Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-15
POLICE EXECUTED !,
DRY AGENT THINKS
BIames Chicago Massacre on
Stopping of Protection
Payments.
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had gathered to discuss new liquor
foray and their plans had become known
to their enemies.
The coroner's jury. with Bert A.
Massee, manufacturer, as foreman.
assembled at police station ana viewed
the bodies. then went to the garage TO
view the scene of the executions. upon
their return to the police station, Dr;
Herman N. Bundesen, coroner, ordered
all curious persons to leave. DR.. Bun
desen said that an autopsy revealed tnat
each one bore from 20 10 81 puiieO
wounds. A.,
There we're no witnesses when the
assassins entered the S. M. G. Carriage
Co. garage at 2122 North Clark street
about 10:45 am yesterday, lined up
their victims against brick wall ana
shot them down. A woman saw tour
men, two dressed as policemen, ana
carving guns, emerge from the garage
enter what she thought was a police
SQUAD car, and drive rapidly away. But
that was the most definite story the
police had.
Code Keeps Him Silent.
One of the victims, Frank Gusenberg,
survived his wounds short time, ana
was conscious. He was the only nope
of authorities for an eyewitness &C
count. But the code of the gunman
kept him silent.
A police sergeant leaned over the
gangster. who lay dying at Alexian
Brothers Hospital.
"Who shot YOU. Frank" he asked
"Shot me?" said Frank Gusenberg.
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But early today, when they COM
pleted an examination, coroner's ply
sicians found 10 bullets in Gusenberg's
body.
The massacre" as 1t was being called
today, resulted in the virtual apnihila-
ton of the gang that took up Dion
O'Banion's beer-and blood stained toga
when he was slain in his flower shop,
November 10, 1924. It is from
O'Banion's death that police date the
gang wars. q -
Six of yesterdays victims were MEM
bers of the gang of North Side booze
racketeers and hijackers, of which, po-
lice say George Bugs Moran is the
head. It was Moran who finally sue
wake of others who, taking up where
one way or another.
OF the seven killed, only DR.. r. H.
Schwimmer, an optometrist, was I'M
known to police records. DR.. Schwim-
mer, they believe. dropped into the ga
rage to chat with Frank and Peter
Gusenberg, both of whom were killed
The Gusenbergs were longtime friends
of DR.. Schwimmer. the police learned
Peter Gusenberg was indicted with
Big Tim Murphy (himself an aSsassin'S
victim) in the 100000 Polk street sta
ton mail robbery. and served three
year sentence in the Federal Peniten-
tiary at Leavenworth. He became at
f1liated with the Moran gang three
years ago, at the suggestion of his
brother, a lieutenant in the Moran
forces.
James Clark, another Of yesterdays
dead, was a brother in Law of Moran,
with reputation as crack marksman
with a rifle. He is listed by police as
a member of the furnishing squad" of
the gang. r..s-.
Recently Joined Gang.
| Alfred Weinshank was a North Side
cafe owner, whose aff1liation with Moran
took place comparatively recently. John
May, at first believed to have been only
an automobile mechanic and an inno-
cent victim, was known to police as q
safe blower before joining Moran.
| Adam Heyers. the other dead man,
was the front" for the gang, taking
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