CHICAGO SCANDAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20620, 19 July 1930, Page 11

CHICAGO SCANDAL.

JOURNALISTS CHARGED. ALLEGED PAY FROM GANGS. (Ileceived July 18, 10.35 p.m.) CHICAGO. July 17. • s i\ Chicago journalists have been named before a grand jury lor alleged racketeering (a form of blackmailing). One is the city editor of an evening newspaper and the others arc mostly • gangland " reporters whose names aro said to appear on the pay-rolls of gang leaders lor payments about six times as largo as their regular salaries. Ivival newspapers have been delving into the operations of Alfred L. Lirigle, formerly of the Tribune reporting staff, since he was killed, with the result that staffs of various newspapers are now involved. •Mfred Lingie was shot in the Illinois Central pedestrian subway under Michigan Boulevard at Handoiph Street, Chicago, at 1.25 p.m., on Monday, June 9. when he was on his way to catch a train to the Washington J.'ark race track. His pap r, r, the Tribune, said: "The manner <. f his murder, as described by a score of / witnesses, who agreed on the essential details, indicated that it. had been deliberately planned and executed At the I'nMic Library Lingie stopped to buy a newspaper. As he started toward the enhance to the tunnel under Miehigau Avenue, hp was hailed bv three men sitting in a roadster parked at liie comei. ill, not forget to play 11 y Snyder,' they ealleil. I,ingle waved his h;uif| and laughed lie Started down the stairway. There he '.'.as joined hy two linn, one nt whom was the murderer. Whether the men knew Lingie, and he flii-ni. or whether they pist sidled alongside ■of him in the walk through the subway, is not known. One witness, | 1 'at i i I; Campbell, <|eelared he had just alighted from a sulunban train a few Tiiinut fv before nnd was foin" westward through the tunnel, lie saw !,ingle com ing along with one man on each side of him. I tiie r.f the men slopped at the newsstand :ind bought a paper, lagging behind an instant. Then Campbell passed them all md a second later he heard a shot. Dropping the glove and pistol as he ran, the murdeier and his companion darted through the crowd in opposite dirc'tions A Ira flic policeman chased the assassin for a block and a- h a 11. then lost hiru in an alley.'' •Tier Hip murder it was revealed that Lingie was a wealthy man and <he allegation was made that he had received payments from criminal gangs.