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kode Gui ed LUM sor ay Moran pangster, later Wilied. This, and the displeasure of Ca- pone over Moran’s control of tha Brofitabla North Side liquor busi- néss, brought the order: “Moran and hts mob must go!” Bolton's reported gtory continued with assertion that he was hired to keep watch over the garage; that he was ta summon the other killers when all the Moran leaders, Including Moran bimeeif, were Present. Moran sntered wlth Druggan iment could then turn jty evi- dance over to the state and say: “Here ti in. Send him to the @lecteHc ohalr!” Bolton Held as Bremer Kidnaper. Boltow ig held in St. Paul as e suspect in the $200,080 kidnaping of Edward G. Hremar. Detective Chief John L Sullivan had planned to send Lieut Otto Ex danaon thera to question him, but, after talking with local federatjon the morning of St. Valen- : agents, decided to weit, Sullivan|ne's Day. The signal went out. be ald: Burke and Goats drove up to the “Ho far ae 1 know, the mise [front of the garage. Humphreys, ae. : escre js atl an unegived mys | Boiton is walg to have named Humphreys, Winkler, Maddox and himasif as the actual machine gun- ners, Burke and Goetz, be ls quoted ag haviog sald, Were the ones who en- tered the garage at 2123 N. Clara at, wearing policemen’; uniforms Winkler and Goetz ate dasd; Humphreys ia in Leavenworth fed- eral penitentiary, serving eighteen montha for tax cheating, and Burke 1 ia in Marquette, Mich, atata peol- ae eee tentlary. Maddex alone ja at liberty. He been relatively inactive since vbibition's doom brought decline of the Capone mab. : Tt was generally belleved that, \¥ the government has a strong Case, it would see that Humphreys Waa brought back from Leaven- worth for trial; that Bolton's trlal in the Bretoear matter would ba atde- tracked, and that every = effort would be made to induce Michigan futhorities to yield Burke long enough to have hich prosecuted. J. E. Hoover Takes Skeptical View. Concerning the purported confes- sion, J. Edgar Hoover, head of the Department of Justice bureau of a depraved Caasar tims. For his part in that some “circus” he faces in the electri¢ chain“, i NO 'CIRCUS'—Ciauda Mad- dox led the ironically named “Circus gang.” named from their cafs headquarters, No hippodroma ever conceived by wat as spectacular and horrible as the fata he helped bring to the seven St. Valentine's Day vic- dasth victims ciudiped io ine tlowr. Mathodically, Burke and Goetz walked out the front way, got back inte thair car, and drove away. Swiftly, the others got in tne other car at the rear and escaped. When polite arrived in reaponse to the appeals af the terrified neigh- bors, the only living thinga in the room ware a dog and one of the QGuaenberge, and the mah was too wear dead to teik. Maddox was arrested, but he talked himself to freadom. He showed by records that he waa In court that morning, but Bolton is quoted as saying that he appeared dh court about # a. m., left Jong enough {to help in the king and months ago gangsters Coke COMM Ut CaiiGd: from the government. Decorator Sues | Brundage Widow Suit to collect $2,500 from Mrs. Germaire V. Brundage, widew of Edward J. Brundage, former at- torney generel of Jinoia, who com- taltted suicide last year, wan started in Lake County Circuit Court yes- as iad hy ada Ga dete, ee Paul banker, it was reported yeater. | cage, day. . Geetz, according to information reaching Chicago authorities, wan shot down by Arthur (“Doe"} Bar- ker, leader of the gang, now in custody, and another gang mem- ber who waa not named. Hia body wag found jn a ditch, near Chicago, laat March, a $1,000 bill in @ pocket. Graduated from tha University of Tilinoia in 1923, Goetz, a former football star, had geen an oppor- Cota and, ut in Teceived BEYOND REACH—Gus Wink- ler will never be touched by the law for triggering death ta "got" \/ anfamous St. i the Iwo “policemen” wl NO SELDEN x ie Holton ea oer seen after the killings. o ve tone _ yodeg fuuasy poe ADP lab serving SaNGaM terday by ‘Vnereno Charit cago interior decorator. re Mrs. Erundege failed to for furnishings in the Bry Lake Forest homes. tunlty to became a “big shot" gang- stay when ha was appolnted re- ceiver for the ransom money, The $200,000, It was said, waa paid over to him in Chicago. The fendants in Uvalde, Fresident Garner, SOLA Bad li tate mongland “paid him off" foc his treachery, Goelz, it was swid, waa the man who rented the cottage in which Bremer waa held prisoner. Garner Files Suit for Foreclosure OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan, 23.