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Issue of The Detroit Free Press newspaper from February 15, 1929, ‘Final Edition,’ published the day after the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago, Illinois, 30 pages, 17 x 22.5, featuring extensive front-page coverage of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre under the banner headline, "Detroit Rum Gang Blamed for Slaughter of 7 in Chicago," with related headlines including "Believed Hi-Jacking Reprisal" and "'Firing Squad' Lines Up Prey." The second page continues the coverage under the headline "Massacre Laid to Detroiters," reporting on the identification of the victims, the suspected involvement of George ‘Bugs’ Moran's rivals, eyewitness accounts, and the nationwide manhunt launched in the massacre's immediate aftermath. In very good, fragile condition, with the front page detached, and some short tears and paper loss to the brittle edges.
Issued the morning after the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, this February 15, 1929, edition of the Detroit Free Press features extensive front-page coverage of the gangland execution that claimed the lives of seven associates of George ‘Bugs’ Moran inside Chicago's S.M.C. Cartage Company garage. Reporting while the investigation was still unfolding, the newspaper attributes the killings to Detroit rum runners, explores the prevailing theories behind the massacre, and chronicles the massive police dragnet launched in its immediate aftermath. Today, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre remains the defining event of the Prohibition-era gang wars and one of the most notorious crimes in American history.
