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The Detroit Times 11/27/33 - | | ! Tsince thelr arrival from New York “-; when they Ja new car belonging to Mrs. Evelyn Axier, wife of Abe. ‘g@raph road, facing. cast, in the ex- jclusive Bloomfield Hill section, and | death , through the license number of Ax- AXLER AND FLEVGHCR oLAiN | ON GANG RIDE f ARE LEFT tf Alli Abe Awler na Fd BODIES die Fletcher machine | gun terrorists of the Purple gang and recog: nized as Detroit’ s Public FE Two, had died’ today gun. Meanwhile, palice of Qakta the motive of Detroit gangland's latest slayings and girded themselves to prevent reprisals from the few surviving members of the once powerful Their bullet-riddled bodies, returned from their, ‘last ride in an isolated road in Oakland County early | yesterday, lay in the Lewis Undertaking Parlors, 7739 | John R. street, awaiting shipment to New York’s East Side, their former home, for burial. “nemies One and | as they lived—by the’ | | nd and Wayne counties sought Purples. The double slaying marks the first fime Purples have been taken for a ride. WILLEN RURKE'S PALS BRASGREER Beebe S cree 2s Detectives were checking of alcohol distillers had the them last Summer, The report in jail or hiding from police,* Fletcher and ‘Axler took charge fof their distilleries but failed to turn over the profits. The two funmen, inseparable joined Fred “Killer” Burke and the late Gus Winkler in and who kidnaping and hijacking, have been charged with practically every crime of record, were found one clasping the other's hand, their bodies riddicd, in the rear seal of IL was parked just off the ‘Quar- ton road, 100 yards east of Tele- powder burns convinced police the mung were pressed against badies. was the victims’ Identification traced firat fer’'s car. The identifications were quickly corroborated by police, long familiar with the pair, and later by the widows, Fred Linealn, Bloomfield Tawn- ship residential policeman, found the bodies, still warm, when he opened the door of the aedan, be- re ee a __—_,. information Loday that a Rang | two kWled for doubi¢-crogssing | is that Sthile the distillers were bu lieving it to contain petters, at 2 a. mt yesterday, Several Detroit homicide squad! detectives, Oakland County dep- | uties and underworld cronies of j the gangsters believe Axier and! Fletcher were killed in reprisal for! “an old debt.” i “They had a great many ene [ mies and had been accused of | Numerous murders, inchiding tha @ machine gun massacre of three Tien im the Miraflores Apartment ‘dn Finst slexanggine strect in 1929," -John Hoffman, lieutenant in“‘charge of thetspecial investi- gation squad, said. “It Is likely konte friends or relatives of mur- der victims caught wp with them." Intimates of the two revealed to ‘the Times that both hoodlums had been back in. Detroit ihe last 10 dave after having jumped their) $1,000 bonds while awaiting trial as public enemies. The real reason! they fed, the Times was toid, was that they feared arrest in connec- lion wilh the 3-year-old kidnaping of Abe Fein, sportsman, for whose abduction Joseph “Red” O’Rlordan, also an aged former member of | the. Killer Burke kidnap mob, is | j how awaiting trial.