Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-23
Chicago Dentist Reports Be-
ing Drugged- Unconscious
Most of Last Night. (.
WRISTS AND ANKLES
BRUISED AND LACERATED
Ownership of Death Car Is
Traced-Women Report They
Received Threats.
BY the Associated Press.

sacre, was found at the corner of
Library and Gratiot avenues in the
downtown district here shortly after
noon today.
He reported he had been drugged and
unconscious most of last night.
The Chicago dentist, who identified
a photograph the police believed to be
that of one of the gang slayers, was in
dazed and half fainting condition
when picked up by Patrolman Martin
Vollmer.
His wrists, hands and ankles were
bruised and lacerated.
DEATH CAR OWNER TRACED.
Four, One a Woman, Seen to Leave
: Garage Before Fire.
BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, February 23.---Dr. Loyal
Tacker, a witness in the investigation of
last weeks gang murders, was reported
missing to police this morning. 1t was
feared he had been kidnapped.
Authorities revealed today that DR..
Tacker. dentist, identified a picture
shown him in the detective bureau last
Tuesday as that of a man whose tooth
he had extracted. The man, police
said. was one of the persons who shot
and killed seven members of the George
(Bugs) Moran gang in liquor depot
on st. Valentines day.
Police declined to reveal the name of
the man DR.. Tacker had Identified
They said they feared the dentist had
been kidnapped by members of the muir
der gang last night after the informa-
ton had leaked out that DR.. Tacker
had been in communication with the
detective bureau.
DR.. Tacker left his home at $50 last
night to go to his office. Early this
morning his wife reported to police that
he had not returned All police stations
in the city were Immediately notif1ed
and given descriptions of the dentist.
From a group of photographs in the
detective bureau, DR.. Tacker quickly
Identified one. II extracted a tooth
from the front part of the upper jaw"
he said.
Believed Driver Of Car.
It was the same man, police SAID, as
the one identified as the driver OF the
car in which the murder gang lett the
scene of the massacre. One OF the
witnesses who saw the car in the Vi
cinity of the garage where the shoot
ings occurred had said that one OF the
drivers front teeth was missing.
Today's statement that the man
identified by DR.. Tacker was one OF
the occupants of the death car" was
the first positive declaration by the po-
lice that they believed they knew who
killed the Moran gangsters. They mad
said they hoped to know the
slayers' identities soon and that they
were on the trail Of the gang.
Auto Ownership Traced.
Ownership of the car used in the
massacre was traced to mysterious
and apparently fictitious James Nor
ton of Los Angeles"
The machine, 1927 model touring
car closely resembling the type USED Dy
the police department for their mobile
SQUADS. was purchased from a second
hand car dealer December Is. The
buyer entered the place, walked over 10
the car and said:
How much for that buggy?"
William Robinson, the salesman, told
him $750.
Angeles" producing a roll OF bills from
which he paid the price asked. lie
drove the car away.
The police admitted the possibility
that Morton may have resold the car
IN the interim between its purchase
and the day Of the murder, put tney
doubted it. In any case, Morton helo
the kew to the cars ownership.
The automobile, which was found
Thursday night in private garage
which apparently had been set afire to
DESTROY it, was sold when new to Frank
j. wilson, Cook County commissioner.
Wilson later sold it to an automobile
sales agency, which in turn sold 1t to
Irving Reiger, who turned it in at the
sales agency from which Morton"
bought it.
A few days after Morton" became
owner of the car, two men rented rooms
overlooking the Carriage Co. garage in
which the gang execution took place
last week.
"Cherchez la femme" entered the
case for the first time today with the
story of a woman living near the garage
in which the murder car was found.
She told of seeing four persons come
from the garage few hours before the
fire. and that one of the four was a
woman A woman's slipper was found
in the garage.
Names Bob Up In Probe.
One result of the inquiry brought
strong police suspicion that q new gang
seeking TO seize control of the North
Side booze business from the Moran
gangsters may have committed the
murders The name Of Danny Vallo
was mentioned as its leader. Tony
Capizzio, Raymond Schultz, Claude
Maddox, Jack McGurn, Sam Laverde
and Tony Florentino were some Of the
names that bobbed up in the police in
vestigation. The description of Flor
entino compares closely with that of the
man who applied at the North Avenue
Hospital for treatment OF burns.
Ownership of an acetylene gas tank
found in the garage near the wrecked
automobile was traced to Roy Eckman,
who told OF renting the garage several
months ago. He planned to use it as
brewery, he said, but became
frightened.
Eckman is employed by Dominick
Capizzio, brother of Tony. who operates
THE Circus" CafA gangster hangout.
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