BRUTAL MURDERS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 April 1926, Page 3

BRUTAL MURDERS.

A CHICAGO TRAGEDY.

UNITED STATES SHOCKED

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association

(Received this day at 12.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, April 28.

All United States is shocked at Chicago’s latest murder, in which the assistant State Attorney, MeSwiggin, (also the notorious beer runners, James Doherty and Thomas Duffy, were slain by a croup of gangsters. MeSwiggin was making underworld investigations regarding a murder ease assigned to him. He was talking to Doherty, Duffy and two other men on the street, when n curtained automobile drew up bristling with weapons, the chief of which was a machine gun. All blazed away and MeSwiggin arid Doherty fell dead, while Duffy was mortally wounded. The remaining two men took Duffy to the hospital where he died.

Tiro assassins took the bodies of McRwiggin and Doherty miles away to a'spot where they left them, later abandoning the ear in another place, and fled. So far the murderers have not been discovered. It is uncertain whether MeSwiggin v.ps killed because lie was responsible for many death sentences imposed on gangsters or whether Doherty and Duffy were slain on account of a feud timong beer runners, and that McSwiggin fell an accidental victim. Hundreds of suspects have been rounded up throughout the city.