Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-25
BROTHERS ACCUSED
BY TWO WITNESSES
Testify They Saw Him Run
ming Away After SIay-
Ing of LingIe.
az thA Associated press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, March 25.--Anotlaer finger
was pointed at Leo Brothers today as
q witness in his murder trial testified.
There is the man that ran away after
Alfred Lingle was killed"
Otto swoboda, q cook, who said he
was standing outside the Chicago Public
Library on the afternoon when Lingle,
Tribune crime reporter, was killed, re-
lated rapidly with decided accent the
events of last June o.
"I saw a man standing near entrance
to tunnel" he said. "He kept his left
hand in his pocket and when he threw
down q cigarette another man came UP
and lit q new one for him.
Man Bumped Into Him.
81 walked down In tunnel and pretty
soon somebody run by, bumped into me
and knocked my cigarette out OF my
hands. look up and 1t was the same
saw UP on sidewalk. Then ] heard
back. I run UP the stairs TO street and
see him again Just before he start run
ming across the street"
do you see that man IN the court
roOm?" Swoboda was asked.
Eyes, there he Is over there behind
the man with gray hair" answered the
witness and he pointed at Brothers.
Swoboda was the second witness to
identify Brothers as the man who ran
away after the assassination. Warren
Williams yesterday pointed out Brothers
as the man seen fleeing after the shoot
ing.
Saw Three Mem There.
Swoboda said three men ran by him
In the tunnel, First was q man in a
blue suit whom he identified as Brothers.
The second man, who Swoboda said ran
out Just behind the frst man, was
dressed In gray. He said he did not see
the third man escape and could not
ewoboda said he noticed two spots
on the face Of the man who jostled him
in the subway and that these spots
helped him identity the defendant.
brothers looked directly at the wit
ness as he made his Identification.
Swoboda said he was born in Boz
hernia, worked as q chef in Europe and
then came to Chicago, where he worked
In a hotel until he was Said OF five
months ago. He said he was now SELL
ing herb tonic.
williams, one time Michigan City,
Ind, policeman and former brakeman
on an electric railway, pointed out
Brothers In the crowded court room
yesterday and said he saw him run out
Of the tunnel and disappear. down an
alley Immediately after the Tribune
crime reporter had been shot In the
back Of the head.
"I heard 9 mufaed report and al
most Immediately saw man run out
Of the east side entrance to the tunnel,
cut across Michigan avenue through
the trafflc and reach the corner across
the street from me-" said williams.
Williams testified that he had been
employed by the States attorney at q
salary Of 5000 q month since shortly
after the Ltngle staying last June, Wis
iting New York, st. Louis and other
cities 10 view suspects. He denied, how
ever, that he knew John Hagan, who
formerly operated detective bureau in
Kansas City and who has been named
by defense attorneys as the man who
first accused Brothers Is the Lingle
slayer.
Story Is Unshaken.
The witness testified that he never
saw Brothers from the time Of the slay-
Ing until last January IL.
OuuGE- cEOBS GAhI1AIl&UlOu,5 ~W1Lllam' q
story was mistaken, but he admitted
he had been discharged from his railway
Job because he had neglected to report
for work one day after q drinking party
Coroner Herman Bundesen, another
State witness, described how he traced
the pistol with which Ldngle was killed,
and which was found near the reporters
body, to Frank Foster, Chicago gang
gteT, who was also indicted In connec-
ton with Lingie's Death. The weapon
was entered as the States first exhibit.