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Show BOMB THOUGHT DEATH CAUSE Chicago Police Captain Accuses Ac-cuses Gangsters Of Wife's Death CHICAGO, Oct. 10. (UP) A militant police captain blamed the death of his wife on underworld vengeance today while authorities threw guards around the homes of two judges who had been threatened threaten-ed with bombings because of their prosecution of gangsters. Capt. Luke Garrick's wife died in a hospital. The captain said he was convinced her life had been shortened by the shock of a bomb which was set off under his home recently after he had taken the assignment as-signment of running outlaws out of the west side. Mrs. Garrick had been an invalid for several years. Two Judges Threatened The judges who received bomb thrats were William J. Lindsay, Democratic candidate" for state's attorney, and John H, Lyle. They were sa'd to have earned the wrath of the gangsters by setting high bonds. The only other development in the Chicago gang war today was the machine tin attack on Spike O'DonneJl, lieutenant of Al Capone, the Cicero beer merchant. Four automobiles swept by in front of a garage owned by O'Donnell's brother, Steve, raking the front of rhe building with bullets. Spike was beiieved to have been sitting in an automobile in front of the garage, although he denied it when he was brought to police station with bullet bul-let hole in his coat. The automobile automo-bile had been punctured by 25 machine gun slugs. |