New Britain herald., 1930-11-24
JUDGE STERN WITH
 CHICAGO GANGMEN
Fixes High Bonds-Sends Rsod-
 luInS to Rock Pile

Chicago, Nov. 24 R>-Out of the comparative obscurity of Chicago's municipal court, a rough-tough judge with a scorn of technicalities has bounded into the forefront of the city's war on crime
 John Lyle, in other words, is on the front page again, this time as the harasser of public enemies"- ot Ralph Capone and Bugs Moran, Of Eur" Sammons and "Dago" Mangano
 He is saying "s5O,O00 bond" when Sunmen demand their constitution al rights" He is roaring ''six months in jail and s10O fine in answer to mention of "habeas corpus" and change of venture"
 And he is saying it to varied re- sponse from the towns audience ot three and a half million. He lacks judicial temperament" the Chicago Bar association complained in urg- ing his defeat at the recent election. He is judge of vigor and inde- pendence who has given voice to the aspirations of the law-abiding,' responded the Chicago crime com- mission. The opposing views clashed Nov. and Lyle, a republican, rode safely through a democratic tidal wave that swept 10 of his fellow partisans from the municipal bench.
 And John Lyle stayed on the front page.
 Fixes High Bonds
 When he first went to the bench six years ago, it seemed inevitable Lyle would do something out of the ordinary, and he did; he launched policy of high bonds for known criminals and summary treatment of hoodlums that has brought him into repeated controversy with his colleagues on the ground he has not held strictly to the law. Regardless of these clashes he has persisted and has defied the criminal court to review his decisions.
 On the bench he has been 2 para doX. He will berate one lawyer for wasting his time and rebukc anoth- CT for trying to rush a case through. He will refuse to listen to one rob- ber's plea. and take up a collection for another because his offense seemed prompted by family need He will scathe the police for gentle treatment of gangsters and con- Gcmn them with equal eloquence for rough handling of minor tramps.
 Hoodlums Break Rocks
 When the staying of Alfred I.ngle. Tribune reporter, whipped Chicago into it's most persistent drive on the underworld, John Lyle was in his glory. He sent two hoodlums to the rock pile for a year on a va grancy charge before their law Ners had time to get habeas corpus writs. When the crime commission issued its public enemy list, he promptly replied with vagrancy warrants for all those named. When north side police brought in a herd of petty gamblers and loafers, he cried out against them bitterly. tell ing them to go out and bring in Al Capone and Bugs Moran instead"
 When the state supreme court held his policy of $5o,000 bonds for vagrancy was illegal, he was un- daunted, and followed with S20,000 bonds for two more before him on that charge.
 Tells Cop How
 So it goes with this man of amaz- ing energy who is 4S but looks 35 and whose Steely muscles testify 10 the effectiveness of his daily one hour workout in a gymnasium. He met a policeman at the gym the other day and was told Of the prob lens of getting big shot' gangsters behind the bars.
 Gall me any time,' Lyle re- sponded. Gall me day or night and I'll come drumming and show you how to keep them in jail"
 And John Lyle was on the front page again