New York, July 28.
A car drew close to the curb, slowed up for a few moments, revolver shots barked through the din of traffic. A pedestrian fell to the' pavement, riddled with bullets. The car picked up speed, dodged among "other cars and was lost in ihe heavy traffic.
New York police authorities last night were busy investigating this street murder, which occurred earlier in the day, the latest of a series of eight such killings. The series: began some six months ago, when the New York District Attorney, Mr. Thomas A. Dewey, began his mew purge of New York's gangster-land.
Yesterday, the eighth victim was an innocent pedestrian, who was mowed down by a hail of bullets when mistaken for a witness.
The authorities are clamping down with precautionary. measures {o safeguard their witnesses. The witness for whom yesterday's victim was taken by error, is now guarded by three detectives.
Believed to be responsible for these outrages is a gang-leader known under the name of Lepke. He is the object of an intensive search by the police, who have spread a wide network to catch him.
Lepke is sought by the authorities for two years now, and the G-Men 2 have been called in to help in the search for the bold gangster and his band of killers. Their methods are
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