CRIMES IN CHICAGO

Taranaki Daily News, 18 October 1930, Page 9

CRIMES IN CHICAGO

INVESTIGATION bY. j URf* . MURDER OF A REPORTER, Chicago, Oct. •« The belief that, there is a /'Wrillcstablished, three-coi'neVcd ulliaUcO between the Chicago' -Police Departnidlit,. corrupt politicians Itjid the ctimitial element” was declared byHhe -September arand jury, following ‘ itsi special in*vestigatiou into the aetivities of gang* sters and racketeers. At the same time Dr. - Bundesen, thri coroner, resumed the inquest into the death, of the reporter, ■ Jak6 Lingl*. Frank Bell, a prlGOtiei' in thb ■ county prison, retold the S toty ;O.f the murdot of tile former Chicago Tribune reporter < a crime in which Bell admitted that he plaved a patt, and which was followed by" the murder'of Christ Patras, a ctife •owner, who was to have paid £2OOO for the murder of Lingle, and 4 similar amount for killing Jack Zuta, Two gangsters named Sullivan and TraUiii Are 'oil f emahd charged with -hating been accessories after.the fact, btit the unnamed' young mfih '-who actually shot Lingle is still not arrested. Bell admits slaying 'Pfitrad, being Mgeted because the “pay-off” for etitas. Itos not fofthcqtamg, .