# Lake County Times, 12 May 1920, page 1: Colosimo murdered in Chicago

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The Lake County Times front page of 12 May 1920 carries an International News Service dispatch from Chicago on the shooting of James Colosimo at his cafe.

Front page of the Lake County Times, Hammond, Indiana, Wednesday, 12 May 1920. The page's top lines are on other news; the Chicago story is a single column headed "Colosimo Murdered in Chicago," with the deck "Burnham's Arrowhead Inn Founder Killed at Front Door of His Cafe."

The International News Service dispatch, datelined Chicago, 12 May, says James ("Big Jim") Colosimo was shot down late Tuesday in his cabaret in the old levee district, and that police were working on two theories of motive: revenge by relatives of the wife he had divorced, or an act by friends of the murdered labor leader Maurice ("Moss") Enright. The dispatch describes him as "reputed to be 'king of the black hand,'" a label that is the wire service's and is not verified.

The dispatch reasons about the motive partly from the nationality of the people it names. That language is not quoted here and the theories are not adopted. This archive files the page as a record of the next-day report. Headline as read from the Library of Congress OCR text of the page.

## Sources

- Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn86058242/1920-05-12/ed-1/?sp=1
- Library of Congress OCR text of this page: https://tile.loc.gov/text-services/word-coordinates-service?segment=/service/ndnp/in/batch_in_alford_ver01/data/sn86058242/00271746143/1920051201/0559.xml&format=alto_xml&full_text=1