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. Mr lege oll. \ . , ‘ j Wr. Baughmar, .. i TA LP? PhP md y | | “TOVALENTIN DAT - Mr, Edwards _. Farbo | MASSACRE OF 7 Ces’. 2 ek ed ' @ na! | \¢ i # fn 'y » # G b r b. ” Seaieed othe EE a er ' : ER Bremer Kidnap Sus Suspect Said to Have Confessed to Be- i { ‘NAMES MURDER GANG; ONLY ONE AT LARGE CHICAGO, gan. 24 (”)—Seven!- dead men, victims of the St. Valen- tine’s Day massacre, cast a shadow today over the possible fate of Al Capone. From the graves where they have ‘Jain since 1929, the victims of Chi- cago's bloodiest crime were said in reports published here to be the most serious threat to the former gang lord’s safety since his convic- tion on a Federal income tax eva- sion charge. ‘ The Herald and Examiner said!’ [that Byron Bolton, held in St. Paul charged with a part in the Bremer kidnaping, had confessed as “finger man” for the mass slaying and had named the actual slayers, Listing ifive names familiar in underworld i haunts, , | Though United States Government |; officials were quick to deny they were jn possession of a confession, the newspaper said Federal officers were hopeful of tracing those seven |: murders down to the original pub- tlic enemy No. 1—Al Capone, now in | Aleatraz Prison. i The report quoted Bolton as at- tributing the massacre to henchmen hired by Capone to protect his in-/ . terests in a Lyons (Ill.) dog race po track after the George (Bugs) } Moran gang and Frank Uale, New York and Chicago gangster, at tempted to muscle in on the profits, Those named as the killers, who left their quarry in a blood-spat- tered garage in February, 1929, were Co Murray Humphreys, ence Noa, 1] Ca- {rw a ? ’ a ae ppone Man, now in Leavenworth on . . ids ‘ 7 an income tax evasion conviction; | na Fred (Killer) Burke, serving a term in a Michigan prison for slaying a St. Joseph policeman; Gus Winkler, ‘North Side gambler killed a year tago; Claude Maddox, leader of the jextinct circus gang, the only one now at large, and Fred (The Brains} ‘Goetz, University of Jllinois gradu- ate who turned gangster. Goetz was slain last year. | _——— a — oa Pree Ne ‘ ‘4 f mo, Ys. , mie, \