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“Pages of history” features excerpts from The News Journal archives including the Wilmington Morning News, The Morning News, the Every Evening and The Evening Journal.

Feb. 15, 1929, Wilmington Morning News

Seven in Chicago gang slain, trapped by foes in police guise

Chicago gangsters, posing as policemen, invaded the North Side stronghold of the George “Bugs” Moran gang Feb. 14, lined up seven helpless, unarmed victims with their faces to a white brick wall and mowed them down with automatic pistols and machine guns.

The wholesale execution was carried out at 10:30 a.m. with all the precision of an army squad. It was an innovation in Chicago gang history which brought the total gang victims to more than 135 in the past few years.

Five men drove up to Moran’s headquarters in a garage at 2122 North Clark Street, after putting through a telephone call inquiring whether certain members of the gang were there. They rushed into the garage with drawn pistols and machine guns, informing the seven men they were police officers. Some of them flashed stars and others wore parts of police uniforms….

A woman told a policeman that someone had been hurt in the garage, and the officer entered to verify this prosaic report. Six victims he found lying where they fell, feet to the wall, their faces turned to the incandescent light overhead. A seventh victim, mortally wounded, was found in another room….



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