Evening star., 1947-12-14
Gang Victim S Son, 8,
Is Reported Missing
After Staying Of -Four
BY the Associated Press


old son of a victim of one of the
bloodiest bursts of killings since the
st. Valentine Day slaughter of
nearly 10 years ago was reported
missing tonight.
Marquette Station police said
Thomas Kuesis, son of John Kuesis
one of four men killed in the climax
of neighborhood feud, had been
missing from his South Side home
since noon Friday, before the bizarre
shooting spree began that night
In a series of shootings extending
over more than six hours last night
and early today in Chicago and sub
urban Brookfeld, Kuesis, 40. and
two other men were slain in a gang
land-style ride, and two other men
survived the same ordeal by play
ing dead.
Slayings Laid to Grudge.
The multiple slayings were at
tributed to grudge of Thomas
Daley, AZ. an ex-convict who had
threatened to wipe out" the whole
Kuesis family, and who himself was
slain by police.
One man was under arrest and
another was sought.
However police expressed doubt
that the Kuesis boy had fallen vic
tim to the gunner who killed his
father. They said he was last seen
by neighborhood children Friday
afternoon with another boy, known
only as Buddy" who had run away
from home several times.
Thomas mother said the young
ster has been missing since he left
home at noon Friday.
Police said Daley believed Kuesis,
a secondhand furniture dealer, was
a stool pigeon in a robbery case
in which Daley was acquitted.
Daley and two companions killed
kuesis, Emil Schmeichel, Is, and
James Calls, 80, also known as
Jimmy Alex, Police Capt. Andrew
Aitken, deputy chief of detectives,
said. Daley was killed later by police
as he tried to escape from the WIN
dow of the home of an accomplice
where police had trapped him.
Survivors Tell of Death Ride.
Capt. Aitken said survivors of the
death ride and one man under ar
rest gave this version of the killings:
Daley drove up to the South Side
garage of Kuesis' brother, Nick,
accompanied by Lowell Fentress, 19,
bridegroom of 10 days, and James
Norelli, 10.
Lowell Fentress, 10. a bridegroom
OF 10 days, and James Norelli, 10.
While Fentress held pistol on
four men in the garage-Nick
Kuesis, Schmeichel, Calls and
Baker. 17-Daley and Morelll
forced John Kuesis into the alley.
There were sounds of a scuffle, then
a shot.
The two ran back to the garage
and they and Fentress forced the
other four victims into the rear of
their sedan.
Daley, who was mad drunk" re-
moved the bullets from his heavy
automat tic, and "snap-fred" several
time at Nick, who was kneeling on
the floor Then he reloaded and
shot Nick in the back of the neck,
saying that's one Greek less
Victim Plays Dead, Escapes.
At Brookfeld, Daley directed
Fentress TO dump Nick in snow
bank. Nick, who still was conscious,
played dead. Then Daley shot
Baker in the chest and told Fren-
tress to shoot the readhead again,
he's still alive" Frentress dumped
him alongside Nick and fired wild
shot "purposelessly,' he said. The
bullet nicked Bakers finger.
Calls, who was in the back seat
with Schmeichel, started pleading
for his life. They drove almost an
hour, not much being said. Then
Norelli suddenly turned in the front
seat ana shot Schmeichel in the
stomach. He dragged the youth to
the side of the road and put an
other bullet in his head
An hour later Morelli shot Calls,
showed him out of the car and fired
two more bullets into his head.
The slayers tossed away their
guns, and Fentress returned to a
Chicabo hotel. where he was honey
incoming. Daley and Morelli went
to Morelli's apartment.
Fentress Surrenders.
However, police were waiting for
Fentress. Nick Kuesis, after being
dumped from the car, had crawled
to home in Brookheld and related
his story. Fentress surrendered
without struggle.
Police squads surrounded Morelli's
apartment. Daley, armed, started to
crawl through a rear window. Sergt.
Joseph McCabe cut loose with
burst of machine-gun bullets and
Daley spun back into the room
Sergt. Frank Pape, who forced the
front door, hit Daley with five pistol
shots.
Morelli was not in the apartment
and police questioned his wife, who
was asleep when the shooting
started.
MIN hueSlS was cApeCGeu W Ie-
over and Baker was given a $3.50
chance" Baker said he believed
they tried to kill him because those
guys apparently wanted to make
sure nobody would be left to tell how
they started their night of murder"
Four Have Police Records.
Police said Daley, Morelli, John
Kuesis and Fentress had police rec
ords.
Assistant States Attorney Rich
ard Austin said the slayings were
"as vicious" as the st. Valentine
Days murder of seven men in a
North Side garage on February IA,
1929 Five of the victims were men,