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THE MARCH OF CRIME LIQUOR' LORDS conditions .of unemployment also were credited to generally knew all the facts, but seldom had any proof for conviction. The cases in New York of Arnold money supplied by Capone. Charges were published Rothstein and "Legs"' Diamond were National Scan- of forced contributions from Chain 'Stores for this dals. purpose. If fiction writers had previously circulated Among the first dramatic mystery murders to at- such horrible murder details being related as daily. tract Nation-wide attention was that of Jim Colosimo news items, public nausea would have relegated them at his widely known Cafe on Wabash Avenue, Chicago. to oblivion. He was popular, a free giver to charity. In Gangdom he was known as a.Chicago leader of Liquor interests. Early morning extras announced one morning that All that ever became public of the Crime, was that Assistant State's Attorney William H. McSwiggin. Colosimo hurried in response to a mysterious Tele- was killed and his body found in'a street in Cicero. phone call. A few minutes later he was found with Two men whom he had unsuccessfully tried for mur- several bullets in his head. No one was ever tried for der of a liquor lord were also killed in a car in Cicero his death.. about the same time. All the police could learn was Similar mysteries followed in quick succession in that 200 bullets were fired from Machine Guns in a the larger cities. Chicago newspapers featured the. passing automobile. crimes of the followers of liquor Lords to such an ex. tent that Public interest attached to them an atmos- "Who killed McSwiggin?" was a question asked phere of romance, awaiting impatiently every issue of for months.. the favorite Daily Paper as do the readers of con- Murder followed murder, but the death of O'Banion tinued fiction in Periodicals. in his North State St. Chicago fower shop landed on Alphonso Capone and John Torrio, not long from Page One of newspapers all over the country. Many New York, replaced Colosimo in the Newspapers.. "rides"' were taken in avenging him. ers were taken to their death, every "spot" on which someone was placed to be riddled with machine gun bullets was blamed on some Over-Lord or a rival. Soup kitchens and Bread lines during the worst 6