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ContextUnder national prohibition, in force since 1920, the manufacture and sale of liquor is illegal and the trade has fallen to criminal gangs; Cicero is a town just west of Chicago and a State's attorney is the county prosecutor. Dean O'Banion, the florist and bootlegger named in the dispatch, was shot dead in his shop in 1924.
ContextThe Saturday night referred to is October 9. A city police force in this period could recall men from leave and draw rifles from the state National Guard armory to arm a manhunt.
ContextAimee Semple McPherson is the pastor of Angelus Temple in Los Angeles, who vanished from a Southern California beach in May and reappeared in June at Douglas, Arizona, saying she had been kidnapped; Asa Keyes is the district attorney of Los Angeles County. In a criminal complaint a "John Doe" is a defendant whose real name is not yet known, and Carmel-by-the-Sea is a small town on the coast south of San Francisco.
ContextThe Cardinals beat the Yankees in the seventh game of the World Series on Sunday at the Yankee Stadium; Sportsman's Park is their home grounds in St. Louis. Grover Cleveland Alexander is the club's veteran pitcher and Rogers Hornsby its second baseman and manager.
The McPherson hearing resumes after the holiday with Keyes's Gila Bend witnesses waiting, and in Chicago the Saltis murder trial goes on while police hunt the machine gunners.
