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e NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1930. Cook County Coroner Describes Valentine Day Ballistic Expert’s Evidence Solved Mystery of Moran Massacre Probe And Scnentlfic Drive On Killers ln the shot to death in a s battle Gangster Taken or Ride Also, two other Chic meantime, 020" Shupe was . Sl T Albert Anselmi and John Gang Murders—Chicago e oi"t Capone gang Laboratory of Crime Is 55,000, "y e e o y e T . |were “taken for a ride Direct Result of Investi- |y, i ons o, ™ gation. entine's day massacre but had not come to tricl e significant BY DI. HERMAN N. BUNDESEN |urder of these two Coroner of Cook County. Illinois | MOWEVCr is the fact that 1 (Written especially for the Associ- | KHed by their enemics o i R ey boundaries of Cook cou This Chics Rebtidi(p o was Hl‘f‘)l\;; evidence that the under- Ing the prohibition cra in the United Ll e e LT R Statcs, reaching a climax in the wan- Shenon uations of an objectional ton Killing seven bootl o (CILL sl Ll s in a NEY garage gakll] LT g on. i & cntine’s Day, 1924, I s L Watcrloo. ; SRADESRLL Jograudms o The forces of scicnee have emersg- | Clusively. Col. Godd rom the west, hi v are Shntae st e also t part of his life dodging scope has revealed the identity of the Shin were used, in. t shrew whom he married Ll ine gun on|Of I'rank Uale, the Brookly: supporting her relatives. Oil is € seven g rs, lined against the govcredion thistlind d SRllgehls zarage wall and unmercifully shot to ves his wi ) and death to the Such ance of the Val- Brand ju e procecds to mak entine’s Day re on this. the|murders s g ; follows. Both fa first anniversary of sinister | e is the most wid nted crimi- | clutehes of seheming event. It started modern science on | hal in the Uuni principals in a blackm the pursuit of the criminal. 1t marks| The useful | solv- | work one against the other in an cf the turning point in police methods | ing murders havi i, to obtain their money. In t in the United States shown i1 ca ; Shows Practical Uses ferenee N : The story of the massicrc It | Olso as v S them trom and its solution best illustrates the | outlined lca of a sci- | YOrk hotel practical use that can be made of |entific liboratory Gl i <i microscope and the Lborators. | tion of crime. 1 howeve The play has its nion in the investigation of murders that e e L by some | Very amusing in spots AL ow was falling in North | jocal uni Stdor toihsevest| Dencin to be Ciurk 5 several miles north of iy g, S aies Pelitics, | e plo N to cli the doWwntown district, when neigh- e o R play eutir hors heard a series of mufiled rapid- \\’,‘:“:\,,';»“ml\! s N o fire shots coming from a one-story | oeon ; i { 1 of the s e ge. A housewife said that, a few o ) old couy arly P minutes after the shots. she saw R L i1t is obvious to everyom 1 men and a polic casually | S0 ¢ ) onspiracy will be th out of the gar divei oo CsOLgalion i nouement away in what looked lik ive L ) vole of burcau squad car nder ring old ! ] Half an hour I ¢ newspapers It onors for woner of the civilized world carried head- public. This is the first | ¢ go o IFlorer Ger ' hin that seven Chic gungsters of © 1in United St B [ 050 ocmin 18 S gang | the infamous St. Valent ive Liad been lined up L wall and | 44y nassacre has S0l shot to death by mac e guns BCienc 18 sturted the 1 - As coroner, 1 ordercd the detec- [0f the criminal tivea {0 pick up all availuvle shells - BOYS HARMONICA BAND Tullet 1 other tell-tale bits of ev- ] U nest move was to have a staff of coroner icians etract the hul e 1 fron dead men and also to Tfl T[]TAI Youthful Musicians Present Pro- ke scientific chart th AL N Tocatior wounds in citch hody 5 i | ramac Mecting of Factory We no 1 ¢ bullets which Killed | | n—the bullets through which it . ULEWLRERCRC ERG ) it Securities to Be Sold When Har- [j neiad Bert Mas: Mr. Walter . two Chicago bu ness omen re members of the coronces of six outstanding busines sders whon 1 had sworn in. 1 able to bring Col. Calvin Goddard of New York cily, an in- ternationally-known ballisties ex- pert, to Chicago. The county could not supply the funds necessary (o him here. Col. Goddard began a patient and thoroughly scientific study of the bullets found in the bodics of the gangsters In the meantime. my