Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-26
BROTHERS ACCUSED.
BY THREE AT TRIAL.
Truck Driver Points Out Al
legged Slayer of LingIe
From Stand.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CRIMINAL COURTS BUILDING,
CHICAGO, March 26.-A young truck
driver who chased a man for several
blocks after the assassination last June
Of Alfred Jake" Lingle, Tribune re-
porter. pointed at Leo Brothers at his
murder trial today and said 1T think
that's the man."
Third Identifies Him.
Patrick Campbell was the third person
to pick out Brothers as the man who
fed from the scene of the staying. He
said he was half way out of the Ran
dolph street pedestrian tunnel last June
8 when he heard q shot.
He had reached the street. Campbell
said, when he heard a cry, Stop that
man" and saw q man running across
Michigan avenue. He followed him
down Randolph street past the public
library and into an alley. He. stopped
as a policeman took up the chase.
And do you see that man in the
court room?" he was asked
Il think that's the man over there, !"
pointing to the defendant.
On cross-exsmination, Campbell said
he received $40 from the State at
torney's Office. for two days he spent at
the Detective Bureau looking at pictures
of suspects. He said he expected to
get paid for five other days.
The connection, If any, that Frank
Foster. Chicago gangster, had in the
assassination Of Lingle became a matter
of speculation today.
Foster, who was captured last July
in Los Angeles by detectives under
Patrick Roche chief investigator for the
States attorney, was linked with the
case by the testimony of Otto Swoboda
a State witness, who said he saw three
men run out of the Randolph street
pedestrian tunnel after Ltngle was shot.
One Of them was Brothers, he said.
The other was Foster.
Defense Is Surprised.
The testimony caused a sensation In
the crowded court room since there had
been no intimation Of this from the
prosecution. The defense was likewise
apparently taken by surprise.
Swoboda, under call for further ex-
animation when court opened today,
testified under questioning by Attorney
Harry Cantwell Of st. Louis, represent
ing Brothers, that the man he knew as
Foster, had been waiting az the subway
entrance with Brothers Just prior to the
shooting Of Iingle, and that Foster had
lit cigarette for Brothers, who kept
his left hand in his pocket.
Foster Called Gangstef.
Foster is reputed to have been q mem
Der of the gang of George Bugs"
Moran. Jack zuta and Joe Aiello, which
Is reported TO have had q grievance
against Lingle. Zuta was killed last
Summer after he had been questioned
In connection with Lingle's case, and
Aiello was slain last Fall when ambush
ed by machine guns on the North Side.
Foster to Claim Abb
Defense attorneys said before court
opened that they were anxious to bring
out the fact that Swoboda was positive
in his Identification of Foster because
Foster had an iron-clad abb and could
not have been in Chicago on the date
Of the murder.
The moIes swoboda said he saw on
the face Of the man June and which
he said helped him PICK out Brothers
AAA Wax OCo1AlAOAIs
He was asked to point out on hts own
face where the noles were, and he put
his fingers on two spots on his right
cheek.
Didn't you say yesterday that the
moles were on his chin7"
mo, sir, didn't say that. They
were on his cheek"
ibid the man you saw that day have
q scar, red scar on his face?"
Dark in Subway.
well, ] didn't see any. You see It
was dark in the subway"
But not too dark to see the moles?"
mo those dark moles showed up"
The witness was asked II the n1oles
were the only means he had Of pick
ing out brothers.
mo, / can remember faces when they
are as SCARED as he was"
The State dismissed Swoboda almost
Immediately after the defense completed
its cross examination. Yesterday he
testified he had received about $500
from the States attorneys ONCE to help
him out while he was out Of employ
ment.