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 | | The gunman, all disguised as Chicago policemen, were acting on behalf of gangster Al Capone. | | | His reign was short-lived, however, as federal authorities sent him to prison in 1932 for tax evasion. | | | The ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment banning the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages in 1919 was greeted by many Americans with dismay. |
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| | The chief suspects, McGurn and Capone, would be well away from the scene. | | | Capone, wishing to keep the lookouts conspicuous, chose two men from another state to keep watch. | | | This was ultimately Capone's downfall, for it led to his conviction and imprisonment on the Volstead Act and income tax evasion charges in 1931. |
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| | Bugs Moran - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In July 1946, Moran was arrested for robbing a bank messenger in Ohio of $10,000, a paltry amount compared to Moran's lifestyle during the Prohibition days. | | | He was convicted and sentenced to ten years but was arrested again for an earlier bank raid shortly after his release. | | | Paul, Minnesota in August 1891, Moran moved to the north side of Chicago when he was nineteen. |
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| | Al Capone |
| | Bugs was also one of the principal Chicago gangsters. | | | The deal was made and the delivery was scheduled to take place on Valentines Day. | | | McGurn and his men awaited them in stolen police uniforms. |
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| | George "Bugs" Moran was a career criminal who ran the North Side gang in Chicago during the bootlegging era of the 1920s. | | | Moran, who was never charged with this murder, was relegated to small-time robberies until he was sent to jail in 1946. | | | But Moran was late and happened to see police officers entering his establishment. |
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http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/tdih.jsp?category=crime&month=10272954&day=10272979
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| | That it was a sequel to the sentencing of Alderman Titus Haffa yesterday to two years in Leavenworth Prison for violating the prohibition law. | | | And Moran tonight was missing; while seven of his chief aids lay dead. | | | Police Commissioner William F. Russell and his First Deputy Commissioner, John Stege, were bewildered tonight over the fact that the ambush was arranged by two men in police uniforms, wearing police badges, and the fact that the other killers arrived at the scene in an automobile resembling a detective bureau squad car. |
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| | Accardo and Capezio's crew was also given the contract on Moran. | | | To ensure that the entire Moran Gang would be there, Genna said that it would be an extra large load, requiring a lot of help and a large payment from Moran. | | | Hump had Angelo call Moran and set up a delivery on February 14, 1929 at 10:30 in the morning. |
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| | John Farnam's Quips - 24Apr03.html |
| | Moran would also end up in prison, in his case on robbery charges in Ohio. | | | Seventy expended 45ACP cases were found at the crime scene, indicating one of the Thompsons had a fifty-round drum, and the other had a twenty-round stick. | | | What looked like a Chicago Police car pulled up in front of the building and four men emerged, two of whom were wearing CPD uniforms. |
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| | The prohibition law has given birth to gangsters like Al Capone and Bugs Moran who are making vast sums of money from the illegal trade. | | | Bugs Moran from North Chicago has stolen several shipments of liquor from Al Capone in the South and the war between North Chicago and South Chicago is rising to fever pitch. | | | The river is crossable only at the ford for both people and vehicles (however characters could swim it with no weapons). |
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| | GEORGE 'BUGS' MORAN - DOCUMENT SIGNED 11/28/1938 CO-SIGNED BY:LILLIAN E. COHEN |
| | (The 18th Amendment prohibited the "manufacture, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors".) Inside the garage were six members of Moran's gang and an optometrist who picked a bad day to visit. | | | Moran eventually moved to Ohio, where he was arrested in 1946 for robbing a bank messenger of $10,000. | | | When Moran was later picked up for questioning he said: "Only Capone kills like that." Capone, in Florida at his beachfront condo at the time, denied all knowledge of the hit, which became known as the St. |
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http://www.galleryofhistory.com/archive/9_2001/law/GEORGE_'BUGS'_MORAN.htm
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Shaver worked in area where gangsters Al Capone, Bugs Moran operated, ... |
| | But Shaver can still talk clearly about growing up in Cicero, right next to Chicago, and about the goings on of Capone and other gangsters who were at their zenith during the era of prohibition (1920-33). | | | He still balances his checkbook and pays his bills, and remembers all the states and their capitals, she said, adding, “He’s a special man in our lives.” | | | The party at Frontier Steak House in Princeton a few Saturdays ago to observe the 95th birthday of Doug Shaver of Princeton is a long way from the Chicago area where Shaver grew up. |
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| | Poor Public Relations: The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre |
| | He tried to move in on Capone’s interests in various legal and illegal areas. | | | Bugs Moran, who became the new leader of the group, increased his efforts to compete against the Capone organization. | | | Moran also set up a series of ambushes aimed at Capone and key members of his organization. |
