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a) af Foal 11 EK WIT — PANEES colin UUH Luvin After the massacre assacre of seven hood- lim members of the “Bugs” Moran gang on St. Valentine's Day, seven years ago, a rise of civic indigna- tion gave birth to a coroner's jury of prominent leading Chicago citi- gens. And today the members of that jury who spent thousands of dol- lars of their own money to wipe the stigma of gangdom from Chi-/ cago Were emphatic in their belief that Byron Bolton’s story of the | rea! slaying as said to have beqn told to Department of Justite nts, was the first real word pie ta fe of the massacre. 4 was the megsacre th at lad fst at (ed oo thi! establishment of the Northwest. Crime Detection Laboratory. was the massacre that first | brought te the Middle West the! use of ballistics in the scientific de-; > tection of crime. STORY ‘RINGS TRUE. Bolton’s story, 2s published ex- / t 1 t ! clusively yesterday in The Chicago | American, was told, his friends say, | only because he had “gone soft.” But the members of the coroner's | jury who spent months in question- ! ing of witnesses covering more | than 5,000 closely typed pages of | testimony, declare that his story, rings true. Burt A. Massee, prominent Chi- fagoan and foreman of the jury, enid-: Baia: “He seema to have a pretty good knowledge of the whale sf- fair doean’t he? I don't recall having run across the name of Bolton in the actual slaying, but I do know that Burke wal definitely connected as a suspect, We proved that with Col. Calvii, Goddard's ballistics test of thé spent shells.” { EXROSE is PRAISED. at t Praise for the first real gtory of - the slaying waa offered to freon rage American today by Walter W.; L. Meyer, assistant to the Probate | Judge “of Cook County and a noted t teacher of criminal law. He said: | “This ws a wonderful expose |; after so many years, I’m inclined | ‘te believe that Burke was con- | nected with the shooting and I | think that Bolten might have | had something to do with it. I | imow Burke was connected with the anti-Moran gang but I don’t know just where Capone comes in, Bolton tells a good, well-con- nected story.” Felix Streyckmans, former n heel | peperman and @ practicing Chi oO; attorney who westummaember of the | jury, said: “There are some phases of the story that I don’t think are quite | acctrate. We definitely estab- lished the fact that only two ma- chine guns were used, although Bolton claims that four men car- ried them, However, it is possible that only two of the gun carriers were the actual murderers. We traced the shotgun shells to two guns and afterward located them Burke's home.” IDLTON’S PART CERTAIN. ff WDr, John V. McCormick, member oii the jury and dean of the Loy la iversity law school, said: “Rolton's hookup with Burke fairly certain. I first heard Bol- ton’a name mentioned in the slay- ing about three months after the inquest, but I can’t remember in what connection, If Bolton didn’t take part in the shooting, I don’t see why he bas confessed that he did.” ~ Col. Albert A. Sprague blamed Bolton's consclence for his confea- sion to the federal men. [He said: “I can't imagine what would move & man Hke Bolton to make such « confession, unless his con- science was bothering him. His © name never came into the inquest, that did not mean anythi BI riiculariy, because we sper st of our time in endeavori tq trace the bullets found in t oye \ bbdies. a)