POLICE WORK BEING UNDONE BY MAFIA IN WINDY CITY
Chicago, Illinois (JFK+50) On March 21, 1922, the Evening Star reports that according to Chicago chief of police Charles C. Fitzmorris*, law enforcement in the Windy City "is on the edge of chaos."
Chief Fitzmorris said...
"The work of the police department is being undone as fast as we can do it."
The Star also quotes state attorney general Robert E. Crowe** as adding...
"There is an organized band of criminals in Chicago...a mafia which considers itself above the law."
Judge Kickham Scanian also said there are "crooked lawyers responsible for crime conditions."
*Charles C. Fitzmorris (1884-1948) later served as city comptroller of Chicago. In January 1928, his home was bombed.
**Robert Emmett Crowe (1879-1958) graduated from Yale Law School, 1901 & was a Chicago lawyer & politician who is best known as prosecutor of the Leopold & Loeb murder case in which he squared off against Clarence Darrow.
SOURCE
"Chicago Near Chaos, Crime And Courts In League, Say Critics," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., March 21, 1922, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
