Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-08
THREE GANGSTERS
FOUND MASSACRED
AS TRUCE IS ENDED
Two Capone Aides Among
Trio Slain in New Gang
Warfare.
MEN "TAKEN FOR RIDE"
IN MURDER REPRISAL
Pair of Bodies Discovered in Stolen
Car Abandoned Across
Illinois Line.

BY the Associated Press.
HAMMOND, Ind, May "a treble
staying today sundered the brief truce
Of Chicago gangland. The three men,
identified by Deputy Police Commission
er John Siege of Chicago, as John
Scalisi, Albert AnSelmi and Joe Guinta,
we're found shot to death on a rural
roadside early today and the forfeit of
their lives was seen at the retribution
of their underworld foes for the massa-
ere of George Bugs" Moran's seven
clansmen last st. Valentines day.
Scalisi and Anselmi. dread duet
of killers with whom police have often
had to conjure, were regarded as aces
of the Capone staff, and their execution
today was seen as the stroke of avengers
for the seven followers of Bugs
Moran, the North Side chief, who were
lined up against the wall of a North
Clark street garage three months ago
and swept with machine-gun fire.
Scalisi Free on $5O,OOO Bond.
Thrice have Scalisi and Anselmi been
tried together for the slayings and two
policemen, only to win acquitals be-
cause they profeSsed to believe the de-
tective squad that chased them was a
group of their underworld foes.
ScaliSi had been freed under $50, 900
bond only week ago pending trial as
one of the Moran gang eXecutioners.
The pair were found heaped in the
back seat of coupe that had been
nosed into a ditch. their bodies COW
cred by a blanket. Twenty feet away
officers found the third body.
Guinta, a West Side tobacco store
owner, also had been questioned In con-
nection with the Moran gang killings.
I pocket of the mans coat police found
a card bearing the name of Joe Berardi,
official of a cigar shop. Reporters,
however, believed this was not the dead
mans name. All other marks of
the bodies.
Finger Prints May Give Clues.
The men, police said, were probably
taken for the familiar gangland ride" "
shot to death with pistols or machine
guns and the car ditched on the lonely
prairie road. The cushion had been
removed from the back seat and the
bodies dumped in its place.
Many fingerprints were found upon
the car, and police believe these will af-
ford them a clue to the slayers.
Police said the automobile in which
the bodies were found was stolen June
20, 1923, from Chicago department
store buyer. License plates on the car
had been issued to a Berwyn contrac-
tor, who said his automobile had been
stolen last March. When it was re-
covered the license plates we're missing.
Scalisi and Anselmi first broke into
the limelight in Chicago four years
ago. Policemen Michael j. Conway,
William Sweeney, Charles B. Walsh and
Harold F. Olson were touring their dis
trict in a detective bureau car the
morning of June IS, 1925.
Another automobile approached, car
rying Anselmi, Scalisi and Mike Genna,
one Of the notorious Genna brothers,
who made fortunes in Illicit liquor traf-
fic and all but two of whom were killed
by rival gangsters and the. police.
The police car started in pursuit and
the fugitive automobile soon crashed
into a post. The policemen leaped out
and were met by q volley of shotgun
slugs. Walsh and Olson fell mortally
wounded and Conway also was shot,
Sweeney pursued Gena into basement
and killed him. Anselmi and Scalisi
fed, but were captured later.
Win Acquittal on New Trial.
Their first trial was for the Staying
of Policeman Olson. They were SEN
fenced to IA years in prison in man
slaughter verdict. At the second trial
for the killing of Policeman Walsh, they
were acquitted. Then the State Su-
preme Court ordered a new trial for the
Olson Staying and Scalisi and Anselmi
were found not guilty and set free.
Scalisi and Jack McGurn, Machine
Gun" Jack. were the only two indicted
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