Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-12-07 | Page 26 | Officer Killed While Seated in Room of Home

T To V Wasatch l O OFFICER fR KILLED WHILE SEATED If IN j I ROOM Of H HOME Mf Alcohol Runners Shoot Through Window Blowing Blowing Blowing Blow Blow- ing Off Mans Man's Head CHICAGO AGO Dec 7 United Press Outlaws hurled defiance at the thene new ne administration of law enforcement enforce enforce- m ment nt in in Cook county today by committing two murders rs in in the out southern ern part parr of the metropolitan politan area Within twelve ho hours hours' s' s after the nc neW states state's a attorney e John A A. f n had issued a dec declaration of or war on gangsters beer beer- runners f killed of ot Police Leroy Gilbert of the Villa ViIla 7 of ot South Chicago r heights They rested the muzzle of ofa a sa ed off shotgun on the front of ot Gilberts Gilbert's hl home and n- n 1 slew blew his head oft off as he sat reading under the light of a bridge lamp A stray slug tore the second finger Singer from irom the left hand of the chiefs chief's Wife w Its who sat on a da davenport daenport en port across the loom room al hours later a group of fIve live men In Jn an automobile l bellev believed ed to bo e the Gilbert opened I the Lire on an automobile on the Lincoln Lin- Lin coln highway high a few blocks away vay and murdered Tom Scanlan 23 a typesetter for the Chicago Heights Star Police PoUce believe the gunmen n mistook the car In fn which Scanlan wa was riding with Alvin for a part pait of a motored posse which I lui had l' l been organized to capture them was wab not hit I I The Gilbert murder vas ivas easily exi explained e The police chief had hadt tiVon t on the enmity of Sicilian alcohol runners runners who infest South Chicago Heights by capturing a truckload of of their alcohol lie ne was to have appeared at prohibition headquarters ter today with a report on the theca ca captures capture ure