Washington Times, 13 March 1929, page 2: Gang massacre now believed solved

Page 2 of the Washington Times, 13 March 1929. The story runs under the byline “By FRANCIS F. HEALY” and the line “(Copyright, 1929, by International News Service),” datelined Chicago, March 13. It opens: “Solution of Chicago’s greatest gangland massacre of seven members of George “Bugs” Moran’s gang, long hinted, long predicted and long investigated by every law enforcing body here, was announced today by an attache of the State’s attorney’s office.” The headline is confirmed on the page image; the OCR reads “FANG.”

The story names three men “now sought as the connecting links”: Joseph Lewis, James Ray and Claude Maddox, the last described as “the man who imported Burke and Ray” to carry out the killings. It then prints “the story of the massacre as reconstructed,” in which Burke and Ray entered the garage in police uniforms on the pretext of a raid, and ties the killings to the earlier deaths of Tony Lombardo and Pasqualino Lolordo.

This is an investigative theory announced to the press in March 1929, not a charge or a court finding. This archive cites the page as a record of what the state’s attorney’s office was saying, and takes no attribution of guilt from it.