Bismarck Tribune, 10 June 1930, page 1: Seek newspaperman's slayer

Front page of the Bismarck Tribune, Tuesday, 10 June 1930. The two-line banner reads “Seek Newspaperman’s Slayer / Walton League Delegates Open State Meeting”; the Lingle story is the right-hand column, headed “Chicago Resorts Closed and Police Shake-Up Ordered,” with the decks “Every Law-Enforcement Agency Joins in Hunt for Reporter’s Murderer” and “Accuse Left-Handed Man.” The headline was confirmed on the page image.

The Associated Press story, datelined Chicago, 10 June, says a police shake-up, a roundup of criminals and the closing of vice resorts appeared to be the immediate result of the killing of Alfred (“Jake”) Lingle, a Chicago Tribune reporter, in the pedestrian subway under Michigan Avenue at Randolph Street. It says each law-enforcement agency had a different theory, that the state’s attorney’s chief investigator was looking for a left-handed ex-convict, and that rewards then totaled $30,000.

The story says the police commissioner believed gangsters had no part in the killing, and that most of Lingle’s friends believed they did. Both are opinions as reported, and neither is adopted here. This is a first-day report.