Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-12
POLICE COMB CITY
FOR L|NGLE SLAYER
500 HoodIums Are jailed and
Held Despite Demands
of Attorneys.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, June 12.-Police "exe-
cution squads each captained by an
officer whose courage in fighting
gangsters was atteSted by notches on
his revolver, combed Chicago today for
the man who killed Alfred (Jake,
Lingle, Tribune reporter.
BY last midnight 500 hoodlums, dere-
licts and suspicious characters were in
jail. Lawyers flocked to detective
headquarters demanding the release of
their clients, but no releases were made.
william Russell, police commissioner,
and John Siege, his chief of detec-
tives, were spurred to action not only
by the crime itself and their own close
friendship for the slam newspaperman,
but a rising flood of hostile public
sentiment that gained expression in
front-page editorials and in statements
of civic leaders.
There was talk unoff1cially among
business and civic groups of the pos
sibiiity Of martial law to supercede the
police and drive the gangster once and
for all from the city. One American
Legion post offered the services of its
members to take up arms, under proper
authority, against the gangsters.
Editorial ExcOriates Police.
The Herald and Examiner, which has
joined the Tribune and the Evening
Post in Offering a total reward of $55,-
600 for arrest and conviction of the
man who shot Lingle dead last Monday
in the crowded Randolph street sub
way, excorIate the police department
in a front-page editorial. 1t referred
to the departments miserable tnefl-
ciency," and added:
Chicago is disguised with its head
less, footless city administration, so
streaAed with rottenness that honest
men in it, thinking of their daily bread.
keep their mouths shut and their eyes
closed"
The execution squads" of the police
were so called because their command
ers have shown in previous gangster
hunts that they are unafraid to shoot
down the outlaws.
Lieut.. Frank Reynolds, in charge of
one squad, has killed IL criminals
Chief Siege said. Lieut.. AL Booth has
killed six, Lieut.. Walter Storms has
killed five. Lieut.. William Gusack, four;
Lieut.. Pat O'Connell, 5, and Lieut.. Andy
Barry, six"
These were special squads, with orders
to enter any place where they thought
criminals might be quartered without
the need of search warrants or legal red
tape. In addition there were the regu-
lar cruising squads of detectives and
special foot detail that combsd the
loop.
Denies Resignation Request.
Frank ]. Loesch, the aged head of
the Chicago crime commission, denied
published statements that he had de-
manded that Commissioner Russell and
Chief Siege resign.
What l say is merely this he said,
that if Russell and Siege can't find the
solution to this crime they should give
place TO some one who can"
Russell replied to published criticism
with the declaration that he had not
sought the police commissionership and
had not wanted it; but that he was not
"Quitter" and had no intention of
resigning. Siege said he had consistently
done his best, and that his continued
services as chief of detectives was a
matter for his superior-the commits
sioner-to decide.
of the pallbearerS today att the funeral
of Lingle. Services were TO b. held at
Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church
at IL am.
The funeral plans were impressive,
The procession was to be headed by
mounted policemen, followed by band
which in turn was to be followed by
several units of policemen on foot This
was in tribute to Lingle's wide acquaInt
anceShip among members of the force.
Next in line were to be bandsmen from
the Great Lakes Naval Training Station
where Lingle served during the World
War, being attached to the intelligence
division Detachments of Naval Re-
serves, city firemcn, members of four
American Legion Posts and a bugle
corps were to be in the procession. A
firing squad from Great lakes was to
fire a salute at Mount Carmel Cemetery.
and q hugler blow taps.