Evening star., 1930-06-11
CHICAGO AROUSED
BY YL|NGLE MURDER
Reward for Reporter Slayer
Totals $55, 900 as In
dignation Grows.
By the Associated Press.

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BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, June 11.-A reward of
SIS 900 hangs today over the head OF
the man who murdered Alfred (Jake)
Lingle.
The Tribune, for whom he worked
as a reporter. was first, offering $4,000
for information leading to the arrest
and conviction of the killer. Its morn
ing competitor, the Herald and Exam
iner, today had added another $25, 900,
and the Evening Post has offered $4,000
The Staying of Lingle Monday after
noon in the Illinois Central subway at
street has been followed by
such concerted public and official in
dignation as has seldom been provoked
here in recent years.
The murder, as Coroner Herman N
Bundesen pointed out, demands solu-
tion because it is the first in which
gangland has dared to shoot down in
its sensational manner a respected
citizen. Invariably before it has been
gangster shooting down gangster. The
public has refused to become exercised
over such murders. The public atti-
tude has been, as the coroner said, that
a gangster slain is good riddance.
But now the authorities have for
solution the murder of a man widely
known and respected, shot down with
out warning in the presence of several
hundred persons, within a block of the
busy loop at the peak of the day.
Search Results Kept Secret.
The hunt for the killer is being
pushed with deadly earnestness. Re-
suits of search are being kept secret,
an unusual procedure in Chicago crime
The inquest yesterday was adjourned
after three witnesses had been heard
The resources of the Secret Six"
committee, organized some time ago to
drive organized crime from Chicago
were pledged to the murder inquiry by
Col. Robert Isham Randolph, president
Of the Association of Commerce. The
coroner's Office was making use of its
elaborate scientific resources for crini-
nal hunting including the crime labora-
tory of Northwestern University.
Editorial Comment Is Strong.
The Tribune, discussing the Staying
editorially, said:
THE challenge Of crime to the COM
munity must be accepted. 1t has been
given with bravado. 1t is accepted, and
Well see what the consequences are to
be. Justice will make a fight or will
The Herald and Examiner said edi-
torially:
THE city is in a state of political
corruption that will not cure itself. 1t
can only get worse unless decent Chi
cago citizens take matters into their
own hands. insist upon honesty and
efficiency from men elected to off1ce
and in the police department, and
throw the crooked incompetents out"
Detective Transfer Probed.
An inquiry launched yesterday by the
police committee of the city council
into the transfer of two detectives who
were held to be particularly efficient in
the haraSsing of known gangsters or
public enemies" resulted in a charge
by Alderman James B. Bowler that
certain gangsters in this town could
kill a man right in front of certain
policeman and not be arrested"
The two detectives, it was charged,
were assigned to ineffective duties after
they had arrested Hyman Levine and
Harry Gusick, Capone gangsters.
Authorities had information today to
confirm their belief Lingle had been
marked for death. Attorney Louis P.
Piquett, former prosecutor, said he
met the reporter on Randolph street
the day before the Staying.
"Lingle was telling me his theory
of the Eugene Mclaughlin Staying"
Piquett said, when a blue sedan drew
up to the curb and stopped. Two men
In it looked at Lingle. and he at them.
He stopped suddenly in the middle OF
sentence, said 'good-by,' and hurried
into a store"
City Council Threatens.
An ancient revolver, its numbers filed
of; a left-hand silk glove; the tales OF
excited witnesses-these were the clues
these and theories unnumbered, but
the last of city council threats and
an aroused public opinion drove the au-
thorities to search every avenue and
alley of the underworld, question every
hoodlum and habitue of the bootleggtng,
gaming and vice haunts. For once
they departed from the practice OF
telling the public the course OF their IN
vestigations. pursuing their various
trails in secret.
Inc Evening EOSU pTOleSscu W 1AuNC
learned that a killer brought from
the East was Lingle's. assassin. Tnat
a prominent gang leader, at odds with
the newspaper man, hired his execu-
will probably kill the killer
to seal his lips forever. But this was
but another theory, likely enough, but
unproven.
Another city council committee hear
ing and front-page editorial OF the
Chicago Daily News focused the attack
on the police officials today.
The News editorial administered
severe censure to the officials. 1t read,
"The heads Of the Police Department
in their professed efforts to deal with
this unn1itigated evil, which so be-
smirches the good name OF the city,
have shown themselves incompetent or
worse. The gangsters treat them with
contemptuous tolerance their
Intellectual motions in the wake OF
each fresh gang killing are little more
than feeble limitations OF intelligent
effort. Public tolerance with such
Commissioner Russell, chief OF the
Police Department, and Deputy Com
missioner Siege, in charge Of the de-
tective bureau, have had their oppor-
tunity to break up the criminal gangs
that infest the city and make the
streets hideous with bleeding corpSes.
They have failed, for whatever cause.
Their methods no longer inspire public
If they cannot begin now,
today, to cope successfully with the
shameful situation by intelligent and
energetic action they ought to CO."