have done this"