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took the three lives lust night. ! 'Ana since the hurst of bullets in I front of t-iC!o°vo so.loan, th? I o,;,y evidence- hay been mute, three ! bullet riddled bodies, the steel j jacketed and copper a-osed missiles j that killed them, five hats, two : , tablecloths and a shot scarred and hatiered :Lincoln automobile I.The presence of the three dead men in the same car is perhaps even more puzzling than the actual killings. For while McSwigsin had been ji friendly with Duffy for years, he had ic once prosecuted Doherty for murder. j ^ jit was one of his tew defeats. jrThe young prosecutor, lie was \ j only 26, and the most successful j t prosecutor in the city, had won tlie'c nickname of Ropes' and The 1 ; Hangman*’ from his associates. 1 s -But it is by no means certain ] \ he was the main quarry oE the Uill-11 ers. for Doherty, too, had his ene-j1 mies involved as In was with the! gangs that have been waging war on ea:h other to the extent of eighty-sev-n murders.The young prosecutor's chief. State’s Attorney Crowe . has offered some explanr.dnn of Me* Swiggin’s presence with Doherty in such a place a a Cicero, j He was disappointed over the acquittal of Salice and Anselnri (two gunmen whom he prosecuted, -and who ar? now serving fourteen-year sentences for the murder of a policeman) and asked permission] of me to go out and associate with ! gunmen in ord?r to learn their methods. I told him he was foolish, but he could go ahead.’'Perhaps that explains why ,Mc-Swiggin last night told his sister he was going -out to Berwyn, another suburb, to play cards with Duffy, he was rjally bound for Cicero At any rate, some time later ho was riding past Harry Madigan’s -saloon (Continued on page four)
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The Daily News
Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Apr 29, 1926
Page 1
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Lake C.
IN, USA 09 Feb 2021
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