Mile Marker 71: St. Valentines Day Massacre

Join us for this special Rebel At Large style holiday special. We don't celebrate the way Hallmark suggests we ought to. So, pick up some discounted chocolates, pour a glass of whiskey & take a listen as we take you from Chicago to Las Vegas, and talk about perhaps the most historic event to have taken place on this holiday.

Transcript

Valentine day massacre 

Key: Drifter, Male voice. Gypsie, Female voice

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(Drifter) Welcome to the Rebel At Large Adventure Podcast. I’m Drifter

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(Drifter) Howdy folks, Thanks for joining us for yet another adventure. Today we are talking about the holiday. St. Valentines Day. Yet in a true Rebel At Large Fashion. We’re not talking about the little messages on chalky candy hearts, flowers, heart shaped boxes of chocolate and gushy hallmark cards. Instead, we’re talking about one of the biggest events to have happened on the holiday, the St Valentines Day Massacre.

(Gypsie) On February 14, 1929 one of the most gruesome murders took place in Chicago amongst the mobs running the city. Before we get started, just so you know, we are not going to get too deep into the mobs of Chicago. We are going to focus this episode on the St Valentine's Day Massacre. We will get into the mobs of the area more later. Some of you may not be listening to this at the very moment it comes out but the day this launches will be the day after Valentine day. So kiss your loved ones and hold on as we tell you about the 7 men killed and what is believed to be the cause of the murders and who did them. 

(Drifter) Before we get into the details of that day let's give you a brief back history of the crime and corruption in Chicago. You had the North Side Gang ran by Dean O’Banion and his associates Earl “Hyme” Weiss, Vincent “The Schemer” Drucci, and George “Bugs” Moran.  The North Side Gang would focus their attention on gambling, robbery, and safe cracking. They eventually became what is known today as Sluggers. These men worked first for the Chicago Tribune and later for the Chicago Examiner. They would go to newspaper stands and intimidate anyone that didn’t sell or buy the newspaper they were working for. 

(Gypsie) On January 17, 1920 prohibition went into effect. O’Banion made a deal with Canadian suppliers to immediately bring in shipments of Whiskey and Gin. He and his men also got to work stealing over 100,000 dollars worth of Canadian whisky from the West Side railroad yards as well as the most famous robbery when they looted the padlocked Sibly Distillery where they were able to walk off with 1,750 barrels of bonded whiskey (Drifter) (Nearly $1.5M)(a whiskey barrel holds 200 litres. A fifth technically refers to a liter bottle size, not the standard .750 we buy today. So each barrel essentially held 200 full bottles of bonded whiskey, making a total of 350,000 bottles that were stolen. Bonded whiskey is always at 100 proof as well). (Gypsie) At the height of his power it was suspected that O’Banion was making about 1 million dollars a year. (based on 1925 that would be nearly $17M per year) 

(Drifter) Then you had the South Side Gang ran by Jim ``Big Jim” Colosimo. His right hand man was Johnny Torrio. Johnny was the nephew to Big Jim's wife.The South Side got their money from the many brothels they owned and operated. A couple things happened that put Johnny Torrio at the head of the South Side Gang. First Big Jim wanted a divorce from his wife which now meant he was no longer family to Johnny and no longer deserved his protection, Second, When prohibition went into effect Johnny Torrio saw this as a great way for them to start making more money but Big Jim wanted nothing to do with it. On May 11, 1920 Torrio called Big Jim telling him a shipment was about to arrive at his restaurant. Big Jim went to wait for it only to find out it was a set up, it is believed Torrio had Big Jim killed in his restaurant. His funeral was one of the largest funerals ever seen in Chicago. Torrio and Capone were there and it was said they were seen with somber looks on their faces. 

(Gypsie) In 1921 O’Banion married Viola Kaniff. That same year he bought an interest in a flower shop called Schofields located at 738 North State Street, directly across the street from Holy Name Cathedral. O’Banion wanted to focus more of his attention on his passion which was flower arrangements. All the flowers that were purchased from the mob killings came from Schofield's flower shop. With Torrio now on the bootleg scene there started to become turf wars between the North and South Side gangs. Both O’Banion and Torrio started to see a decline in their businesses when local Chicagoans stopped coming to their businesses. People were beginning to fear they would be killed while shopping at their stores. 

(Drifter) Torrio and Capone met with O’Banion and Hymie Weiss to form a sort of truce between the two gangs. It was agreed that O’Banion and his men would get the North Side as well as the Gold Coast. Torrio and his men would get the SouthSide of Chicago and they would also share the profits from a lakefront casino called The Ship. For a short while there was peace amongst the mobs which lent to a sense of peace among the civilian population as well, things were going back to the way they were before. 

