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Claude Maddox Sa Been Named Here by to Have | awe » %, ra Chicad . £4 06 —(P}—Claude Maddox, recently reported named in a confession by Byron Bolton as one of six men involved in the St Valentine’s day massacre of 1829, ~ . SHE Ene ERIS today by squads from the detective bureau at his home in suburban Berwyn. . He was taken to central polic? jheadquarters for questioning by| John L, Sullivan, chief of detec-; tives. | Bolton, held in St. Paul on icharges of complicity i in the $200,000 - kidnaping of ward G. Bremer, was reported earlier this week to have confessed that he acted as :4"finger man” in the massacre which . {wiped out scven members of the “4(George (Bugs) Moran gang in a north side garage. a | Maddox was the only person #*inamed in the alleged confession ‘, who is not either dead or in pri- 44 son. Others Bolton was reported to * have named were Murray Hum- * phreys, once No. 1 Capone hench- man, now in Leavenworth serving a term for income tax evasion; . Fred (Killer) Burke now in a Mich- igan prison for the slaying of a St. Joseph policernan; Fred (the brains) Goetz, university graduate who turned gangster and was slain a year ago; Gus Winkler, gambler! killed last year, and Maddox. { Now 35 years old, Maddox was former owner of the Circus cafe jwhere the gangsters were said to “have consorted. He was seized whan ~he arrived at his home early this ) : morning. IN - he massacre was said to have “been attributed by Bolton to-war- s “fare between the Capone and Moran mobs over the profits of a dog race “track at Lyons, I, Federal offi- cials promptly denied that Bolton had confessed or that he had been questioned concerning the massacre. ’ Sullivan asserted. however. Mad- dox was not wanted by the Chicago police. He indicated Maddox would ‘be heid for the regular Sunday :showup of crime suspects. : Maddox rose to prominence as a protege of Al Capone. After the massacre he was arrested and quiz- ‘zed, but released for lack of evi- dence. Later he was indicted for _assault to kill but was not brought ig trial. He still is listed as a public enemy by the Chicago Crime com- mission. } Harry Ditchburne, former esrist- ‘ ant state’s attorney who conducted the investigation into the massacre, disclosed today that when investi- gators from the homicides quad lrushed from headquarters in the - ‘central police station to answer the massacre call they rode down the same elevator with Maddox, who had appeared ‘in court on a disor- derly conduct charge, and his at- torney. Maddox turned to his attorney and said, “Weill, that's one rap they "it was related fO% "can’t The alibi convinced investigator’ subsequent develoomenta inc'--<-+ Mr. Talson Mr. Kelth . ow. Mr, Mr. Tracy ._... Mr. Rathane, - Mr. Clage... Mr. Baughman .. Chief Clark. Tarara oo, Miss Gandy... i Mr, Lester oo. Mr. Quilin 1, Nir, Seu iider