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Show HOW CHICAGO WILL GET RID OF CROOKS a - CHICAGO, April 23. Confidence men, pickpockets and other crooks, who i heretofore have managed to escape pun- ishment by paying fines, will be re- J quired to work on a municipal stone 1 pile under the new vagrancy bill, if it is enacted bv the Legislature. J I Chief of "Police Snippy and Chief Justice Harry Olson of the Municipal court agreed yesterday that the most effective way of ridding Chicago of criminals who care nothing for fines of from $50 to $100 for each offense is to put them to work. I The stone pile will be located on the grounds of the house of correction and will be operated in conjunction with the quarry of that institution. I The proposed new vsgraney law provides pro-vides that Judges of the Municipal, court, instead or fining the crooks, may send them to the Bridewell for ten, fifteen or thirty days, and the new superintendent, John L. Whitman, will put them to work breaking stone. |