Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-16
Pictures of 3 Recognized as
Men Who Rented Room
Near Killing Scene.
LAW-ENFORCING UNITS
OF CHICAGO ATTACKED
Swanson Issues Sweeping Orders
Police Set Out to Make
City Bone Dry.

Prohibition Commissioner Doran
said today that the statement made
in Chicago yesterday by Fred D.
Silloway, deputy prohibition admin
istrator, blaming the police for the
killing of seven members of the
Moran gang was unauthorized and
that prohibition headquarters has no
evidence to show that it is true.
Doran said he would investigate Sill
loway's charge and take whatever
action he found warranted.
BY the Associated Press
CHICAGO. February Is. - Three
purple" gangsters of Detroit today
were thrice identified through photo
graphs as members of the gun gans
hunted for the Staying of seven. per-
sons here Thursday.
They were the spies, police say, the
spoilers; the advance men for muir
der. They were planted in advance to
observe the men marked for death,
note their hours of gathering, so that
the actual killers would know exactly
when and how TO strike.
Two women and a man living across
from the garage where the gang mas
sacre took place made the identifica-
tion. From a score of photographs
they picked three which they said
were of men who had rented rooms
overlooking the garage-rooms which
they occupied during a period of days
Immediately preceding the assassina-
tions.
Harry and Phil Keywell, brothers,
and Eddie Fletcher were the three
whose pictures were identified.
Say Trail Growing Hot.
Following the identiflcations, police
announced that the trail of Chicago's
bloodieSt gang murder was growing hot
and that important arrests were near.
But even the prospect of early and def
mite police action was overShadOwed by
several sensational aftermaths of the
crime.
For one thing, George Bugs Moran
was found, not by authorities. but by
newspaper men. The seven who were
slain were Moran mobsmen.
For another, fiery shaft of censure
and warning was shot by States Attor-
ney John A. Swanson at the law en-
forcement agencies of Chicago and
Cook County.
The States attorney called Police
Commissioner Russell. other high police
officials, sheriff's officers and county
police to his Office, and issued this fiat:
Enforce the gambling law and the
laws against vice. =
obey these orders or you'll go to
prison."
Swanson told them that their depart
ments were to blame for the gang
massacre. Those murders, he said, and
the long list of unsolved ones that pre-
ceded 1t were committed for just one
reason, and that reason, he told them,
was the easy money which enforcement
agencies had permitted gangsters to col
lect.
"It is easier" said Swanson, who was
elected last November on a drive-out-
crime platform, Ito put guilty police
gangster there. If you have any doubts
I'll settle them for you
Swift Action Follows.
It was the strongest declaration from
one enforcement agency to another that
has been heard in Chicago in a long
time. It was followed by swift action.
The police set out to make Chicago bone
dry for the first time since prohibition.
Shortly after midnight sweeping
order went forth from Commissioner
Russells office Ali police captains were
instructed to "close and keep closed al
gambling houses, vice resorts, soft drink
parlors, speakeasies, beer fats and any
place where alcohol is handled"
Frank j. LoeSch, president OF the
against politico- criminals and first as
sistant States attorney, dropped blame
for the Moran mob massacre on the
City Hall doorstep. The licensing oi
1000 soft drink parlors in Chicago, he
said, has the approval of city officials
who knew that the applicants were
men who would sell liquor"
The Loesch statement paralleled the
comment of his chief to police officers
The States attorney had said that
there Is no such thing as a soft-drink
parlor."
Commissioner Russell told Swanson
| that the order would be obeyed; that
| the ''parlors" would be raided regard
less of what the courts do about war
rants and regardless of the city
| licenses"
II this order Is carried out literally
Swanson said, Chicago will be bone dry
for the first time since enactment ol
the prohibition law.
Moran Biames Capone Gang.
George Bugs Moran, who left Z
hospital only few days ago after ar
attack of influenza, blamed the murder
of his seven associates on the AL Capons
gang. Capone himself, the outstanding
figure in Chicago gangland, is in Flor
ida.
There is only one gang that kill!
like that-one gang that would line ul
seven men against wall and ther
shoot them down through the back,
Moran was quoted by the Herald ans
Examiner as saying, "and that is thu
AL Capone gang"
IF there were any policemen in tn
shooting" Moran added, they wer
Cicero policemen" Cicero is Capone'
place of residence. The allusion Il
policemen was in connection with eye
witness stories that two of the slayer
wore police uniforms and that tn
escape was made in police squad Car
The theory of Frederick D. Silloway
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