The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-06-12
victim OF SLAYER
CARRIED TO GRAVE
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Thousands Watch Funeral Pro,
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{ Seek Murderer

Chicago, June Ia. - () - Alfred
flake" Lingle, news reporter, was car
ried to his grave today, victim of an
assassin's bullet, while thousands who
Nav the cortege pass wondered
whether the assassin, who shot him
down In q crowded Michigan avenue
subway, would ever be apprehended.
A concerted citizenry, pedestrians
on the streets, city officials, police
men, newspapers and hundreds Of re-
porters Of the city studied the effects
that q total Of $1,000 in rewards
would have for the apprehension and
conviction of the slayer. Police Of
the city were excoriated yesterday In
the city council and in front page
editorials Of newspapers.
e Priest Extolls Virtues
Heads Of the various investigative
bodies, reform commissions and crime
Acommissions continued to vent their
feelings today while q priest, In the
Lady Of Sorrows Roman Catholic
church, extolled the accomplishments
Of the ~38-year-old reporter who some
say was killed because "he knew too
much" of gangland affairs.
A widow and two children who had
planned to be with their husband and
father today in q new $4,000 Michi-
gan resort home to start a vacation,
sat in a m%ourner's pew q few feet dis
tant from their loved one Hundreds
of police officials, mayors represent
atives, men from the city council
chamber, public life in general and
. hundreds of newspaper co : workers
gathered to pay Jake" Lingle q final
tribute.
A funeral procession such as no
newspaper reporter here was ever be-
fore accorded made Jake" Lingle's
passing to the Calvary cemetery one
of note, pomp and panoply not unlike
some Of the funerals accorded to gang
chieftains.
stop Crime Is Cry
Today the Tribune, whom he rep
resented, and all other papers OF the
city, are writing about Jake" Lingle
and urging the public and city in
/, general to action to stop crime" and
solve Lingle's murder.
The death Of Lingle brought an
other Of the concerted round-ups Of
!. hoodlums and gangsters. With 600 or
S1nore men in various jails Throughout
the city, not one was a "stand-out"
or known gangster, most Of those held
being minor mine run" police char
acters. Hundreds Of lawyers flocked
into courts with writs seeking releases
but few were forthcoming in the face
of police orders.
The roundup will result in q
"show-up" Of those taken in the raids,
another routine procedure common
after a gang shooting, and eventually
all, according to fellow reporters Of
Lingle, will go the usual route, free
on bond or discharged because there
is no evidence to hold them.
\ Speculation continues as to the
cause Of Lingle's assassination,
whether he knew too much, whether
it was some fancied personal grudge,
whether he was the victim Of a killer
hired by some m for a reason not
yet known, or whether some gangster
fancied Lingle had a drag" with po-
lice officials and prevented ~gangsters
operations.
THE fifth commandment must be
enforced" said the Rev. Father Null
herin in his sermon at the church.
God alone has the power to take
away life or deprive us Of the pursuit
Of happiness"
The body was borne to Mount Car