Detective Harry J. Loose: of the Chicago police department

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DETECTIVE HARRY J. LOOSE
of the
CHICAGO POLICE DEPARTMENT
4218 So. Monticello Ave., Chicago, Ill.
Phone — Irving 4586


CRIME
Its Cause — How It Is Practiced — Its Prevention
IN PRESENTING Detective Harry J. Loose, of the Chicago police department, we introduce to you one of the most unique personalities of that great city.  A man of commanding presence, virile character, analytical brain, fearless in discharge of duty and a natural orator combines to make him exceptionally well qualified to speak on his subject.

Mr. Loose was born at Springfield, Ill., in 1880.  He was appointed to the State Police in 1901, serving in this capacity for over four years.  Three and a half years of this time being detailed as detective.  He left the State Police to join the famous Pinkerton Detective Forces.  He resigned this position to become a Police Officer of the City of Chicago in 1906.  After a short period was assigned to detective work and later detailed to the Juvenile Detective Association of Hull House for a period of six and a half years.

While there Mr. Loose made the intensive investigations for corrective legislation and the investigations and arrests in the heavy criminal prosecutions brought by that institution.  While detailed to the Juvenile Protective Ass'n.  Mr. Loose was commissioned a Special Probation Officer of the Juvenile Court of Cook County.  He was later assigned to the Chicago Council Crime Committee and placed in charge of the criminal end of the investigation made by that body into the cause of crime.  Mr. Loose has been confined in several hospitals for varying lengths of time recuperating from injuries received in the service of the police department.

In co-operation with the United States Department of Justice, Mr. Loose made the investigation, arrest and prosecution of Samuel J. Rosenthal, The Fake Bankruptcy King, recently sentenced in the Federal Courts to Ft. Leavenworth.  In co-operation with the United States Post Office Inspectors, he made the investigation, arrest and prosecution of the Rev. Dr. Ottoman Zar Adusht Hanisch, of Sun Cult fame.  Also made the investigation and submitted the report on which the Child Vendors Ordinance was based.  Likewise the Ordinance Regulating Junk Shops.  He also made the Habit Forming Drug Investigation and submitted the report which was followed
 by the active crusade with arrests and prosecutions of Habit Forming Drug Dealers and, thereafter, by the Harrison Drug Bill, in the United States Senate, which forbids the shipment of Habit Forming Drugs across a State line.  He made the investigation and submitted the report on the Conditions Among the Children in the District Back of the Stock Yards.  Also Also made the survey and submitted the report on the Amusement Parks and Public Parks of the City of Chicago.  He collected and produced the evidence for the Chicago Council Crime Committee that proved to them the existence of the System in crime.  That it was just as highly organized and systematized as any legitimate business.  That the receivers of stolen property are the center of the web of thievery and that 95 per cent of organized crime could be traced to them.

Mr. Loose assisted in the compilation of the report of the Vice Commission of the City of Chicago under Mayor Fred Busse and has handled every known class of criminal, from the pickpocket trust to the so-called $1,000,000.00 Burglar Trust.  He made the investigations for the Court of Domestic Relations etc.  Also made the investigation into Conditions existing in the Rest Rooms of the State Street Department Stores.  Also made the investigation and submitted the report recommending the placing of Bathing Beaches on the Lake Shore in the City of Chicago.  Mr. Loose has worked in co-operation with the committee of fifteen in the suppression of the White Slave Traffic.  In co-operation with the United States Secret Service has made hundreds of arrests and successful prosecutions in the Municipal, State and Federal Courts, and is therefore in a position to speak from an authoritative standpoint and is a lecturer with a knowledge of his subject.

We believe his lecture THE CAUSE OF CRIME, HOW IT IS PRACTICED AND ITS PREVENTION, to be one of the greatest lectures ever presented to the Lyceum public.  He proves the effect crime in Chicago has upon the smaller communities and brings a message of unusual interest.  Mr. Loose is not an ex-detective but is at the present time actively engaged in the discharge of his duties as detective in the Chicago Police Department but through the courtesy of the department he will be granted a limited furlough so he may fill his lecture engagements.

For a period following the regular lecture, Mr. Loose will be pleased to answer any questions asked by the audience.  He will also at this time display an unusual assortment of relics of crime and criminals for those who may wish to view them.




OPINIONS
Jane Addams, Pres. of Hull House—(Where Mr. Loose was detailed six and a half years.) An excellent detective and enabled us to discover many untoward conditions of which, but for his services, we would have been ignorant.

Charles E. Merriam, Alderman and Chairman of Chicago Council Crime Committee—Mr. Loose has had a very wide range of experience with all types of criminal conditions in our city.  He understands, in detail, the workings of the amazing crime system which has grown up in Chicago.  He understands the method of operations of the burglar trust, the pickpocket trust and the classifications and characteristics of the underworld with its ramifications and activities.  His statement of these conditions, although so astounding as to be almost incredible, stand the test of analysis and are fully verified as time goes on.

James McKeag, Attorney for the Chicago Council Crime Committee—Mr. Loose has shown a deep and astonishing knowledge of the methods used by the criminals in doing their work and in disposing of the proceeds of their crimes.  He has a clear grasp of the entire criminal situation and seemed to know just where and how to obtain the necessary information.

Mr. Fletcher Dobyns, Attorney for the Chicago Council Crime Committee—Mr. Loose has rendered a real service to the city by the work he has done in this connection.

Clifford G. Roe, Asst. Corporation Council City of Chicago—(The man who began the fight of the nation against White Slavery.)  Mr. Loose has had much experience as an investigator of vice conditions and aided in the compilation of the Vice Commission Report of Chicago.  (Under Mayor Busse).  He has made an investigation, not only in Chicago, but in other cities relative to habit forming drugs.  As a result of this there is a bill now in the United States Senate known as the Harrison Bill.

Elmer Lynn Williams, Pastor of Grace M. E. Church, The Fighting Pastor—Mr. Loose has won for himself an enviable record.  He has created a profound impression both because of the scope of his knowledge and of the unusual ability he displayed in performing his work.

Gertrude Howe Britton, Director and Supt. of the Bureau of Social Service of Cook County and former Supt. of the Juvenile Protective Ass'n of Hull House—Mr. Loose did intensive investigations for our important crime prosecutions.  Many of his investigations were the basis for legislation.

Mrs. Joseph T. Bowen, Pres. of the Juvenile Protective Ass'n—Is really a remarkable detective.

Mark A. Foote, United States Commissioner—Having been concerned with Mr. Loose in many cases, a man able to express the facts about maltreatment of juveniles.

Mrs. Lenora Z. Medor, Commissioner of the Department of Public Welfare of the City of Chicago—The municipal Welfare workers of the City of Chicago congratulate you on your recovery from the injuries received in your brave act to save the little crippled children from an untimely death.  Your affiliations with this department has aided us greatly in making our scientific survey of crime and etc., in Chicago.

W. C. Dannenberg, Former Morals Inspector of the City of Chicago—I am frank to say that I have seldom, if ever, found an officer who went about his work with greater intelligence, integrity and sincerity of purpose than he displayed.  His knowledge of such matters as vice, habit forming drugs, juvenile matters and the well known so-called Million Dollar Burglar Trust were not only amazing but an asset to the City of Chicago.

Professor Allan Hoban, University of Chicago—Earnest, energetic and untiring in his efforts to secure justice for the children.

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