(Gypsie) Next enters the Genna Brothers. They became known as the West Side Gang. It consisted of six Sicillian brothers who came from Genoa. These men controlled the section of Chicago known as Little Sicily. There was Mike “The Devil”, Vincenzo “James” or “Jim”, Peter, Sam, Tony “Antonio The Gentlemen” and Angelo “Bloody Angelo”. In 1919 they were able to obtain a federal license to legally manufacture industrial alcohol, which they sold illegally as drinking alcohol. By 1923 the brothers were selling their alcohol to Torrio. The brothers then started moving in on the North Sides territory where they began selling their liquor at a discounted price. Naturally this upset O’Banion, he knew Torrio was working with them and felt he was going back on his word. 

(Drifter) When O’Banion approached Torrio about this issue, asking him to have the Genna’s back down, he was surprised to hear Torrio ask him to forgive a gambling debt that one of the Gennas had racked up at The Ship. Torrio felt that if he forgave the debt the Gennas’ would back off his territory. Torrio was just trying to keep both sides happy but all this did was upset O’Banion. The North Side Gang started to hijack the Gennas’ liquor shipments. In May 1924 O’Banion also pulled a fast one on Torrio that sealed his fate. He got word that the police were going to raid the Sieben Brewery. He and Torrio owned it together and rather than tell Torrio about it he asked to be bought out. Torrio gave him half a million dollars and within a few days the business was raided (Gypsie) (That half million would be worth nearly $8.3M today). (Drifter) Torrio had to bail out himself and six of his associates. It was soon discovered that O’Banion had double crossed him and Torrio was now no longer going to protect him from the Gennas’. The brothers had been wanting to kill O’Banion for a while now but Torrio would not allow it to happen. 

(Gypsie) On November 10, 1924 Frankie Yale placed an order of flowers at O'Banion's shop. When Yale went in to pick up the order he took along with him two Genna gunmen. Yale shook hands with O’Banion and held on to his hand as the two gunmen opened fire on him, killing 32 year old Dean O’Banion in his flower shop. Two bullets hit him in his chest, two in his throat, and one in the back of his head as he lay face down on the floor. Chicago once again witnessed another large mob funeral. It was said O’Banion was buried in a 10,000 dollar casket and had over 26 truckloads of flowers following him to the Mount Carmel Cemetery (Drifter) (just shy of $174K for the casket). 

(Drifter) With O’Banion out of the picture Hymie Weiss stepped up to run the North Side Gang. Even though he was at the meeting when the men made a truce years ago and divided the city into sections, Weiss wanted revenge for the killing of his friend. On January 12, 1925 Hymie Weiss, George Moran, and Vincent “Schemer” Drucci followed Al Capone to a restaurant at 55th and State Street. The men opened fire on the limousines but Capone was inside the restaurant and was unharmed. However, the chauffeur was harmed in the shooting. 

(Gypsie) Al Capone had no time to plan a revenge hit on the men as just 12 days later on January 24, three men sat waiting out front of Johnny Torrio’s house at 7011 Clyde Avenue. When Torrio pulled up to his house he and his wife got out of the vehicle while two of the men got out of their vehicle that was parked around the corner. One man was carrying a shotgun, the other was carrying a pistol. They began to fire shots at Torrio, he started to run for the front door when a .45 caliber bullet struck him in the arm. Torrio tried to reach for his gun when the shotgun blast hit him, breaking his jaw bone and hitting him in the chest. Another shotgun blast hit him in the abdomen. As the man with the pistol attempted to reload something spooked them and they took off. Torrio’s wife was able to pull him to safety and stop the bleeding. He was rushed to Jackson Park Hospital where he was treated. 

(Drifter) It took him 4 weeks to recover from the attack but Torrio was alive. Al Capone sat by his side the entire time he was in the hospital, providing him support as well as protection if someone were to come back to finish the job. Though it was never formally announced that Weiss, Drucci, and Moran were the ones that attacked him, it was believed they were the ones that tried to kill him. 

(Gypsie) Once he was released from the hospital, Capone wanted to get to work planning his revenge on the North Side Gang but Torrio was done. He wanted out of the bootlegging business, he had a good wife and he wanted to settle down. He moved back to Italy where he was reunited with his mother. Before he left he gave total control of the South Side Gang to 26 year old Al Capone. When he left the criminal world it is said he grossed about 70,000,000 a year which is over $1.2 Billion today.

