The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-02-25
MARKED MEN DANCE
ACROSS GANG DEATH
PICTURE IN CHICAGO
Seek Finger|ess Death Car
Driver, Tooth|ess Gunner
and Burned Mechanic
AlRTIGHT ALlBIs SINISTER
Ring Of Kidnapers Operating in
Nation May Have Commit
ted Wholesale Murders

Chicago, Feb. 25-(F)-Marked men
-one with a finger gone, another
with q front tooth out, third with
burns on his face-danced tantalizing-
ly across the gang massacre investi-
CATION today.
Each in turn appeared In the MUIR
der picture as reconstructed from
stories Of witnesses. The man with
a finger missing drove the automO-
bile that carried the killers to and
from the murder scene. The man
with the front tooth out was in the
car with him. and 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 q search under way for
Rocco Bellacastro. All associate of
gangsters who made THE Circus"
cafe a hangout. .Bellacastro has a
finger missing OH one hand.
Motives Are Multiple
A multiplicity OF motives for the
murders was the principal stumbling
block In the investigation today.
Il can name so motives for this
crime" said David Stansbury, In
charge of the inquiry for the states
attorney, but not one stands out as
being important enough to be called
the probable cause Of the murders"
The apparent care taken by several
suspects In arranging air tight alibis
struck Stansbury as a sinister cir
cunastance. but 1t did not help toward
q solution. -
Claude Maddox, one Of the owners
Of The Circus, was appearing In court
to answer q charge of having guns
in his possession at exactly the time
the murders were committed" STAINS
bury said. AL Capone appeared be-
fore police In Miami the day Of the
murders and offered to submit to
questioning. I am not. however. in
clined to believe Capone was involved
In this"
Boy Heard Massacre
StanSbury was Skeptical OF the lat
est witness story to the effect that
there had been car with four men
at the rear Of the North Clar.: Street
garage at the time Of the crime. The
witness. a boy, said two Of these men
wore police uniforms. He became
frightened hen he heard shooting
inside the garage and ran around 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 off.
The police search had taken an en-
tirely new track today as result Of
evidence pointing to the possibility
that q 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.
The kidnapers and killers, police
declared, were aligned here with hood
lums who made 1.-THE Circus" their
headquarters. They were supporters
Of Tony Lombardo and Pasqualino
Lolordo, two Of the most recent gang
victims prior to the North Clark
street affair.