The New York herald., 1922-04-23
MOURkERS AT WAKE
HAD 200 WEAPONS
Arsenal Found in Search OF
Friends of Dean of Chicago
Labor Gunmen.
THEIR CHIEF MURDERED
Messy Enright's- Slayer Still
Unknown Despite Long and
Energetic Hunt.

Special Dispatch TO THE NEW YoRK ilEaArD.
CHICAGO, April 22.--The discovery by
the New York police of checking sta
tion for pistols where members OF the
| underworld may park their artillery re-
calls similar discovery by the writer
here. Three years ago "Mossy" En-
right, at that time dean of Chicago's
labor siuggers and lace" of the city's
gunner. was killed while returning u
his home at dusk. His death clinaScd
two years warfare between s:; know I
gangs of labor sluggers. whose '.iyn - Z
terror throughout the city had cost tn.
lives of upward Of a score of gunmen
The identity of Enright's murderer
was at that time. as it Is to-day.
shrouded In mystery. Enrisht was the
"czar'' Of Chicago's labor business
agents. His power was greater than
that OF the. president OF the Chicago
Federation Of Labor John Fitzpatrick
The widow of the slain labor leader told
the police that her husband feared that
some day he would be killed by rival
business agent anxious to wear tn
crown OF Chicagos labor king.
All Under Suspicion.
This information was given To the
police by Mrs. Enright a few hours after
her husband was murdered Within
twenty-four hours Chicago's entire con-
tingent Of labor gunmen were under sus-
picion.
Chief Of Detectives Michael Hughes
after forty-eight hours ceaseless In
quiry was unable to get tangible clew.
Wait until the night of the wake COM
mented Chief Hughes. THE friends OF
Enright will be on hand. We will md
the murderer among those who stay
away"
The night of the wake arrived three
days following the murder. Every mem
ber of "Mossy's' gang was present. II
was a strange gang. Ex-convicts. safe
blowers, gimlet men. gunmen bure lars
sluggers--in all about sixty men. They
were heavily armed.
The word had gone out that Big Tim
Murphy. head of the street sweeners
union, recently sentenced by Judge Lam
Gis to ten years in Leavenworth Peni-
Tertiary for mail robbery. was coming
down to shoot up the wake. 1t seems
that brother Of Enright had tipped
off, the police that Big Tim" was re-
sponsible for the murder. of NOISY
A prominent Chicago judge WHO at
tended the wake. fearing wholesale mur-
der, called we'll known character OF
the Stockyards district to one slice and
appointed him chief sesrcher OF every
body present at the wake.
Hayes deputized several Chicago prize
fighters to assist him, and before the
night was over upward of zoo reyolvers.
magazine guns and one sawed off sho,
gun were checked in the laundry end
OF the basement of the Enright home
The pile resemblcd an arsenal
six relatives OF "Mossy" took turn
watching the checked guns. and as eacl
mourner arrived he was "frisked' and y
duplicate check was handed to him with
the same matter OF fact ceremony rs n
he was checking his hat at restaurant
"Big Tim Murphy failed to put In ~
appearance with any OF his gang. The
Enright home. big Brick residence
faces Garfield Park Boulevard.
All night long while the wake was r
progress twenty-one detectives. the pic
OF the Detective Bureaus sharpshooter
SQUAD, were secretly in the bushes that
skirted the home. ready TO do battle The
moment Big Tim, Murphy started IN to
shoot up "Mossy's" wake.