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WHOOPEE SPOTS IN CHICAGO MIGET LIFH Hawthorne Hotel The Wigwam kicked one of the men in the face. “Take that you bastard,” said Mike. And thus died the most ferocious of the Gennas. Meanwhile Scalice and Anselmi raced on, down streets, through alleys, beneath elevated railway structures. A mob followed them and the mob grew in numbers every block and Scalice and Anselmi knew there was no escape for them. When they were arrested they had turned into a clothing store. They offered no resistance as they were led out of a building into a squad car. You may be sure that the reception these terrible men received at the nearest police station was one that Sealice and Anselmi carried with them for a long time. Indeed, the only punishment Scalice and Anselmi really ever received at the hands of the law was administered during those few hours as guests of the police. The deaths of the police officers inflamed the public gs none of the crimes of Gangland had ever before inflamed it. What Mr. Crowe said this time was that Scalice and Anselmi ought to be taken out and hanged by the neck without the formality of a trial. As events proved, this would have been a ewell thing, not only for Scatice and Anselmi but for Mr. Crowe and for the Maxwell Station police. For during the long and futile trial of Scalice and Anseimi, an attorney for them was to rise to his feet one day and, flourishing a little red note-book in his hand, shout: “I have here, the names of the policemen that Mike Genna paid every month. Two hundred of them belonged to the Maxwell Street Station, two squads tame from the central office, and one from the state’s attorney's office.” Well, the defendants were acquitted eventually. A detailed story of the long and laborious legal machinations would require more pages than are to be found in this book. It is interesting to note however that all the “alky” cookers in the Maxwell Street district rallied to their defense, feeling, as they did, that their countrymen were being discriminated against. A vast fund was collected. Strangely enough the collection of this fund was a great factor in finally wrecking the Genna rule altogether, for there was Midnight Frolics Cotton Club @Grean Miu much double-crossing and pocketing of funds and the “alky” cookers finally began to war among themselves. Tt was all very fine for “Little Hymie” to lock upon, and all very sad for King Capone to look upon. The burial of Mike Genna was a great spectacle, and one of the last. The public became bored with it all, and twenty-five days later another automobile, equipped with a police gong (Hymie Weiss had thus equipped one of his machines) drew up to Anthony, youngest of the Gennas, who stood unsuspectingly on the sidewalk, and killed him neatly and without undue waste of ammunition. The last rites were performed hurriedly, ominously and without dis- play. Only a few mourners were there; wild-eyed men and a dozen or more crying women and children, And Tony was buried at night, The Gennas now saw the hand of doom stretching into their domain. Jim Genna, panic-stricken disappeared. It is said he returned to Italy. Five years later, as we nA hic shall see, he was again to return and his presence again drenched Gangland with blood. Only one Genna remained, who to this day is occasionally caught in the police drag- net; and is led out at the regular show-ups along with the pickpockets, bums and unimportant characters to be laughed at. Amid all this chacs King Capone was compelled to permit the killing of three “alky” cookers who had thought the demoralized state of affairs in Gangland would enable them to get away with some effective and profitable double- crossing. The penalty fer this unpardonable offense was first paid by Tony Campagnia on July 10; five days later Sam Lavenuto and James Russo kicked in. Sam was ynurdered in the forenoon; James got it after lunch. . The swift punishment meted out to these insignificant henchmen brought more terror to the “alky” cookera and the beautiful result of it all was that for a long period lasting until well into the New Year, 1926, the disturbances in Little Italy were few and unimportant. MES, HAUWTS AWD WEANOTARTERS OF FAMOUS OERICAGO GANGSTERS eft to right: The Beturi Hotel, frequented by “Little Hyime” Welss and Druccl; Metropole once headquarters for Capone gang, and the Lexington Motel, present headquarters. C84]