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1929 St. Valentine's Day massacre suspects...
1929 St. Valentine's Day massacre suspects...
Item # 720493
March 05, 1929
THE KINGSPORT TIMES, Tennessee, March 5, 1929
* St. Valentine's Day massacre investigation probe
* Fred "Killer" Burke & Joe Lolordo named suspects
The front page has a one column heading: "THREE NAMED AS MASSACRE GUN HANDLERS" with subhead. (see images)
Complete with 6 pages, light toning and a little wear at the margins, generally nice.
AI notes: By March 5, 1929, law enforcement and Chicago underworld observers were increasingly focused on Fred “Killer” Burke and Joseph “Joe” Lolordo as prime suspects in the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, the February 14 ambush that left seven members of George “Bugs” Moran’s North Side gang dead. Burke, a notorious hitman and associate of Al Capone’s Chicago Outfit, was implicated through eyewitness accounts placing him near the scene and the discovery of firearms at his residence that matched those used in the killings, while later confessions from gang members further reinforced his suspected involvement. Lolordo, another Capone operative, was considered a key planner of the attack, though he himself was killed just weeks later in March 1929, a murder widely believed to be connected to settling internal gang disputes following the massacre. Despite mounting suspicions against both men, no official arrests were made, leaving the crime unsolved and cementing it as one of the most notorious episodes in Chicago’s Prohibition-era gang warfare.
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