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Shot to Death at Lake View Hotel, While 40 Dancers Look ed on CHICAGO, Aug. 2.~(UR—While 140 dancers looked on, eight men, believed to be Chicago gangsters, late last night entered the Lake View resort hotel near Delafield, Wis. and shot to death a man who today was tentatively identi fied as Jack Zuta, notorious north side gang lieutenant. While Chicago police were on their way to Delafield with’ Anger prints to establish positively the identity of the slain man, Sheriff f Phil Herbrand of Waukesha, not fed officers here he felt certain the man was Zula. Officers here began all once ef forts to connect the spectacular slaying with the murder of Alfred Jake Lingle, Tribune reporter in conection with which Zula was ‘arrested several weeks ago. . They also sought to connect it in some way with the return, to Chi cago of Alphonse Scarface Al Capone, notorious southside gang ruler and, bitter ,enemy of the northside Moran-Aiello-Zuta un derworld combination. While Zuta, if Zuta, it was, was ‘being executed in front of resort merrymakers, Capone was holding a reception here for 100 of his followers, celebrating his return from the south. , Zute. has’ been missing — since shrtly after the’ Single-murder on June 9. He was arrested for ques tioning in that case, was released and while traveling across the loop the car in which he was riding was fired upoff and one of the most amazing gun battles in, the history or Chicago gangland developed. He disappeared during the battle and police have been seeking him since. The man killed at Delafield reg istered at the resort hotel Tuesday under the name of J. H. Goodman, Aurora, Ill. » Witnesses of his assassination said six of the eight gunmen _en tered the dance hall while two oth ers waited outside in two automo biles. The victim, they said, was just placing A nickel In the slot of a player piano. While three of the men stood guard at the doors, three others walked boldly across the pavilion, one carrying a riot gun, another a pawed-off shotgun and the third a pistol. ‘The man with the pistol fired first, dropping “Goodman,” and the others, it was said, then riddled his body. Sixty bathers were on the beach a short distance from the hotel. Hearing the shots, they ran toward the dance hall, but were threatened by the door guards and stood help lessly while the gunmen leaped into the two automobiles and escaped. The cars, it was said, both bore Illinois Ncense plates.
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Marshall Evening Chronicle
Marshall, Michigan, US
Sat, Aug 02, 1930
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Stephanie B.
