Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-21
Police Raid All Known Habi-
tats of Gangsters in Sud-
den Drive at Crime.
"GET EVERY CROOK WITH
RECORD" sTEGE ORDERS
Captives Held in Cells for Inves-
tigation, Despite Pleas
for Bail.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
CHICAGO. January 21.-Three thou
sand persons were arrested between Sat
urday nightfall and today's dawn inone
Of the most sudden, widespread anc
successful police drives in the history oi
Chicago.
Raids were conducted against every
known habitat of the gangster, gunmar
and robber. Where doors were locked
doors were smashed open. The theate,
district swarmed with plainclothes
men, seeking the "dress suit. crooks
and police patrols were booked for
hours ahead, so swift were the arrests.
The drive was Police Chief William
RusSelPs answer to week of crime
marked by l02 robberies, in which four
persons were shot dead and several
others seriously wounded. /
Siege Issues Ultimatum.
Two-thirds of the citys force of 5000
policemen were kept on double duty
over Sunday to insure the success of the
drive.
Squad leaders got their orders from
Deputy Commissioner John Siege in
these words:
Every joint in this town is to be vis-
tied. Never mind injunctions. If you're
barred. grab an AK and chop your way
in. Grab every crook with record that
you see. Don't bother seizing booze.
Leave the working man and the respect
able people alone. Raid the night clubs,
the theaters, the hotels the beer fats.
l want every crook in Chicago in a cell
by Monday morning."
Besides the raids, police had random
squads at work everywhere, making ar
rests at street cornerS-anyWhere they
might come upon persons with police
records or who were unable to give sat
lsfactOry accounts of themselves.
With every police district in the city
participating, arrests were made by the
hundreds every hour. In many cases
officers and their prisoners waited for
hours on the street before the arrival
OF a patrol to transport them to the
police station.
Several names often found in police
records were listed among the persons
arrested, although so far as was known
no wanted" man of especial note was
taken. The full result of the drive re-
mained to be seen at the special
"show-up' today. when those arrested
were to be paraded before the victims
OF recent hold-ups and robberies for
possible identification.
Two Arrested Robbing SIeuths.
One incident of the drive was the
arrest of Richard Klein, "a, and James
Murphy, %, said to be men with SEN
tenceS at San Quentin Penitentiary be-
hind them. Klein and Murphy we're
holding up two plainclothes detectives,
not knowing they were officers, when a
raiding squad arrived and arrested
them.
A close watch was kept on theater
crowds, police following the theory that
underworld leaders would pursue their
usual custom Of attending opening
nights Nathan Bunk" Goldberg
known to police as a racketeer and
bootlegger; Joe CHASER, resort keeper
and Ben Sopkin, wanted for question
ing, were among the dress clothes VIC
tins taken.
At the opening of Diamond Lii" a
show OF the underworld, where officers
expected to find several gangsterS, nc
arrests were made.
In the outlying sections, after the
drive had been in progress several
hours officers found evidence of the
fear that had been inspired At one
place they came upon several men
hastily dismantling five stills and load
ing them on trucks in an alley.
Politicians, bondSmen, lawyers and
judges were kept busy answering calls
for aid from those arrested, but all
captives were ordered held "for investi-
CATION and pleas for release were
turned down. Several hundred prison.
ers, however, were freed when investi-
CATION showed them to be law-abiding
Up to am. today, the raids had re-
suited in the seizure of rs shotguns
and pistols.
Sunday, while the raids were in
progress, only two minor holdups were
reported