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| | GHOST! Magazine - A Valentine's Day to Die For! |
| | To make matters worse, the sale of alcohol is prohibited. | | | George Moran, better known as “Bugs” Moran was making a fortune selling illegal hooch in the Windy City. | | | Many claim to hear the moans of Moran’s men as if they were still lying there waiting to die. |
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| | Because of prohibition, Capone had become the crime czar of Chicago, running gambling, prostitution and bootlegging rackets while constantly trying to make his territory bigger by offing rival gangs. | | | As one of the leading gangsters of Chicago and a formidable obstacle in Capone's quest to rule Chicago, authorities assumed that Capone was trying to bring down Moran's business empire, starting at the bottom and leaving his rival defenseless. | | | At its height, the prohibition era was synonymous with the never-ending competition between gangster rivals Al "Scarface" Capone and George "Bugs" Moran. |
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http://www.brockpress.com/news/2005/02/08/Features/A.Valentines.Day.Crime.Story-856350.shtml
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| | Unusual Guide to Chicago - Tour, Explore the Near North |
| | Shortly after five men, dressed in police uniforms, got out of the car and entered the garage, machine gun blasts could be heard coming from the building. | | | But he turned around when he saw a police squad car sitting in front of the garage. | | | Just before the shooting began in the garage on Clark Street, Moran left his apartment here and headed for the garage by taking a shortcut through the alley. |
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| | According to Court TV's Web site, the team dressed up like policemen staging a raid after having a bootlegger lure the Moran gang to a garage to buy whiskey. | | | McGurn's men were waiting around, then spotted a man who looked like Bugs Moran and they headed over to the garage in their stolen police car. | | | Although the hit on Moran was unsuccessful since he wasn't actually there, the team did end up viciously murdering seven men. |
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http://www.dailylobo.com/news/2003/02/13/Culture/VDay-History.Not.About.Love-369011.shtml
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| | Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog. | | | Table of contents for The man who got away | | | Table of contents for The man who got away : the Bugs Moran story : a biography / Rose Keefe. |
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| | Capone's Chicago - USM Inc. |
| | A very interesting and indespensable book for Chicago tourists, students of prohibition, crime, American history, Al Capone, Chicago, gangsters, etc. | | | The text and photographs tell the story of America's most violent era and the violent people who were key players in it. | | | Alphonse Capone of course, but also his brothers Ralph and Frank, Frank Nitti, Jack McGurn, Jack Guzik, Frank Rio, Dion O'Banion, Hymie Weiss, Bugs Moran, Al Weinshank, the Guzenberg brothers, Johnny Torrio, Big Jim Colosimo, John Vitaco, Samoots Amatuna, Dingbat O'Berta, Sammy Stein, Jack Zuta, and others. |
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| | Bug’s Moran |
| | Moran served three jail sentences before the age of 21 he committed 26 known robberies. | | | Moran was convicted and received ten years for the crime. | | | Bugs Moran outlived all of his gang but was given a quick burial outside the prison walls. |
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| | After all, this was McGurn's vendetta against Moran. | | | This signature weapon for 1920s gangster movies and television programs was born, although it was not quite as common the weapon portrayed in the media. | | | On the next occasion, Moran set the place of transaction to be at the S.M.C. Company garage. |
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| | Through the 1930's, Moran's power began to wane even though his nemesis, Capone, was now in jail. | | | Bugs eventually became the leader of the North Siders after the demise of O'Banion and then Hymie Weiss, who both fell to Capone hit men, stepping up to the top spot after his predecessor Schemer Drucci was shot by police in 1927. | | | Moran had a pathological hatred for Capone, often referring to him as 'The Beast'. |
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| | Moran did not escape scot-free, however, serving the latter part of his life in both Ohio State and Leavenworth prisons on bank robbery charges. | | | A Radical Plan to Revive Freedom, Morality, and Justice | | | The Man Who Got Away provides the first in-depth look at the enigmatic gangster’s charmed yet wacky life, from his Minnesota childhood to his rise and fall in Chicago’s Prohibition-era underworld, his life as an independent outlaw in the 1930s and 1940s, and his last days in an Ohio penitentiary. |
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| | ~George Bugs Moran~Insect and Bug Articles and Information |
| | The same term is occasionally used in New England to refer to the common lobsters eaten there. | | | Bug is often used in vernacular to refer generally to any small, terrestrial arthropod, sometimes taken to include creatures like snails and slugs as well. | | | Since it refers to small animals, the term bug is also occasionally (and inaccurately) used to refer to microscopic life forms and viruses. |
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| | Federal Bureau of Investigation - Freedom of Information Privacy Act |
| | Moran was a bootlegger and was arrested for trying to cash counterfeit travelers' checks. | | | Moran died on February 25, 1957, in Leavenworth Prison of lung cancer. | | | George "Bugs" Moran was born on October 21, 1896, in St. Paul, Minnesota. |
