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connect ral = whe wan eet ‘a: Miohizan. prisop. lor_the slaying of ‘= policeman,’ City’s‘Most Notorious Gang Crime Still | Unpunished Seven years ago today the un- derworld perpetrated its most i, Down through the years tory crime—the unsolved Bt. Val- Pads have led nowhere and lentine’s Day massacre of seven ihe perpetrators of the bi 5 gangsters at 2122 N. Clark st. le of Chicago crime ; It was on February 14, 1929, femain unknown. | be to love, that two"men dis- guised in police uniform drove to & garage, walked in nonchal- antly and mowed down sevt! members of the George ("Bugs}y Moran gang with a machine | Falling before thé spray of 7 lets were Peter Gusenberg, ex-con-| vict; Frank, his brother; Adam Heyer, alias Arthur Hayes, ex- convict; James Clark, brother-in- jaw of Moran; John May, me- chanic; Albert Weinshank and Dr. td Reinhardt 8. Schwimmer. MULTITUDE OF MOTIVES. Investigators advanced a mul- titude of motives for the merciless slayings. The massacre, they de- cided, could have been the climax of @ booze gang war; it could have been retribution for Moran gang attempts to muscle in on a lucra- tive labor unton, or it could have been the “extra-legal” settlement f ® dispute between rival pe perating dog race tracks. Scorea of suspects were sei i questioned; many witni ‘fered information; but no s¢iu- tion was forthcoming, - or ee a eieeiatred ia! ‘ ‘ : ’ nares La -1¢o-Arr7 76