Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-01-30 | Page 1 | Chicago Crime in Pool Rooms

oo CHICAGO CRIME IN-POOL ROOMS Chicago, Jan. 30. -Members of tho Chicago Culture club were told br Judge Adelor Petit last night If tny station 150 club women at the doors of the S30 pool rooms in the city for the purpose of provonting minors from entering the places, they woiild go far toward checking crime In Chicago. Chi-cago. "Enforcement of citv ordinances in regard to pool halls." he said, "would eliminate enough crime to make the work of judges a simple matter. Fifty per cent of the boys arrested nr'e taken tak-en in these places. Thero aro enough club women In Chicago to watch these pool halls and It would not be a great effort either. One woman could de-voto de-voto one day each month to it and thus prevent bojs from entering them."