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CHICAGO GARAGE MURDERS.' , COMMISSIONER'S BELIEF,. . . *' WASHINGTON; Feb. 16. ..;.. !A| Chicago imesaage statics, "thatl the Assistant-Prohibition ; Administrator, Mr. Silloway, says, it is , his , belief it was members of the police Lforce'wno killed the seven employees of a cartage company who were alto have been engaged in running beer. He said he felt the act . arose, from the failure of the police to obtain the requisite bribes which they had been exacting from various factions engaged 'in beej-run- > ning. PURPLE GAJJIG. '[ The CKicago Daily News declares its reporters found that the killing of the seven men in the garage was the. result of a gigantic war, involving millions of dollars, between Canadian distillers which kept representatives in Chicago and other American cities. The Daily "News_ adds that the. execution squad that lined the men against the garage wall consisted, of imported members of the Gang from Detroit. •• <
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 38, 18 February 1929, Page 5
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