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Title: History of the Chicago police from the settlement of the community to the present time, under authority of the mayor and superintendent of the force
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Flinn, John Joseph, 1851-1929 Wilkie, John Elbert, 1860-
Subjects: Police -- Illinois Chicago History
Publisher: Chicago, Under the auspices of the Police book fund
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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THE FOUlifll OF MAY, S*). 319 his side immediately; the entire force had felt tiio inspira-tion of the sergeants coolness; Steele, Hubbard, (^uinn,Bowler and Ward were at their posts in a second, and rally-ing their men around them, they charged upon the mob. As the police approached the wagon, before the explo-sion, the mob had fallen back in the center, until it formedan inverted V, the points resting along the sidewalks, andthe apex reaching almost to Lake street. From the door-ways, alleys and the inner line of this angular formation,the pistols of the anarchists had been doing terrible workfor a few moments. The anarchists had undoubtedly ex-pected that more than one bomb would be thrown, and hadnot anticipated that the police would so speedily recoverfrom the shock. Now, as they beheld the blue-coats rush-ing toward them like madmen, the bloody-minded horde ofcowardly assassins became panic-stricken, wavered and fled,and the police followed the retreating anarchists and sentdead

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