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Does anyone suppose that if it were impossible to purchase a pistol or revolver in these whole United States that murders and holdups would cease? Most assuredly no. There would be a decided increase, for where the gangster expects to meet a victim who may be armed with a pistol he would not strike...
...lies" of him, contrasted Tribune pictures of himself with retouched studio portraits. "The Tribune's Lies Have Made the World Believe Chicago is the Crime Centre of America," screamed a double page headline. Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick, Tribune publisher, was pictured as patronizing Alphonse Capone, of promising the gangster "a square deal" in return for his averting a Tribune delivery truck strike. The greatest Thompson scoop was an unpublished Tribune obituary prepared last year when the Mayor was close to death (see p. 26). On the back page...
Last week the State of Illinois, amply aided by Tribune investigators, concluded its case against one Leo V. ("Buster") Brothers, St. Louis gangster, accused of the Lingle murder. Reputed already to have cost $150,000 for investigations, it was one of the few famed gang murders ever to go so far as actual trial in Chicago. Defense and prosecution both produced human molecules from the stream that had been flowing through the tunnel last June 9, to try to reproduce pictures of what had happened...
...answer a charge of vagrancy, the antique legal device by which loud Judge John Homer Lyle once hoped to curb the city's banditti (TIME, Oct. 13). The officer who had signed the complaint against Scarface admitted that he did not know him, could not swear that the gangster was without legal means of support or "frequented disreputable resorts...
Prudently, Adolf Hitler gave his Gang time to think things over. He set a date nine days distant after which any insubordinate gangster would be expelled from the ranks. Expelled last week, however, were Storm Captain Stennes and two aides. Glowering, they prepared to doff the swastika (armband Hitler emblem. See cut). But they also talked of founding a new party, said that storm commanders in Brandenburg. Pomerania. Mecklenburg and East Prussia had promised to join them...