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| | Moran was caught and died in jail in 1957. | | | It was understandable that they would hook up with the Genna family, who were also from Marsala. | | | During one shootout, they killed two police officers who were pursuing them. |
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| | AmericanMafia.com - Feature Articles 158 |
| | Moran ordered the car turned around and chased Genna for a few miles, caught up to Genna's car and fired a folly of shotgun blasts into his head, killing him instantly. | | | On the morning of the 9th, Bugs Moran and "Schemer" Drucci waited in their car for the Italians to arrive, when suddenly a black limousine swung by their car and filled it with shotgun pellets, wounding both of the O'Bannionites, who returned fire, but were too shot up to give chase. | | | Driving down a central street, Genna came across Moran and several other O'Bannionites who were driving in the opposite direction. |
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| | A Legacy in Crime: |
| | Moran was the leading reason why the massacre occurred, when "in January, 1929, he [Moran] ordered the death of Pasqualino Lolordo [Capone’s friend/President of Chicago Union]. | | | After the Massacre, the federal government got involved, and they began to formulate their case against Capone. | | | January 1929 would be when Moran would start up the gang killing again, killing the leader of the Chicago Italian Union, and also a good friend of Capone’s. |
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| | Whacked By the Good Guys by Allan May |
| | But most notably, he may have been the only mob boss ever to be killed by a law enforcement officer. | | | On May 25, Weiss, Drucci and Moran were believed to be the gunmen who shotgunned Angelo Genna to death. | | | Moran was about to deliver the coup-de-grace when his gun jammed. |
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| | St Valentines Day Massacre |
| | The hit was only a partial success, however. | | | Figuring the police were there for just a routine bust, Moran and Co. stayed just out of sight waiting for the police to leave. | | | Several movies have been made about it and numerous books have been published. |
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| | The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (Reference) |
| | While Capone seemed to revel in his new fame, he also had to deal with the new level of attention from federal law enforcement officials. | | | A bootlegger loyal to Capone would draw Moran and his gang to a warehouse under the pretense that they would be receiving a shipment of smuggled whiskey for a price that proved too good to be true. | | | Figuring it was a bust he watched as five men – including three dressed in police uniforms – entered the warehouse. |
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| | Moran eventually took over O’Bannion’s crime syndicate after his death by Capone’s men, had been at the forefront of the Capone rivalry for years. | | | Moran’s men had ambushed Capone, as he was getting out of his car in the broad daylight. | | | This came to be the opening round of the Moran-Capone war. |
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| | On the night of 13 February 1929, Moran received a phone call confirming a delivery of illegal whiskey. | | | Moran's men took it to be just another routine raid and behaved as professional criminals normally did, complying with police demands. | | | Meanwhile Moran, his bodyguard and Ted Newberry, who was in charge of the whiskey sales staff and the overseer of Moran's speakeasies, were on their way to the garage, when a black Packard tourer with the top raised and the side curtains drawn, sped past. |
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| | Did you Know...?: No Ifs, Ands, or Bugs About It |
| | "Bugs" was also a well-known name due to the publicity generated by gangsters Bugsy Siegel and George "Bugs" Moran. | | | In fact, it's suspected that Joseph Hardaway got the nickname because he was such a wild man during his war days. | | | It was on this sheet that Thorson wrote the name "Bugs Bunny," but it's hard to say whether that was actually the name Thorson wanted to give him or whether he was simply making a joke aimed at Bugs Hardaway. |
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| | The Lawless Decade By Paul Sann |
| | Frederick D. Silloway, the Prohibition administrator in Chicago, submitted that the murderers were indeed policemen--five sinful gendarmes who had hijacked some Moran booze and then decided to knock him off lest he tattle. | | | Moran was suspect in the slaying of two Unione Siciliana presidents, Anthony Lombardo and his predecessor, Pasqualino Lolardo, knocked off in his own living room after four of his supposed pals had sipped his rare wines one afternoon. | | | Five of them were in the Bugs Moran gang and they were waiting for the boss, who wanted a consignment of liquor convoyed from the Canadian border through the Prohibition force's paper curtain. |
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| | St. Valentines Day Massacre Hauntings - HauntedHouses.com |
| | The garage was also used as a warehouse for illegal, black market liquor for the North side Bugs Moran gang, a mob of thugs who were in direct competition with Al Capone's gang in selling illicit bootleg booze to a very thirsty Chicago population during the Prohibition years. | | | While Capon's gunmen wiped out the Northern Chicago gang, they missed Bugs Moran, who was late to the party. | | | Bugs Moran later accused Al Capone of this vicious hit. |
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| | AMERICAN ORGANIZED CRIME: Dean O'Banion |
