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Show LETTERS GIVE KILLING CLUES BY KOBEIiT T. LOUGIIRAX CHICAGO, Nov. 15 U.R Two letters, one uncovered at Los Angeles, An-geles, the other at Chicago, gave police their first definite leads today in the gangland assassination assassina-tion of Edward J. O'Hare, millionaire mil-lionaire race track impresario. One gave clues to the actual killers; kill-ers; the other said Scarf ace Al Capone had sworn to kill O'Hare and indicated he still is overlord of the Chicago underworld. Both letters were- unsubstantiated. unsubstan-tiated. Police at Los Angeles and Chicago began immediate investigations investi-gations to ascertain their authenticity. au-thenticity. Former Jockey Police found one letter on the person of Russell Stoddard, 21, who was attacked and stabbed six times on a Los Angeles street late last night by two unidentified men. He said he was a former jockey at Tia Juna race track and had been O'Hare's bodyguard until recently. The letter indicated the writer knew the identity of assassins who shot and killed O'Hare last Wednesday as he drove toward Chicago from Sportsmen's park race track, of which he was president. Stoddard was held as a material witness. The second letter was found among O'Hare's effects by Chief Deputy Coroner Anthony Prusin-ski. Prusin-ski. It was twro convicts released from Alcatraz had heard Capone, while still in Alcatraz, made threats against O'Hare and that "the big-dago swears he is going to have O'Hare, or will see that some of his friends score for Eddie." (In underworld argot "scoring" means killing). Sounds Warning The letter found on Stoddard's p. :'son was mailed to him from Li.Je Rock, Ark., Saturday from a "Fed Young," who gave a return re-turn address of the Padock club. ! a tavern at Cicero, 111. It told j Stoddard "he did the right thing by leaving when he did, spoke of a "couple of c's reward," and concluded con-cluded with a warning, "carry little Oscar with you wherever you go and remember a guy named Eddie." Chicago and Cicero police had no record of a Fred Young. Lieut. Thomas J. Kelly of the Chicago police said he had not determined whether O'Hare had had a bodyguard named Fred Young. He said he had made inquiries in-quiries at the Paddock club( and would "await developments." "I'll send a man to Los Angeles today if Stoddard's story stands up," he said. |