SEVEN MEN MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD
r . CHICAGO SHOCKED BY BRUTAL CRIME -• ' ARMED GANGSTERS •RAID MOTOR GARAGE c ;- : / ’* - j ' ' OUTGROWTH' OF SO CALLED BEER WAR. . (Received) 10.30’a.m.) T ' ' NEW YORK, February 11. '• News frota Chioagot states that one of the moat cold blooded crimes in the city’s history occurred! whom, two 'automobile loads of gangsters raided a garage where a cartage company hpd its headquarters ; and murdered]’ seven employees with sawed shot guns. The police construed the assassinations as the outgrowth of the so-called beer war .and/ said it is likely some employees of the cartage company had been engaged in, ~, running, beer, The roar of the shots was so great that persons in the - •neighbourhood jtjhoughfc an explosion ' had occurred. The vrfftims were treated in the customary gang manner namely shot, clown a chance to defend tTfemsolvesT "* the murderers escaped.—Australian Press As. an.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 37, 15 February 1929, Page 5
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