Nome Nugget, 23 February 1929, page 1: Two others arrested connected with gang massacre
TWO OTHERS ARRESTED CONNECTED WITH GANG MASSACRE
- Paper
- The Nome Nugget (Nome, Alaska)
- Date
- 1929-02-23
- Page
- Page 1
- Headline
- TWO OTHERS ARRESTED CONNECTED WITH GANG MASSACRE
- Rights
- A United States newspaper published in 1930 or earlier. Public domain in the United States. The Library of Congress serves the page from Chronicling America.
Front page of the Nome Nugget, Nome, Alaska, 23 February 1929. The item is datelined “CHICAGO, Feb. 23. (AP)” and opens: ““Nosey” Joe Lewis, with prison records of Illinois and Leavenworth penitentiary, was arrested in Detroit in connection with the Chicago gang massacre.”
It says a “murder map” found in his pocket diagrammed the area along the Lake Michigan shore near the North Clark Street garage, that he was overheard to say he “bumped off a party in Chicago,” and that a murder charge was placed against him. It adds that authorities planned to question a second man picked up the day before, whose name is garbled in the OCR and is not repeated here.
This is a short wire item on an arrest. Nothing on this page shows that the charge was proved, and this archive does not treat the arrest as a finding about the killings.