Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-14
One Other Man Wounded as
Band Raids North Side
Headquarters, Takes Men,
berS by Surprise.
VICTIMS HEAPED BODIES
FOUND IN REAR ROOM
Sawed-0ff Shotguns and Machine
Guns Used-Police Officials
Promise Most Intensive Cam
paign to Wipe Out Criminals.
Slayers Carry Weapons Openly.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, February 14.-Seven
members of the North Side gang
of George Bugs" Moran were
lined up against a wall and sum-
marily executed and one other
was probably fatally wounded to-
day by band of five, who in
vaded the North Side headquar-
ters of the gang posing as police
officers. After forcing the men to
raise their hands, the gangsters
shot them down in cold blood.
The heaped bodies of the vic
tins were found in the rear room
of the S. M. G. Carriage Co., 2122
North Clark street, by the police,
who had been summoned by a
woman living nearby. She was
apparently the only person to
hear the reports of the Sawed-off
ShotgunS and machine guns of the
slayerS.
The assassins pulled up before the
Moran gang headquarters in two large
automobiles. They rushed into the
ordering the eight occupants to raise
their hands. Apparently the slayers
then herded their victims into rear
room and, lining them up against a
wall with hands above their heads,
looSed their murderous gunfire,
Bodies in Grotesque Positions.
Six of the bodies, all in grotesque po-
sitions, just as they had fallen, were
found by the police ranged along the
bullet marked and blood Spattered wall
The police Immediately identified
three of the victims as Peter Gusenberg,
ronber and jewelry thief; James Clark
and Al WeinshaflR, soft-drink parIor
owners. One of the wounded men was
identified as Frank Gusenberg, brother
of Peter both having been involved in
the Dearborn Street Station mail rob-
berry several years ago.
Everybody, including the wounded
man, bore from to 10 bullet
wounds. From the appearance of the
Carriage Co.'S offices, the gun raiders
apparently swooped down with the in
tention of killing everybody in the place
and deliberately saw to 1t that their
shots took effect.
Assailants Storm Meeting.
The building is a garage and con-
tanned number of cars. The bodies
lay in an open space where the men
had been herded by their attackers be-
fore the executions.
The police viewed the slayings as a
new outbreak of bootlegging hostilities,
but at first were unable to determine
the Affiliations of the raiding gang.
The police were of the opinion that
the Moran gang was holding meet
ing in the Carriage Co. Office, which in
reality was used for bootlegging, when
their assailants stormed in and took
them by surprise The slayerS appar-
emily learned of the meeting and took
advantage of it to wipe out all their
rivals at one Swoop.
Today's slayings, in the form OF a
massacre, was something new in Chi
cagoIs gang warfare. Before the gang
sters took their victims for ride, .
Turing them into automobiles and kill
ing them, or else swept past in automo-
biles and raked their victims with gun
fire.
Never before, however, has one gang
invaded the stronghold Of another,
rounded up the victims and calmly shot
them to death. The slayers escaped
today in approved gangster fashion
dashing away in waiting motor cars.
Today's killing brought the total OF
gang slayings here in the past few years
to more than 135.
Creates Sensation.
The slayings created a sensation In
official circles. William F. Russell
commissioner of police; DR.. Herman N
Bundesen, county coroner, and Harry
Stansbury, assistant States attorney
were on the scene within few min
utes and took charge of the investiga-
ton.
The scene of the Staying Is within a
few blocks of two other sensational
gang killings. The flower store where
Dion O'Banion was killed among his
roses and chrysanthemums is about two
miles south of the carriage company'S
Offices and it was near the flower store
and across from Holy Name Cathedral
that Hyrnie Weiss, another gang leader
and several others were moved down by
machine guns planted In an apartment
overlooking the church year or two
later
Two hours otter the killing the bodies
still lay in the shambles in the same
positions in which they were found
while hundreds milled about outside the
buildings as the officials started theii
inquiry.
This is the end of gangland in Chi.
cago," Chief Russell declared as HI
looked at the bodies. "It's a war to thu
death now, and no quarter will be giver
or asked by the police. Every policeman
in Chicago is going to get his orders
We are going to start one of the great
est fights against crime this or an!
other city ever has seen. The raids IL
which 5000 were taken and put in jai
won't be in it with what We will d.
now."
All victims were we'll dressed. In tn
pockets of one the police found $500
and most of them wore expensiv
watches and jewelry.
Five men apparently constituted tn
murderers. The five were seen to leaT
the garage after the shooting, luggin
along their weapons without any at
tempt at concealing them. One NAL
said he saw the men emerge from tn
building, that they were carrying thei
weapons in their hands and proceedin
without any hurry. He believed then
TO be police officers. He said the f1v
climbed into car at the curb that h
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