MURDER OF REPORTER.
CRIME IN CHICAGO. WANTED MAN ARRESTED. (R ceived January 8, 11.35 p.m.) NEW YORK, Jan. 8. A message from Chicago says tho arrest of the murderer of Alfred Lingle, a reporter on the Chicago Tribune, is announced by Mr. Pat Roche, investigator for the State Attorney. Tho arrested man, Leo V. Brothers, is wanted in St. Louis for a gang murder. He had been positively identified as the murderer., He was captured on December 21.
Lingle, who had been investigating crime, was shot and killed by an assailant while he was boarding a train at a railway station in the heart of the city. His assailant escaped. His murder appears to have been carefully planned. At Michigan Avenue Corner three men in a parked roadster called to him. "Do not forget to play Doc Schneider," shouted one, referring to a horse popular with punters, for Linglo was on his way to the races. This is believed to have been tho signal for tho assassin, for a passer-by noticed two strangers step behind Lingle and follow him into a traffic tunnel. A moment later one shot him and as quickly disappeared. The crime caused a great sensation in Chicago, and large rewards were offered for the arrest of the murderer. It was later disclosed that Lingle and several admitted gangsters were partners in the Sheridan Wave, a gambling resort. The Tribune published a statement of its profound surprise and humiliation to learn that Lingle, who covered the gangster beat, was really a partner ifi underworld crimes. Receiving a salary of £l3 a week, Lingle apparently handled hundreds of pounds a week in graft from disorderly resorts. His finger was in many queer pics, and. at the same time, he was a partner of Police Commissioner Russell in Stock Exchange speculations, logether they made £42.000 last year, but lost all in the October market crash. In accounting for his wealth, Lingle told the Tribune he had inherited a fortune from an uncle, who turned out to be a myth.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20767, 9 January 1931, Page 11
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