Crime+during+the+1920's

=**"You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word" attributed to Al Capone.**= Above photo showing illicit alcohol being poured down a city sewer.

Greg Goettner's great- great grandfather, a Philly motorcycle police officer during Prohibition. Eliot Ness Johnny Torrio Dion O'Banion Al Capone "Machine Gun" McGurn "Bugs" Moran "Speakeasies" during Prohibition days.media type="custom" key="24818750"
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The St. Valentine's Day Massacre February 14th, 1929 10:30
 * Al Capone Vs. "Bugs" Moran
 * Moran was contacted by a local thug about a large amount of quality whiskey for sale at a garage
 * Moran and his men agreed to meet to look over the whiskey
 * It was a set up by Al Capone (vacationing in Florida) and his gang.
 * 7 of Moran's men showed up ("Bugs" saw a police car close by and never showed up) and were ushered into the garage.
 * 4 gunmen showed up in a police car (two were wearing police uniforms)
 * They busted Moran's gang who thought it was a prohibition raid
 * Disarming Moran's men the "police" had the men line up against a wall and shot them all using .45 cal Tommy Guns, sawed off shotguns and a .45 cal pistol
 * The "police" walked out with the two others and drove away in the police car never to be seen again
 * Capone had an alibi and was never directly linked to the murders



Stone Mountain, Ga. where the "rebirth" of the Ku Klux Klan took place in 1915. media type="youtube" key="_75oh-Xmy4w" width="420" height="315" The "Red Scare" and the Sacco and Vanzetti trial click [|here] Click [|here] to see and read about a terrorist attack on Wall St. by anarchists....partially leading to the Red Scare!

More about the Red Scare and the "Palmer Raids" [|here]