Show I GA GlAND KILLS O Er BERS Chicago Citizens Point Out Streets Are Arc Mainly l Safe Places CHICAGO Jan 14 Ey 14 By The Associated Press Press-E Press Press- Should Presa-Should Should hould one on on visiting Chicago supply himself with a suit cult of chain armor or an armed bodyguard 1 Spectacular gang murders have received so much newspaper no- no notice tic no-tic tice both here and abroad and have occasioned so much comment on the th city city's lawlessness that there probably are ar thousands par par- particularly par particularly In the smaller towns who Imagine that no ono one on visiting the tho place would ie L safe sat unless equip equip- equipped equipped ped pod as for an advance on the enemy trench s LIVE NOR This picture the same as ns any picture built upon the th cumulative effect of a number of Isolated ex- ex examples examples ex examples amples Is false falt-e city officials say citing figures showing that Chi Chi- Chicago Chicago cago for tor its size has one on of the smallest crime crima records record of ot any city In the th land Chicagoans who live Uve a life about as normal and uneventful as the th average citizen anywhere see te so little litti of ot crime conditions that they sometimes wonder If It they are ar not missing on something Chicago's murder record of course Is la the one that receives es the most moat outsIde attention This years year's ears casualty lists lire are ar not corn com complete but the tho total for 1925 was murders Morgan A Colllns Collins chief of police said of o this number were roes negroes slain by ne- ne negroes negroes ne-croes ne groes to the great creat In- In Influx influx In Influx flux ot of negroes from the tha south while 80 10 were bootleggers slain by leaving homi homi- homicides homicides to tho the rest of the population population tion GANGLAND G SHOOTS SnOOTS OWN The Th The 80 SO deaths among amont the tho boot boot- bootleg lee boot leg outlaws furnished the strikIng Int log Ing feature ot of the th murder list but accordIng to Judge Marcus arcus Kay Kay- Kavanaugh of the superior court the feudists aro are very ery good shots and no Innocent bystanders are lire hit By fly dividing dividing- the total criminal record Into tho the city's population It Is a sate safe bet that 99 44 per cent of ot th the citi- citi citi citizenry have never seen anything more Tn startling flint than an an ato automo lo- lo bile cr crash One person who I has s lived JIved here cre eight years years and antI coy coy- ered 15 or 21 20 miles mlle of or the tho city cit every day maintained that he h nev- nev never never never er had witnessed l even ven that The same percentage of ot the th persons probably never saw a gangster nor would recognize one on If It seen en Therefore many Chicagoans smile a little when they see ae their city pictured In print and cartoon ns as overrun by gangsters who prowl about the tho streets street with pla- pla pis pistols an and ami machine machin guns while ter- ter terror ter terror stricken inhabitant dart to cover er And occasionally they have to assure anxious visitors that they can get about the tho Streets unmolested virtually any hour of t V nr S OF KILLINGS They realize that Chicago has I crime but believe that the tha spec spec- spectacular manner In which some tome of oth the acts of ot depredation ate are ar car car- carried ned ried out out particularly tho the gang murders gives elves them an ani undue prominence leading to the belief that Chicago I Is a 1 a huge throw throw- throwback throwback back to the tho roaring frontier towns town of past decades One On man particularly who ye- ye resents the th popular view of Chicago crime crim Is Mayor Dover Dever who has con gone gunning several times for those who got get too bold boldIn boldin boKIn In their comments He lie has been particularly active against boot boot- bootleggers bootleggers but claims that most of the feuds and ar killings-are directed from suburbs over which Chicago has no control After the th latest machine gun tun tho the mayor said force tore 1 Is do- do doIng doing Inc do-Inc Ing all It can to put an end to gang warfare but the Illicit lIquor trade Is directed and operated In Inthe inthe the county not In the tho city limits op 00 r |