Show I MOBS RULE CHICAGO Scathing Criticism of the Grand Jury r TO MAKE SPECIAL INQUIRY I Law Defied and Property Da strayed for Months Houses of Mourning Scenes of Riot and Other Strike Disorders Blot Citys Fair Name Chicago Dec 21Scathlnb criticisms or persons who have disturbed funeral processions In Chicago were made by a grand jury which today reported to Judge Clifford The grand Jury also criticised irresponsible l organizations for creating disorder and defying the law The report which was drawn by Col James W Nye foreman says MOB LAW REIGNS We find that for several months Irresponsible Ir-responsible organizations have been I creating disorder In Cook county destroying de-stroying nro > erty and defying the law We have found that culinary subpoenas subpoe-nas and subpoenas luces tecum made forthwith and issued by this court I have been evaded BLOT ON THE CITY It is public report that at present in Chicago houses of worship and houses of mourning are made the scenes of disorder dis-order by men calling themselves union pickets r and that the bodies of the dead are desecrated We believe that this condition justifies careful examination examina-tion and we respectfully suggest than the conditions we have recited be made a special subject of inquiry by the January Jan-uary grand jury HEARSES FOR THE DEAD Today for the first time in a week hearses carried the dead to the ceme teries in and around Chicago The hearses were driven by nonunion drivers driv-ers the livery owners abandoning the policy or pleading danger and with holding service Although the pollee were ordered to attend rnnnrniu tr noo H essary and nonunion drivers went armed in anticipation of opposition from union pickets who besieged undertakers under-takers establishments no disorder occurred oc-curred PATROLMEN AS PALLBEARERS The services of a union striker who offered to drive the hears i at the funeral funer-al of Detective Thomas D Farnsworth were rejected because he refused to take off his union button Pollee both In uniform and plain clothes guarded the hearse Two detectives accompanied accom-panied the empty hearse from the sta bl IQs Six patrolmen in uniform acted as pallbearers With uniformed policemen mounted on hearse and carriage the body of William Hartmann was taken to Oak wood cemetery The strikers had pickets pick-ets In the neighborhood of the home i hut they announced that their presence was merely for the purpose of seeing that no union men were driving the I carriages |