The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-13
CONFESSIONS
ARE OBTAINED
IN LABOR WAR
Police Net Tightens About.
Figures in Series of Bomb
ings and Beatings Predict
Startling Developments.
-four KILLED, 3 INJURED
CRv Associated Pressl

lice were rushing their legal activities
against labor leaders charged with
placing Chicago "in a state of war
fare" through crime activities, the
crack of pistols and the boom of shot
guns broke out again today in various
sections of the city and this afternoon
four persons were dead and three
were injured as the result of two as
sassinations and two street fights be-
tween policemen and bandits.
Obeying Chief of Police Fitzmorris's
order to shoot to kill on the slightest
provocation two of his patrolmen early
today killed two bandits, wounded a
third, and accidentally wounded a by
stander.
one policeman was wounded in the
fight, while the other two deaths came
when the unidentified assassins enter
ed an Italian barbershop and without
warning opened fire with shotguns
killing Vito Giorgio and James Cas-
j clio, of New Orleans, La.
Giorgio was being shaved at the
time he was murdered
In the meantime the police contin-
ued their activities against the labor
leaders charged with responsibility for
the killing of two policemen Tuesday
during series of bombing outrages
and opposition to the Lands building
| trades wage award
Fifteen more suspects were arrested
| and it was reported that five of the
eight men indicted for the murder had
made confessions
Attorneys for big Tim" Murphy,
Fred Nader and Tom Shea, the big
Three" of local labor circles, who were
among those indicted, appeared before
Judge Kickham, Scanlon with a petit
ton for an immediate trial.
Additional indictments and arrests
were to be expected today, the authori-
ties said. Eight men already are un-
! der indictments and are held without
bail.
Included are big Tim" Murphy,
head of the Gas Workers Union; Fred
Nader, president of the Chicago Build
ing Trades Council, and Con Shea, of
the Theatrical Janitors union
The confessions obtained, it is un-
derstood, deal with the recent opera
tions of these three. Two of the men
said to have confessed are Isadore
Braverman of the Fixture Hangers
union, and Robert NJ. McCloud, indict
ed with Murphy, Nader and Shea and
Harry CSmash) Hanson. Hanson ap-
peared with council in superior court
and made an especial request that he
be kept in custody and not released on
writ of habeas corpus friends sued
out
Sensational Developments.
Sensational developments are ex-
pected to be made public within the
n nNyf I'D
discussion of police heads. assistant
state attorneys and leaders of civic
organizations interested in ending in
Chicago what has been termed gang
rule, war between the police and Ia
Dor and terrorist plots.
1--WE are extremely gratified with
the situation in the last "a hours"
said Chief Fitzmorris, speaking for
his department, the states attorneys
office, and Henry Bartlett Chamber
lain managing director of the crime
commission, who has been in active
cooperation with the authorities
throughout the investigation. "We
wish to express our thanks to courts
for the treatment we have received,
and for their hearty cooperation with
the police in the present emergency"
duplicates Nader.
Hanson has given US much informa-
tion that we are glad to get Fitzmor-
ris said HE has implicated Nader
as an actual member of the automo-
bile slugging gangs. He has proved
Murphy is the real leader of the ter
rorism plot"
Resolutions condemning violence in
labor disputes and expressing regret
over slain policemen were adopted last
night by a meeting of the Building
Trades Council In the absence of
Nader, the meeting was presided over
by James Harty, vice-president, and
James ]. Conroy, who was released
Thursday night.
| At a meeting of the Carpenters dis
trict council one of the organizations
opposed to the Landis wage award
over which disputes which led to the
present chaotic condition arose, the
members reaffirmed their former ac-
| tion in breaking awoy from the build
ing trades counc1.
Announce Developments.
The other principal developments of
| the third day of the crime drive were:
Assistant states attorneys assigned
to the investigation were deluged with
anonymous letters threatening the
conflagratios in Chicago IF one labor
man remains in Jail by sunset Satur-
day"
| Damage suits of $4,000 each alleg-
! ing false arrest and Imprisonment
were filed against Chief Fitzmorris,
| Lieut.. William Shoemaker, Lieut. John
W. Bourke and C. F. Hughes by At
| torney NJ. L. Thomson, Emmett Flood,
general organizer for the American
| federation of labor; Emmett Flood,
Jr., his son, member of the fixture
| hangers union, and his daughter, Miss
| Evelyn Flood, all of whom were taken
| in Wednesdays raids.
| Orders Recapture
| Chief Fitzmorris issued an order for
| the recapture of jeremiah (Jerry)
1 Horn, ex-saloon keeper and ex-police-
man, who was one of those indicted
! but who through mistake was booked
on a disorderly charge at the detec-
tive bureau and released on $50 bond
before the indictment was returned
| The postal authorities may be asked
to assist in the crime drive as a re-
suit of the threatening letters re-
| ceiVed