# Rock Island Argus, 12 May 1920, page 1: Thirteen held in the Colosimo shooting

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The Rock Island Argus front page of 12 May 1920 carries a United Press dispatch from Chicago saying thirteen men were held after the shooting of James Colosimo.

Front page of the Rock Island Argus and Daily Union for Wednesday, 12 May 1920. The page's banner is on Mexican news ("Carranza Capture Still Unconfirmed"). The Chicago item is one column of several, headed "13 Held in Murder of 'Vice King'" with the deck "Chicago Police Seek Slayer of Colosimo, Boniface of Tenderloin."

The United Press dispatch, datelined Chicago, 12 May, says thirteen men were held by police in connection with the murder of James ("Big Jim") Colosimo, whom it calls a levee king, shot at the entrance to his cafe late the previous day. It says police advanced a dozen theories, among them a plot to intimidate friends of Maurice ("Moss") Enright, a labor leader who had been murdered earlier.

The label "vice king" is the paper's, and the theories are police speculation as reported. The page does not name the thirteen men held, and this record does not infer who they were. Headline as read from the Library of Congress OCR text of the page.

## Sources

- Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn92053933/1920-05-12/ed-1/?sp=1
- Library of Congress OCR text of this page: https://tile.loc.gov/text-services/word-coordinates-service?segment=/service/ndnp/iune/batch_iune_feature_ver01/data/sn92053933/00295872834/1920051201/0152.xml&format=alto_xml&full_text=1