SENSATION IN CHICAGO.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 30 April 1926, Page 9

SENSATION IN CHICAGO.

Group Of Three Murdered. GANGSTERS USE MACHINE GUNS. By Cable—Press Association —Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cabio Association. NEW YORK, April 28. All the United States is shocked at Chicago’s latest murder, in which the assistant State Attorney (Mr McSwiggin) and also tw’o notorious beer runners, Jas. Doherty and Thomas Daffy, wero slain by a group of gangsters. _ Mr McSwiggin was making unueiworld investigations regarding a murder case assigned to him. He was talking to Doherty arid Duffy and two other men on the street, when a curtained automobile drew up, bristling with weapons, the chief of winch was a machine-gun. . . . All blazed away, and McSwiggin and Doherty fell dead, while Duffy was mortally wounded. The remaining two men took Duffy to hospital, where he died. The assassins took the _ bodies or McSwiggin and Doherty miles away, to a spot where they left them, later abandoning the car in another place, and fled. So far the murderers have not been discovered. _ . It is uncertain whether McSwiggin was killed because he was responsible for many death sentences imposed on gangsters, or whether Doherty and Duffv wero slain on account of a feud among beer runners, and, McSuiggin fed as an accidental victim. Hundreds of suspects have been rounded up throughout the city.