(Drifter) With Al Capone in charge of the South Side Gang, business continued as usual. Capone was still in fear of Weiss trying to kill him so he had his Cadillac outfitted to be bulletproof. He had steel plates installed on the body, inch thick glass side windows, and the rear window was rigged to drop quickly so that his men could fire back on anyone shooting at him. He even had a cutout modified in the widow so a machine gun could be fired out of it. I would hate to be inside the car when they were firing off shots. In 2020 one of Capone’s bulletproof cars went up for sale and for 1 millions dollars it could be yours. 

(Gypsie) The war between the gangs continued to get worse. On May 27, 1925 Angelo Genna was gunned down while driving his vehicle on Hudson and Ogden Avenues. His vehicle then crashed into a lamp post. As he lay on the operating table at the Evangelical Deaconess hospital, sergeant Roy Hessler said to him (Drifter) “You’re going to die, Angelo, tell us who bumped you off.” (Gypsie) Angelo just shrugged his shoulders. In true mob fashion Angelo was placed in a 6,000 dollar casket and laid to rest in a 10,000 dollar mausoleum in the Mount Carmel cemetery. (Drifter) (just over $100K for the casket & nearly $170K for the mausoleum) (Gypsie) Though Angelo would not tell who shot him it is believed that Moran was the man in charge of the killing. 

(Drifter) Al Capone spent a lot of time in Cicero just outside of downtown Chicago. He would go there to get away from the police, and eventually set up shop in the Hawthorne Inn located at 4835 W. 22nd Street. (the hotel changed hands several times & eventually burned down on 2/17/1970, it is now the parking lot for a bank) 

(Gypsie) On September 20, 1926 Hymie and his crew attempted to ambush Capone there. Hymie had several of his men load up into 8 vehicles, as they drove down the street towards the hotel they began firing off shots. After the shooting had stopped Capone went to the front of the building to see if he could see anyone. But he noticed that there were no bullet holes. As he was processing all this Frank Rio his bodyguard yelled for him to get down. Hymie and his men used this a decoy to get Capone and his men out of the building, they had come back and this time they were sending real bullets into the hotel.  100’s of rounds went off and only two people were injured, Capone was safe but he knew Hymie needed to be stopped. 

(Drifter) Capone had his men stalk Weiss to get an understanding of his coming and going. The North Side Gang was still using the Schofield’s flower shop as its headquarters so Capones men rented rooms in a building across the street from it. On October 11, 1926 Hymie Weiss, his bodyguard Sam Pellar, Paddy Murray, Attorney William O’Brien, and Benjamin Jacobs arrived at the flower shop. Machine gun bullets rained down on the men from the second floor of 740 North State Street building. 

(Gypsie) Hymie Weiss was struck in the head and body by 10 or twelve bullets. He was alive when he was taken to Henrotin Hospital. Paddy Murray had seven or eight bullets in his head and body and did not survive. William O’Brien was shot in the arm, side and Abdomen. He was able to get away and run down a basement stairway then to a doctor’s office and was taken to the hospital. Sam Pellar and Benjamin Jacobs ran across the street to the cathedral and then around the corner. Peller was hit in the abdomen, Jacobs was hit in the right foot. Though Hymie was rushed to the hospital he did not survive his wounds. 

(Drifter) With Weiss dead, Bugs Moran was next in line for the North Side Gang. On October 20, 1926 all the gang members met together in a conference room at the Hotel Sherman. An agreement was made that the members would forgive past killings and focus more on making money rather than killing each other. Moran wanted to keep fighting Capone but Drucci was able to convince him to accept a ceasefire. 

(Gypsie) On April 4, 1927 Vincent Drucci was arrested, it was found that he had a .45 automatic pistol on him. As Drucci was being lead to the squad car he got in an argument with detective Healy. According to witnesses, Drucci objected to Healy’s holding him by the arm and called him an ugly name. Healy struck Drucci then pulled out his gun and said (Drifter) “call me that again and I’ll let you have it.” (Gypsie) The argument continued in the car, according to Healy (Drifter) “When Drucci got into the car he said, “You _____ I’ll get you. I’ll wait on your doorsteps for you.’ I told him to shut his mouth. Drucci said, ‘go on, you kid copper, I’ll fix you for this.’ I told him to keep quiet. Drucci said, ‘you take your gun off and I’ll lick hell out of you.’ he got up on one leg and struck me on the right side of the head with his left hand saying, ‘I’ll take you and your tool.’ He put his arm through the right side, through the curtain and said, coming toward me, ‘I’ll fix you!’ grabbing hold of me by the right hand. I grabbed my gun with my left hand and fired four shots at him.” (Gypsie) One bullet hit Drucci in the left arm, one in the right leg, and a third went into the abdomen. Drucci was rushed to the hospital but he did not survive his wounds. 

