LED MASSACRE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17143, 27 December 1929, Page 13

LED MASSACRE

GANGSTER'S CRIMES 'MOST DANGEROUS MAN ALIVE* CHICAGO, Dec. 10. Fred Burke, alias Fred Dane, one of the chief lieutenants of "Scarface" Al Capono, the notorious gang leader, and himself the leader in the St. Valentine's Day massacre last February, when seven members of an opposition gang—" Bugs ' Moran's—were lined up against the wall oil a garage and shot, is "wanted" more urgently than ever by the police, who describe bun as "the most, dangerous man alive. Burke recently made two mistakes — became, excited in a minor emergency, and confided secrets to a .woman. These two errors were made after Burke bad successfully evaded capture, following 11 murders and numerous bank ami pay-roll robberies. Last Saturday, while posing as a retired business man in St..Joseph (Mich.), he became involved in a minor traffic accident, and when Policeman Charles Skeily insisted that he go to headquarters and pav £1 for crumpling another ear's fender, be lost his temper and shot, tb" policeman dead. The police found his bungalow converted into an arsenal that Conan Doyle might envy. There were trap doors, automatic rifles, hand grenades, gas bombs, and 10 full dress suits. In a sale were bonds worth £65,000, much of which had been taken in a bank robbery at Jefferson (Wis,) last month. lii the living room were found ZW well-thumbed detective novels. Passages telling of slips which caused the capture of imaginary crooks, were heavily underlined, as though Burke had been trying to lead a perfect- lito of crime. The police arrested there, a woman who had been posing as the gangsters wife She admitted tint her real name was Mrs. Viola, Brenneman. and said that Burke was a friend of [WiJlio Heenv, suspected of participation in the St. Valentine's Day massacre, " she assured the officers that Burke was the ringleader in that killing, and heu-md to be. allowed to share in the „ n .at, reward offered for his capture. 3 The police had retained bullets ami shells from the machine-guns used in the .'arago horror, and these Will be compared will, the four machine guns found in Burke's bouse.