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Show Torfman Slain : :y 3 V , EDWARD J. CHARE I Killed In 8npW Style BOMBING THREAT AIRED INKILLIIJG CHICAGO, Nov. t UPAa anonymous threat to bomb tht horn of Edward J. O'Har added a new clement of mystery today to the slaying of the nationally- j known turfman. . ' The threat to "blow up" the suburban Glencoe residence of the wealthy horse and doc track operator op-erator was telephoned to a negro maid whom the caller advised to leave immediately. O'Hare, 45, and president of Sportsman's Park race track, was slain In gangster fashion late yesterday yes-terday afternoon after a wild automobile au-tomobile chase along Ogden avenue. ave-nue. The victim raced his expensive automobile northeast toward the loop, apparently knowing he was marked for death. His car smashed Into a pole when he turned Into a side street. The assassins then slowed down to a atop and fired two shotgun charges. Find Unflred Pistol An unfired ,32-caliber pistol lay on the seat of O Hare's car. A crucifix, a rosary and a religious -medallion In s dot marked "Happy Birthday" were among the effects found In his pockets. Investigators reported they also found a memorandum which Indicated Indi-cated O'Hare recently had been in touch with the federal bureau of lnveslgatien. This led to a theory that the underwork! may have suspected him of having given Information to the FBI. The FBI refused to comment. Investigators also considered the possibility the slaying was the culmination of a quarrel arising from horse racing activities. The police said O'Hare had voiced a desire to quit the racing business because of tht "heat." Ready to Leave Towa An hour before the slaying O'Hare left the Sportsman's Park office, where he had been winding up his affairs preparatory to a trip to Florida. His racing interests in-terests extended from Chicago to Massachusetts and Florida. O'Hare was an attorney In St. Louis before turning to racing more than a decade ago. He waxed prosperous In the greyhound grey-hound racing business In southern Illinois. Later he became manager man-ager of the Hawthorne dog track In Chicago, a plant in which the Al Capone gang had an interest. He formerly published the Cicero Tribune In the suburb which once was the stronghold of the Capone group. In 1924 he was Indicted with Mrs. Imogene Remus, wife of George Remus, Cincinnati's "king of the bootleggers," bootleg-gers," on a charge Involving withdrawal with-drawal of medicinal whisky from a bonded warehouse. His subsequent subse-quent conviction was reversed, but he was never retried. |