New Britain herald., 1930-02-14
Ballistic Experts Evidence Solved Mystery of Moran Gang Murders-Chicago Laboratory of Crime Is Direct Result of Investi- gation.
bA DIR. HERMAN \. BU\DESE,N Coroner of Cook County. Illinois
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 Chicago, Feb. fl LPp-Crime dur Ing the prohibition era in the United States, reaching climax in the wan ton killing of seven bootlegging Eangsters in a dngy garage here on St. Valentines Day, 1929, has met it's Waterloo
 The forces of science have emcrr- ed victorious Tho scientists micro- scope has revealed the identity of the man who trained q machine gun on the seven gangsters. lined against the garage wall and unmercifully shot 10 death.
 Such Is the significance Of the Val entlnc's Day massacre on this the first anniversary of the sinister event. It started modern science on the pursuit of the criminal. It marks the turning point in police methods in the United States
 shows Practical Uses
 The story of the massacre itself and it's solution best illustrates the practical use that can be made of tHt HilCIOSCOpC ana lIlC in the investigation of murders.
 A light snow was falling in North Clark street, several miles north of the downtown district, when neigh hors heard a series Of muffled rapid fire shots coming from a onc-story garage. A housewife said that, few minutes after the shots. she saw sev- eral men and a policeman casually walk out of the garage and drive away in what looked like q detective bureau squad car.
 Half an hour later the newspapers Of the civilized world carried head lines that seven Chicago gangsters of the George tBugs"D Moran gang had been lined up against q wall and shot to death by machine guns.
 As coroner, I ordered the dctcc- lives to pick up all available shells, bullets and other tcll-talc bits of cv- idcncc for future investigation. My next move was to have q staff of coroncr's physicians extract the bull let's from the dead men and also to make scientific charts showing the location of the wounds in each body. We now had the bullets which killed the mcn-thc bullets through which J hoped 10 trace the killers.
 Aided by Business Men
 Thanks to the civic interest and financial aid Of Mr. Bert Masscc and Mr Walter Olson. two Chicago busi- ness men who were members of the coroncSs jury of six outstanding business leaders whom l had sworn in. l was able to bring Col. Calvin Goddard of New York city, an in- known ballistics ex- pert, to Chicago. The county could not supply the funds necessary to bring him here. Col. Goddard began patient and thoroughly scientific study of the bullets found in the bodies of the gangsters.
 In the meantime, my investiGa- tors located one Peter Non Frantz- jus an obscure dealer in sporting goods including arms who testified that he had sold several machine guns to d man by the name of Frank Thompson. who represented himself to be Joseph Mccarthy. Of the Indiana state highway police" My investigators and the Chicago police later located Thompson, who admitted having sold several ma~ chine guns to Chicago gangsters, in cluding one James "Boso" Shupe, well known bootlegger.
 Then came the killing of q traffic policeman in St. Joseph, Mich, by a motoris. Finger print evidence showed the killer was Fred Burke, a notorious killer and gangster photographs of whom were partial ly identified by persons who saw the men coming out Of the North Clark Street garag". They said he wns th" man who wore the police mans uniform.
 Eaidrd Eurkc's Home
 St. Joseph policemen, raidinS the home of Burke. found an arsenal Of rcvolvers, machine guns and de tcctivc story magazines Burke had escaped after the killing. l inmcdi- atcly got in touch by phone with the St Joseph authorities and ask cd their permission to examine the rcrovers and machine guns found in the Burke home. They agreed. Col. Goddard immediately got to work and studied test bullets fired from the Burke machine guns.
 Then came another inquest ses- sion Col. Goddard took the stand and. as q scientific expert, testified that the bullets taken from the bod ics of the seven Moran gangsters were the same type of bullets as fired through the two machine guns found in I'r,d Burke's home in St. Joseph Further testimony from other witnesses showed that tn" two machine guns in question were sold by Peter Von Frantzius. One was bought by the aforementioned Frank Thompson, who gold it to James ("Bozo"D Shupc. It is easy to conjecture that Shupe transferred it to Burke through underworld channels. The other machine gun was sold to a man representing him. self to be a sheriff of Williamson county, Illinois, but who later turn ed out to be a member of the mo- torious Egan's Rats gang of St. Louis. Fred Burke was also known to have been a member of the same gang. The connection is obvious.