The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-04-11
CHICAGO HAS BECOME
THE CITY OF TERROR
CRIMINALS ARE ALLOWED TO
RULE BY CORRUPT JUDGES,
AND CRIME FLOUTS LAW.
JURORS FEAR TO CONVIC
Known Murderers Walk Streets With
out Fear, Officials Assert; Business
Men Dodge Jury Service, and Gang
sters Replace Them.

sters Replace Them.
| CHICAGO.-"Have you become a
race of yellow menu" This was the
question hurled at the citizens of Chi
cago by Chief Justice Kickham Scan
Ian at meeting OF law officials and
civic leaders to discuss means to COM
bat the throttle hold crime has upon
the city's throat AT the meeting these
facts were emphasized:
Criminal court juries are bribed;
convicts take jury seats when business
men dodge service; convicted gunner
and murderers walk the streets I'M
molested and hout the law; habeas
corpus writs are prepared in advance
and Writs are issued even before po-
lice can get criminals to the station,
Jurors Are Afraid.
Jurors admit they fear to give a YER
dict against criminals, as their homes
and the lives Of themselves and fami-
lies are jeopardized. Certain lawyers
are known to be conspirators with
murderers and other felons; judges are
turning loose murderers and lesser
criminals on writs of habeas corpus;
drunken orgies, staged in the criminal
court, have followed acquittals OF al
legged murderers
Chief of Police Fitzmorris has
sounded the warning that the city is
on the edge of chaos. The work of the
police department is being undone as
fast as the police can accomplish any
thing, he said. AS soon as a juror has
been chosen agents of the criminal
trust get word to him that if he votes
to convict he and his family will be
destroyed
Officials Closely Guarded.
Threats of violence against law of
hcials who are trying to do their duty
have become so persistent that states
Attorney Grove and Judge Seaman
are constantly guarded by three re-
lays of armed detectives, who watch
their homes and escort them to and
from the court rooms. Several at
tempts have been made to kill officials
who are prosecuting the criminals OF
Chicago.
The police stand as the thin blue
line between order and chaos" Chief
Fitzmorris declared land the line is
getting thinner and bluer every day
In spite OF the fact that the police are
more efficient than ever and have
made remarkable record in their fight
on crime, the city is on the edge Of
chaos. The crooks apparently enjoy
immunity from punishment. When
brought into court by the police it is
the policemen who are put on trial
instead OF the crooks. These are re
leased through the agencies of crooked
bondsmen by crooked judges.
I'm spite of the police there are
forces operating to turn the city over
to the crooks, their lawyers, and their
friends. Criminals arrested by police,
and under sentence for the robberies
and murders for which they are ar
rested, are walking the streets without
having served a day of the sentence
given them"
can Organized Malta
1--WE have an organized malta, well
entrenched,a (which appears to be above
and beyond the law, which even spits
in the face of the law" said Attorney
Grove. He demanded that the bust
ness men of Chicago do their duty as
jurors, declared that jurors are brib-
ed, and that there is a class of crimi-
nal lawyers who are in virtual part
nership with the criminals and divide
their loot"
Sheriff Charles w. Peters, in plac-
ing his entire office at the command
of the meeting, said he was prepared
to swear in 100000 deputies, if neces-
sary, to insure law and order in the
city.