Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-08
CHICAGO DEATHLA|D
TO NEW YORK GANG
Loop Shooting Seen as Re-
taIiation for Staying UaIe
in Gotham.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, September 3.-Tony Lon-
bardo is dead, a dum-dum bullet in his
brain. The vengeance of Frank Uale,
slain New York gangster, has spoken.
| Never was murder done more boldly.
Thousands of persons were pushing
along in the late Friday afternoon
crush when the Loop canyons echoed
to the roar of assassins' guns and Lom-
bardo, pal of Al Capone, pitched for
ward on his face.
The slayers could not have gotten
half a block from the vicinity OF 81
West Madison street, in front of which
Iombardo fell. before bedlam broke.
Scores had seen the shots fired, hun
dreds had seen the three gunmen drop
their still smoking weapons to the
pavement and then lose themselves III
the crowd. thousands had heard the
shots. while other thousands poured to
the murder scene from adjacent streets
and Office buildings, adding to the con-
fusion.
Police Pour Into Street.
Not in a long time has the sun
cleaned on the barrels of so many
revolvers, unsheathed for action. as it
saw in the hands of police yesterday
afternoon. Detectives in plain clothes,
squad men and traffic officers. pistols
ready. dotted the crowds as the blood
of Lombardo oozed onto the sidewalk
from the ugly bullet hole behind his ear
The downtown, daylight murder OF
the one time head of the Unlone
Siciliano meant more to police than
the passing of another gang chief. In
the blood of Lombardo they saw the
handwriting of Frank Uale'S avengers.
They saw the outbreak of new gang
cunning, this time on an intercity
scale, with the bad men OF New YorE
and Chicago aligned against each other.
Capone, they said, is marked man.
His close alliance with Lombardo was
well known. The Aiello brothers, down
in the police catalogue as bitter foes OF
Capone and Lombardo, also were men
toned frequently while the best Sleuths
of the newly reorganiZed police force
studied the long and involved ranifica-
that would take them to Lombardo's
murderers
Seen as Retaliation.
The Uale connection was explained
this way: Uale was shot down, preSum-
ably, by Chicago gunmen. Capone's
name was brought into that case by
reason of the belief that he had been
instrumental in obtaining the weapons
with which Uale was killed New York
gangsters therefore, might have picked
Lombardo, Capone's close associate. as
the victim by whose assassination they
meant to answer the guns that got
Uale
Both Lombardo and Uale were Sicil-
ianS, each powerful in his territory Each
dominated large groups. collecting trib-
ute, police said, in many forms. Lom-
bardo, OStenSibly commission broker
was reputed to have had a monopoly on
the sale of sugar to hundreds of persons
engaged in the manufacture of bootleg
alcohol King of the Malta" was title
| police often placed in opposition to his
name
Lombardo was in his early 40s. The
gangSter rarely lives to be much older
When he was killed he had a revolver,
but it was still in his pocket when police
| reached his body
Two bcdyguards were with Lombardo
when the shooting took place. One of
them. Joseph Ferraro, was shot in the
back and may die. Joseph Lolordo
escaped the gunfire and was pursuing
the killers when police stopped him.
Effect on Voting Seen.
Police speculated on the possibility
| that Lombardo's death might mean the
! transfer of the control of thousands of
! votes which Lombardo is believed to
| have possessed Not since five men shot
| Dion O'Banion down in his flower shop
has there been a Staying as portentous
Of future warfare as this one, police said.
1t has been no secret for months that
| LOmbardo was marked for death, and
even before the Uale killing in New York
| attempts were made against his life.
Once police uncovered a small arsenal
/ in a building across from Lombardos S
home. The muzzle of a machine gun
was aimed at the Lcmbardo front door
Later officers raided room in a down.
town hotel and found several machine
gurs in position to be fired across the
street into cigar store which Lombardo
and "Scarface Az frcquented
Investigators of Yesterdays killing
got little help from either of Lombardo's
bodyguards. They told Ferraro he was
dying, but he only shrugged his shoul-
ders and would not talk. Lolordo was
more laxative, but pleaded ignorance
Of any connection with Lombardo.
Farley Thought Held.
At Lombardos Office in a building
near the place he was slain police founo
several chairs arranged in a semi
circle as though a conference had
been held The floor was covered with
cigar and cigarette ashes as though the
conference had been a long one. LON.
bardo'S name, in his own handwriting
was scribbled on several pieces o
paper scattered about
No two stories of the killing were
alike Police pinned their confidence
on that told by Omar Rifle. who sale
rather vaguely that he was from WeS
Virginia" Rifle said:
II was standing back of Lombard(
when he was shot. / saw man come
from the doorway of the restaurant w
were passing and run toward Lom
bardo's back. / looked away for sec
ond, and then came the shots. Lom
bardo fell and then every one started
first one way and then another ant
the men with guns were running arount
the corner and policemen were running
toward the men who were shot.
! 1T was only a minute before tn
streets we're iammed with people"
One man from out of the thousand
swarming the streets after the rait
: was arrested, but he insisted he wa