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St Valentines Day Massacre — Part 2
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i CLAUDE MADDOX.
di (TRIBUNE Photo.]
The alibi given by Claude Madd
when he was arrested after the 1929
St. Valentine’s day massacre,’ that he
was in court at the time tthe seven
Moran gangsters were slain. in the
North Clark street garage,/was appar-
ently" regarded by the police as a bar
{to prosecution In the caye yesterday
Iwhen Chief of DetectivesyJohn L. Sul-
livan announced that Maddox would
be held forthe regular Sunday showup
| “like any other hoodinm,” but that
he ts not wanted for’ any . particular
crime, Federal authorities told Chief
Sullivan they were not interested in
the prisoner.
Maddox was seized by two Berwyn
policemen yesterday morning as he
lwas entering his/home in that sub-
urb, where he lived under the name
yot John Moore.."He was turned over
to the Chicago: police,
Maddox had been named as one of
the &t. Valentine's day slayers in a
urported confession by Byron Bolton, -
now being ‘held in St. Paul in connec: en ae:
|tion with the kidnaping of Edward G. . Sn ad
Bremer. Besides Maddox and himself, ls a
Bolton was said to have declared that
; Fred Goetz, Murray. Humphreys, Gus
; Winkler, ‘and Fred [Killer] Burke,
fere the execution squad. Goetz afd
inkler’ are dead. Burke is servijag
ife ‘wentence for murder and Hu'n-
ip eys ‘is in Leavenworth penitent
[tor viglation of the Income tax law. va
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