The Day Book

IDENTIFIES TRIB GUNMAN AS MAN WHO SHOT LICHTENSTEIN

Another student of trust press gunmanship was threatened with a murder diploma yesterday when Walter Stevens, former head of the Tribune gang of circulation sluggers, was pointed out as the man who fired the shot that killed Louis Lichtenstein, advertising man on the Evening Post, in an attempted jewel robbery.

Stevens denies he is the man.

Emil Noel, also shot by the trio of robbers who stepped out of the dark as the Noel car backed into the garage behind his home at 5416 Prairie av., one evening in the early fall, identified Stevens as the man who shot Lichtenstein, his brother-in-law.

Stevens was arrested when Thos. Inns, church janitor, was taken into custody in Minneapolis, Minn., as one of the robber band.

He implicated Stevens and Albert Chase, a bar-tender.

Other trust press gunmen who have had the murder diploma placed behind their names and who got their first practice as gun battlers while traveling over the city in slugging crews are Eddie Barrett, Hennie Barrett and Mossy Enright.

Eddie went to Joliet and Hennie followed as an accessory for the murder of Wm. Masterson, another labor slugger, in a saloon row.

Eddie was accused of sticking a knife between Masterson's ribs.

They worked out of the Hearst office for the Examiner and American during the newspaper strike.

Moss Enright, a veteran of the newspaper school, shot and killed "Dutch" Gentleman in a saloon fight which came after a long grudge over labor troubles.