The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-02-14
Five Executioners Herd In
armed Victims Against Wall;
Riddle Bodies With Lead
MERCILESsLY. EXECUTED
Wholesale Killing Most ssnsas
tionaI in History Of Bloody /
Chicago Gang Wars

bers Of the powerful north side eaug
headed by George Bugs Moran were
trapped in their North Clark street
headquarters today by five gunmsn
who lined them up with their faces
to q brick wall. beneath . powerful
electric light and shot them to death.
The wholesale killing, the most
sensational In the long and bloody
history Of Chicago gangland warfare,
was carried out with precision by five
executioners wearing stars and posing
- police officers who invaded Z gar-
age where the Moran gang was IN
conference, herded their helpless ana
unarmed victims to the rear ana
mercilessly executed them with sawed
Oft shot guns and machine guns Each
body bore from six to ten bullets.
The heap Of bodies Of the victims
was found In the rear room Of tho
8. M. G. Carriage company, 2l22 North
Clark street. by the police who had
been summoned by woman living
nearby, apparently the only person
to hear the reports Of the sawed-oli
shotguns and machine guns Of the
slayers.
The assassins pulled UP before the
Moran gang headquarters in two
large automobiles. rushed In, display.
ing stars and ordered the eight ocCu.
pants to raise their hands. Apparent-
ly the slayers then herded their VIC
tins into Z rear room aud lining them
up against . wall with hands above
their heads, loosed their murderous
gunfire.
SIX Found In Hu1dlc
Six Of the bodies. AL In grotesque
position. Is they had fallen. wero
found by police ranged along. the
bullet-marked and blood shattered
wall On the floor in an outsr room
two others were found still living but
fatally wounded.
Police identified three Of the vic
Tins - Peter 0usenberg, Yobber and
jewelry thief, James CLARK, and Al
Weinshank, soft drink parlor own
ers.
Frank Gutenberg. brother of Peter.
both having been involved in the
Dearborn street station mail robbery
several years ago, was wounded.
All Of the bodies, including those Of
the wounded men, bore from six to 10
bullet wounds. From the appearance
OF the Carriage companys offices. the
gun raiders apparently swooped down
with the intention Of killing every.
body In the place and deliberately
saw to 1t that their shots took effect,
Herded ~ Attackers
The building is garage and con-
tanned q number Of cars. The bodies
lay in an open space where the men
had been herded by their attackers.
before the executions.
Today's slayings, In the form Of .
massacre, was something new IN Chi
cago gang warfare. Before the gang
sters took their victims for Z ride
Turing them into automobiles. and
killed them. or else swept past In aai-
tomobiles and raled them with gum
fire.
Never before. however. has one
gang invaded the stronghold Of an
other, rounded up their victims and
then shot them to death. The slay-
ers escaped today In approved gang
ster fashion, dashing from thu
slaughter house to their waiting mo-
tor cars.
The list Of dead and wounded q
given out by the police follows:
Peter 0usenberg. notorious gang
ster.
Frank ousenterg. gangster. died in
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