The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-02
CHICAGO GANG
CARS HERDED
TO JAIL CELLS
Virtually All of Capone'S
Racket Chiefs Nabbed
in Two Raids.
EVEN COPS SURPRISED
Prosecutor Hopes to Hold
Captives Long Enough
to Establish Cases.
United Press

BIZ United Press
CHICAGO, Nov. 2.-For probably
the first time since AL Capone
started his rise TO power, nearly all
the erstwhile gang leaders lieuten-
ants spent the night in Jail Tues
day.
Ten major gangsters whose names
have figured in scores of bloody
and spectacular battles in Chicagos
underworld warfare were behind
the bars. With them we're seven
men described as their bodyguards
The men were arrested in two
casual police raids. The apparently
accidental seizure Of virtually the
whole Of the Capone syndicate d..
rectorate appeared to surprise Off
GERS as much as it did the gang
sters.
One Of the raids was at an ex-
pensive appointed directors room"
high in an Office building at No. /
La Sale street. The other was at
an obscure west side political
headquarters.
Gang Chiefs Arrested
Those arrested at No. La Sale
street were:
% Murray HUMPHREYS, debonair as
piraat to the throne Of AL Capone
and leader of the former gang
chiefs north side forces.
William (Three Fingered jack
White, known as one of the most
ruthless Capone gunner and re-
puted successor of George (Red)
Barker, slain labor racketeer.
William CKlondike) ODonnell
leader of the powerful west side
ODonnell gang.
Charles Fischetti, close friend and
formed bodyguard of Al Capone.
Marcus (Studdy) Looney, south
side labor racketeer and business
agent of a teamsters' union.
Charles Sullivan, brother-in-law
of the slain Barker.
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Joseph Marine, William OBrien
and William Martin, their body
guards.
Second Raid Staged
In the second raid police seized
Sam '(Golfbag Sammie) Hunt, Ca
pone gunman who introduced the
custom of carrying a machine gun
in a golf bag; Tony Accardo, for
mer Capone bodyguard and partner
of Jack machine Gun jack Nc
Gurn; Rocco De Grazio, Capone
lieutenant in the Melrose Park dis
trict, and four minor gangsters.
Once police had herded their COL
lection of gang luminaries to head
quarters, they were somewhat at a
loss as to what to do with them.
but Detective Chief William Shoe
maker had high hopes he would be
able to find witnesses against the
gangsters before attorneys obtained
their release by habeas corpus
action.
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of police drives against the gangs
had so many important gangsters
been jailed at one time. Temporarily
the extensive Capone syndicate
operations were being handled by
underlings, with the aid of the few
chiefs who escaped the accidental
roundup.
UncOvers Racket Lair
Police believe the La Sale street
raid had uncovered the racket
headquarters of Cook county. From
this suite, which overlooks the cityS
financial district, they believe the
extensive rackets that take so
heavy a toll of business have been
directed.
The suite is in the same building
as the Offices of the Association of
Commerce, operators of the famed
Secret Six"
Detectives William Drury and
John Howe, operating under direct
supervision of special Cook county
grand jury, made the La Sale
street raid. They hoped to hold off
habsas corpus action long enough
to attempt Identification of the
captives by racket victims.