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SCONFESSION'IN MASSACRE STIRS nm AFFIAISE US, OFFICIALS “Bolton Story Receiving Serious Consideration by Department. : gpectal Dispatch from a Staff Correspondent. ( Washington, D. C., Jan. 24—Pub- ‘lication of “confessions,” attributed to department: of justice .sources, was receiving the attention of high officials of the department here to- day, bend Officials of the department, whose “agents are noted for their refusal to talk for publication, were irri- ‘tated at reports published in Chi- cago that Byron Bolton, #arker- Karpis gangsters indicted ‘in ‘the Bremer kidnaping at St. Paul today, had “confessed” the St. Valentine day massacre, naming five other, hoodlumg ag his aids in the mass. ‘gourder of seven Moran gangsters. “ Bolton’s confession to agents on ‘file in the department of justice ‘quarters in Washington does not MMerttorrethe St. Valentinedey—-nmeas- sacre, officials said flatly today. t Trace Origin of Story. ““—TrView of the fact " 3 ike de- -partment, according ta officials, ob- “tained no statement, oral or writ- ‘ten, from Bolton in which the St. , Valentine day massacre was so “much as mentioned, the officials ‘were seeking to trace the origin of jithe story. From time to time there have: ‘been slight “leaks” in the depart-| iment of justice offices at Chicago.! rand, while yesterday’s report was ;simply an irritant, the other situ- ion has aroused grave concern the part of officials and a deter- ed effort to halt such “leaks” under way. ‘, © Department Made Vulnerable. i’ The secrecy with which the dp- ‘:partment conducts its work, while |, admirable in. many respects, ob- jwervers point out, together with ;their agents’ policy of announcing "“] have nothing to say,” makes the department peculiarly vulnerable in \der matter of denials when an un-. founded article is published. _ s Attorney-General Homer §. Cum- | ings, in discussing Bolton’s indi t- | “ment at St. Paul today, branded jas ie completely erroneous” the p liBhed teport of his “massacre cyn- -fession.”