New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-20
Bomb Suspect
Shot as Police
Round Up Gang
One Prisoner, Held After
Chicago Blast, Said to
Have Confessed Causing
More Than 90 Explosions
Dynamite Cache Seized
Detectives Raid Offices of
Shoe Repairmen's Union
and Confiscate Records

CHICAGO, Sept. 19.-Four alleged
professional bombers, one of whom was
shot and wounded by Chief of Detec-
tives Hughes, we're captured early to-
day in a roundup that resulted in the
seizure of an enormous quantity of
dynamite and TINT. A fifth captive a
scventeen-year-old boy, is held as the
suspected "look-o out" for the gang.
One Of the men under arrest has con-
fessed, according to the police, to hav-
ing planted and exploded more than
sixty bombs during the last year and
to being wanted in Missouri for a muir
der committed there in 1918.
After the arrests detectives raided
the Offices Of the United Shoe Repair
mems Organization and there contis-
Gated all books and papers. Leo Lev
inson, secretary of the organization, is
sought according to Chief of Police
Fitzmorris.
Chief Fitzmorris said he has in
structed Chief Hughes to 20 before
United States Commissioner Glass to
see If the alleged bombers may not be
prosecuted under provisions of as yet
unrepealed wartime statutes prohibit
ing possession Of explosives.
Roundup Follows Explosion
Andrew Bell, owner of the building
at 7642 Kimbark Avenue, where three
members Of the gang lived, was taken
into custody when explosives were
found in his apartment in the same
building. E. J. Coy. Bells son-in-law
said he understood that one of the men
had asked the landlord to keep the
stuff for him. and that Bell had not
known what was in the package.
The roundup followed the bombing
OF David Kremen's shoe repair shop.
This bombing is said by the police to
nave been the result of rivalry between
the International Brotherhood of Shoe
Repairmen and the United Shoe Repair
men. kremen is member of the In
ternational organization.
The man shot by Chief Hughes is
Richard Burke, twenty-three wears old
He was wounded in the right thigh and
was taken to the Auburn Park Hos
pitai. According to the police, Burke
headed the gang of bombers.
Others held in the Stock Yards no.
ice station arc James Smith. TWENTY
two years old; John Barry. twenty
tour years old; Charles Young. twenty
eight, and Michael Beach, seventeen
years old.
Dynamite Found in Garage
Ihelr headquarters is garage, the
Apartment being maintained by Burke.
9mitn and Barry as living quarters.
IN the garage were found two trunks.
one Of them contained 1,400 sticks of
dynamite. The other held 100 sticks
Chief Hughes. his son, Nicholas and
Detective Sergeants Charles Eg RAM
Burke, O'Connor, John Edward and
Arthur, Murphy, Thomas HAYES and
michael Haley made up the squad that
captured the gang. Chief Hughes re-
celved tip Sunday that Kremen's
shop was to be bombed, and he and his
men lay in wait for the bomb ers. Chief
Hughes said the men arrived together
with two other members of the gang
VINO are sought. They are said to com
PRISE the gang hired by labor organi-
cations and others and responsible for
al least ~ per cent of recent bombinps
in Chicago
The police say the bombing opera
ions or TINS gang have no connection
Win the wall Street bomb. That thew
say, was the work of Russian and Itaj-
ian anarchists and that the govern.
ment knows who did the Wall Street
JOB. The. Chicago gang operated To-
caily and was supported by labor
unions.