Washington Times, 22 February 1929, image 3: Arrests near in gangland massacre
ARRESTS NEAR IN GANGLAND MASSACRE
- Paper
- The Washington Times (Washington, D.C.)
- Date
- 1929-02-22
- Page
- Image 3
- Headline
- ARRESTS NEAR IN GANGLAND MASSACRE
- Rights
- A United States newspaper published in 1930 or earlier. Public domain in the United States. The Library of Congress serves the page from Chronicling America.
Washington Times, 22 February 1929, “General News Section” front (image 3 of the issue as scanned). The story is datelined “CHICAGO, Feb. 22 (I.N.S.)” and opens: “Arrest of the actual slayers of the “unlucky seven” members of the “Bugs” Moran gang in the garage massacre a week ago was predicted today” by an assistant state’s attorney and Deputy Police Commissioner John Stege, “as the result of the discovery of charred remnants of the murder car in a private North Side garage.”
The report says the parts were “dismembered parts of a new Cadillac car exactly like those used by the Chicago detective squads,” found after what police called an incendiary fire, together with a siren like those on detective-bureau cars. It says the garage had been rented on 12 February “by a man giving the name of Frank Rogers,” and that it stood in “Little Sicily.” It adds that police held two men among half a dozen taken in raids.
The predictions of arrest and the identification of the car as the “murder car” are officials’ statements as reported. This archive does not name the men in custody from this page.