Evening star., 1932-12-13
CRIME TOLL EIGHT
IN DAY IN CHICAGO
Three Policemen Among
Those Slain in Wave
of LaWIeSSness. >

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. December 13.-Metropol
itan Chicago counted eight deaths BY
violence today-six by guns cracking
and reverberating in near zero temper
atures, one by suffocation when rob
bers left woman victim to die after
binding and gagging her and another
by stabbing.
OF the six, three were policemen, enc
bandit, another an alleged automobile
thief and a. other a former lightweight
boxer.
The killings occurred within few
hours of an anti-crime ultimatum de-
iyered by Mayor Anton J. Cermak L
the city's police captains.
List cf Dead.
The dead:
Detectives Frank Syec. A. and Edgar
Chatterton, 80, of Suburban BarWyn's
Police Department.
-+olce Albert G. Magoon, 35.
A robber identified by police as Al
Bert White, "a, died while being taker
to the Bridewell Hospital after engaging
in pistol fight with drug store owner
and an employe he ard a confederate
attempted to hold up.
joseph Seidel, 20. sh;t and instantly
killed by poll i,lring a 4-mile chase
in a stolen CO..
frankie Scha.ser. Sc. former boxer.
Body found in taii)r shop which
police said was beer fiat.
Miss Gertrude Frish, 40, suffocated
while her 75-year-olG father. also
bound and gagged. look ID on unable to
Mrs. Miguel Ramires. g. A boarder
in her home, Vincent 'Iranades, was
hunted by police after hcr husband re-
ported finding her stabbet' to death.
Slain Serving Variant
Detectives Svec and r1n,...erton were
shot down at the back door of Arthur
1avac's house in Berwyn when they
40, charging him with failure to send
his l0-year-old daughter and 7-year-
old son to school. Lavac, arrested soon
after. confessed, police said. but pleaded
he thought the officers were robbers.
MasCon was killed in reputed beer
fiat by Two bullets fired from a weapon
concealed IN the oVercoat pocket of one
OF th1r- men when he joined an argu-
mcnt they Eere having with the owner,
Jerry Mass, lnlice we're told
The officer rad lust ordered one Of
the trio. who represented themselves as
the alcohol syndicate" to remove his
hand from his coat pocket and was
advancing toward him when the pistol
blazed forth, Mass tcld police. The trio
escaped.
Spectacular Iooting.
The drug store bandit fell mortally
wounded in the most spectacular shoot
ing CT all. He and companion had
entered Walter Krops pharmacy and
ordered the six persons IN the place.
including three customers. o stick EN-
UP"
All complied except Krol, and Steve
kirincie. watchman. who immediately
seven struck the robber. Kirincie was
shot twice in each leg and rop in the
ankle. The other robber fltd
The body Of the former boxer,
frankie Schaeffer, 30 was found in
a tailor shop which police said was
known IS beer fiat. Fred Rowan, col
ored, the owner was sought. The kill
ing recalled the gangland execution a
year ago of Schaeffer's former manager,
Martin CBabe) Mullaney
Miss Frish was left to die by two
young hoodlums who spent three hours
looting small candy store onerated by
her and her father, Frederick Frish.
Forcing their way into the place after
closing hours, they tied the father and
daughter to two chairs and gagged
them with rags, old ropes and pieces Of
clothing Frish told police later he saw
his daughter suffering the agonies OF
tufTocation but was unable to help her.
The robbers got SO.