Volume 18 , Issue 7

1929 Gangland War In Chicago (St. Valentine's Day Massacre)

It was in The Evening Standard (Uniontown, Pennsylvania), dated 15 February 1929, Friday, front page headlines read: "Gangland War In Chicago." The St. Valentine's Massacre drove rival bands into hiding for final battle.

Found on Newspapers.com

Chicago. 15 (1929) -- Fear, not of the law but of the leaden hail which mowed down seven men in gangland's first massacre, drove the leading figures in Chicago's beer traffic to their guarded haunts.

The Mexican "stand off" execution of seven henchmen of George Moran, recorded as a St. Valentine's Day massacre, presaged certain deaths for the few remaining powers of gangland who dared to venture outside their own four walls. The throne of "Scar Face Al" Capone, was tottering - the forces of one of his trusted allies, Moran, were wiped out.

The flare of machine gun and shotgun fire directed against the seven men lined against the wall of the Northside beer truck garage left Moran virtually unprotected. Various rumors said that he had been wounded but police believed it impossible that anyone of the intended victims of the planned execution could have escaped.
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