CHICAGO MURDERS

Hokitika Guardian, 21 October 1933, Page 6

CHICAGO MURDERS

SOME ASTOUNDING REVELATIONS

THE POLICE NON-PLUSSED

VANCOUVER, October 17

John (“Boss”) McLaughlin, a prominent Chicago political leader, was named before the Federal judge, Air Wi Ikersou, as having handled 237,OtX) dollars (£17,400 at ,par) of loot taken in the Chicago mail robbery last December.

Astounding revelations followed the investigation into the death of Edgar Le liens berger, Avho. died of a bullet wound recently in liis handsome North Side apartment. Twenty-seven suspects are retained in several cities as the result of an undenvorld story that a gang has been acting as a clearinghouse for hank and post office bandits through tlie country. <

The poke are uncertain Ayhetlier Le ben berger was slain by gang associates or committed suicide, but they are sure that they have traced liis death directly to an indictment just filed against him concerning the Chicago robbery.

The police called out fresh reinforcements to prevent the further murdering of their principal witnesses in the notorious mail robbery case. Gus Winkler, one of the city’s major gangsters, was murdered by a shotgun squad aboard a motor truck, his death beiug very significant, following the finding, of the body of Edgar Lebensberger, another handsome young man known for his gang connections

The police are nonplussed over these mysterious shootings. They wo.ndor if some ruthless gang Czar, fearing confessions by Winkler and Lebensberger decided to eliminate them and prevent their giving evidence. Winkler was an important member of a gang which collected millions of dollars annually from gamblers’ saloons and night clubs. He “talked his way out” of Lea-vemvortli prison several years ago by producing with no questions asked 580,000 dollars (£116,000) -worth of securities obtained in the postal robbery. Since then he no tales, the police fear further assassinations.

On the theory that dead men tell on tales, the police fear further assasinations.