The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-18
Key Witness Kept in Seclusion Near Break
down, After Nerve Racking Experiences;
Swanson Jubilant Over Find.
BRUND1DGE BARES CAPONE WARNING
st. Louis Investigator Declares 'Scarface AP
Told Him to Lay Off 'Money-Hungry'
Reporters on Chicago Papers,
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Bv United Press
CHICAGO, July 49,
States Attorney John A.
Swanson announced today
that solution of the murder
of Alfred j. Lingle, Chicago
Tribune crime reporter, has
been obtained through an
unnamed woman witness.
|. "She saw the killer shoot Lingle,"
Swanson said.
The experience caused the woman
to suffer a nervous breakdown, and
she is under the care of a physician,
the states attorney said. SwanSon's
announcement was made with
evident jubilation at the possibilities
opened by discovery of the witness.
I'VE regard her as the key to the
Lingle killing" he said. 1T is the
first tangible progress we have made
toward solving the mystery"
Mum on Identification
Because, he said, it might hamper
the investigation started by the
mystery woman's story, Swanson
would not say whether the slayer
had been identified.
Neither would he give details of
the witness story, or reveal whethe
motive had been found.
The woman is a key Wins
We can not give the details Of her
story" Swanson said.
However, the states attorney did
relate the witness experiences lead
ing UP to the time when the shoot
ing took place in the Randolph
street Illinois Central subway, on
June 8.
The announcement Immediately
opened a flood of speculation as to
the woman's identity
1t was recalled that woman
witness was brought into the case
during the first stages of the Lingle
investigation, but her connection
never was explained.
Identity Kept Secret
She was believed to be at the
time an Irene Kelly of Minneapolis.
Again it was said the name was
falsified to throw amateur investiga-
tors off the trail. One of the stories
told Of her was that she was from
Los Angeles, and knew frankie
Foster, purchaser of the gun with
which Lingle was believed slain.
Foster subsequently was extradited
from California, and detectives are
due in Chicago with him Saturday.
The woman dropped from public
knowledge until todays develop
ment.
She had been involved in minor
automobile accident in the loop
about noon on the day Lingle was
slain, according to Swanson. and
had gone to the Office Of a physi-
clan near the subway. While as
cending in an elevator. Swanson
said, she had witnessed an accident
in which boy crushed his hand.
Saw Lingle Slain
Soon after leaving the building,
she saw Lingle's slayer shoot him
down from behind, inside the SUBJ
way.
How much she saw, and how we'll
she remembered what she saw, the
states attorney said he would keep
secret.
The experiences she underwent
within the space of less than two
hours have left her in a highly
nervous state, and physician is
almost constantly at her side, Swan
son explained. She will not discuss
the Lingle killing, he said, except in
the presence of her attorney.
She has discussed it with Swan
sons Investigators, and the states
attorney indicated she had talked
without restraint.
The woman, sad Swanson, will be
guarded closely, to quiet her fear
that she would be a target for
gangster guns.
The Tribune today named another
man it said Brundidge will accuse.
He is Ted bod, Herald Examiner
reporter, who, the Tribune charges,
was publicity man for a George
Bugs Moran dog racing track. The
paper previously had named Leland
H. Reese, Daily News reporter, and
Harry Read, city editor for the Eve
ming American, as men whom Brur-
didge would name.
The Herald Examiner today at
tached Importance to an announces
ment by States Attorney John A.
Swanson that he would not object
to the grand jury calling former
Police Commissioner William r.
Russell, former Detective Chief John
Siege. Corporation Counsel Samuel
Ettelson and Alphonse (Scarface AID
Capone as witnecse
The Hearst paper charged that
Lingle was involved in "deal'
which brought about Russells APP
pointment as commissioner. while
Mayor william Hale Thompson was
out of the city, that the men named
could tell about this deal" and
that their explanation might help
solve the murder mystery.