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    "ocrText": "MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1931 CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUN\nability of the theory advanced b\nHE FIRST STORY\nCapone, they decided there was noth\nGANG CHIEF TRIES TO STOP HUNT\ning they could do in the situation bur\nawait developments.\nOF AL CAPONE IN\nKILLING OF JOE AIELLO\nMeanwhile the war on the Capone\ngang was not abated. But Capone did\nLINGLE INQUIRY\na little warring on his own account,\nit appeared.\nJoe Aiello, that defiant, ambitious\nSicilian who aspired so high in the\nrealm of crime, and who had scorned\nto bow to the rule of Capone, was\nshot to death on the 23d of October.\nang Chief Offers to Help\nBugs Moran might be spared, but\nnot Aiello.\nJoe Aiello was tough, a man whose\nFind the Murderer.\ncruel and murderous traits inflamed\nhis overpowering ambition to lead his\npeople, to reign over the Unione Sicil-\niana, to be the king of bootleggers.\nSixteenth installment of se The So-\nThe Lombardo Slaying.\ntion of the Lingle Murder.\"\nHe had been friends with Capone\nin earlier days, and his closest busi-\nBY JOHN BOETTIGER.\nness friend was Antonio Lombardo.\nCHAPTER XVII.\nHis unreasoning ambition caused Aiel-\nThere came a time, during the in-\nlo to break with both these friends,\nestigation of the murder of Alfred\nand one of them, Lombardo, who was\ningle when Scarface Al Capone him-\nthe head of the Unione Siciliana, was\nif, the king of the gangs, came\nshot to death as he walked in the\nearing the white flag of truce, suing\nChicago loop, at the crowded corner\npeace./\nof Dearborn and Madison streets.\nAl Capone, disturbed at last, his\nThe bitter feud of Aiello and Capone\nunted power over police and politi-\nnever died, although twice they had\nans upset by a handful of honest\nsigned treaties of peace-treaties made\nen working under the orders of Pat\nonly to be broken.\noche nd Charles Rathbun.\nAiello lost the struggle. His part-\nThese officials had reckoned that\nners were killed or they deserted him;\nmewhere along the gang front the\nhis henchmen fled in fear. He was\nnes would break under a constant\nforced into hiding.\nressure of raids and gangster arrests.\nAl Capone, city's leading gang-\nFrank Nitti, one of Capone's prin-\nAnd then Aiello went the way of so\nhey were right, but they little real-\nmany of the enemies of Capone.\nster, who offered to help clearing\ncipal lieutenants, whose arrest was\nied how high up the break would\nthe answer of the Lingle murder in-\nA Machine Gun Ambush.\ne.\nLingle murder mystery on condition\nThe first word from the gangs since\nthat his gang should not be inter-\nvestigators to Capone's offer of\nThirty-five steel vested bullets,\nstreaming from machine guns hidden\nhe investigators of the Lingle mur-\nfered with by the investigators\nkelp on conditions. Nitti had long\nin two nests surrounding Aeillo's hid-\ner case began their earnest assault\nworking under Charles F. Rathbun\nbeen sought for the evasion of fed-\ning place, fond marks in the body\npon the gangsters and the resorts of\nand Pat Roche.\neral income taxes.\nof Chicago's toughest gangster\napone.\nITRIBUNE Photo.]\n[TRIBUNE Photo.]\nThe assassination was staged at\nSecret Closely Guarded.\nKolmar and West End avenues, on\nthe far west side of Chicago. Aiello\nenough, the date of such\na\nhad taken refuge in the apartment\nentous occasion has been forgot-\ndoubt. Barker sent back to prison.\num, and Herbert Byfield, president of\nThere never was even a memo-\nWhite City, to his office, and warned\nhome of a business partner. Pasquale\nWhite facing a new trial for murder.\nmdum taken of what transpired with\nSammons arrested. Maddox arrested.\nboth that if attempts were made to\nPrestogiacomo, at 205 North Kolmar\nCapone himself facing a vagrancy\nstart dog racing at either place raids\navenue.\nhe grang czar, so closely was the se-\nret guarded. But recollection of other\ncharge. The gang's dens of profit shut\nwould follow.\nSomehow the killers of Aiello had\nvents places the date at about the\nThe Capone tracks were operating\nlearned of his hiding place. They had\ndown.\nunder an injunction against interfer-\nrented one apartment opposite the\n1st of October.\nAnd the mind does not fail in re-\nLingle Murder Enters Talk.