The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-07-23
Claim Murder Is
Direct Result of
Election Activity
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OF the Staying of George Collins and
William Cannon, Chicago gangsters,
who we're shot at the side entrance
OF the La Sale hotel, July 3. Buck
ley was said to have seer the shooting
from a window Of the hotel. Station
WMBC is located in the hotel and
Buckley lived there.
Mayor BoWles vas the first mayor
of Detroit to be recalled from office.
BY a majority of 30,956 out of 210,-
ITO votes cast. he was called from the
office he has held for six months in
yesterdays special election after a
bitter two weeks campaign. The vote
was: For the recall, 12O,863; against
the recall 89,907.
AS a result, Detroit is on the thresh-
old Of another municipal election, its
third in little more than nine months.
Mayor Bowles. who continues in office
until his successor is elected and
qualities automatically becomes a
candidate for reelection. No other
candidates have yet been announced.
The next election must be held
within 80 days after the results OF
yesterdays balloting have been duly
canvassed and certified. Five days
are allowed for those formalities.
That the mayor and his supporters
are planning a fight to the finish was
indicated by the statements of the
mayor. The mayor said the 10 days
of campaigning vas insufficient to
overcome the prejudice produced by
Misrepresentation during the last
seven months"
Mayor Bowles, who rose from po-
litical obscurity to head of the fourth
city In the United States within five
years, was elected last November as
a reform candidate, with the support
of the Anti-Saloon. League and other
similar organizations.
He appointed Harold H. Elnmons,
prominent attorney and business man,
police commissioner. The mayor re-
turned from attending the Kentucky
derby last May to find that his police
commissioner had authorized a sweep
Ing series of raids on race handbook
agencies against which a newspaper
crusade had been waged for weeks.
He discharged Emmons.
That precipitated the recall move
ment with charges that he had "tol-
Grated lawlessness" and fired EN-
mons for enforcing the law heading
the list of accusations.
One Suspect Arrested
One suspect was arrested in con-
nection with the Staying when ne was
found in an elevator of the hotel
shortly after the shooting. He was
registered as Angelo Livecchi and is
held for investigation. The police
said he was under indictment In
Rochester. N. Y. IN a robbery charge,
and vas free under $4,000 bond. Dec
tectives said he has been known as a
member Of a Detroit gang for several
months.
Police Commissioner Thomas G.
Wilcox said he did not attach any
significance to the fact that the slay-
ing was committed a short time after
the recall election. He said he had
certain information" which he could
not disclose at present.
The killing of Buckley recalled a
speech he made over station WMBC
soon after the killing Of Alfred Lingle,
Chicago Tribune reporter. Buckley
in his daily political talk, bitterly as
sailed gangsters, declaring that when
they ceased to Kill each other and
turned their guns or honest citizens
something must be done and some
thing will be done"
A reward Of 5000 for the arrest
and conviction Of the killers and
those black Of the killing who insti-
gated It," was posted today by the
city council.
The possibility Of another S 5000 re-
ward was seen in the drafting by
James E. Chenot, prosecuting attor-
ney. of a letter to the board OF county
auditors recommending that it be
posted.
John C. Nagel, president of the
council, made the motion for the re-
ward. He said:
This Staying was not the work en-
tirely Of the men who did the s'loot-
ing. They were just killers. There
was somebody behind them who hired
them to do it,"