Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-04-22 | Page 7 | Gunman Gives Life to Save His Chief

GUNMAN GIVES II LIFE E ETO TO S VE HIS CHIEf CHICAGO April 22 UP UP-A UP A plot to wipe out the gang of ot Frank and Vincent McErlane was believed by police poUce today to have failed because Edward Fitzgerald McErlane's pal selected to ro risk his life and life and lost It It- It rather rathel than tell where his Ills friends were hiding Fitzgerald was shot down late yesterday yesterday yes yes- by four enemy gangsters gangsters gangsters-be- be believed by police to have been followers of oC Al Capone Capone in in a south side saloon When the gangsters tried to force him to leave with them he tried to torun torun torun run and was shot through the head The sh shOoting occurred just outside a saloon operated by Eddie Courtney who was Indicted several years ears ago on charges of oC trying to fix the Jury which found former Governor Len Small not guilty of misappropriating state funds Courtney was beaten severely when he tried to prevent the four gangsters from entering the saloon Police said the and Capones Ca Ca- pones had been at war for some time because the refused to buy Capones Capone's beer a. I