Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-09-23 | Page 36 | Grand Jury to Probe Chicago Extortion Gang

HAND GRAND JURY TO 10 PROOf PROBE CHiCAGO CHiCAGO- EXTORTiON GANC AN S CHICAGO Sept 22 United A Press grand jury Investigation was planned today as Chicago's tat lat st move n In its war without m mercy againSt the Mafia Tho investigation officials sail saU not only the recent kid kid- 1 ing of young Billy for fori i hoso so release ransom was demanded but also the tho operations Cother MafIa extortion and blackn black black- suit n rIngs Judge Frank D Comer Comer- was responsible for the tho order irl vJ kh Jeh it is believed will result in fu one ot of the most sweeping I s Chicago's little HUle Ital Italy has ever ever known Comerford was conducting tearing for Angelo sort soft 1 parlor operator who was bound over to the grand g jury on a acla cla of complicity in connection flail the tho abduction of the tho Ranieri buy bu was ordered held without ball It is charged acted as gO between and agent for f r tho kIdnapers who Wednesday released the tho child after holding him captive for thirteen days At the tho conclusion of the hearing JUdge Comerford called AssIstant AssistantS S Slates Slate's ates Attorneys Samuel Hoffman HoHman and Charles Mueller to the bench and discussed the tho planned probe Both BOUl representatives of the states state's attorneys attorney's office asserted their to such an I investigation in Judge Comerford announced ho he lead the promIse of full cooperation or- or lollee Pollee Commissioner William and Deputy Deput CommissiOner Siege stege Commissioner Russell his promised as man many policemen ns as a aro o necessary to carry out the in- in Judge Comerford said alII re warned the assistant states state's attorneys of any attempts on the thep p rt of influential politicians to 1 interfere with the Investigation J iLet liet t no one be he humble or eor in politics or out interfere waif the extermination of this mena men men- a c he said If you hear of any threats against witnesses or any attempts to impede the inquiry In- In it is your duty to notify the court and the court will deal harsh harsh- 1 If and speedily with the intimidators r Commissioner Russell said he the fear which in the past had kept Italian famines families from seeking aid of police when vie Yle- by the Mafiosi had been r replaced placed by an uprising of the native nathe na- na the tive members of the cOlony since e said sahl the fact that the courts geld ld as hostage until the boy was vas released without payment of ransom tended to reestablish the fath of the Italians in the law and would lead leal them to aid in the extermination extermination ex- ex termination of the tho rings which have obtained thousands of dollars from their victims in the past past- few months lI