inves tors located one Pefer Von Frantz ins, an obseure deuler in sportin zoods, includimg arms, who testified that he had sold several hinc Zuns to i@ man by the name of Irank Thompson. who represented himself to be “Joseph McCarthy, of the Indiana highway polic My investigators and the Chicago police later located Thompson, who admitted having sold several ma- chine guns to Chicago gangsters, In- cluding one James “Boso” well known bootlegger. Then came the killi policeman in St Josep Shupe, a a motorist. Finger print ey showed the killer was IFred B a notori Killer and gy photographs of whom were partis | Iy identificd by persons who saw t coming out of the Nort L& rect gar They said e Raided Burke's Home & loscph policemen, raiding th howe of Lurk 1d an arsenal of revolvers, mi guns and tective story magazines. lurke had escaped alter the Killing. 1 immedi- ¥ ot in touch by phone with Joscph autlioritics and ask- ir permission to cxamine the revolvers and machine zuns found in the Burke home. They agrecd. Col. Goddard itely got to work and studic bullets fired from the Burke machine guns. Then eame another inquest ses- Kol Col. Godds took the and mnd. as a scientific expert, testified ihat the bullets taken from the hod- of the seven Moran gangster: re the same type of bullets as fircd through the two machine guns found in I'r.d Burke's home in St. Jogeph. urther testimony from otlicr witnesses showed that th two machine guns in question were sold by Peter Von IFrantzius. One wias bought by the aforementioned Frank Thompson, who :old it to James (“Bozo”) Shupe. It is casy 10 conjecture that Shupe transferrcd it to Burke *through underworld channels. The other machine gun wa sold to a man representing him- self 1o be a sheriff of Williamson | county, Illinois, but who later turn- | ed out to be a member of the no-| torious Egan's Rats gang of St.| Louis. Tred Burke was also known to have been a member of the sam gang. The connection is obvious. | FRANK E. GOODWIN OPTOMETRIST My Scientific EYE EXAMINATION Assures Relief MAIN STRE *hone 1905 for Appointment 4 | 'RADIO TUBES The Elec. ket Is More Favorable : s ne nd social I ain in the amount of $725.000 wiil | *5 ! probably o on the market shortly, | Prived the U I provided the common council ap. | 'S of Arthur Berg, of proves ommendation of the | M T Gl Voard of i wnd taxation whicn | Plaved pcelyed jithe i e e e \e club and an capres- uizht's session sion of appreciation for the worl IDive! Bond sducalinclugs 20 An impression of the political cut- for sehools, $300.000 for _{un, Seth Parker of Jonespor £150.000 for ervice and e by Howard Bunce of ot \ese issues have | Mr. Bunce's campaign specch for been ral different | the office of mayor was thoroughly board. b | enjoyed postpon.d | The centertainment od awaiting more favorable muark.t |adjournment of the conditions which the current business Parmer sehool issues w.ll | club was transacted and repor be mads until 1969, and >0 | from committees were heard., It the other cach year until | was announced that the annual ban- quet is to be held March 1 at t EIks' club. The committee in charge BOY MERCHANT HELD reported that a menu and program Officer T. . Dolan answered a | of entertainment of rarc promise call from a poultry sto Broad | ars being arranged strect this forenoon returned | A pinochle tournament was won with a hoy ving {wo rabbits in | by Joseph Jackson. 0. Bates was e d having had stolen | t inner of the pool cont A abbits taken from him vesterday by | contest of ring toss was put on f police, was suspicious when the |the boys, Philip Aziz being the boy offered to scll him some more, ner while Joseph Mayewski imd so called the police, but second priz. Lo stied themselves that the spread of honie cooking wis vaised 1 Whbits and had th on by the committer Wit he could find a manship of I A to sell t County Court Furniture Prettiest Co-Ed : \ld\ Be Bought by City from the old Hartford ling ¥ be purchased or the city court room will made availabl the present common council chamber is moved to the fifth floor of city \ recommendation to transfer the council quarters will be made Wed- nesday night by a special commit tee headed by Attorney William I Curtin, councilman from the third vard. The committec proposes to nsfer