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Show GUARD CHIEF'S HOME Chicago Gamblers Said to Have Made Dire Threats. CHICAGO. Sept. 15. Gambling In Chicago Is nearer extinction than it has been in many year's. Public gambling in the city limits is dead. This is the declaration of the police, and tho assertion asser-tion seems to be borne out by the scattering; scat-tering; and disappearance of the men who promote and give their time to 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 tho form of anonymous letters let-ters sent to the olllce 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 let-tors. |