Enemies, Second Series

When Chicago gave the world the phrase "public enemy," gangsters used to ride around in Rolls-Royces. They carried rolls of bills big enough to choke a judge and got buried in $10,000 caskets, with effigies of themselves done in flowers to follow the hearse. Bootlegging, chief source of gangdom's income, was a national business of the first magnitude. Like other businesses, bootlegging has felt the pinch.

Just as in the past few years there have been no great boom-time financial killings, so there has been no recurrence of the seven-man St. Valentine's Day killing in Chicago in 1929. Nevertheless, Chicago still has hoodlums, some of them veterans of surprising years. Last week, in accordance with Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak's command to tidy up the town before the Century of Progress opens this summer, Chicago's police force published a second revised edition of its public enemy list. Numbers 1 to 3:

Number One. Murray ("Hump") Humphries, said to have grown handsome since the days of his callow youth when police used to take snapshots of him for their rogues galleries (see cut). Unlike his imprisoned onetime chief, Al Capone, he shuns the public eye. He is about 34, athletic, has brains. He is credited with having persuaded Capone to enter the cleaning & dyeing racket, headed that department of the Capone industries. He is now board chairman of whatever is left of the Capone syndicate. Public Enemy Humphries claims to be legitimately interested in the cleaning business, chuckles at police.

Number Two. William ("Three-fingered Jack") White scrupulously gloves his right hand, is quite sensitive about his deformity. He was acquitted of participation in the $80,000 International Harvester holdup eight years ago and of killing a policeman. Lately his talents have been directed toward the union labor field.

Number Three. William ("Klondike") O'Donnell goes back to the days when gin cost $5 a fifth. No book on Chicago gangland is complete without the story of the O'Donnell brothers (WestSide) three-cornered fight with the North and South Siders. Klondike's Brother Myles and notorious Assistant State's Attorney William McSwiggin, both now dead, shot up the Capone citadel in Cicero in 1925. Of the remaining 35 public enemies, only Frank Diamond, no relation to Manhattan's late little criminal clay pigeon "Legs," is important and at the same time somewhat obscure to newspaper readers. He runs speakeasies and resorts.

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