GANG WARFARE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 129, 3 June 1930, Page 7

GANG WARFARE.

UNDERWORLD FEUDS

13 Deaths in Worst Wave of

Slaying in U.S.A.

BEER RUNNERS' CLASHES.

(United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright)

(Received 10.30 a.m.)

NEW YORK, June 2,

Eleven gangsters and two policemen were killed over the week-end in one of the worst recrudescences of gang warfare ever recorded in the east and middle-western States.

Chicago led all the rest with three killings this morning, when a macliiuegun was trained and fired through a small suburban hotel window by one of the rival beer running factions. There were two other gang murders on Saturday and five other underworld characters, including a woman, were wounded in to-day's outbreak.

Detroit reported that two police officers were slain by bootleggers and three men killed by gangsters. Passaic, New Jersey, reported that three notori-' ous beer runners were shot to death, and from Boston it is announced that two* gangsters were seriously wounded by machine-gun fire from an automobile.

A dispatch regarding the Chicago incident states that three notorious gangsters were killed early to-day at a road house. Machine-guns placed on the sill of a window in the dining room poured 300 slugs at five people seated at a table. ; •

Two of the remainder, one of whom was a woman, were gravely wounded. Those killed were Sam Pellar, Michael Quirk, who had twice been acquitted of murder, and Joseph Bertsche, a safeblower recently released from gaol. v

Three other men who drove the wounded people GO miles to Chicago University Hospital refused to give their names. Chief Detective Stege is not- sure whether the crime was the outcome of a war between the Moran and Capone gangsi However, he expects retaliations.

WHERE THE BODIES GO.

BOOTLEG CREMATORIUM.

CHICAGO, May 30.

John Stege, chief detective, has just learned why Chicago's gang killing average has slumped lately. It is because the gangsters are burning their victims' bodies in a bootleg crematorium. Detectives are now searching for the hidden furnace which is used as a crematorium, catering exclusively to the gangster trade.