—4 —Mrs. Anni¢ & Cobb, Gklahoma City, today was served with notice of a mortgage foreclosure suil filed against her and gevera! other de Tex.. by Vice Wass an Get geek Lik suites tea what ja known as the “Mexiean stand-off." ‘Phe victims were ined Up with their faces toward a stone wall Then « battery ef submachine Rung, sawed-off shotguns: and re- Volvers blazed. Six bodies crum- pled up, Hterally perlorated with slugs. All but ane had been killed in- slantly. John May, the mechanic, bla face Bhostlike, peered from under the car. He sald: “Aw, what did you do that for?" The slayers, who were firat in- fashion, Bolton Confesses *KILLER'—Rifhily named was “Fred (“Killer Burke, for he was one of the sdhuad of six execu. FOUCATED—TO = MURDER Fred Goetz was a college grad- uate, an army flier, but he seven mon in the St, Valentine's Goners in thal bloodiest act in stood in the firing lina whan Day massacre. Tha elimination all gang’qnd’ history, He was tha massacred victims fell in a of bie rivals in the George glad—an.H was the law— N. Clark st. garage six years ( Bugs"'] Moran gang marked when Michinalig imprisoned him ago. From that butchery he & step in his rise to gang boss for lite in IQ, Other states, went to other murdars, and of the North Side. Buf a simi- seeking him BRor @ dozen mur- finally his own. Last March he lar fate overtook him. Fifteen ders, promiied H be electrocution, Pail} A - fonbaebs és SpahE From prison was shat down by 9 group of gunmen in frang of a Cicera i. fp an A i ho. *Killer”) Burke, ¥ M evel ie today, was named by Byron Balt Mier, as one Valentine's Day massacre. photo.k - '@ Chicage American The on, federal Pie seven men in the tthe band thal slaughtered Burke, according ho were seen He is now t= Michigan. (Chicago A CAPONE'S MAN — Murray Humphreys, polished hoodlum, succeeded "Scarface Al’ as head of the Capone gang when tha government jailed Capone. Now he is in Lagvenworth for the same offense—income tax evasion, At the end of nis aightaen-month farm, the elec- tric chair looms for him, for he was named as ons of the six massacre Hayers by Byron Bot- salt ts th Of special interest is “Machine Gun Jack McGut ating in the massacte- ° The slaughter caused M i oubles wit . subsequent tt merical | Tis rere ng elned to spare him, decided on s6c- | . ‘ - “~ sacre itsclf, we aN Pd Beare Out McGurn Alibi. ¢ fact th I n, Capone artilleryman, cGurn’s ar in the federal government w it had long been suspected that “Killer' Burke and Fred Goetz, ‘tamed by Byron Bolton in hia con- feasion, had posed as the two poe licemen in the cage, but never, until ‘Bolton revealed himgel?, Claude Maddox, Gua Winkler and Murray Humphreys as the other membera| of ihe firing squad, did the authori- tes have any reported confession. | Druggan and Moran Escape by Minutes, Terry Druggan and Georga (“Bugs") Moran catne perilously close ro being slain in the St. Val- entine's Day massacre of 1929, ac- cording to the purported confession of Byron Bolton, Bolton said he waa alt bla lookout Posilion acvoss the atreat when he saw Druggan and Moran enter the Rarage at 2122 N. Clark at., where the latter's mob had its headquar- ters. Bolton #lgnaled the rest of the firing aquad, he aald, and left his room to join the expedition, Two killers entered the front doer: four marched in the rear; the victims were lined up: guns spat; the killers fled. But, when police arrived to iden- itify the bodies, they didn't find Druggan and Moran. Unaware of what they were mlss- ing. they had lett a few minutes before—unnoticed by the assassins! | Bolton Brought \Hete by Capone. Byron Bolton's purported confes+ #ion of participation in the Moran wang massacres beers out suspicion of police mt the time of the multipia murder. Witnesses had ideniifled him by hie picture and by hia cough. Bolton wax plying his trade of gangster in Detroit when Capone brought him here for “special duty” Bearing out the bellef that he had @ part in the episode, a trunk, he leved to have held the maching fune used [mn the massacre, was found at the home of Bolton's tath+ wr at Virden, Til. Bolton had never gained prom- fence until the time of the mas- macre. Though a trusted member of the gang, he had kept aut of dee limelight. ‘ vietim of circumstances--bes the murderers entered. Drs gstera for the “kick” be got ya of Moran's once powerful ing Al Capone's South Side. jad bloody repercussions that | records for many years. A most of them traceable to. the Jton did not mention at Bolto as partlei- rest for the crime and itl t . i :