\nence by the authorities, issued by the\nPrestogiacomo home with a front\nballing the facts surrounding the ac-\nCircuit court, and the Duggan group\nwindow facing directly upon the front\nOperative No. 1 replied:\ndoorway of the Aiello refuge, and an-\ntivities of Scarface Al Capone in the\nSo far as I can tell you, the gaff\nsought the same privilege. An in-\njunction suit was filed, but this in-\nother apartment in a building just\nLingle murder case.\nis on for keeps. This town has been\nA wealthy business man appeared\njunction was denied and meanwhile\nsouth of the gangster's haven.\nburning up since Jake Lingle was\nthe Supreme and Appellate courts\nWait 10 Days for Victim.\nn the office of the investigators at\nmurdered.'\nhanded down decisions holding dog\nthe Temple building and he asked to\nWell, I didn't kill Jake Lingle,\nFor ten days the gangsters, their\nracing to be illegal.\nsee Rathbun and Roche. He was ad-\nmachine guns poised, lay in wait until\ndid I?\"\nAt the time there was no connec-\nmitted and at once, in low tones that\nWe don't know who killed him.\"\ntion publicly shown between the Dug-\na time when Aiello should emerge\nwould not reach the adjoining offices,\n\"\nWhy didn't you ask me? Maybe\nfrom Prestogiacomo's home. They\ngan project and the north side gang.\nstated his mission.\nI can find out for you.\nwere patient killers, for their prey\nThe big fellow' wants to see\nThe Version of Capone.\nMaybe you can.'\nnever left his refuge until that eve-\n\"I don't know what the fellow that\nCapone, squatted there in his easy\nning of Oct. 23.\nhe 'big fellow was Al Capone.\nkilled Jake looks like. I know none\nchair before the fireplace, told Opera-\nOn that night he had made arrange-\nMeeting Finally Arranged.\nof my fellows did it. I liked Lingle,\ntive No. 1 that the north side gang\nments to go to St. Louis, and he sum-\nand certainly I didn't have any rea-\nwas behind the Stadium dog track\nmoned a taxicab, by telephone, to take\nut Rathbun and Roche didn't want\nsee Capone; they wanted to fight\nson to kill him.\"\nventure.\nhim to the railway station. When the\nCapone was given a complete de-\nhave been told,\" the gangster\nrain of bullets started Aiello made a\n1. No good to any one could come\nscription of the killer. Operative No.\nsaid, that Lingle was asked by the\nlast vain draw for his own revolver.\n-\nan interview between Rathbun\n1 thought this rather a useless pro-\nZuta crowd to see to it that the police\nWounded, he ran from the course of\nnd Roche and Capone. Nevertheless,\ncedure, since the description had been\nand the state's attorney would not\nfire directed from the one apartment,\nhe spokesman for the king of the\nwidely broadcast and Capone must cer\nbother them, and that Lingle was\nbut he staggered full into the path of\ngangs persisted, and at length it was\ntainly have been curious enough on\npaid $30,000.\nthe machine gunners in the other\nagreed that a representative of the\nhis own account to obtain a descrip-\nThen Pat Roche, called in Strotz\napartment, and he fell to the ground\ningle staff would meet Capone. His\ntion of the murderer.\nand Byfield and jammed the works.\nand died.\n.ity and the identity of the Ca-\nA Motive Is Suggested.\nWhen the grang saw that they could\nPrestogiacomo disappeared, but later\nmessenger will remain a secret,\nnot go they blamed Jake Lingle, and\nhe surrendered for questioning, and he\nthe reasons for this would seem\nThen the gang leader volunteered\nI think that's why he was pushed\nwas released. An effort was made to\nbe obvious.\nwhat he thought might be the motive\nfind the men who had rented the\nThe Rathbun-Roche agent, who will\n(killed).\nfor Lingle's murder.\nBut I don't know who they used\napartments from which the murder\nlesignated for convenience as Op-\nIt was just another motive, added\nto the hundreds of earlier ones which\nto do the job; it must have been some\nous fire was directed, but they wer\nve No. 1, met with the Capone\nfellow from out of town. I'll try to\nnever found.\nnan late on a night about the\nhad been ad anced, chisfy by the\nContir\nthe sergeant's face.\ntle group of faithful men,\nHeavy slugs in the shotgun charge\ntheir raids upon the dens of the gangs,\ntore into McBride's shoulder and\nand meanwhile the state's attorney's\ncrashed into his jaw. The sedan sped\nfice was proceeding with the prepa-\naway from the scene so rapidly that\ntion for the retrial of the Capone\ndifficulty was encountered by the wit-\ngster, Three-Fingered Jack White,\nnesses in identifying it.\nthe old murder charge.\nMcBride was rushed to a hospital,\nssistant State's Attorney Harry and Dr. Philin Kranschar\nnatail\n1"
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