The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-02

twenty-five miles west of Milwau-
kee.
Gaiety was reaching its crest near
midnight at the hotel.
The player-piano was playing =
fox trot and approximately twenty
couples were sliding about the
dance floor.
Outside other couples were frol-
licking on the beach or a small lake.
Push Aside Girl Partner
At the same time Scarface AL was
entertaining 100 guests at the Hotel
Western in Cicero. a west side
Chicago suburb. He was celebrat-
ing his return from Miami. where
the climate, not to mention the au-
thorities, got too hot for me-
But the police theory that the
Wisconsin killing was "Capone
job may be wrong.
Meanwhile let C. A. Schmidt OF
Wauwatosa, Wis, an witness to
the Wisconsin shooting, tell what he
saw at the Lake View hotel in Della
field.
while was standing at the door
OF the dance han seven or eight
men walked in quietly. Two stopped
near the door and leaned against
the wall. No one paid any special
attention and they just stood there
without showing much interest in
the dancing.
Il think there were five men who
came on into the hall where a num-
Der of couples were dancing. They
waited until the music stopped.
Then they closed in on their vic
time and pushed aside the girl he
had been dancing with. That was
when noticed their guns for the
first time. They had short ma
chine gun, several Sawed-off shot
guns and one or two automatic pis-
tolls.
Shot without Warning
without any apparent effort
they edged their man over into a
corner where he was out of the
way of the others. Then without
warning, they him him have it.
There was roar that shook the
hall like thunder. Then everything
was quiet. The room filled with
smoke.
"The man they had shot just
crumpled up on the floor without
saying anything at all.
HE couldn't have had more. than
a seconds warning.
"As the man fell, two of the gang
sters pointed their guns up and fired
into the ceiling. took it as a sig
nal that no one had better inter
fere.
Keeping their backs together,
they eased over by the door, keep
ing their guns pointed at the dane
erS. Outside the building they dis
appeared around a corner.
In no Special Hurry
A minute later I heard their cars
speeding up. They seemed deliber-
didn't hear them say a word dur
ate and in no special hurry. !
ing the whole performance.
II was near the door and saw the
cars. Both we're big cars. Some one
said they had Illinois licenses.
For a moment after they left all
was silent. Then a woman screamed
and tainted
1.-TWO of the men dancers went
over and touched the body with
their shoes.
mo one saw the girl who had
been dancing with the victim. She
seemed to have slipped away un-
noticed.
pretty soon the officers came"
The victim had registered as j. H.
Goodman Of Aurora, Ill, but after
talking on the telephone with the
Chicago detective bureau, the Wis
donsin authorities we're convinced
that the victim was lark zuta.
Goodman" had been fitting
about the Wisconsin resort region
for more than a week, changing
hotels and companions frequently.
Sought Since June
Meanwhile, in Chicago, police had
been searching for Zuta. He had
not been seen here since June !.
when he escaped in fussilade OF
bullets in brilliantly lighted State
street.
He had been arrested as suspect
in the Lingle case and after his re-
lease, was being escorted home by
Police Lieutenant George Baker,
when rival gangsters held up the
car near the postoflce and opened
fire
Zuta fed while Barker shot II out
With the assailants. A street car
conductor was slain by one Of the
stray bullets from the battle.