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St Valentines Day Massacre — Part 2

38 pages · May 11, 2026 · Broad topic: Organized Crime · Topic: St Valentines Day Massacre · 38 pages OCR'd
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wr. Cathey J wir. Edw - sir. ERER ne fir. Hei, a= Mic, Katt bac, Lees tA anon Mr. CUFT eens Dosa. CHT ON nari Tc. TARE oa Mr. Tear.) Wage CLTHRY -.e [AX “SECRETS ON. IN ST. VALENTINE'S. rena rr oS Marmy Hamphreys, another named Joe Alelle, Moran , throv _- Bélton aa having been tu the machine iw whom Frankie Uale threatened hae squad that summarily execnied seven { burned down a dog race track operat ato. ‘Humphreys ts serving ‘a term in} with Capone's backing. Uale wanted federal prison for income tax evasion. share of ihe track. Aitiio was later slai “aa ‘vis was the-herrible scene ia the N. Clack et. farage after machine yanners in an unparal- leled exhibition of criminal brutality had mown down seven nten. This was the St. Valentine's Day massacre, nd, Druggan Missed Death\ Matter of a Few Minutes | i (And 80 Hai Terry Pruggant) : ot _ , Not being known to tht Moran gangsters, Burke and Goetr wee able to poss aa pollcemen on a routine raid, 4 “} chief target, nad Droggan had lafi only « few minctes be- fore—after Bolton had aighted them entering the place, _ Burke and Goetx ordered the weven men they found to j stand with their faces toward a stone wall, . When the victing were lined up to be slaughtered, Bolton, tlie 7 ‘d Goetz, a University ‘inois graduate who ixed up in crime and ain later, is named by ) aa having been one’ two “policemen” whe ‘e scene of the sham- fter the guns had heir work, AABLY TRUE. 15. STE Jobn P. Stege, now su- captaln of Wast Bide pe Chief of Detective: whan Valentine's Day masssore ° in 1898, today declared :z0 American's exesiuslye of bow and by whom the ~ committed probably ts Gus Winkler, who w: one of the actual gunnc: who turned that garage « WN, Clark st. inte an #bz toir, declares Bolton. “B: Gus* ia time got as good ; he gave—he was ambushe and “rubbed out.” (And 7 Are Massacred.} A deafening roar resounded to the street as the four lethal . : | a F weapons swept along the wall, riddling the seven helpless ROBBED: BLAM for bife.) ae A minute later, Burke and Goetr sauntered through the 5 i “out of the pléture.” the [front door, entered their automobtle and sped away, Bolton kK { Ap | ¢ p iH 3 n prison for kilting a and bis machine gunning pals wlipped out « rear door, into an thelr f ing & Bt | they and disagpenred, Robbery of the Trivoll Btats Ba: at Trivoll, seventeen mies weat carrying two suitcases-containing machine guns, . With ‘military precision the machine guns were made Death relgned in the garage. Only dog and one of the were alive when police answered the alarms of who heard the shooting. ately, but Maddox proved an alibi. He said he was in §, Clark St. court at the thne the massacre took, place. Court records showed a case against him was heard that morning. But, according to Bollou’s story, Maddox went to court at Mo. 6d brought beok te | later, : : Police were never able to link anyone with the murders | Peorls, today sent police and f+ mie ee | ; race og efi Sonnet “ae Bape Wunddeae eae How Court Was Used as Alibi Harry Compbel atta, who « eaen, then and degeneracy, but appar- SS ceped with from f2500 to $3/- re the aime weapons ae ed fream retribution of the; (Slips Off to Kill as Case Ponds.) sachs ware is & machine eas te" chat kelert ie : ted al: immedi- | tions sedmed to fit America’s Pu te that fect, Butke mey chtly cauight up with him and Maddox and Tony Capezio were arrested almost imme: Hoe eemmmed £9 hit Amer e's Pe jast March. companion, Karpis and Campbell, after ki naping Dr. Horace Hunsicker « Allentown, Pe. and abandoning i @ Raloon ‘a. continued, supposedly from . ra eer F oy: i Mish, followin . i . 4 9a, m., slipped away for the killings and returned in plenty of|*" Ber Monroe, " i Towns Shak Hy . time so appear when hit case was called about noon. bal ane Paivg at 7 ‘aa rat T , . 4 Bolton himself became an early suspect when ballistica| beading tor Chicago, fy three Quakes pone Spy Across Clark St.) experts traced machine gun bullets to him under the alias of/ seEN IN MICHIGAN. l a if ~~ Andrew Allen. “| State police near Saginaly, Mic! ‘the Moran mob, bie profita, combined with its After the killings the murderers fled to a Hammond, Ind,,|to¢ay believed they had pleked ju Bite liquor, vice and gambling | saloon, where Winkler wax accustomed to hang out. Ted New. |{Hs tall when two men of al eh WF eradication, berry later was found alain in the vicinity of the saloon. Tee eee Bnd Bppesrance of the bu:
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