| | Annenberg offered them more money to compete against their old gang by selling the Chicago Examiner. | | | With Gene Geary as his role model, it is not surprising that O'Banion gained a reputation as one of Chicago's craziest gangsters. | | | During the Prohibition, he was the leader of the Northsiders, a gang who controlled the beer trade in Chicago's Northside and included Dean's close friends; Hymie Weiss, Vincent Drucci and Bugs Moran. |
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| | Six of the seven killed were members of Moran's gang; the seventh was an unlucky friend. | | | Moran, probably the real target, was across the street when Capone's men arrived and stayed away when he saw the police uniforms. | | | Because two of Capone's men were dressed as police, the seven men in the garage thought it was a police raid. |
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| | The massacre was orchestrated by Al "Scarface" Capone, who had been feuding with Moran for supremacy of Chicago's lucrative criminal enterprises. | | | On hearing the news of the mass slaughter, Moran who had himself luckily escaped the Clark St. carnage, said: "Only Capone kills like that!" | | | On Feb. 14, 1929, seven men, believed to be associated with the Northside gang of George "Bugs" Moran, were lined up against the rear wall of a Clark St. garage and machine gunned to death. |
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| | His power reduced, Moran drifts into petty crimes, ending his days in prison for bank robberies. | | | 1924 -- O'Bannion killed and Moran and Earl "Hymie" Weiss inherit O'Bannion's gang in Chicago. | | | George "Bugs" Moran was a childhood friend and, later, right-hand man of gangster Dion O'Bannion. |
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| | The Premier eZine for the Underground Scene |
| | Of the nine men who were lined up in the garage by the bogus policemen, none survived for long. | | | Bugs was horrified by the slaughter, which would be known forever after as the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. | | | At the SMC garage at 2122 N. Clark Street, a gathering of criminals under the command of mob boss Bugs Moran was brutally slaughtered by four unknown men, two of whom were dressed as police. |
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| | Law enforcement officials could not prove any involvement by Capone, who was in Miami at the time. | | | The prime suspect was Al Capone, head of Chicago's crime syndicate. | | | Moran's North Side gang, the largest obstacle to the Capone organization's power in metropolitan Chicago, had hijacked Capone's liquor shipments, competed in protection rackets, and murdered Capone allies. |
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| | A large group of men are standing in the garage. | | | Seven members or associates of the "Bugs" Moran mob, were machine-gunned against a garage wall by enemies posing as police. | | | This is an Image of seven men holding up their hands, standing in a garage at 2122 North Clark Street in the Lake View community area of Chicago, Illinois, with their backs to two men standing and aiming rifles at them. |
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| | This was a record even for violent Chicago. | | | Both incidents were believed to be done by Moran men. | | | Bugs Moran was not among the group that day. |
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| | William Bugs Moran / FIND MISSING FRIENDS AT USAF.com |
| | During 1989 and until approximately 1991, William "Bugs" Moran was stationed at PAFB in upstate New York. | | | I heard from him once in 1992 from Nevada and have had no contact since.Originally he and his family came from Utica, New York. | | | Missing People/Lost Friends * MAIN INDEX * Join USAF.com E-Mail |
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| | The hit was attributed to Moran’s chief adversary, the notorious Al Capone, who was vacationing in Florida. | | | As Moran approached the warehouse, he spotted a police car and fled the scene. | | | During the height of the prohibition gang wars, bootlegger George “Bugs” Moran stationed seven men at the SMC Cartage Co. Warehouse at 2122 N. Clark St. to receive a shipment of smuggled whiskey from Detroit. |
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| | Capone's real target was George "Bugs" Moran, who happened upon the garage late, as the killers, wearing police uniforms, walked into the garage. | | | Capone was vacationing in Florida when the gunmen, preceded by three men dressed in Chicago Police Uniform, lined up the seven victims against the wall of this garage at 2122 N. Clark Street on Feb. 14, 1929. | | | Six of the victims died immediately, a seventh, Frank Gusenberg, lived for a few hours, declaring on his dying breath, "Coppers done it." |
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| | Chicago Critical St. Valentines Day MASSacre |
| | Capone had a gangster set up a deal to sell some liquor to Moran for a good price in a Moran garage and liquor warehouse at 2122 N. Clark. | | | They made Moran's men face the wall, seven in all, including a neighboring optometrist who picked a bad day to visit. | | | Driving down the alley from his fashionable 2100 N. Lincoln Park West apartment, he spotted the police car in front of the garage and left. |
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| | Bull's Eye News- Feature: The Massacre In Valdez |
| | Even though Bugs Moran (who was late arriving to the fictitious whiskey deal) was not caught in the massacre, the event drew national attention, which caused federal agencies to concentrate their efforts on Capone and his gang. | | | Capone hired a bunch of out-of-towners, under the direction of Machine Gun McGurn, to assassinate a rival bootlegger and his gang. | | | Masquerading as policemen, McGurn’s men staged a fake raid and persuaded the Moran gang to surrender their weapons and line-up against a wall, where they were systematically slaughtered by machine gun fire. |
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