The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-02
CHICAGO GANG
|NVADES LOOP
FOR GUN DUEL
State Street Is Scene of
Bullet Battle With
Cop and Foes.
MoToRMAN is KILLED
Theater Crowds in Panic as
VoIIeys Peril Lives
of Hundreds.

D CHICAGO, July Estate street,
the worlds most brilliantly lighted
thoroughfare, was marked today as
The battle ground of one Of the Chi
cago underworld's most daring out
breaks.
Under the glare Of thousand
candle-power lamps on a corner
only one block from the postoffice.
f1ashily dressed gangsters opened
fire upon an automobile in which
a police lieutenant was escorting a
notorious gang leader and three of
his followers back to safe terri
tory"
In the exchange of shots between
the lieutenant and the assailants,
a motorman was killed, another by
stander was wounded in the arm,
home going theater crowds hid be-
hind lamp posts and metal refuse
boxes, and the three gangSters who
were the original targets in the out
break fled on foot to doubtful safety.
Then the attacking gangsters en-
ployed a method of escape that has
been used but seldom in the long
and bloody history of organized
crime. From the exhaust of their
big blue sedan they released cloud
of smoke that choked State street
from wall to wall, obscured the
vision Of their pursuers and enabled
them to escape.
Believed Gang Plot
Police believe that gangsters
plotted the attack before knowing
their rivals were to ride up State
street with police escort, but de-
cided to go through with it anyhow
after seeing the men they had put
on the spot in a sedan with a
widely known police lieutenant.
Jack Zuta, notorious member of
the Moran-Aiello north side gang,
apparently was the target of the
two men who started the gun
battle.
Zuta and three companions, one
of them a girl, just had been re-
leased on bonds after being held for
tWenty-four hours for questioning in
the case of Alfred (Jake) Lingle,
Chicago Tribune reporter, who was
murdered in subway three weeks
AN last Monday.
When zuta, Solly Vision, Albert
Bratz and Leona Berstein, all ar
rested in a raid on Moran gang
headquarters, were released from
Jail, zuta asked for police escort
across the Loop, explaining that once
he and his companions reached
their own north side they would be
safe, but that he feared he never
could get across the Loop alive if
they went alone.
Fired at Close Range
Lieutenant George Barker offered
to act as escort. The four got into
his sedan, Vision sitting beside Bar
ker, while Zuta huddled between
Bratz and the girl in the rear seat.
AS the car rolled along State
street at about fifteen miles an
hour, dark blue sedan swung from
behind, drew alongside, and tall
man stepped to the running board,
drew a pistol from shoulder hol-
ster and began firing.
Seven bullets imbedded them
selves in Barker's car before he
could stop it, jump to the street,
draw his gun and begin returning
the gangSter's fire.
The gunmen's car stopped also
and several volleys of shots were
exchanged at close range.
Ebert LuSader, 38, street car
motorman, stood at the controls of
his car, stalled by the Barker
machine which was on the tracks.
Astounded by the almost unbe-
lieyable sight before him, Lusader
stood gaping.
Waterman Wounded
A bullet from the tall gangster's
gun pierced his neck and he fell,
nortally wounded, dying early to-
day in st. Luke's hospital.
Another bullet hit Olaf Svenste,
SO, a Waterman who was hurrying
to his work in a nearby skyscraper.
1t ripped through the muscles of his
left arm.
His gun emptied, Lieutenant
Barker jumped back into his car,
from which Zuta and his compan-
ions mysteriously had disappeared
during the fight. Barker started in
pursuit of the gangsters, who were
speeding down State street toward
the north side.
At Madison and State, one of the
worlds busiest corners, a dense
cloud of smoke shot from the ex-
haust of the gangsters auto or from