The Indianapolis times., 1928-12-31
z Slain AS
CHICAGO BEER
WAR Flares
Bullets in Bloody Feud on
South Side Fly in Crowded
Cafe.
DEFIED GANG POWERS
Former Lieutenant of AL
Capone Is One of
Victims.
DEFIED GANG POWERS
By United Press

By United Press
CHICAGO, Dec. 31.-The bloody
south side beer war was resumed
today across the dance floor of the
popular Granada cafe.
There among more than 200 pre-
holiday revelerS, many of them in
evening clothes, Hugh "Stubby'
McGovern, former lieutenant of
Scarface AL Capone, and William
Gunner" McFadden, business agent
Tor a labor racket, fell dead with
bullets through their hearts, per-
hapS because one of them, Nc
Govern, had defied the powers of
gangland.
The shrieking of frightened wom-
en-, the hoarse cries of drunken men
and the sharp reports of pistol fire
spread confusion throughout the
SouthSide night club belt.
But when police arrived on the
scene they found only the bodies
of the two murdered gangsters
Sprawled on one side of the dance
floor and Gorge Maloney, operator
OF a soft drink parlor and cigar
store, standing on the other side
with a pistol in his hand. Maloney
was arrested as a suspect in the
shooting.
Draws Gun; Slain
McGovern and McFadden had
been seated at a table with two
women when Maloney entered and
began talking to them. He and Nc
Govern fell to arguing and sudden
ly the shooting started.
The crowd in the cafe scattered in
confusion as the guns began blazing.
No one could be found after dawn
who could give an accurate account
of the battle.
r McGovern was said to have Ieaped
to his feet, drawing his gun. He was
known as deadly shot, but before
he could pull the trigger he fell
a 6aad, a bullet in his heart. Nc
lden fired several times, but
;Sed and his opponent shot him
through the heart.
The first pistol shot started a mad
rush for the exits, men and women
sc-ambling over tables in their haste
Ito escape.
W When police entered they found
the place nearly deserted, McGovern
and McFadden lying within a few
feet of each other and Maloney ap-
parently dazed, and holding in his
hand pistol containing six empty
hells.
Too Drunk to Talk
He would make no statement re-
birding the shooting. Police said
~ was too drunk to talk.
McGovern rose from "back of the,
rdS" to position of great prom
nce in gangland. Ralph Sheldon
k him under his wing five years
and for the next four years the
rarely were separated. McGov-
was a police character and had
n arrested in connection with
eral brutal murders.
nee he was accused of killing a
sro deliberately "to see how he
lid die"
angsters told Of how he would
Rure a victim and there were
6pers that McGovern would kill
nothing more than the doubtful
Jill" of murder.
pr four years he acted as Shell
Is chief bodyguard. Where Shell
was found, there would be
d McGovern, watching his
ere came a rift last spring. Nc
rn accused Sheldon of Short
Il him as much as a thousand
rS a week in the beer earnings
the south side, which they di-
Capone had turned the
side area over to Sheldon.
Leader of Gangsters
Sovern once shot Sheldon four
his chiefs life being saved by
4 Donovan, who showed Shell
aside as McGovern began
ing.
don went to New Mexico to
r his health and McGovern
< yer, or tried to, the south side
ldustry. He met strong .oppo-
however, and his success vas
bon returned to Chicago a
3. bnthS ago and it was pre-
then that McGovern would
j." Sheldon, too, is known as
y shot.
sdden was we'll known in
relies, but did not hold the
of Importance that Nc
did.
not known over what Nc
and Maloney had argued.
was not connected with
racket as far as police