Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-05-18 | Page 11 | Officers Guard Judge, Juror

fRS GUARD GUARDi UARi i i JUD JUDGE f JUR JUROR H Hj j CH CHICAGO CAGO I 1 May y 18 AP AP-A AP A judge and a a. jur Juror r slept last night under police protection because each had challenged the power of vt gangland to subvert the law John P. P l of the criminal court was the Judge It was in his court that Eugene Red McLaughlin Mc Mc- Laughlin was convicted of highway y l' l robbery earU earlier l' l this we week lc Fred W. W v. v Eicke was the ju Juror or lIe He was twelve who found Ih g guilty Ut- Ut The hidden p powers battling in l behalf a ready already had struck k at bombing his home Wednesday night The Te bomb followed followed followed fol fol- lowed a ours after Eicke had told Judge McGoorty l that two men had sought to influence his ver verdict to r of McLaughlin Eicke Elc said t that at one of the men who visited him in the defendants defendant's behalf was Robert McLaughlin 1 brother of Red and president of the Checker Cab company Judge McGoorty called upon Police po police Po- Po lice ice for protection protection- for lor f r Eicke after uncovering evidence nce Which which convinced convinced con con- vinced him the lives of sev several ral persons persons per per- sons involved in Jn tho the McLaughlin c case se were endangered red were cre assigned d to accompany the tM three Eicke children to and from school to watch the Eicke home and to act as a n. p personal guard to the Juror himself rear Fear of gang reprisal was the reason police pollee assigned for the disappearance dis dig appearance of Robert Newman n New York Jewelry salesman who I was the principal witness against I McLaughlin Newman also testified testified fied that tha t Robert McLaughlin l had I attempted attempt d to influence him to I change his testimony