The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-27
FALLS IN Wild
NIGHT OF BATTLE
BY RACKETEERS
Notorious Car of Crime Is
Shot Down on Lawn Of
His Home.
CAPONE RIVAL is SLAIN
Six Shootings Mark Reign
of Terror in City's
Underworld.
CAPoNE RIVAL is SLAIN
BY JAMES X. MARTINDALE
Irnited Press Star Corresnondent

OHICAGO, June I'll big LIN
Murphy, Chicago's original track
eteer" and probably the most no
torious figure in Ganglands history,
was dead today after Knight of the
most ruthless gang warfare this city
ever has known.
Big Tim was the victim of the
machine gun-a method of aSSaS-
sination unknown when he first be-
gan "racketeering" more than ten
years ago-and before the confusion
surrounding his murder had sub
sided, five more shootings had taken
place, two of them linked directly
with his Staying.
Two men were killed besides Big
Tim, one of them known as a
leader in the war for vice control.
CapOne Rival Slain
Nicholas Manos, manager of the
Metropolitan hotel and a rival of
"Scarface Az Capone for control of
Chicagos gambling and vice, was
shot to death in front of his hotel.
Manos was an associate of Mon
key Face" Genke, notorious vice
lord, and was allied with Mike de
Pike" Heitler, gang leader, who re-
Gently had been seen in company
with Big Tim.
This killing, police believed, was
connected with the entry of Big Tim
into the cleaners and dyers' racket
eering war in which Capone has
been active.
Less than half an hour after
Manso'S death came the report of
the finding of the body of we'll
dressed man in the bushes in Broad
view, northwest suburb. The body
was beaten and the victim, unqueS-
tionably, had been tortured to death,
police said.
Police in Gun DueIs
Policeman Timothy Fahey was
drawn into a revolver duel with two
Italians in West Side gangster
hunt. One of the Italians was
wounded, probably fatally, by the
policeman's fire. He was uniden-
titled.
Albert Allen, petty gangster and
"hoodlum," was fatally wounded by
a police squad which surprised him
as he was attempting to force a
taxi driver to drive him to the West
Side.
The explosion Of a black powder
bomb in a poolroom today routed
guests of three South Side hotels,
and caused considerable confusion
among South Side police squads
The blast wrecked the poolroom.
The night of shootings threw
gangland into a confusion unpar-
alleled even by the assassination of
such famous gang chieftains as Dion
O'Bannion and Hymie Weiss.
Murphy, whose career led from
a stockyards saloon through paths
Of turbulence and crime to a place
of vast power and influence, died
from machine gun fire on the lawn
of his home here. He had fallen
into trap laid by the killers.
The assailants, who had fingered
in the Rogers Park district for
hours, waiting for chance to kill
their man, rang his doorbell Then,
when he appeared, they opened fire
from a motor car in front of the
home and sped away.
Hit by One Bullet
Big Tim had ducked as the hail
Of bullets came at hin-but not
soon enough. A solitary bullet
caught him in the back. He was
dead before doctors could reach
him.
Warrants were issued for the
arrest of Alfred Boris, former sec-
rotary of the Cleaners and Dyers'
Union; Ben Abrams, Sam Rubens
and George Goldstine. Two alleged
gang leaders, William Carrie and
Mike Greco, also were sought.
Raised With yards Gang"
Big Tim was born and raised
among the stockyard workers here
and began his career upon a scene
where the gang instinct was strong.
One of the first of many occasions
on which he ran afoul of the law
was the Messy" Enright murder
case in 1920. Big Tim and two of
his lieutenants, Mike Carozzo and
Jimmy Vinci, we're involved in the
feuds which rocked Chicago labor
at that time.
Enright was a rival leader Of the
"Gashouse gang" The three men
were indicted for the killing, but the
cases never went to trial
Magnetic, witty, nonchalant, Big
Tim organized union after union in
an ambitious program of labor &C
tivities until he assembled to the po-
sition of a car in the Chicago labor
world.
Served Time in Prison
A few years ago he was indicted
and convicted with Carozzo, his pal
in the $125,000 Dearborn Street mai
robbery. Big Tim was sentenced tx
five years in Leavenworth Fedora
penitentiary and fined $4,000. HI
served four years of his term.
When Murphy was paroied from
the Kansas prison and returned tx
Chicago, he was met at the station
by a band. His homecoming was
gala day for his followers.
About year ago Big Tim opened
a pretentious gambling casino. HI
sought to make miniature Monte
Carlo Of the place on Sheridan Rd
1t had diamond-studded roulettl
wheels and was guarded by al
elaborate arsenal. Nicky Arnstein
notorious anarchist, was reported tt
be a partner in the project.
1t dourished for only short time
Police surrounded it one night, and
Ii a spectacular raid, wrecked tn