MURDER OF REPORTER
ALLEGED GUNMAN SENTENCED. (United Press Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.) (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) New York, April 4. At Chicago, Leo Brothers a reputed St. Louis gunman was given 14 years in the State penitentiary for the murder of Alfred Lingle after the jury debated for 27 hours. This is probably one of the few murder trials recorded in which a verdict was sought without some sort of direct evidence leading to the motive for killing. The case pivoted wholly on identification. The defence will receive a hearing for an application for a new trial on April 17. Brothers’ only comment made to his guard was “Let’s duck.”
A message from Chicago on June 9, 1930, stated that Albert Lingle, a reporter on the staff of the Chicago Tribune, who had been investigating crime, was shot and killed by an unidentified assailant while entraining at the railway station in the heart of the city for a suburb on an assignment. His assailant escaped.
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Southland Times, Issue 21361, 6 April 1931, Page 7
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