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‘Co nvu ict B ares Story! , [Me Ferrer [Valentine Massacre |" A new and revised version of the} After the mass slaying, investigation "Clark street carnage of St, Valen- ‘tine's day seven years ago is in the hands of Chicago police officials. ?Polies 9 officials however main- fr OUee DisiCiais, AOWeVOl, Man “tained a close-mouthed silence and ‘declined emphatically to discuss the -report. ‘According to information supplied The Daily News, the new light on ‘the massacre of seven of George (“Bugs’){\ Moran mobsters in a ga- rage at 2122 North Clark street, in the course of prohibitign’s eruptive era, came from ByrorfBolton, now serving sentence in a” federal ’peni- tentiary for confessed participation the ransom abductions of Ed- [i rd G.fBremer and Wiliam 7 Bolton, it is reported, about four months ago, after his conviction and incarceration for the federal offense, made a statement which outlined the wholesale killing in detail. This information was récent- ly turned over to imam sioner James P. Ailman. i Killers Reported Named, In the staternent, it was saig, Bolton named the participants in the massacre. Some are known to be dead and one or two others are reported to be still alive. Wheth- er he implicated himself in the statement could not be Jearned, Police officials declared today “that they would like to-talk to }Bolton.” Canvassed for confirmation of the ‘reported statement, Chicago police officials asserted they could not discuss it. It was reported that the homicide squad, under the direction of Lieut. Otto Erlanson, is now checking th statements alleged to have been made by Bolton. Chief of Detectives John L, Sul- livan, in refusing to deny or verify the reported statement, said that “if it were @ case of any other caliber I might be disposed to discuss it. I will not discuss this case under any consideration, however,? : Bolton Linked te Crime, ‘g Bolton, 37 years old, & form jlor, ‘has been identified at vaiti- s times as & man sought by qe ago police for participation | St. Valenti ntine’s dav massacre. TAR cn AA A EE a coer nee Myr, Tolson__...---- Mr, Baughman .__.. Mr. Clegg ......------ Mr, Coffey __.....-- Myr. Dewsey _....... Mr. Egan......-....- Mr. Nichols. -__..... revealed that two men had rented Mr. Quinn. .......__, a room directly across the street : from the grease-soaked death cham- ber a week before machine-gun ex- aE. -- Gee eculioners strode into the garage Mair. Tracy ....7. AKG-- and mowed down its seven occu- Miss Gandy... *. pants. From this vantage point they mapped out the “lay of the land” for the murderers, In the abandoned room was found a letter addressed to “Byron Bolton’ and it bore the postmark of Virden, Ti. Investigators went to Virden and found Bolton’s parents living on a farm between it and Thayer, both small towns in the central part of the state. A picture obtained from! Baltan'’s father was I nl ac wOMOD S laine? was identified @o that of one of the men who had rented the “death watch’ room. Bolton’s movements were then traced to St. Louis, where it was learned he had been a chauffeur for Fred Hiller Burke, also vari- ously identified a# a participant the massacre, Burke is now serviitg a life sentence in the Michig pententiary for another murder. a | INDEXED wth /2-B/- £4