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1+. My, my, what a tough guy was Bddie Tancl! Eddie busted more skulls than John b. Sullivan, Bob Fitssimmons, and Jim Corbett combined. When Capone and "Klondike" O'Donnell came to Cicero, however, the first fighting period came to an end, and you see in the photograph Mr. Tancl as he appeared in the ring, in his saloon, and in the morgue. The O’Donnells and the O’Ranions and their breed never - could learn murder nicely and cleanly. They lacked style which, incidentally, was extremely fortunate for Johnny and Al although maybe they didn’t see it that way. The murders of two beer barons, O’Banion and Tancl, in the space of a few days was too much gunpowder for the town to take in one dose, and to reduce and soothe the ensuing high temperature of public indignation Messrs, Doherty and O'Donnell were indicted by one of Mr. Crowe's grand juries. The public was assured that these desperadoes would hang. r. Crowe pointed to the fact that he had assigned his ace assistant, the “hanging prosecutor” to the case. The assistant’s name was William E. McSwiggin. But there was other gunpowder to be sniffed, this time out on the South Side where the Saltis-MacEarlane and —_— (18) “Spike” were still having at each other on every possible occasion. Several pot shots had been taken at “Spike” and he had missed death so narrowly but so neatly so many times that already the feature writers were making something of the detail. To return the compliment, “Spike” and some of his boys had unsuccessfully tried to do away completely with Mitters Foley, one of Joe’s outstanding hard boys. Frankie MacFarlane, finding the town too quiet for his tastes, had gone over into Indiana, where he had got himself indicted for the murder of a roadhouse owner who had done business with “Spike.” But Frankie “beat the rap” after a complicated trial. On December 19, two weeks after Tancl’s death, the Saltis mo homme themselves plenty for the attempt on the valuable life of Mr, Foley. They killed two more of “Spike’s” boys, Leo Gistinson and Jack Rapport. ater ae den 5s