powerful Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Paul Maclean later worked alongside his brother and sister-in-law at the University of Chicago during the Jazz Age and the Depression era. In addition to his talents for both writing and fly fishing, Paul Maclean suffered from alcoholism and gambling addiction, in addition to being a notorious brawler and a womanizer. According to Norman, all of these addictions and behaviors had a very long generational history and could be traced all the way back to the Maclean family's earliest origins among the Gaels of the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. Despite repeated attempts by his family to offer help, Paul MacLean rejected all such overtures. On the early morning of May 2, 1937, Paul Maclean was attacked and brutally beaten at Sixty-Third Street and Drexel Avenue in Chicago by two men who removed all the money from Maclean's wallet and, according to an eyewitness, drove away afterwards in a car. Paul Maclean was taken to nearby Woodlawn Hospital, where he died, without regaining consciousness, at 1:20PM that same afternoon. According to his brother Norman Maclean and statements made to the press by Detective Sergeant Ignatius Sheehan, Paul Maclean fought back savagely against his assailants and sold his life very dearly. So much so, in fact, that nearly all the bones in his right hand were found by the medical examiner to have been broken during his last fight. Following a homicide investigation led by Detective Sergeant Ignatius Sheehan, Chicago Police Department Captain Mark Boyle told the Cook County Coroner's Office that Paul Maclean's murder was a mugging gone bad, which remains the official explanation in police files. Another widely held theory at the time was that Paul Maclean's two murderers were linked to organized crime and the murder was over Maclean's inability or refusal to pay an illegal gambling or loansharking debt owed to the Chicago Outfit. No arrests were ever made, however, and the case remains officially unsolved. Only Norman Maclean accompanied his brother's casket on an overnight train trip from Chicago to Montana. After the funeral, Maclean spent several weeks of compassionate leave with his parents at their family's cabin at Seeley Lake. Rev. Maclean was understandingly very skeptical of the Chicago Police Department's official explanation for his son's murder. During the compassionate leave, he asked Norman, "Do you think it was just a stick-up and foolishly he tried to fight his way out?