Show ABANDON OLD CHICAGO JAIL Cells CelIs Only 8 by 8 Often Held 26 Men Noted Killers There CHICAGO Oct 8 By By The Asso Asso- Associated AssociAted dated Press The Press The three- three story brick pile at North La Salle street which for nearly 20 years has been the nerve center of the th Chicago police department passed today It was seas as abandoned to wreckers making way for widening wl the street which a block away way becomes Chicago's finan finan- financial del cial center Like all nil the other buildings nearby the structure was burned In fn the great fire of 1871 It was reconstructed and Its old-fashioned old facade bears the dates date 1847 FORMERLY HOTEL It had sunk to a questionable estate before the police pollee department took tools it o over For many ears years it had been of the small mall hols which then lined La Salle street From It have ha been en conducted the Investigations which solved nearly all cU of Chicago's f great e crime mysteries ri and In the five tiny cells in the base base- basement basement ment meat nearly every member of Chicago's Chi Cht- cagos cago's aristocracy of crime dwelt at eric time or another Dion Dean Deall ate ato rye bread and sausage sau e there when when-he was just a safecracker before his Influential hal days of gunman gangster and rum runs runner when he would send out I I for porterhouse steaks It Itras was ras there they took Mossy En- En Enright Enright 1 right dean of Chicago's war pre-war gun gun- gunmen gunmen gunmen men after he had killed tilled Peter Gen Gen- Gentleman and later hater la f they Uley placed pl ced the men mene accused e of f murdering Mossy In the same celt cell I CO ROBBERS There they placed the Newton brothers c lck trigger cowboys from Texas after their capture for taking in a a. mall mail train robbery at Rondout Ill HI Nicky Arnstein dapper Broadway- Broadway Ito ite recently divorced by Fanny Brice also sat in one cf tf the bureau cubicles Eight Elg t by eight by seven se the bureau cells were and they held at times limes 26 men apiece according to Sergeant Dan Geary the veteran keeper |