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Show C 11 i M E Sixteen Men and Women Are in Jails Charged With Murder. 159 ARRESTS MADE Members of Band Confess Con-fess to More Than 250 Crimes. CHICAGO, Nov. 25. Among the approximate!: 10 persons arrested as a result of the crime wave that swept Chicago In Hip past three days, in which holdups, automobile thefts and safe blowing followeel tn rapid sequence se-quence sixteen men and a woman today to-day were in city Jails charged with implication in four murders, 100 saloon, sa-loon, pool room and n 11 holdups jand 150 house burglaries Members I of the band conter.sed to the more than 250 crimes, police asserted. ' Reported robberies last night Showed a falling off from the two 'previous nights. Street lights glowed ! despite the threatened coal shortage j here, after John J. Garrity, chief of police, said the orgy of crime Saturday Satur-day and Sunday night.o was due in part to street illumination being cul otf as a coal conservation measure-. Crime College Operates, in connection with the arrest of the j bandits, police said it became known la crime college was operated with a crooked die- r.ame bj which the leader defrauded his followers of their earn-ings earn-ings after they had graduated, and a khrivlng "black hand ' business, oper-'aied oper-'aied as a sort of side line. |