Evening star., 1935-01-23
|GANGSTER ADMITS
ST. VALENTINE DAY
KILLING OF SEVEN
Five Others Named by Kar-
pis Aide in Massacre,
Says Paper.
CONFESSION REPORTED
UNDER SCRUTINY HERE
Byron Bolton Says He and Three
Others Manned Guns in
Chicago Garage.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, January 23.-The Chi
cago American in a copyrighted story
today asserted that Byron Bolton,
Karpis- Barker gangster, had admitted
taking part in the St. Valentines day
massacre of 1929-the bloodiest crime
in Chicago gangland annals-and had
named his five associates in the
slaughter of seven men.
The killers, according to the ad-
mission attributed to Bolton. we're
Fred "Killer" Burke, Claude Maddox.
Gus Winkler, Fred Goetz, Murray
Humphreys and Bolton.
The actual machine gunners who
moved down their rivals in a North
Side garage, Bolton was said TO have
declared. were himself, Maddox. Hum
phreys and Winkler.
Burke and GOetz Named.
He named Burke and Goetz as the
two men in police uniforms, armed
with sawed-off shotguns. whom wit
nesses reported seeing leave the North
Clark street garage after the mass
murders.
Bolton. the American said. has given
his story in detailed formal statement
to the United States Government.
which is now being studied in
Washington.
Bolton was seized January 8 in a
raid on an apartment hideout on the
northwest side. Russell Gibson. his
companion. was killed by the raiders.
Bolton is now in St. Paul in connec-
ton with the 100000 ransom kid
naping of Edward G. Bremen, st. Paul
brewer
Before entering crime he was an ex-
pert machine gunner in the United
States Navy.
Youth Among Victims.
It was in the Navy. his alleged con-
feSsior said, that he gained the knoWl.
edge which enabled him to handle one
of the weapons which spat wholesale
murder on February IA 1929.
The seven killed that day were Peter
Gusenberg. ex-convict: Frank Gusen-
berg. his brother; Adam Heyer, alias
Arthur Hayes. former convict; James
Clark brother in-law of George
Bugs Moran, North Side gang lead
er at the time; John May, garage me-
chanic; Albert Weinshank and DR..
Reinhardt H. Schwirnmer.
May was a youth who happened to
be in the garage when the killers en-
tered. DR. Schwimmer was said to
have been associated with the gang
sters for the "kick" he got out of il.
The other five were members of
Moran's once-powerful gang, then en-
gagged in a fight for territory with
AL Capone's South Side gangsters.
Plotted in New York.
The slaughter, Bottoms statement
was said to have asserted, was plotted
in New York. Frank Uale, notorious
Eastern gangster later slain, wanted
a piece" of a dog track which was
operating with Capone backing at
Lyons, Ill. Although Uale had been
associated with Capone, Bolton said,
Capone refused to ''cut him in" on
the profits.
Uale, the statement went on. threat
ened to have the track. burned down
through Joe Aiello, Moran gangster,
who later was killed. Those in con-
troll of the track. Bolton said. retained
Burke and Goetz for protection and
put them in police uniforms.
Burke since has been sentenced to
life imprisonment for Staying a police
man at Benton Marbor, Mich. Goetz,
a former University of Illinois athlete,
was later slain by gangsters.
The order then went out. Bolton
said, to get" the Moran gang.
Bolton was alleged to have said he
was assigned to keep watch on the
North Clark Street garage, known
then as the Moran headquarters.
Tells of SummOning Killers.
A week before the killings he rented
a room across the street. His mstruc-
tions, he said, were to summon the
killers when the entire gang, includ-
ing Moran, was present.
On the morning of ST. Valentines
| day. he said he saw Moran enter
the garage with Terry Druggan and
he sounded the alarm.
A short time later two men dressed
as policemen drove up to the garage
/ in an automobile resembling a squad
car.
Burke and Goetz, Bottoms alleged
statement recounted, ordered the
seven men they found inside to line
up with their faces toward a stone
wall. Moran the chief target. and
Druggan had left only few minutes
before.
When the victims we're lined up
Bolton, Maddox. Winkler and Hum
phreys entered through a rear door,
! carrying two suit cases containing
machine guns, Bolton said.
A deafening roar resounded and
seven bodies slumped to the floor.