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IN CHICAGO'S UNDERWORLD."

THE CURIOUS CODE OF THE RACKETEER,

HOW THE "BUGS" MORAN GANG WAS MASSACRED.

In the opinion of the American journalist who wrote the following account of a typical gang crime in

È Chicago. Now and then things get a move on in that city's under- world. Take St. Valentine's Day, 1229, when gangdom said it with bullets instead of flowers and pretty

postcards.

up against the wall. As their police the guns barked, and the seven full dog straincat the leash.in a corner prone, their bodies filled with lend.

True To His Gode.

marched out in orderly fashion, the Then the quartet apparently two men in uniform prodding the other twa onward with their artil- lery, as if they were under arrest, and the four drove away in a wait.

When the rattle, of the machine-ing automobile. gs had died away, six members of the notorines George Bugs"} Moran gang lay lifeless and a seventh dying on the floor of a garage just a block from Lincola Park.

the killers.

Seven fewer gangsters was a stanil loss, but Chicagons were shocked at stories of witnesses who told of seeing four men come from the garage-two of them in pelice uni- forms-who drove away in an auto-party. mobile resembling those used by the detective burcan.

Police protested that the uniforms must have been stolen, and im- mediately began a check of the sale of old police cars,

It was while Moran's men sut in a group drinking coffee in the garage used as a distributing point for bootleg whisky that the shoot- ing took place. The gangsters Were talking which four men crashed

Two of them were dress ed in

and were loaded with sawed-off shot gins and sub-machine-guns

wore

It is evident that Moran's gang were taken in, and thought it was. n friendly raid, or they would never have allowed themselves to be lined

Girl,"

Fred Burke, Bank Robber, Burke, bank robber, and knows ag Suspicion finally centred on Fred

a Killer, who was believed to have taken part in the shooting of Frankie Unie, Brooklyn mob lender. tectives picked up his trait in St. But Burke bad skipped. Later, de- Joseph, Mich; where he was wanted for the murder of Policeman Charles Skelly.

Search-of Fred's abode revealed stolen bonds to the time of £100,000,

The police arrived n few bullet-proof vests, and a veritable minutes later. Six of the racket-arsenal. But Burke, had skipped. eers lay lifeless, and the seventh, This man, with twenty-one kill- Frank Gasenberg, was crawlingings against him, was not heard- about on the floor. Until his of until recently, when the police death, hours Inter, Gusenberg, tracked him to ncottage true to his rude, refused to unmo Newaygo, Mich., where he had been in hiding for three months. Once Moran, the lender, who undoubt-again they arrived just too late to edly was the target of the attack, Juab the elusive Burke. had apparently not turned up at While police continued to hunt the garage in time for the shooting Turke after the massacre. Capone nad Moran are reported to have met Although the police admitted they in the East and signed a truce. were baffled they fastened on seveidi. At least, that is the story told theories.

by Scarface Al" when he was Perhaps Moran had stopped pay-pulled " in Phindelphia for pack- ing tribute in certain policemen, ing concealed weapons.. when the police began hiding his Capone's story was not believed rivals in hijacking More beer and generally, and it was rumoured that trucks, and the disgruntled coppers hus bad taken the rap

"because had engineered the mastere ho wanted to be in a safe place for a few months. This was taken as á sign that "Bugs" had not signed the pence pact and had warned! Capone-

It might have been the sequel to the slayings of Joseph Lombardo,

Scarface" Capone's chief hostle legging licntenant, or the Purple

Gang. from Detroit, who

pisstalled rooms weers the street from the garage, may have done the job.

Both Capone and Moran denied any knowledge of the crime. They produced alibis,

1.

Temporarily at rust, with "Sear- face out of the way and the police attempting to appease the public by finding the massacre quartet, gang- land was quiet, or nearly as quies as Chicago's underworld ever gets, which is not exactly noiseless.

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Star Theatre: Blood Will Tell." Golf: St. George's Society v. St. Andrew's Society.

China (Stadiumi), Recreio «. Som- ergota (Recreio), Argylla 27% St. Queen's Theatre: **Florodora Joseph's (Chatham Rd.), Eastern 15 |

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