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...Significance. Chicago's bootleg feuds, machine gun riots, gang run politics, are matter of course; but the inside story is still matter of conjecture. Author Kantor provides likely data for the conjecture, but his inside story is of an innocent accomplice who obeys with a thrill, and wonders what it is all about...
...While I was there five additional cases of ale were carried in and I told the whole gang what I thought of them, that I was surprised and ashamed...
This, uttered last week, was not a college proctor's description of a rowdy alumni reunion, nor a gang foreman's account of a herd of roustabouts let loose in a gin mill. .It was a description, by an officer of the .law in Pennsylvania, of an orgy last week conducted by other Pennsylvania officers of the law in defiance of a law which, they afterward observed, few persons of their acquaintance believe in anyway...
Married. Draper M. Daugherty, 41, son of onetime U. S. Attorney General Harry Micajah Daugherty ("Ohio Gang"); to Estelle Sturges, secretly, at Tucson, Ariz., after both had obtained Mexican divorces. Questioned by the police in 1923 concerning the mysterious murder of his friend Dorothy Keenan, Mr. Daugherty was shortly thereafter committed as an inebriate to Stamford Hall Sanitarium, on the petition of his wife, and in 1925 was sent to the Ohio State Hospital for the Criminal Insane. In 1926, he was released...
...Racket. Thomas Meighan is the police captain. Louis Wolheim, of What Price Glory, is the bootlegging gang leader. Marie Prevost is the cabaret girl. "Skeets" Gallagher is a reporter. The result is the fastest moving, most convincing of the recent parade of rum-revolver-racket films...