Gangsters

CHICAGO, Feb. 14, 1929 (INS) - Seven members of a notorious North Side liquor gang were swept to a horrible death here today before an avalanche of revolver bullets in one of the most terrible gangland battles in Chicago history.

CHICAGO, Feb. 15, 1929 (UP) -- 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 the safety of their guarded haunts today.

CHICAGO, March 4, 1929 (UP) -- Belief that the powerful forces of gangland have stretched tentacles into the innermost councils of the Police Department was voiced by the investigators for the state's attorney's office today, after incomplete verification of the suspicion that some members of the police force were allied with crime.

KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 27, 1931 (UP) - Federal authorities announced tonight that they had smashed a $1,000,000 bootleg ring, whose activities reached from the Atlantic seaboard to political leaders here, with a series of raids culminating in 18 months' investigation.

CHICAGO, Oct. 8, 1931 (UP) - Alphonse Capone's plea that he's just a poor, underpaid clerk instead of a multi-millionaire liquor baron, backfired at his income tax fraud trial in federal court today.

CHICAGO, Oct. 8, 1931 (UP) -- Frank McEriane, known as the underworld's "cruelest killer," disappeared tonight after the bullet-pierced body of his sweetheart, Marian Miller, had been found in an expensive eight-cylinder sedan. McEriane, too, may have been killed, said his associates.

CHICAGO, Oct. 9, 1931 (UP) - If Alphonse Capone is rich enough to be a moviesque Florida Play-boy, then he certainly must have an income worthy of taxation, the government attempted to prove at his income tax fraud trial today.

CHICAGO, Oct. 13, 1931 (UP) -- The federal government completed its case today against Alphonse Capone, Coney Island bartender who made good in such a big way as a Chicago criminal that he is accused of cheating the income tax department of $215,000.

Clyde Barrow and his cigar-smoking sweetheart Bonnie Parker lived by violence and died by violence today.

CHICAGO, July 23, 1934 (UP) - John Dillinger died under a volley of bullets fired by federal agents because a mysterious girl in red pointed the "finger of death" at him.