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Above: William O. Johnson exiting a typical four-wheeled Chicago cab (and leaving the door for the driver to close). Johnson was a Chicago lawyer with interests in the oil and natural gas industries. Below: Hansom cabs parked on a stand near the Post Office. Chicago's cab fleet included both four-wheelers and the faster, two-wheeled, two-passenger hansoms.

Source:

Top: W.O. Johnson [circa 1910]. (DN-0008264, Chicago Daily News negatives collection, Chicago History Museum; search the photo ID number at the American Memory web site for more information.) Bottom: "Old Post Office From Clark Street, Looking East Down Adams," One Hundred Photographic Views of Chicago (Chicago and New York, Rand McNally & Co., 1900, p. [138] (via Internet Archive).

The Cab-Hold-Up Affair / 12

The Investigation / 1

The cab and Kane's body were discovered about 6 a.m. by two local residents. Kane was taken to Buffum's Undertaking Rooms where a cab driver unhelpfully misidentified him as another cab driver named D.R. "Duggy" Hamilton. Kane's identity was established when Hamilton was found to be alive and well.

The police had Kane's mug shot on file which enabled Robert Campion to confirm him as one of the bandits. The cab number, 276, had already identified the abandoned cab as Campion's.