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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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LER DEMS; | ANI TON CTAAY | | DULIUN OTUtHT | | TRUEPIGTURE That Byron Bolton's story of the St. Valentine Day massacre appears | ‘to be a true picture of what actu- ally tock .place waa the opinion | expressed today by Walker Butler, | who as assistant state's attorney was in chayge.iedhe massacre in- vestigation in 1829. The roost significant phase of Bolton's story, he said, was the! description of Burke, Goetz and | Winkler. Butler expressed the opin- | fon that the presence of Murray Humphreys “might be wrong,” and that tif he had named Tony Capezio in his place the confession would be perfect. He said: “We raided Bolton's home down- state after we trailed a shipped from Capone's flat ‘in SiceraJVe missed Burke by a few minutes, ee Ry tas “However, we found ‘nam * pictures of Capone and others of his ‘mob’. There was a picture of Burke in the Bolton home with _ two front teeth missing, and the | Witnesses to the slaying stressed . | the fact that one of the killers in | Police uniform bead two front | teeth missing.” F Butler was associated in the in- - ; vestigation with Harry 8, Ditch- “purne, also an assistant state's “attorney, who also declared that Bolton's confession was supported aby the facts gleaned at the time. *"Sergt, Samuel Loftus, a veteran of the police force, was the first liceman te enter the garage r slaying of the seven. Today he d of Bolton's story: “Every detail that Rolton oa: ed is true t my persong! owledge. I lived that case and | as n matter of fact I am still working on it.” : | CAPT. GILBERT AGREES, | ' And Capt. Daniel Gilbert, = | st EHOTOS OF CAPONR, j iwas then in charge of the police aistrict where the murders took place and now in charge of the state’s attorney's police force, cor- | roborated Sergt. Loftus. He said: { “Bolton entered into the picture then as ie! likely bird. The Madde i grgte is not only possible but lieve that i€ ia the answer @ puzzle of his alibi. We kne @ox was there, but couldn rove it > oe Ct, ws se a ei eh c
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