The Indianapolis times., 1930-06-20
CHICAGO GANG
BULLETS DEFY
Law CRUSADE
AIky Ring Chief Taken for
Ride as Cleanup Army
Is MaSSed.
FOUND DEAD IN AUTO
RaCketeer'S Body in Car
Lettering on Edge of
Pit of Water.

BIZ United Press
CHICAGO, June 20-Gangland
gunner took another of their enc
mics "for ride" today, while Iron
Man John Alcock, new police COM
missioner, was organizing his forces
for major drive on crime.
The victim was LorenZa Juliano,
chief of a south side alcohol gang,
who has troubled police for several
years.
His murder was the first in the
metropolis since the assassination
of Alfred j. Lingle, Chicago Tribune
reporter, which resulted in an un-
precedented public clamor, and the
resignation of two police officials.
Juliano's body was found in
small sedan which teetered on the
brink of clay pit at One hundred
twenty-third street and California
avenue, not far from the scene of
his operations.
The gangster apparently had
been killed elsewhere, the body
wrapped in burlap, sack drawn
over the head and the whole bundle
bound with wire.
From marks along the pit bank
police surmised that Juliano's body
had been placed at the wheel Of
the sedan, the car started in low
gear and directed toward the clay
pit that was filled with water.
Open Crime Clearing House
The plans apparently went awry
for the sedan stopped on the brink,
when discovered by an employe of a
plant nearby shortly before noon.
Juliano's record as a racketeer ex-
tends back to the time when the
homes of Senator Charles S. Deneen
and States Attorney John A. Swan
son were bombed just before cleo
ton.
At that time quantity Of dyr1a-
mite and materials for making
bombs were found in Juliano's home
and he was held for some time as a
suspect in the bombing, but even
tually was freed.
A central clearing house for the
various Investigations into the
murder of Lingle was opened in
the loop today.
''Soft Jobs" Are Lost
This is the first time any Chicago
crime has been accorded such CO.
ordinated Alteration of the city's
Jaw enforcement agencies. All clews
to the crime and all reports Of evi-
dence, no matter how meager, are
to be sent direct to the clearing
house, whose telephone number was
published today in all the news
papers.
The bureau Is in the Methodist
Temple building and is in charge
of Charles Rathburn, the assistant
states attorney who has been as
signed to the case.
Witnesses to the murder will be
brought to the clearing house in
stead of police stations for ques-
tioning by representatives OF the
police, state, county and federal
men working on the case.
POllce OIncerS Dy Ule AulCISuo WSAO
mustered out of unnecessary" jobs
in the detective bureau, put in uni
form and sent to the front lines to-
day in Chicago's warfare against
gangland.
Go Back to Beats
AS the drastic reorganization COM
mands of Commissioner Alcock,
new commissioner Of police, were
carried out. the detective bureau
staff was reduced from 900 to 200
men.
The 700 policemen affected by the
cut were ordered to patrol beats IN
various sections of the city.
In the offing was another huge
shift in forces and the transfer Of
500 plainclothes officers TO patrol
duty was expected to take place
within the next few days.
Alcock believes the only way OF
coping with crime and vice is to
have uniformed policemen making
the rounds.