America Shocked

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVI, Issue 112, 29 April 1926, Page 5

America Shocked

Chicago’s Latest Murder PROMINENT OFFICIAL SLAIN. MOTIVES UNCERTAIN. IBy Cable—Frees Assn.-Copyright.] (Received 29, 12.5 p.m.) New York, April 28. AH the United States is shocked at Chicago’s latest murder, in which the assistant United States attorney, Mr. McSwiggin, also two notorious beer runners, James Doherty and Thomas Duffy, were slain by a group of gangsters. Mr. McSwiggin was making underworld investigations regarding a murder case assigned to 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. All blazed away and Mr. 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 of Mr. 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 Mr. McSwiggin 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 Mr McSwiggin fell an accidental victim. Hundreds of suspects have been rounded up throughout the city. —(A. and N.Z.)