| Show S V CRIME CZAR FIGHTS U U. 5 1 S. S Two Lieutenants ki j Put on Spot tc Stop Testimony 0 Capone Mobster Dies With 72 Slugs in Body Companion Commits Suicide e na Rather V V S Than Meet l Similar pea h B Br fly United Press S CHICAGO Oct 10 A lO-A A ruthless gang czar believed to have ordered the slaying of two of his hiS' lieutenants he sus suspected p of giving inform information tIon to federal officers fought de des de desperately today to thwart the government war against V t crime S The deaths of of- ofGus Gus Winkler and d Edgar Edgar Edgar Ed Ed- gar known for lor their gang connections w were re ordered fed fc eral officers believe because of fear they might reveal the wide Vide J- J of a gigantic crime ring 1 Winkler was killed yesterday by assassins who vho fired 72 shotgun slugs slug into nto his liis' back bak a few lew hours before h ho was to have been questioned again concerning th the Chicago mall mai mai V robbery last las December ger was found sho shot shoe to death in his hii palatial north shore home last Fri day DEATHS MYSTERY 1 S The deaths of ot Winkler and Lebens- Lebens berger remained as as perplexing a mystery my mys tery as as- does the higher hI up p from front whom they took their orders orders' and relayed re re 5 them to hundreds hundreds' of bank bank rob robbers bers hers bond wiers and racketeers in a dozen middle western cities L Both Joth oth were regarded as as' big shots t gangsters b because caus of th their lr reputed re reputed connections with som one pow v erful edul enough politically ally to prevent r a atoo too close scrutiny of ot their activities S b by city and state authorities Und Under r the direction n jot of this modern modem Fagin according to r revelations revelations' already al al' al already ready made a ring th that included d atone atone at atone one one time or another such n notorious to oWl gunmen as as Harvey Bailey Fred Killer Burke George Machine Gun Kelly Verne Miller and Frank Nash robbed s scores ores of banks and mail malt trucks trucks' and trafficked in millions of f dollars in stolen SCORE ARRESTED More than a sedre score of men men suspected of at connection with the gang already lr ady arc are under arrest here Warrants have havo been issued lor at least seven others Those Those- under arrest include John iJohn J J. J Boss McLaughlin and Edward San Sans The list of crimes attributed to the toe gang includes several the machine gun robbery of a Lincoln Neb bank of in 1930 and the Chicago Chicag mall mail robbery last December er McLaughlin and s Sans ns were arrested in connection With the Chicago mail robbery had be been n jn- jn in indicted dieted in connection with the s same m crime Because of fear he might give federal agents information n he was marked for death Apparently he killed himself rath rather r than await gang assassination KILL KILLERS R ESCAPE Winkler who talked his way out o othe of ot the Lincoln robbery investigation b by 1 bargaining to return in n negotiable g securities was to have been questioned concerning the Chicago mail robbery and the more recent more recent federal fed ed eral bank mail holdup and the slaying of ot Patrolman Miles Cunningham He was shot down as he le walked nonchalantly from his automobile to c the door of a beer distributing com corn pany The fusillade of shot was fired by gunmen hidden in a small smaIl green truck The killers left no trail that police p-olice have rove been able to pick pickup up One man listed as a suspect in the slaying of ot Winkler was arrested today to day for questioning He Is Dominic Marzano 23 Police were informed he was near the scene of the killing five minutes before Winkler arrived Deaths Mark Rise V Of Gang Leader S S CHICAGO Oct 10 UP The ie bizarre series of ot events that carried Gus Winkler to fo o his underworld peak was revealed by authorities today revealing re re- a strange succession of gang alliances each one interrupted by death V Winkler was reputed to have first gained gamed recognition by wielding a gun gunin gunin gunin in the St. St Valentines Valentine's day massacre in 1929 Seven of George Bugs Morans Moran's men w were re shot down to make maker r room om for Al AI Capon Capone's Capones s 's mob on the north side S V Ted Newberry was put in charge o othe of ot the north side with Winkler as a lieu lieu- u Continued on Pate Page Two ee LENIENCY ASKED D FOR MRS KELLY J Continued from Pate Pan One OneS OneR R. R G. G at the first trial He intimated there might be less legs chance of eligibility for a parole under a 99 year term Mrs KeU Kell Kelly came to court leaning on the arm of ot J. J C. C White the federal agent she slapped yesterday and who subdued Kelly when the latter tried to at attack ck White The two chatted i gaily gally together |
