Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-02-09 | Page 1 | Chicago Home of Thousand Real Crooks

CHICAGO HOME OF THOUSAND REAL CROOKS Evil Population Assigned to' Slowness of Wheels of Justice CHICAGO. Feb. 9 Chicago is the1 home of about 1.000 professional' I criminals or about one-third of one I per cent of the city's population, according ac-cording to estimate of the Chicago crime commission, made public today.. The reason for such an unprecedented unprecedent-ed number of law breakers here Is ascribed bv crime experts to the slow-! noss With which the wheels of Jus-tic's Jus-tic's are set in motion and the small, number of convictions. During 1921. it is polnte.i .-iu less than one out of four of all the defendants de-fendants tried for murder in Look 1 countv were convicted. on April i lMOthere wete 135 per-' per-' sons Indicted for murder and awaiting ' trial- r a proof of their contention that I sp.'-e.l v Justice reduces crime, the commission com-mission sites statistics showing that when this condition was brought to . the attention of the courts and an ef-, ef-, fort was made at once to clear the murder docket twelve of ihese indicted indict-ed men were senten. ed to hang and 12 j were given Jail sentences 1 lie- rurvi l" -- -- - - was electrical The murdci rate in' Chicago was almost out in ' W hre there were 330 murders In 119 there j were 190 in IsJl oo