Chicago to Springfield:: Crime and Politics in the 1920s (Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)) by Ridings Jim

Author:Ridings, Jim [Ridings, Jim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: INgrooves
Published: 2012-09-17T22:00:00+00:00

From left to right, state representative Reed Cutler, Governor Small, and state representative Robert Scholes are pictured conferring. Cutler supported the amendment to prevent Small’s removal, saying the court did not have the right to remove someone elected by the people. (KCMPC.)

With Mayor Thompson’s police on gang payrolls, and Thompson’s wide-open town policy for gangsters and bootleggers, organized crime was further aided by Governor Small’s pardon and parole policy. Small’s pardons had been scandalous from the beginning. The matter blew up into a huge scandal in 1926, when it was revealed the Small administration had been operating a pardon mill. For a price, anyone could buy his or her way out of the penitentiary. Spike O’Donnell and Bugs Moran paid their bribes and were able to get their gangs back together to commit more mayhem on the streets of Chicago. The scheme was headed by Will Colvin (left), supervisor of paroles, and Chauncey Jenkins (right), director of prisons. They are pictured here with Governor Small during Small’s trial in Waukegan. (CHM-DN-0080819.)

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