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Mr. Tolacn ....---— Mir, BamabwOSA ona: Chief Clerk -----—--- Mr, Clege .--—------- Mr. Coffey ----+-+--- estigatots “agresd bn ‘ong = | Mr Fare ---------- 7 YEARS TODAY: (eae ee Many. big-time Ment gangsters 4 f 2 Pre i ST, VALENTINE. oi greek a ir who was accused of » Lecter -eene-e eee an ring Fred (“Kifler") Burke ; = i “Gang Crime Still ~ unish Unp nis ed hotel room at the time of the Seven years ago today the un- Eillings. derworkd perpetrated its most j, Down through the years ot oye gory crime—the unsolved St. Val- Pads have led nowhere and entine's Day massacre of seven Pe perpetrators of the bi i gangsters at 2122 N. Clark st. isode of Chicago crime sana It was on February 14, 1929, q¢main unknown. when all the world was supposed 7 ———— be in love, that two"men dis- guised in police uniform drove . {to & gatage, walked in nopnch = ‘antly and mowed down sevép piss members of the George ("Bugs'! a Moran gang with a machine { Falling before the spray of - | lets were Peter Gusenberg, ex-con- -viet; Frank, his brother; Adam Heyer, alias Arthur Hayes, ex- convict; James Clark, brother-in- law of Moran; John May, me- : chanic; Albert Weinshank and Dr. of Reinhardt 8. Schwimmer. : MULTITUDE OF MOTIVES. Investigators advanced a mul- titude of motives for the merciless slayings, The massacre, they de- cided, could haye been the climax of a booze gang war; it could have been retribution for Moran gang attempts to muscle in on a lucra- tive labor union, or it could have been the “extra-legal” settlement f a dispute between rival groups ' perating dog race tracks. Scorea of suspects were se a questioned; many witn ffered information; but no sq@u- tion was forthcoming. - + rr Fo Romina ep ny L4-1¢e Arn % a feed if ro