The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-04
GUNMAN, NEAR
DEATH, CLNGS
TO GANG CODE
Fifth Casualty in as Many
Days Refuses to Name
ASSaiIantS.
WOMAN, TWO MEN HELD
Shaping of Girl in Night
Club CIeW to Killing of
Dude RaCketeer.

BU United Press
CHICAGO, Feb. 4.-Within eight
hours after police officials and the
states attorney had pledged "dras-
tic action" to halt an epidemic OF
murders and bombings, a gangSter
was put on the spot" early today
and lay near death in a hospital.
True to ganglands code, William
Healy, 81, would not tell who had
riddled him with bullets. Police.
who linked him with Danny Stan
tons clique Of south side beer run
ners, said he probably suffered the
vengeance of the beer racketeers.
CrawIed to Sidewalk
Curses. shots and the roar of an
automobile announced the latest
depreciation of the gunner. A
police patrol roared to the district,
on Normal boulevard, and found
Healy had crawled from an alley
to the sidewalk. One bullet wound
was under his chin and two pierced
his back.
A woman and two men were ar
rested for questioning in the shoot
ing today. They are Mrs. Bridget
Mcmahon, mother of Smiling Jack
O'Brien, who was hanged for the
murder of a policeman in 1924,
James Cotter and John Mahoney.
The three were seized In a south
side beer fiat.
He was the fifth victim Of gang
Justice" in as many days. The four
previous instances were listed as
murders, since the victims were
killed outright.
BombingS. holdupS, robberies,
knife ARRAYS and crime Of all cali
Der has been rampant since the
wave started a week ago. Five bomb
ings came in one twenty-four hour
period.
Three murders already have been
relegated to the files of "unsolveo."
Police fear they may never know
who shot and killed Barney j.
Mitchell, treasurer of the Checker
Cab Company, and Glenn Jackson,
q driver, in cab on a north side
street, or who shot down Julius
RoSenheim, informer against Grim
inals.
Clews Numerous
Clews were more numerous In the
assassination of Joseph Motor Carr
Cada, young dude gangster, who
was shot to death by two men who
rode with him in his expensive au-
tomobile through a north side street
early Sunday.
Police had peculiar reason to
regret the shooting Of Healy. His
father, now dead, had been po-
nceman.
us that you, Joe?" the wounded
man gasped when Patrolman Joseph
Kirk bent over him on the south
size street.
Kirk and the elder Healy had
walked the same beat together ten
years ago.
Healy was taken to the Peoples
hospital, where he recuperated five
year ago from knife wounds in the
back. Then, as now, he declined to
name his assailants.
Given Last Rites
His wife, learning where he had
been taken, left their three children
and hurried to the hospital and
priest came to administer the last
rites of the church. Even after the
sacrament was administered. Healy
would not talk to police.
A slap he administered to young
woman in the Green Mill Garden,
night club, the night before he was
slain, was seen today as possible
explanation of the Cada killing Po-
lice learned two men had followed
him out of the club.
Detectives sought the girl he
slapped, but would not reveal her
name. They intimated that II she
is found, the Cada case would be
ION the way to solution"
Police Commissioner Russell,
States Attorney Swanson and Pat
Roche, the latter's chief investigator,
conferred for three hours Monday
on the crime situation and declared
they would adopt measures harsh
enough to control it.