The Bismarck tribune., 1932-12-13
Violence Claims
Eight Chicag0ans
Six Men Are Shot, Woman Is
Suffocated and Another
Woman Is Stabbed
THREE POLICEMEN VICTIMS
Night of Terror Follows Mayor
Cermak's Inauguration of
Drive on Crime

Chicago, Dec. 13.-tP)-Metropoli
Chicago counted eight deaths by vio-
lence Tuesday-siX by guns cracking
and reverberating in near zero tenn
peratures; one by suffocation when
robbers left woman victim to die
after binding and gagging her, and
another by stabbing.
OF the six, three were policemen
, one a bandit, another an alleged au-
tomobile thief and another a former
lightweighs boxer.
The killings occurred within a few
hours of an anti-crime ultimatum de-
livered by Mayor Anton ]. Cermak to
the city's police captains.
The dead:
Detectives Frank Svec. A, and Ed
gar Chatterton, 33, of Suburban
Berwyn's police department.
Policeman Albert G. Magoon. 35.
A robber identified by police as AL
bert White. "a, died while being taken
to the Bridewell hospital after engag
ing in pistol fight with drug store
owner and an employe he and a con
federate attempted to hold up.
Joseph Seidel, 20, shot and killed by
police during four-lnile chase in a
stolen car.
Frankie Schaeffer, 80, former boxer.
Body found in tailor shop which
police said was a beer flat
Woman SuffOcates
Miss Gertrude Frish. 40, suffocated
while her 75-year- old father, also
bound and gagged, looked on unable to
help her.
Mrs. Miguel Ramires. %, boarder
in her home, Vincente Granades. was
hunted by police after her husband
reported finding her stabbed to death.
Detectives Svec and Chatterton
were shot down at the back door of
Arthur Lavac's house in Berwyn when
they knocked to serve warrant upon
Lavac, 40. charging him with failure
to send his lO-year-old daughter and
seven -year-old son to school. Lavac
arrested soon after, confessed, police
! said, but pleaded he thought the Of
ficers were robbers.
Magoon was killed in a reputed beer
flat by two bullets fired from weap-
on concealed in the overcoat pocket
OF one of three men when he joined
an argument they were having with
the owner, Jerry Mass, police were
told.
The officer had just 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, Mass told police. The
trio escaped.
The drug store bandit fell NOR
tally wounded in the most spectacular
shooting of all. White and a companion
had entered Walter Krops pharmacy
and ordered the six persons In the
place, including three customers, to
stick EN- up"
Shot Seven Times
All complied except Krop and Steve
Kirincie, watchman, who immedi-
ately opened fire. In the exchange of
shots seven struck the robber Kirincie
was shot twice in each leg and Krop
in the ankle. The other robber fled.
The body of the former boxer,
frankie Schaeffer, 30, was found in a
tailor shop which police said was
known as beer flat. Fred Rowan,
Negro owner, was sought. The kill
ing recalled the gangland execution
a year ago of Schaeffer's former man
ager. Martin (Babe) Mullaney.
Miss Frisch was left to die by two
young hoodlums who spent three
hours looting q small candy store
operated by her and her father,
Frederick Frisch.
Forcing their way into the place
after closing hours they tied the faith
er and daughter to two chairs and
gagged them with rags, old ropes and
pieces of clothing. Frisch told police
later he saw his daughter suffering
the agonies of suffocation but was
unable to help her.
The robbers got SO.