THREE MEN MURDERED.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 29 April 1926, Page 7

THREE MEN MURDERED.

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♦ CHICAGO’S LATEST CRIME. BY GANG IN ARMEDi OAR. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received 1.15 p.m. to-day. NEW YORK, April 28. . All United States was shocked at Ohioago’is latest murder in which the assistant State Attorney, Air.. AlcSwiggin, also two notorious beer runners, Tames Doherty and Thomas Duffy, were slain by a group of gangsters. Air. AloSiwigigin was making underworld investigations regarding a murder case assigned to him. He was tailing to Doherty, Duffy and two other meii on the -street when a curtained autom&bile drew up bristling with weapons the chief of which was a machine gun All blazed away and AloSwiggni and Doherty fell dead, while Duffy was mortally wounded. The remaining two men took Dnffy to the hospital, wheie he died. The assassins took the ibodies of AlcSwiggin and Doherty miles away to a -spot where they left them, later abandoning the oar in another place and fled. iSo far -the murderers have not been discovered. . It was uncertain whether Alobiwiggin was killed because he was .responsible for many death sentences imposed on gangters, or whether Doherty and Duffy were slain on account of a feud among beer-runners and AlcSwiggin feu an accidental victim. Hundreds' of -sus peets have been rounded up throughout the city.—Aus.-N.Z. Gable Assn.