(Drifter) With Drucci out of the picture, Bugs went out of control. (Gypsie) Drucci was the one that talked Bugs into accepting the peace treaty, with him gone he went off the rails. The war between Bugs and Capone was back on. For the next few years the two men attempted to kill each other with no success. This brings us to the fateful date on February 14, 1929.

(Drifter) It was a cold and windy valentine day on Clark Street, everything seemed to be just like any other day. At 10:30 am gun fire could be heard up and down the street. The location of the gun fire was a garage at 2122 North Clark Street. Mrs. Alphonsine Morin who lived at 2125 North Clark Street, just across the street from the garage, stated (Gypsie) “Two men in uniforms had rifles or shotguns as they came out the door, and there were two or three men walking ahead of them with their hands up in the air. It looked as though the police were making an arrest, and they all got into an automobile and drove away.” 

(Drifter) When the police arrived at the scene they found 7 men inside the building. One of them was still alive, Frank Gusenberg. He was rushed to the hospital where it was discovered he had been shot 14 times. Doctors were able to stabilize him for a few hours giving the police time to question him but it is reported that he told the cops “No one shot me.” It was an unsaid code amongst the mobs that they would not rat on each other and that they would just handle the matters themselves. With no help from Frank the cops were left to figure things out on their own. 

(Gypsie) So let's talk a bit about the 7 men inside the building. Frank Gusenberg was 35 years old at the time and was living at 434 Roscoe Street in Lakeview. He was born on October 11, 1893 in Chicago. His parents Peter and Mary came from Gusenburg. (Drifter) They have 4 children and Frank was the youngest. When Frank was 8 years old his brother Peter found their mother dead in the kitchen of their home. The kids were left to raise themselves as their father was off working, and the boys quickly took to the streets. Frank and Peter hooked up with Bugs Moran and the three of them were arrested on several occasions for petty theft and disorderly conduct. In 1911 he was convicted of disorderly conduct and sentenced to Bridewell Prison. When he was released he went right back to running the streets with his brother and Bugs Moran. On January 8, 1918 he was married to Clara Patsy. The two of them never divorced before he was married again to Lucille Bastenforff on June 28, 1926. He did not have any children with his two wives. Frank was laid to rest in the Irving Park Cemetery. 

(Gypsie) Peter Gusenberg, like we said before, is Frank's older brother. He was born on September 22, 1888 in Chicago. He was 12 years old when he found his mother dead in the kitchen and it is said that he pried off her wedding ring and pawned it. A ring that his father gave her and it came from Germany. This was the start of Peter’s criminal activity and definitely not the last. In 1906 he was sent to the Joliet Correctional Center for burglary. He was released on parole but went back to Joliet in 1910 and then released again in 1912. Around this time he was married to Myrtle Gorman. In 1921 he was arrested for stealing a mail truck that was parked in front of the Dearborn street station. The truck contained 350,000 dollars in Liberty bonds and currency (Drifter) ($5.8M). (Gypsie) He was able to escape and for 16 months he was a fugitive until he was arrested on August 6, 1922. In the Chicago Tribune it says (Drifter) “Gusenberg’s love for his wife landed him behind bars. For eleven nights United States sleuths, tipped that he would visit her at their Ashland Avenue home, waited with city detectives. At 3:20 yesterday morning Gusenberg dipped into the house and was arrested.” (Gypsie) In January 1923 he was sentenced to 3 years at the Fort Leavenworth Penitentiary. Once released he went right back to working with North Side Gang. It is believed that both the Gusenberg brothers were with the North Side Gang when they shot up the Hawthorne Inn in 1926. Peter was 39 years old when he was murdered. He was laid to rest in the Irving Park Cemetery. 

(Drifter) The next victim in the shooting was Albert Kachellek also known as James Clark. He was Moran’s second in command as well as his brother in law. He was known to have a reputation of being a hardened killer. He was born on February 25, 1887 in Germany and was 41 years old when he passed away. He was laid to rest in the Irving Park Cemetery. 

