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Show 'ANGRY TENANTS GIVE LANDLORD A SHAKEDOWN - I DETROIT, April 17. Jerome I GJ. Moore, owner of a flat build-1 jmg, was in jail charged with maliciously injuring property of ienants he evicted while the tenants, ten-ants, reinstated in their flat, ivere in possession of a lease for ! six months which a crowd of (sympathetic neighbors "in-1 duced''' the landlord to sign. ; Moore's arrest followed his res-1 bue from possible violence at-bhe at-bhe hands of the crowd which included several hundred men and women. Moore had ordered the flat vacated, it was said, and planned plan-ned to rent it to new tenants for $150, an advance from $70. The tenants claimed they were unable to find another flat. |