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La AGCUSE ATS AIDS OF TIPOFE AMPraarn IN BREMER GAGE Admitted Executioner and, ‘Doc’ Barker Bare Crime Secrets; Maddox Released Betrayed in the Bremer “| naping by Al Capone's follow- ers, one of “Scarface Al’s” exe- cutioners in the St. Valentine's Day massacre avenged himself and his comrades by laying the seven victims at Capone's docr. re Thia was the explanation ‘that ‘came yesterday from police and gavernoment sources for the pur- -ported confession of Byron Bolton, naming Capore ag instigafor of the massacre, and himself, Fred Burke, Fred Goetz, Cimzude Maddox, Gus Winkler and Murray Humphreys; as the siayers. BOTH TALK FREELY. At St. Paul, where they are under; indictment with twenty others for! the $200,000 ransom abduction ot! Méward G. Bremer, banker, Bolton ‘and his associate, Arthur (“Doc”) Barker, both were reported to be! adding freely to the government's | Btock of information on ibe-merrs- : ther crimes. 2 ere Ha 0 4 He sdeyertt state officials. : This information hes not been re- Bequence, Maddox, aeized here Sat- aurday after being named by Bol- fon, was released by Chicago police ereared wotaes Pele jast night, since hie part in the six- year-old crime remains to be sub- tantiated. ‘Bolton Is urtdpreteed to have re- wealed that the gang led-by Burke Swas organized at least two years Prior to the massacre, and that by 923 he was a full-fledged member, #riving* the getaway car for the ‘kunmen in a number of “jobs.” ‘OTHERS ACCUSED. With Burke, Goetz, Winkler dna ‘himeelt in the ganz were Joseph Riordan, once a member of the ‘Detroit Purple gang, suspected in Fiot to kidnap Edsel Ford for $1, 000,000 ransom in 1927, and Robert ! Conroy, brother-in-law of O'Rior- dan, a murderer, counterfelter and the man whom Al Capote, at least, helieved to be the Lindbergh kid- ‘ma per, .Bolton’s siacp-is-eeid to heave re- vealed that the massacre was only sone episode in the operations of, the ruthless band. He is reperted to. have asserted that Burke was the slayer of George Ziertara, a policeman killed at Toledo in 1928 when the gang captured an <American Express auene om att correla @ aero! of an auto plant. es 4|