(Gypsie) Adam Heyer alias Frank Snyder was the owner of the S.M.C. Cartage company, where the murders took place. He was the bookkeeper and accountant for the gang. He had been in and out of lock up throughout his life but it was mostly for petty crimes. When his wife of only 7 months was questioned about his lifestyle after he was killed she was surprised to find out that he was involved in any gang activity. She believed his trucking company was a legitimate business and had no idea he was involved in liquor distribution. He had 1,399 in cash on him (Drifter) (just over $24K today) . (Gypsie) He was born on October 17, 1889 and was 39 years old when the 15 bullets struck his body. He was laid to rest at the Forest Home Cemetery. 

(Drifter) Albert R. Weinshank, was the owner of the Alcazar club at 4207 Broadway and an official of the Central Cleaners and Dyers company at 2705 Fullerton avenue. It is unclear when Albert got involved in the gang activity but it may have been around the time he was running his taxi business. In August 1920 the Yellow Cab company located at 1153 West Monroe Street was bombed, injuring one man. When asked by the police who Albert felt could have done this he said he believed the explosion was the work of a rival taxicab organization. The Alcazar Club was a speakeasy owned by him, Bugs Moran provided the financial backing for it. 

(Gypsie) As for the Central Cleaners and Dyers company that he was president of, well the North Side Gang got involved in the cleaning and dyeing industry when the smaller independent cleaners asked him for help. The Master Cleaners and Dyers Association was targeting small shops and pressuring them into joining and paying dues. If they joined then the company would raise the prices on its services forcing people to go someplace else. In steps the Central Cleaners and Dyers Association started with Bugs Moran and Albert as the president. Moran and his men would offer the smaller shops protection against the Master Cleaners. Albert was born on December 23, 1893 in Chicago. He was 35 years old when he was killed. He was laid to rest in the Waldheim Jewish Cemetery in Forest Park next to his son Myron.  

(Drifter) John May was living at 1227 West Madison Street. He was the father of seven children when he was murdered. He was a known ex-safe cracker that had made a turn for the good. He was in the shop working on a truck at the time of the murder. According to the Chicago Tribune on February 15, 1929 The left part of May’s face had been shot off by a shotgun charge. An empty shotgun shell was nearby. It was thought he had turned his head around to face the killers just as they fired and the slugs struck his head from the front but the machine gun bullets hit him in the back. He had only a few dollars in his pants as well as two dented metal objects. It was later discovered they were St. Christopher medals. St Christopher medals are often carried by motorists, as he is the patron saint of travelers, but sometimes they are given to someone who has led an evil life and whose women relatives think can be reformed if they pray from him and he will pray for himself. John was born on September 28, 1894 and was 34 years old when he was murdered. He was laid to rest in the Mount Carmel Catholic Cemetery. He does not have a headstone marking his location but next to him is his wife Hattie B. May’s headstone. She lived to be 82 and passed away in 1969. John also had his German shepard named Highball with him at work that day, the shooters did not harm the dog. 

(Gypsie) The last victim was Dr. Reinhardt H. Schwimmer. He was the last person to be identified and it was the chief surgeon Dr. Karl Meyer who made the identification. Dr Schwimmer was an optometrist and according to Dr. Meyer, Schwimmer had performed an operation on a patient for appendicitis. The patient's name was Peter Gorman later identified as Peter Gusenberg. It quickly became known that the doctor liked to tell people he was friends with O’Banion, Weiss, Drucci, Moran, and the Gusenbergs. He was married to Fae Johnson until they were divorced in 1923. At the time he was killed he was living at the Parkway Hotel. The doctor idolized Moran and wanted to be him so much so that he started to dress like Moran. This may very well be the cause that these seven men were killed and that Bugs Moran was not there. Dr. Schwimmer was 29 years old and was laid to rest at the Rosehill Cemetery. 

(Drifter) It is believed that two men were renting a room in a boarding house across the street from the garage. When the two men saw the Dr. walking into the building they assumed it was Bugs. We’ve also read that Albert Weinshank liked to dress like Bugs Moran as well. Either way once they were spotted the two men across the street put a call into the rest of the men that Bugs was in the building. But little did they know Bugs was still walking down the street towards the garage. 

(Gypsie) Moran was late that day getting to the meeting but he wasn’t in a hurry to get here. As he and fellow gang member Ted Newberry got closer to the building they noticed a car pull up that looked like a police car, rather than go inside they turned and went the other way. Moran figured the cops were going there to do a bust and that he would just bail his men out later. On the way to the coffee shop to wait out the arrest the men saw Henry Gusenberg and told him to turn back. 

