FIGURE 49.-Racketeer tools of trade: (1) Thompson machine gun, fires 1,500 shots per minute; (2) machine-gun bullets, .15 caliber; (3) machine-gun magazines or clips; (4 and 5) black powder bombs; (6) long bolt used in destroying marble worth $35,000 at a cemetery mausoleum; (7) nitroglycerin bomb; (8) emery dust used to destroy high-speed machinery by placing in bearings; (9) sawedoff shotgun; (10) Colt revolver; (11) dynamite bomb; (12) fountain-pen pistol, .38 caliber

UNSOLVED MURDERS, MURDER, BURGLARY, AND ROBBERY

UNSOLVED MURDERS

For 1929 the unsolved murders committed within the confines of the city of Chicago numbered 97, while those for Cook County (outside the limits of the city) numbered 21. Think of it, 118 unsolved murders in one year.

Unsolved murders are cases which coroners' juries determined as murder and reported the murderer as unknown, recommending the apprehension of the unknown murderer.

MURDER

[Chicago Crime Commission]

Tabulation of verdicts of murder returned by coroners' juries in Cook County, arranged in terms of months and years.

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Tabulation of burglary complaints of citizens to Chicago Police Department, as taken from the records of the secretary of police from the reports of commanding officers, in terms of months and years.

ROBBERY

Tabulation of robbery complaints of citizens to Chicago Police Department, as taken from the records of the secretary of police from the reports of commanding officers, in terms of months and years.

Which shows but one instance of many how the illicit-liquor industry has gone into the field of actual counterfeiting.

The following samples are spurious United States revenue stamps. (Fig. 50.) They were cut out by your investigator from sheets containing 12 stamps each.

On April 28, 1930, Chicago police, while searching an apartment at 4339 West Seventeenth Street for stolen merchandise, discovered gin and whisky valued at $7,500, a mixing tank, equipment, strip stamps, and labels. (Figs. 50 and 51.) The case was turned over to the special agent in charge of the prohibition force.

THE COMMUNIST AND ALCOHOL

The picture (fig. 52), taken by your investigator April 30, 1930, shows the exterior of a secret den of a group of Sicilians at 2901 Wentworth Avenue, Chicago. At the time the photograph was taken some 8 or 10 villainous-appearing men were conversing around a table in the front room. The facts, all of which are subject to corroboration, are as follows: This place is a headquarters for communists and anarchists engaged in making alcohol. Several trapdoors lead from the front room of the place to the basement. From the basement several exits led through tunnels and camouflaged points of egress, investigators found. The basement was like a labyrinth, with a series of doors manipulated by secret springs, passageways, and secret panels, some of which led to "getaways through the building next door. The hall itself, investigators report, had a dais behind a railing the throne department from which orders were given.

THE GANG'S OPERATIONS

Federal indictments were returned April 30 against 25 Sicilians, charged with conspiracy, involving more than 200 offenses and 27

attorney's office, the gang had been operating since January 1, 1926 (over four years), and had made and sold millions of gallons of

overt acts-transactions said to have netted the syndicate millions of dollars. According to reliable reports from the United States

alcohol. The stills were situated in Chicago, Cicero, and Racine, Wis. One specific charge in the indictment alleges that the defendants made and sold 400,000 gallons of whisky. Another count alleges that 100 carloads of corn sugar were sold to be used in stills. Literature denouncing high Government officials was seized by the Federal authorities. Whether or not this gang has connections with the Capone outfit is at present undetermined.

Your investigator suggests that this gang of Sicilians is more than likely connected with the Unione Siciliano (see Part I, Illinois section, p. 264), and that the Federal authorities cover this place thor

oughly. The real menace of a gang like this lies in the power back of the millions of dollars of money it acquires, and which enables it to effectively carry on anarchistic doctrines and strike at our Government.

The gang in the instance just cited has been operating, according to reliable information, for over four years (since January 1, 1926). Further reliable information discloses that the event leading to the discovery of the gang's big business operations was in the nature of an incident-the capture of a truck by Federal agents during the latter part of 1929, near 1901 Wentworth Avenue. The truck bore Illinois license tags, with Wisconsin tags ready for immediate substitution.