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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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wl Mir. Nativar. -.---- Mr. Tolsom...----- Mr. ClagR.--------- 4 Mr, Baughman .. ; Chief Clerk ..----- wir, Coffey ------+- i Mr. Edwards ----- Mir. EWan ------+-- a ae ate her AA ME EK * tir, Harbo....----- i CLAUDE MADDOX. di (TRIBUNE Photo.] The alibi given by Claude Madd when he was arrested after the 1929 St. Valentine’s day massacre,’ that he was in court at the time tthe seven Moran gangsters were slain. in the North Clark street garage,/was appar- ently" regarded by the police as a bar {to prosecution In the caye yesterday Iwhen Chief of DetectivesyJohn L. Sul- livan announced that Maddox would be held forthe regular Sunday showup | “like any other hoodinm,” but that he ts not wanted for’ any . particular crime, Federal authorities told Chief Sullivan they were not interested in the prisoner. Maddox was seized by two Berwyn policemen yesterday morning as he lwas entering his/home in that sub- urb, where he lived under the name yot John Moore.."He was turned over to the Chicago: police, Maddox had been named as one of the &t. Valentine's day slayers in a urported confession by Byron Bolton, - now being ‘held in St. Paul in connec: en ae: |tion with the kidnaping of Edward G. . Sn ad Bremer. Besides Maddox and himself, ls a Bolton was said to have declared that ; Fred Goetz, Murray. Humphreys, Gus ; Winkler, ‘and Fred [Killer] Burke, fere the execution squad. Goetz afd inkler’ are dead. Burke is servijag ife ‘wentence for murder and Hu'n- ip eys ‘is in Leavenworth penitent [tor viglation of the Income tax law. va phe be
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