The People v. Weitzman

Per Curiam :

Eli M. Daiches, an advertising agency executive, was shot and killed while in an automobile en-route to his Chicago office on March 3, 1934. An indictment was returned in the following October by a Cook county grand jury jointly charging the defendant, Irving Weitzman, and Jack London and James Murphy, (alias Walter Murphy, alias McManamon, the last his true name,) with the crime of murder. London was not apprehended, and Murphy (for such we will call him) was used by the People as its principal witness against defendant, Weitzman, both before the grand jury and at the trial. On a…