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Show W v V V V V V V V V w s . if KIDNAPING Si h SHOOTING MARK ELECTION DAf L Precinct Worker Killed; Police-H Police-H man Beaten to Point of J FACTIONAL STRUGGLE I REFLECTED AT POLES if "Repeaters" Kidnap Deputy 1 Sheriff; Free For All Fioht H Exciting 'fl CHICAG" . Sept. IB One man kill- :H ed. three kidnaped, several beaten and a half d07.cn arrested on charges H ranging from election fraud to assault f 1' to commit murder marked the local H balloting in the Illinois primary elec- t1H tlon today H Michael A. Fennessy, a precinct I worker, wan shot and killed at a Seventeenth ward polling place by a policeman. Detectives who arreftel VgH the slayer, said he had been drlnk- ing. jflH One political worker was beaten rHL-- . - and robbed and kidnapped. Two other "MP"' politicians who. were kidnaped have mt In a free for all fight In a Second H v. polling place n policeman was JlLR beaten into unconsciousness and a ' jIBH depuiv sheriff kldnapea 63 a band of armed inon who attempted to . , IB.ci twice Th kidnaper fled In m !J mobile on which they displayed h f-HF Leh Small for governor" sign. '.Bf cording t" election pffloials Igm Sergeant John Coyne, the patrol - JH man who was beaten, may die. 1 fl CHICAGO Sept. 1 ' Voting In the Illinois primary today opened briskly rffl In Chicago during the morning h 1 V with Indications that the tot.ti vote -fiM cast here might reach 600,000, eon- ,Jfl sidorably more than half the number UB registered. L'p to 11 o'clock one precinct cap-tain cap-tain had been reported kidnaped by the opposition; four arrests had been fifl made and one of the special deputy I 9Hl sheriffs sworn In to guard the ballot HBa boxes had been ousted by a pollce- HHs man. HD The weather was fair and the day HHJ promised to be hot. although rain ' JHJ prevailed over much of the state. IH As the day wore on reports of con- FMj fllots grew more frequent Thret M automobile loads of armed men kid- ISr naped an election worker at a polllni Bf place in the Fourth ward, heat a Hf precinct captain in another polling HHfj place and shot up a saloon. both HHfl the men kidnapped and the one beaten IHr are anti-Thompson workers. acocrding to Sheriff I "iters. Police and a special deputy, sheriff clashed in th-- Second ward and Lee H Thornton, a colored deputy ifhenif. was arrested charged with assault to commit murder after he I said to have drawn a revolver and threatened LH to kill a detective sergeant. I I ONE M N Ml. 1. 1 l 11 Michael Pennesay, aged 3.',. witch man was shot ahd kilted bj a policeman in an argument said to have started over the election. wM XJhe campaign In Chicago has cent- yffl ered about charges of Taminanylsm." directed at the Thompson admlnls-? admlnls-? ! I ration b Governor Lowden's friends who charged the Thompson forces with spoils syBti-m polltl' jH The mayor's friend countered with charges that Governor Lowden charg-BB charg-BB cd his personal hotel bills while maln- fl, lalnlng presidential campaign head-' Hj quarters here to Ihe state and thai 1 his personal valet is on the national 1 guard payroll at a salary of $ 3 . 6 1 0 Jk-w early, fl.OOu more than a lleulen-j T ant-colonel receives. V' af" BITTER STRUGGLE, TI10 bitterest Republican factional fight In a decade culminated at the polls In the state-uide primaries to-day to-day when jm-n and women voted to nominate complete tickets front I'nlted States senator down. The Republican faction, made their principal fight for the gubernatorial nomination Lcp Small, for 1 state Hl treasurer, a member of the grjQ ip known as "federal' or Ldrimcr fac-tlon fac-tlon In former years, was backed for B3 gc ,-inor by Mayor SVilltam Halo i Thompson, of I bicago Lieutenant-Governor Lieutenant-Governor John G Oglesbs ivaa sup-, ported by Governor Frank U Unvdi-n THOUSAND li PI 111 Congrenman William 1'. Oi Kin ley was the I .owden choice for senator, I and Congressman Frank L. Smith had Ihe Thompson support. HH sheriff Peters 1,600 deputies to the polls nnu de lai 1 Lhterf erence I IH with them "might lead to bloodshed." HI ihe city administration instructed! HH p,dlce to arrest the deputies for any' violation of ordinances or election HH regulations. HH On the Demopratlc ticket, former . H Senator Jaraei uamjlton Lewis and H Harratt O'Hura, former lieutenant I .-' " governor, con nomination fori I K''.eri"" ' Robi rl 1 mmel Uurke and) H I'cter A Wale) yrort opponents for V the senatorial nomination. I |