Evening star., 1926-04-28
100 ARE ARRESTED
AFTER RpROSECUTOR
KILLED BY GANG
Chicago Assistant States
Attorney and Two Aides
Slain in Auto.
MACHINE GUN BULLETS
SPRAY FLEEING VICTIMS
Blood stained Car Found in Suburb,
Search Made for Fourth Man,
Who Escaped Fire.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. April 2S.-Wiiiam I'll.
McSwiggin. youthful assistant state
attorney, known as the hanging
prosecutor" because OF his zeal in con-
ducting criminal trials, was slain last
night in a blast OF machine gun IRE
poured by gangsters into an automo-
bile in which he and three other men
We're riding.
Two Of his companions also were
killed. They were James j. Doherty,
reputed leader of beer runners OF
Cicero, a suburb. and Thomas Duffy,
owner of a saloon
The hail of lead came from an au-
tomobile which drew up beside the
car in which McSwiggin and his COM
plnions were driving on. Roosevelt
road at F'ifty.siXth avenue, on the
houndary>Iine between Chicago and
Cicero.
100 Arrests Made.
a hundred or more arrests were
made in raids upon saloons and road
houses in the search for the machine
gun crew.
Steve O'DonneU, one of the ODon-
nell brothers-Myles, Barney and
Steve-known in the Cicero liquor
business. in which Doherty and Duffy
also were interested, was on of the
suspects brought in by Sergt. John j.
Murphy. an associate of McSwiggin's s
father. Police Sergt. Anthony Nc
SWiggin. There was a report that
Myles O'Donnell was q companion of
McSwiggin, Doherty and Duffy last
night.
Doherty and Duffy both owned
saloons, and Doherty and Myles
O'Donnen were on close terms.
A bullet-riddled and blood stained
automobile. believed to have been the
machine in which McSWiggin and his
companions We're riding, was found in
Oak Park. a suburb north of Cicero.
Marked for Death.
While authorities were delving in a
maze of possible motives for the
shooting, John Siege, veteran captain
Of detectives, said that the assistant
prosecutor was marked for death be-
cause of his prosecution Of John
.Scalisi and Albert Anselmi, Genna
gangsters, under sentence of II years
in prison for the Staying of two police
men.
THE word was passed along the line
that he was on his way to Cicero,
plans We're quickly made and the
slayers, with their machine gun, were
soon on the scene" Capt. Siege
asserted.
In connection with this theory, the
Chicago Tribune said that only two
days ago McSwiggin had told a re-
porter for that paper that he had
been offered 100000 to neglect his
duty and aid the two gunmen in gain
ing their freedom.
Search for the slayers began i'm
mediately under the direction Of
States Attorney Robert F.. Grove.
who declared he was astounded at the
temerity of the killers. A conference
of State, county and city officers was
called to lay plans for rounding up
gancsters who might furnish clues
leading to the identity of the machine
gun crew.
Deserted Car at VOlIey.
Three men who found Duffy living
mCrtally wounded near the scene of
the shooting were held early today
for further questioning.
MrSWiggin and his companions were
driving toward Chicago when the car
which had been following them drew
alongside to place the machine gun in
JdItSt. AlISl Tie liSt NOiItN In6 Oc-
CupantS of the attacked car deserted
their machine, and rs they ran away
were sprayed with bullets. Duffy fell
and died several hours later in a. hos
pital. The three others staggered back
TO the automobile and sped away.
A mile and a half from the scene
the bodies of McSwiggin and Doherty
were found. The police believe that
the fleeing car was oVertaken, but
whether the victims were given their
death wounds i'll their own car or in
that of the attackers was Il matter
of speculation. Indications were that
MrSWicSin had put up desperate
struggle to escape or overpower his
captOrS.
The fate of the fourth member of
the McSwiggin party is q. mystery.
Left Home With Duffy.
McSwiggin left his home last night
with Duffy, telling relatives that he
planned to go to Berwyn, another
western suburb, for q game of cards.
The two entered an automobile and
drove away. Attaches of the States
attorneys office expressed the belief
that the trip to Cicero also was con-
nected with two cases on which he
was working. One was that of
Martin Durkin, police slayer, who hid
for several months in Cicero before
his capture.
"McSWiggin was man who worked
"a hours n day when on Il big case"
MIR. Grove said.
Three general theories for the slay
ings were advanced by investigators.
McSwiggin may have been the victim
of a beer war the attackers not know
ing that he was with Doherty and
duffy; he may have been slain for
his prosecution of several recent
cases, he having obtained five hang
ing Verdicts in the last year, or it
has been suggested he may have be-
come involved in election disputes.
Duffy was a precinct captain for the
faction with which the prosecutor was
aligned.
Doherty and n friend We're known 10
have been at war with foreign group
in Cicero, and Investigators pointed
out McSwiggin may have been with
the former in connection with investi-
cation of this affair.
Fued Over Beer Case.
Doherty also had bitter enemies on
a. beer-running gang, several members
of which were arrested in a police
coup last week. 1t was recalled that
pne of the men under arrest supposedly
had given word to a confederate to
get the man responsible for giving
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