(Drifter) Witnesses say a Cadillac sedan pulled in front of the garage and 4 men got out of the car and walked inside. They also said two of them were dressed in police uniforms. The two fake cops were carrying shotguns, they entered the back of the garage where they found the seven men. They proceeded to order the men to line up against the wall, they then checked each one of them for weapons. Once all the seven men were cleared the two fake officers ordered in the other two men. Those men were carrying with them Thompson sub-machine guns, a little side note these guns became so common in Chicago that they were nicknamed Chicago Typewriters. The four men then opened fire on the seven unarmed men with their backs turned to them. 

(Gypsie) Once word got out it was quickly suspected that Al Capone had ordered the hit on the men. But Capone had the best alibi, he was in Florida at the dog race track. Several of Capone’s men were believed to be the shooters but no strong evidence was ever recovered. The police had several solid leads but they all ended up on dead ends. Moran told reporters (Drifter) “Only Capone kills like that.” (Gypsie) When Capone was being interviewed by reporters in Florida about the killings he laughed when reporters told him what Moran said and responded with (Drifter) “The only man who kills like that is Bugs Moran.” 

(Gypsie) No one was ever tried and convicted of the murders on Clark Street. (Drifter) Even if Capone did not order the hit on Moran and his men, he still won. After this, Moran backed off. Though he managed to hold on to some control of the North Side, his men didn’t respect him like they did before. They felt that Moran’s grudge against Capone was petty and that more of them were going to be killed if they continued chasing Capone. Moran eventually moved away and was later arrested in Ohio and sentenced to 20 years. Capone continued to run the South Side in Chicago. Eventually Capone was arrested as well and sent to the Atlanta Penitentiary for tax evasion. 

(Gypsie) In 1967 the garage at 2122 North Clark Street was demolished. Now it is a parking lot next to a restaurant and antique store. For years after the murders several businesses tried to operate out of it but it soon turned into a tourist attraction and no one could operate out of it. Before everything was destroyed a Canadian businessman, George Patey, purchased the wall the men stood in front of. He had the 414 bricks from the rear wall removed one at a time and numbered so the wall could be put back in the exact way it was. 

(Drifter) George then started taking the brick on the road showing them at galleries and shopping malls. In 1969 George tried to open a crime museum so he could display the bricks but it never really took off. He eventually had the bricks displayed in a Roaring Twenties themed nightclub. The club was located in downtown Vancouver canada and was called the Banjo Palace. The bricks were placed in the mens bathroom of all places and thankfully plexi- glass was put over it to keep them clean. 

(Gypsie) The night club eventually went out of business and George had the bricks removed once more. This time he started selling them off as souvenirs. Eventually the Mob Museum in Las Vegas got their hands on the bricks. A few years back we went to see the Mob Museum in Las Vegas. The museum is broken up into several sections with one of them being dedicated to the wall. If you stand in the room long enough you can watch the lights go dim and then slowly the wall will light up and eventually you can see the entire wall. At some point someone had gone in and painted the holes in the bricks red, it's not real blood. There is an eerie feeling standing there looking at the wall. You can’t help but feel some of the fear and pain the men felt as they stood there with their face to the wall. We are thinking we will save more information on the mob museum for a later episode, this one has already turned into a rather long one! 

(Drifter) We have also tooled around Chicago, through several of the cemeteries, visited the grave of Capone and several mobsters from the era. As far as anything left relating to the massacre, the Mob Museum is pretty much it.

(Gypsie) To wrap up this holiday episode, 7 years later on the anniversary of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, Jack McGurn, one of the suspected hitmen, was slain in a crowded bowling alley by a volley of machine gun fire. The shooter was never identified however it is suspected that it was Bugs Moran himself.

(Drifter) Alrighty folks, I think that wraps up our special holiday episode. Now that everybody is filled with the love Hallmark says this holiday brings, do you have a dad joke for us?

(Gypsie) Q:What's red and bad for your teeth? A: A Brick

(Drifter) Thank you all so much for joining us again and supporting the Rebel At Large Adventure Podcast. If you want to stay up to date with us we are most active on the Instagram (Gypsie) @rebelatlarge, (Drifter) we post photos of our adventures on our website (Gypsie) rebelatlarge.com where you’ll find links to our new merch store, Patreon if you want to help fuel the adventure, email if you want to get in touch with us as well as links to our other social deals.

(Drifter) We’ll talk to ya here in a couple of weeks, (Gypsie) Safe Travels, (Drifter) We’ll see ya down the road.

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