Bloody Valentine
February 14, 1929 started out like any other day at the south Chicago Illinois hospital. Doctors made their daily rounds visiting patients; nurses measured out medications and emptied bedpans. Little did they know that that same morning in the Lincoln Park area of Chicago's north side a drama was being enacted which would soon fill their wards with the detritus of the most bloody gangland massacre in U.S. history.
On that fateful Thursday, members of Bugs Moran's North Side Gang gathered in the SMC Cartage warehouse on North Clark Street. Moran had been Scarface Al Capone's biggest rival for control of the illicit bootlegging business in Chicago, as well gambling and racketeering. Moran had been trying to muscle in on one of Capone's dog tracks in suburban Chicago, which had led to some gangland hits on both sides. After Moran's gangsters entered the warehouse building, at 10:30 am, two automobiles disguised to resemble Chicago police sedans arrived and four men got out - two disguised in police uniforms and two in plain clothes. Moran himself had not yet arrived, but apparently Capone's lookouts mistook Moran lieutenant Albert Weinshank for Moran himself. The phony cops entered the warehouse from the rear and took seven men into custody - six members of the Moran mob and one innocent auto mechanic who was repairing a car. The Moran gangsters offered no resistance, supposing that Capone's men were police. Capone's gangsters had the seven men line up against the back wall, and then they opened fire with Thompson submachine guns and shotguns. The only survivor was a German shepherd who, when real police officers arrived, was found howling, trapped beneath a truck. The floor was littered with shell casings, copious blood, and dead bodies. One Moran gangster was still alive when the police came (he died 3 hours later); he told south Chicago hospital attendants that the cops had shot him.
Al Capone himself was fortuitously away on a Florida vacation that St. Valentine's Day. One week after the massacre a Cadillac sedan was found burned and disassembled on Wood St., two blocks from the a café owned by a member of the Capone organization. Investigation showed that it had been used by the killers. Eventually the police charged Capone lieutenants Jack McGurn and John Scalise with the killings, but Scalise was murdered before his trial; and the accusation against McGurn was downgraded to violating the Mann Act since he had taken the main prosecution witness - his girlfriend Louise Rolfe, later known as the Blonde Alibi - across the state line to marry her. In December 1929 police officer Charles Skelly was shot while pursuing Capone gangster Fred Burke, and he died of his wounds in a southern Chicago hospital shortly afterwards. When police searched Burke's home they found stolen bonds, pistols, a bulletproof vest, and 2 Thompson submachine guns, both of which were found to have been used in the massacre. Burke was captured in Missouri a year later, and was tried and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of police officer Skelly (a tighter case than the St. Valentine's Day massacre). Burke died in prison in 1940. No other Capone gangsters were convicted.
The site of the massacre was demolished by Chicago authorities, and the south Chicago hospital scene was remodeled shortly thereafter to discourage souvenir hunters. The bloody corpses which were brought into the south Chicago Illinois hospital caused a nationwide sensation, which brought federal government investigators into the battle against the Capone mob, resulting in Scarface Al's conviction for income tax evasion in 1931. Never again would a southern Chicago hospital see the sight of such a mass of bullet-riddled bodies.
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