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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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‘aie cone ae 4 i" = t i] ee Mr, Nathan_._ i one f Mr. Tolson.____ Mr Clege_. 3 i Mr, Baughman Rr. Coftay ~ Mr. Edwards os : Mr. Egan _____ : wie, Harbo,__ a Mr. Keith. OA CAPTURED FOR CAP ih dared MASSACRE Gunman’ Unarmed, Is ‘Torralled at Home by. » Berwyn Officers, Claude Maddox, gangs{ed Inman. and public enemy, Wes in the St. Valentine’ ¢ Day mas- sacre Maddox was named by Byron Bol. ton ag ont of the machine eunners BS Ss in an exclusive story printed by The Chicago American. , Maddox is the only ene of the machine gunners named by Bol- ton who wag alive or at large. SEIZED AT DOOR OF HOME. _He was captured withcut ‘sen- sation as be drove up in front of hie home at 2440 8. Oak Park av., Berwyn, at 5:20 a. m. today by two policemen of the suburb... . Detective Charles Rudderman and Patrolman Frank Mitchell w him drive past in an expensive dan and fell in behind. Titty eiled him to the front door \pf iS residence and as Maddox l4}t e car they Placed him under rest, . te ee ee in f.-34% AU) ee e of his alleged part: /7 ‘ o A pearch disclosed that nay “es uffirnret—nor was there ae the car. He was bustled oft te the Ber- wyn police station despite profane protests. The detective bureau in Chicago waa notified. Guarded by several officers, 56. was then sped to the Chicago po- ‘Hee headquarters and takdn to the : { bureau of identification, i ! DENIES aE 1S MADDOX. | When fice@wemei-ne tried to es- i cape arrest by asserting that his i name was John Moore, an old alias. The two suburban Policemen knew chim, Bowever, : Ag soon 82 his ‘Tingerprints were eeken at the Bureau of Idestifica- "Hon he admitted hig true identity. Burlily he refused to answer ques- fons of Deputy Chief of Detectives: alter Storma, who at onte noti- “fied . Chief John L. Sullivan of (ha rreat, . . ' yas LONG SUSPECTED. Maddox hag been jong suspecied ‘tht never directly involved in the ‘$990 slauchter, Bolton, now in St. ‘Baul and 1 ‘under indictment for tak+ SDE part in the Kidnaping of Ed- “ward CG. Bremer, confessed to the ‘government that he had teken a , part in the massacre. ‘The same story, related to friends. .In Chicago and obtained by Tho , Chicago American, named the kill- ‘ers beside Bolton and Maddox na ‘Murray Humphreys, now In pris _for neome tex fraud; Gus Winkle}; slath; Fred (‘Killer’) Burke, sery- ing| a life term for murder, , Fria Goetz, siain. s RRIF A ¥ a Oe Le i a " Cf, "e, Cet a a
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