Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-25
MASSACRE 7..1TURE
IS RECONSTRUCTED
Man With Finger Gone, One
With Tooth Out, Third With
Burns Suspected.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. February 25.--Marked
men-one with a finger gone. another
with a front tooth out, a third with
burns on his face-danced tantalizingly
across the gang massacre investigation
today.
Each in turn appeared in the murder
picture as reconstructed from stories OF
witnesses. The man with a finger
missing drove the automobile that car
ried the killers to and from the murder
scene. The man with the front tooth
out was in the car with him. was
presumably one of the four men who
poured machine gun. shotgun and pistol
lead into the seven gangsters lined
against a wall And the man who was
burned may have suffered that injury
in an effort, several days later. to
destroy the death car,
No one Of the three was in custody.
There was a search under way for
Rocco Bellacastro, an associate OF
khIsotcio WIN itlauC AAO NASNe NotS
hangout Bellacastro has finger
missing on one hand
Many Motives Advanced.
A multiplicity of motives for the
murders was the principal stumbling
block in the investigation today.
II can name so motives for this
eks,p In
of the inquiry for the States attorney,
but no one stands out as being i'm
portant enough to be called the prob
able cause of the murders. II we could
eliminate all theories but the true one.
and concentrate on that, we could solve
this thing in a hurry"
The apparent care taken by several
suspects in arranging alright alibis
struck Stansbury as a sinister circum-
stance, but 1t did not help toward
solution
"The fact that Claude Maddox, one
of the owners of the circus, was ap-
pearing in court to answer charge OF
having guns in his possession at ex-
actly the time of the murders were
committed seems suspicious to me"
Stansbury said "Al Capone also had
his alibi. He appeared before police In
Miami the day of the murders and Of
fered to submit to questioning. am
not, however, inclined to believe Capone
was involved in this.
Impressive Evidence.
1.-THE fact that the garage in which
the murder car was found, the circus
cabaret and the home Of Pasqualino
Lolordo victim of previous gang kill
ing) are all within few blocks of each
other appears impressive. Whether they
are more than coincidence, cannot
say.
Most puzzling of all Is the lack of
sufficient motive for the Staying of such
men as Heyer, Weinshank and Schwim-
mer. Heyer was little more than a
bookkeeper for the Fairview Kennel
Club, George (Bugs) Moran's dog track;
Wetnshank, have reason to think, was
at the place OF the murders only for
the purpose of buying alcohol for his
own interests, and Schwimmer was
merely friend of the hoodlums."
Stansnury was skeptical of the latest
witness story to the effect that there
had been car with four men at the
rear OF the North Clark street garage
at the time OF the crime. The witness,
boy, said two of these men wore
police uniforms. He became frightened
when he heard shooting inside the
garage and ran around In front in time
to see four other men come out that
way. The man sitting at the wheel Of
the automobile into which these four
climbed. the boy said. had a finger of.
Search Takes New Track.
The police search had taken an en-
tirely new track today as result of evil
dence pointing to the possibility that
ring OF kidnapers operating throughout
the country may have committed the
murders. The gang originated in st.
Louis, Stansbury said later operating in
Detroit and more recently appearing in
Chicago. Twenty murders in various
parts OF the country are ascribed to
members of this gang. the prosecutor
said.
These kidnapers and killers, police
declared, were aligned here with the
hoodlums who made THE Circus their
headquarters. They were supporters of
Tony Lombardo and Pasquaiino Lolor-
do. two of the most recent gang victims
prior to the North Clark street affair.
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