Show POLICE PUlI E DOUBT Sl YER'S DE TH Think Chicago Thug Enacted Hoax CHICAGO Nov 13 AP Mar AP-Mar- Mar Martin tl tin J. J Durkin auto thief and slayer may be drowned in the Chicago river or or he ma may have hae perpetrated a suicide hoax with stained blood and torn shot-torn clothing and a farewell fare fare- well weli letter to his mother The handwriting and found on the Michigan boulevard bridge last night were Identified as his by his sister Coast guards dragged the river all night Despite the assertion that the writer wa was slowly dying ot ofa a bullet bullet bullet bul bul- let wound in the lung Jung and was desperate desperate desperate des des- because he had to hide hide- in basements and filch mch food from Iceboxes iceboxes iceboxes ice ice- boxes the poll polite police e doubted the ex expressed expressed expressed ex- ex pressed intention to end it all In the therl river rl There was little doubt though but that the letter arid and clothing were genuine Th The bu bue overcoat and a a. gray suit coat bearing a a. a Kansas City firms firm's label had shotgun shotgun shotgun shot shot- gun t tears rs through the left sleeve and dried blood on the linings A Adark Adark Adark dark plaid cap was found beside the coats All would fit a man of D Durkins Durkin's build S Durkin was thought wounded When then hen he escaped October 29 from a police poUce trap set In iii the of Lloyd Austin who with Sergeant Harry Gra Gray was killed In the en ensuing enung pistol battle Durkin previously was sought In many cities after he had had killed Edward Shanahan a federal agent gent who attempted to arrest him In lr a g garage for rage for an auto theft October 11 The letter containing tw twelve lve pages expressed r regret gret for slayings slayings' and told of the he writers writer's love for the mother and for Mrs Betty Werner with whose small son on he had planned to start a new and clean life Ufe It breaks break's m my my heart to do this thing but I know its it's much better than getting killed by the police pollee They kill killme me even before I got to trial the letter said The writer said his arm had been broken by shotgun fire and that he had a a bullet in jn hl hi his lung which made him think he was getting lockjaw Crime dont don't pay I see but too l late te the letter concluded I |