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Link Dice Games to Schmitt Murder•INVESTIGATION BY [ ROBBERY MOTIVEMalloy 11 i111Baker) Holdup \\ a*» \tllt;‘inpt lo |{i‘»ain 4»aiiiMiiilt;' l(aptB Kl»\\ \KI» FOFI.STF1VSensational developments in the Anna Schmitl Murder Ca -• i hmk-back to the fatal hooting of Mrs.T71 Halsted street,| Thursday evening, January 31. during an attempted hold- [ up came to light late yesterday afternoon during a stormy session held in the office of Dennis Malloy, captain of the Gresham Police station.The linking of : dice games to the back rooms of the bakery when the shop was closed to the public ... heavy losses by local business men . . . the frequenting of professional gamblers and con men in the establishment and the possiblemotive for the robbery and accident lt;1 killing of Mrs. Schmitt were among the many new angles revealed in the caseQuiz “VVally” WalkerKxhau.sting every possible means to apprehend the killers, word was passed through the usual grape vine channels that Wally Walker, an unemployed railroad cook ... a witness to many of the Sclrmitt ‘‘crap games’ and a lifelong friend of the *ej»rdered woman and her husband. Was wanted by locnl police.Merely a strategic move launched by Captain Malloy to get the “inside story of why a pair of stick-up artists should select a comparatively small and obscure bakery, when rnuch more profitable stick-ups could Me pulled within a stone's throw of vthe establishment, they discovered that the rear rooms of the bakery were being used as a gamblers’ rendezvousQuestioning of three meh, Walker, who surrendered to police authorities when he discovered that he was wanted; Frank Schmitt, husband of the murdered woman; and Charles Schmitt, a brother, revealed that the latter pair were heavily involved in the dice games.Schmitt Tells AllAlthough Frank Schmitt only rented his back room for $10 a week, he admitted that he played the games and was a heavy loser. During the grilling of Walker, it was further revealed that Charles, too. had lost heavily.Intimations were cast that the real cause of the hold-up was a possible attempt upon the pari, of losing victims to reco,up losses. At the time ol the shooting, it was alleged that Mrs. Schmitt w’as shot when the unknown bandits started for the rear rooms where her husband was *aid to be asleep. Witnesses said that she arose from the floor where ^|he was commanded to lie, and ^creamed as the killers attempted to fo Into the rear quartets of the store fetter taking $11 from the cash rc-g-(Continued on page 2)
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Chicago Auburn Parker
Chicago, Illinois, US
Wed, Feb 13, 1935
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