Chief Askew's Diary: June 11, 1930

Chicago newspaper reporter murdered; Georgia men arrested for fishing on Sunday

“Everything still very quiet with the Police Department. The County forces seem to be having the same kind of luck,” Chief Askew wrote in his diary today.

Newnan was a sea of calm in a world of turmoil. In Chicago, a newspaper reporter who had written extensively about crime and mobsters was murdered in a gangland hit.

On a lighter note, five Atlanta men were on trial for violating an obscure state law: they went fishing on Sunday.

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The news clipping above was top-of-the-fold in today’s Atlanta Journal, accessed via newspapers.com.