LAW CHIEF SHOT DOWN BY CHICAGO GANG.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17833, 29 April 1926, Page 9

LAW CHIEF SHOT DOWN BY CHICAGO GANG.

ASSISTANT STATE ATTORNEY MURDERED WHILST DOING HIS DUTY; BEER-RUNNERS ALSO FALL BENEATH FUSILADE.

By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.-—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn. (Received April 20, 12.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, April 28.

AII the United States is shocked at Chicago’s latest murder, in which the Assistant State Attorney, Mr MeSwiggin, and also two notorious beer-runners. James Doherty and Thomas Duffy, were slain by a group of gangsters. Mr MeSwiggin was making underworld investigations regarding a murder case assigned io him. He was talking to Doherty and Duffy and two other men on the street, when a curtained automobile drew up, bristling with weapons, the chief of which was a machine-gun. AII blazed away and MeSwiggin 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 of MeSwiggin 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 gone undiscovered. It is uncertain whether MeSwiggin was killed because he was responsible for many death sentences imposed on gangsters, or whether Doherty and Duffy were slain on account of a feud among beer-runners, and that MeSwiggin fell an accidental victim.

Hundreds of suspects have been rounded up throughout the city.