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r™~ & a £ +t pay peer FEE WussioN OF Tue MintET =. “Link Fernekes to Robbery.” That head- wes not atnong those fisted in these ‘columns. last January as certain to appear tn this glorious year of New Deals and hew everything that we have every year. Our system went wrong. The tea leaves did not reveal fhat Mr. “Midget” . Fernekes: would #o soon become weary of his retreat: at Joliet and resume active business, From now on until Mr, Fernekes resumes closer relations with the Jaw-enforcing au- thorities his mame may be expected to ap- pear in the reports of every crime present- ing difficulties of solution. Out of Joliet, Mr, .Fernekes will take up the burden aid). down by Capone when that illustrious hoodlum lei fe south and later took up residence in California. It is a neces- sary job and Mr. Fernekes is just the man! for it. Lack of a dramatic and mysterious goat to assume responsibility for unsolved crimes has been severely felt ever since Mr. Capone went away from here. When Al was among us his name was magic gilt to enliven many a dull police in- cident. In addition to building the pyramids, striking Billy Patterson and kidnaping Char- ley Ross, Mr. Capone or some of his sinister gangland henchmen stole the baby’s pacifier, chased the family cat and, according to the- ory, committed every’ ¢rime that stumped the police. . Later John Dillinger qualified for a brief period as the omnipresent omnibus of ban- ditry, raiding banks, grocery stores and roadhouses at all points of the compass and at all points on the dial of the clock, simultaneously and serially.| “Baby Face” Nelson pinch-hit for a while after the “G” men rubbed out John, but soon there was _ ho “Baby Face” either, Now comes the “Midget,” tripping out of the long house at Joliet as blithesome as Sadie Thompson in “Rain,” And aren't the “vOppers and the head-hunters glagt“——” CHICAGO DAILY NEWS oe iad 41437 69-160 A Mir. Keith... Mr. Lester Mr. Scheidt 2 wy