Word: bere
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...Lambert Bere and John Camphouse, officials of the bank, who identified McGeoghegan at his first trial, asked me to do it," replied Attorney Butler. "They have been under guard in a Loop hotel since April 29 and their families and the bank need them...
...believe the State's Attorney should stand here and confess he is not big enough to keep these men protected." observed the Court. "I think Mr. Bere is big enough to take care of himself...
...longstanding practice among the local banditti to terrorize witnesses used against them by prosecutors. But citizens were aghast at this public admission of and surrender to the fact. A few days later Gangster McGeoghegan, born in Chicago's criminal spawning grounds "Back of the Yards," was reindicted. Witness Bere, promised a police escort, told a grand jury that he would again appear for the prosecution. Next job was up to Chicago's detectives : find Daniel McGeoghegan...