Show POLITICAL D BOSS S SlAIN IN CHICAGO Thompson Anti-Thompson Leader Is 18 Shot Down by Gunmen Gunmen Gunmen Gun Gun- men in Autos S.- S. CHICAGO March 22 CAP CAP- Gangland's way three combination Hon of death guns death guns gunmen and a motor car has car has en ended ed the crowded fc ife of Diamond Joe Esposito 55 whose meteoric career began is u a aday aday day clay laborer in Brooklyn and ended as a Chicago political boss boas Fifty shotgun slugs were we're fired tired Into Diamond Joes Joe's body last night as ns he Was vas returning from a meeting meet m ing ing- of ot the political group with which he was affiliated the affiliated tho tho United States Senator Deneen or Thompson anti faction Three men meri shot him from behind As he lay dying one pumped an extra charge from a double bar bar- gun Into hl hi his back Then Thea they fled In iii an in automobile Yesterday Joe had been warned over the telephone to get out of ot town or get killed Less than n a month ago Philip Leonetti Who married Mrs Urs EsposIto's sister was wal slain In in the same neighborhood known as as the old bloody nineteenth nineteenth nine nine- but now a a. part o ot of the twenty fifth ward VICTOR IN 1920 Esposito first came into promInence prominence prom prom- as a political leader lewer In 1914 Gradually his power extend extended d until 1920 when h he became a candidate for ward committeeman on Senator Senator Senator Sen Sen- ator Deneen's slate and after a bitter light fight won the election He was the only Deneen candidate In Inthe Inthe inthe the city to win against the Thomp- Thomp son-Lundin son faction Soon after began the trail of bloodshed that reached his own doorstep last night and which gave to his ward the sobriquet of the bloody nineteenth nth A bomb was exploded at the home of Alderman John Powers Then Thea followed two on the same same day Paul Labriola a court bailiff for fifteen years was sh shot and killed in the morning The same afternoon Harry Raimondi was Both were reported lieutenants of Alderman Alderman Alderman Alder Alder- man Powers The next month Anthony dAndrea dAndrea dAndrea dAn drea Democratic ward leader was slain A few weeks later hater Joseph Laspisa was assassinated Esposito attended both funerals without his customary bodyguard and mourn mourned both victims as his friends The rhe list continued until eight had bad been I killed but Diamond Joe emerged unscathed LIQUOR WAR BLA BLAMED EDHe ED He had b become the Republican ward committeeman and was a candidate for reelection in th the April primaries when he was slain Police Pollee believed warfare over liquor privileges was the cause causa of ot i his death Joseph P. P Savage opponent opponent opponent op op- op- op of ot Esposito in the coming primaries said Diamond Joe was murdered murder as a result of ot Senator Deneen's Daneen's effort to use prohibition enforcement as a a. political measure before election It was said that liquor privileges cs recently had been curtailed curtailed curtailed cur cur- ward ard In the Esposito had lost tailed and that friends In Iju the to protect his power traced It to a ft business Others feud ot of the slot machine syndicate II it wm and attempted to connect it I bombings recent Friends of ot Es Esposito osito said lv they cy had at leave town implored to unable to do so 50 once but he be was because of the Illness of ot his son soil Joe who is 13 years old shots show Mrs Irs Esposito heard the that killed Jellied her husband and ran to tIe He th the street to find him dying dressed in his best clothes On was rin ring a diamond his finger was ho 1000 d dand valued at Through tho the diamond diamond dia din and dirt glistened his famous mond moad buckled belt and In hi his pockets pock several hundred dollars ets eta were and bank books bools showing large laige balances |