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St Valentines Day Massacre — Part 2
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CAPTURED FOR
CAP ih dared
MASSACRE
Gunman’ Unarmed, Is
‘Torralled at Home by.
» Berwyn Officers,
Claude Maddox, gangs{ed
Inman. and public enemy, Wes
in the St. Valentine’ ¢ Day mas-
sacre
Maddox was named by Byron Bol.
ton ag ont of the machine eunners
BS Ss
in an exclusive story printed by
The Chicago American.
, Maddox is the only ene of the
machine gunners named by Bol-
ton who wag alive or at large.
SEIZED AT DOOR OF HOME.
_He was captured withcut ‘sen-
sation as be drove up in front of
hie home at 2440 8. Oak Park av.,
Berwyn, at 5:20 a. m. today by two
policemen of the suburb...
. Detective Charles Rudderman
and Patrolman Frank Mitchell
w him drive past in an expensive
dan and fell in behind. Titty
eiled him to the front door \pf
iS residence and as Maddox l4}t
e car they Placed him under
rest, .
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e of his alleged part:
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A pearch disclosed that nay “es
uffirnret—nor was there ae
the car.
He was bustled oft te the Ber-
wyn police station despite profane
protests. The detective bureau in
Chicago waa notified.
Guarded by several officers, 56.
was then sped to the Chicago po-
‘Hee headquarters and takdn to the
: { bureau of identification,
i ! DENIES aE 1S MADDOX.
| When fice@wemei-ne tried to es-
i cape arrest by asserting that his
i name was John Moore, an old alias.
The two suburban Policemen knew
chim, Bowever, :
Ag soon 82 his ‘Tingerprints were
eeken at the Bureau of Idestifica-
"Hon he admitted hig true identity.
Burlily he refused to answer ques-
fons of Deputy Chief of Detectives:
alter Storma, who at onte noti-
“fied . Chief John L. Sullivan of (ha
rreat, . .
' yas LONG SUSPECTED.
Maddox hag been jong suspecied
‘tht never directly involved in the
‘$990 slauchter, Bolton, now in St.
‘Baul and 1 ‘under indictment for tak+
SDE part in the Kidnaping of Ed-
“ward CG. Bremer, confessed to the
‘government that he had teken a
, part in the massacre.
‘The same story, related to friends.
.In Chicago and obtained by Tho
, Chicago American, named the kill-
‘ers beside Bolton and Maddox na
‘Murray Humphreys, now In pris
_for neome tex fraud; Gus Winkle};
slath; Fred (‘Killer’) Burke, sery-
ing| a life term for murder,
, Fria Goetz, siain. s
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