rostrum and desks now ised by the common council, thus requiring the e of mew cquipment it court is to move nto la riers, Forest dama 1 North Carolina in 1929 cost 3 14 Big Moonlight DANCE —at— NORDEN BUNGALOW T. FEB. 15, 1930 Music By CHARLESTONTANS From Hartford Admission 50¢ Associated Press Ploto Gretchen Powell of Toledo was voted the prettiest co-ed on the campus of Findlay college, Findlay, Ohlo. s ."s SUPREME 162 MAIN STE (Enter Learn To Dance CLASS or P o Mag's Store) 0 RIVATE LESSONS Service Co. anklin Square Britain, Conn, Phone 10 I 3 or 1 W New ‘ [ Theater Review 1 You hon't Go, You'll I I You Do, You'll Have IN WEST END FIRE 0 13 SMOTHERED Sorry You Didn't a Good Time! EMIL HEIMBERGER —_— (In Person) NDOHIS S-1 HO) 10 ) BRO ”" ST G ORt ey 1. i e e Jone e e e B eaae R vy New Britain, Auspices Co. H Home Fatal (o Pet 169 Inf., C. N. G his is one of the big 3 dances at anly 50¢ == SR A i re e S } TOMORROW NGHT—EFEB. 15 at $:30 I e &' realiédtiVe a\nUsemmenr. .ot y i el ! Dancing Every saturday Night Till Lent AT THE EMBASSY RAMON NOVARRO i o — S g s L S New York—Chicago—London’ e L0 . damazi Fight to See Him in their new scnsation, “Har-| will ¢ < ; mons i R sty S bl a New Britain Lions’ Club Lo Storn and i o o g | B0 A et o 1o Brings lics and sclected su e e h e c o 1it is L one of ; ¢ ceid Happy Days” Io A 4 & ropped o tar y” talking et S0 L dey i SEE HIM — HEAR HIM opening 1omorrow I [ o'clo 0. No. i Sor N W esond A i in the rul b William Collier Thes of the billion dollars composing 1 than enter are Will Kol Charles Farrell, I McLaglen, trocola sonality STUDENTS EXCHANGED ore cqua to the Unite TRANSHT HIGIHT SCHOOT Swakopimund, West A 3 \ Germa ah . over b mandi ™ It e Gern Heads Cast in Court Drama DANCE Newington Grange TONIGHT IMPURIAL ORCHE (Registered) Last Dance Until After Lent RA PALACE “The Greene \luxdel Case” With WILLIAM POWELL “THE VALIANT” Starring PAUL MUNE Sound News—T Comedy —Novelt TOMORROW ONIY Love or hate, which, led this dan- gerous beauty fo betras her lover? See wnd 1 “Woman Trap” with HAL SKRELLY Evelyn Brent and Chester Morris Co-Feature Also Selected Sound Shorts A | ; T February 19th Charn i s . u‘ a o y e Tl s RO ol L New Nenior High = e e i e sk \uditorium ical com Co. ~a " 'Y # e o k : : DON'T WAIT — GET YOUR WiCKET : e el McCOY'S or MORANS' STEEL JUMP 1N ECHOD] Call 2409 For Select Seafs GOOD BILL AT STRAND issels, | Pr—A 1 IT'S ALL FOR CHARITY Tom Moore, tumo i )| 8 | roles on Ul Tickets on exchange at Croweli's tor at 9 o'clock I morning C Warner Bros, = | | 8 APITOL | DANCE Starts SA\TURDAY | BERLIN GRANGE FOR 1 DAYS TONIGHT HIS FIRST TALKING-SINGING e ROMANCE Dixies’ Strollers Admission 50¢ L —N ‘ v e One of the big pictures 9f° William Powell in any year! | (e S ! : 1 See Novarro fight and make “ 5 = love, hear him speak and | MARRIAGE INTENTIONS ~sing the melodies the who'e | ‘\,‘,su.‘w‘ri.‘ marria ‘ 1 world will be humming! | ) ad with TECHNICOLOR | i { Gold strect Arthur 10 Sulliv is 1 S years old ..‘\‘m e e ot | Revealing New York's most sensa- tional secrets! The truth | o ‘;x!mm New Y ml\ s ionaire of g ISTRAND |+ || =T Street of Chance O R S TODAY and SATURDAY w]wiu‘w L VELL IB\/I A (- LR -0 : POWELL . | Kay Francis — Jean Arthur | et Toomay A MUSICAL ROMANCE | \; " . with Marion Harvis — Dovothy Jordan | arner Bros S T RA N D VITAPHONE ACTS — COMEDIES — SOUND NEWS ‘ STARTS SUNDAY Childven's Stamp Club Starts Saturday & : TODAY ONLY JACK MULHALL in “IN THE NEXT ROOM” DOLORES DEL RIO in "EVANGELINE™ 77~IE ROMANCE OF A NIGHT- HOSTESS ! SUNDAY AT CAMEQO BRISTOL IN PERSON The CULLEN LANDIS || And His Company 4-Other Acts-4 Moments | : ; | [he Biggest Vaudeville rin AT HOME™ with uerite Charchill RENTUCKY™” Juseph Wi with BLANCHE SWEET TOM MOORE All-Talking SHARMONY W Collier, si., M A SONG O with Lois Moran, FINAL Showing Today i Famons Sereein St Vaudeville— McKAY and ARDINE ‘ “At the Station™ DORSCH o and RUSSELL i ical Lpisode ‘ JACKSON and CARR i Merry LAY 15NN | Show in the State in “The Pirate Queen” JOE NEIMEYLER €O, ON THE SCREL ‘Tie All Talking Riot - | f “Nix On Dames” 30 SAT. in “Samples” SHOW STARTS AT 1 Continuous Show SUNDAY M. 0—8:30 LADIES—You get the sccond plece of the Personal Beauty Ware Set this Saturday, from to 1 p.m, s Parking For 500 Cars _"k Second Show at 3