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Show GAMBLING'S DEATH BLOW New Police Administration Administra-tion in Chicago Is After tiic Sports. CHICAGO. Sept. 15. Gambling: in Chicago is nearsr extinction than it has been in many years. Public gambling in the city Mmits is dead. This is the declaration of the police, and the assertion asser-tion seems to be borne out by the scattering scat-tering and disappearance of the men whn nrnmnl a nit aive their time tn It. Arrested, driven from the city, their paraphernalia shattered and destroyed, members of the fraternity are said to have made one last desperate stand which portends violence to the Chief of Police and members of his family if the gambling crusade continues. This has taken the form of anonymous letters let-ters sent to the office and house of the chief, which threaten the dynamiting of his home and violence to himself and family. Chief Collins at first was Inclined to denounce these "warnings" as "nonsense, "non-sense, ' but feeling for the safety of his family, he yesterday stationed a guard near his residence. The chief refused to divulge the nature of the letters let-ters save that they, were threatening. He declared them of '-no importance, although al-though he admitted that his home was guarded and that members of his personal per-sonal staff were investigating the letters. |