New-York tribune., 1922-05-15
Bomb Suspects
. ear BETRAYAL
By Dictaphone
Evidence Said to Have Been
Obtained by Instruments
Hidden in Cells of Three
Chicago L a Dor Chiefs
Urine Lawyers Nervous
State Forces Hold Long
Conference; Will Oppose
Early Trials for Prisoners
Special Dispatch to The 7,1b,,,

81 sFo''"' b'sPutCF 10 Ihe T1tbure
81 CHICAGO, May 14.-At the close NJ
Gan allday conference between tho r,.
Sliee heads and various claw and order"
bodies it was announced that salts
sfactory progress had been made in oh.
taining evidence in the murder case
I gainst Big Tim" Murphy, "Frenchv"
Mailer and Con" Shea. There are in
timations that dictaphones were placed
the county Jail and that the three
esders gave much evidence against
themselves in their conversation.
There was much nervousness dis
,layed to-day on the part of variou.
ttorneys who specialize in protecting
RI ninals and they were extremely
usy seeking to find what evidence the
tate possesses or is seeking.
Though no official would give anv
lint as to the nature of the new owl
lerce that, it it admitted, has been
,arnered by Investigators during the
ass twenty>four hours, it was said
hat startling new line of develon-
nents points to the identity of the ac-
tusl perpetrators of the bombinrs and
murders.
Seek Speedy Trial
Meantime lawyers employed bv the
"Big Three" were preparing to renew
their fight before Chief Justice Scan)an.
of the Criminal Court, tomorrow in an
cndeavor to have the cases heard with
out delay.
Colonel Henry Barrett Chamberlain.
operating director of the Chicago
Crime Commission, who attended to-
days conference and who has been
spokesman for the police and other
organizations at work or the case, de-
.l.,red that while the state was pre-
pared to 60 to trial the moment the in
dictments were returned he thought
some further time might be asked
"We have an astonishing mass of
evidence, much of which it has been
impossible to go over, and l don't
think the state will agree to immediate
trials" he said.
Besides Colonel Chamberlain and
Chief Fitzmorris. others present at the
meeting were Assistant States Attor-
neys Mclaughlin and Mcmillan, Chief
OF Detectives Michael Hughes, Edwin
Sims, president of the crime commit
tee, and representatives. from the AS
sociation of Commerce and the cti-
zens' committee
The conference. which began in the
morning and lasted until nearly p.
m, was employed solely in gathering up
the loose ends of the case against the
alleged murder conspirators. No wit
resses were questioned.
Officials Secretive.
Colonel Chamberlin refused either to
{ nhrm or deny reports that Jerry
i oran. saloonkeeper, indicted along
with the labor leaders, has never been
out OF custody, and in fact has turned
states evidence and secretly testified
before the grand jury. Horan through
an error had gained his liberty on a
$50 bond and fed, it was reported
earlier.
The presence of County Jailor Wes1ev
Westbrook at late conference in thu
chiefs office Saturday night lead ~
the report that the conversations be
tween the 'big three" and their Iii
mates at the county Jail had been
caught by dictaphones. Upon this
point also offlc1als remain silent.
1t has been admitted officially that
valuable information has been obtaineSs
from Henry cSmash") Hanson. alleped
gangster:
Colonel Chamberlin asserted that Tho
conspiracy case against the labor lead
ara comedies almost precisely in ;ts
nature to that in the Haymarket riot
cases of 1885. Oct of convictions Oh
tanned in the Haymarket cases not ono
was that of an actual participant in
the crime, he pointed out.