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[CHICAGO CRIME]. -- [ST. VALENTINE’S DAY MASSACRE]. Special Rag Paper Edition of The New York Times, Vol. LXXVIII, No. 25,955. New York: The New York Times Company, February 15, 1929. 48 folio pages on large folded sheets on special limited edition rag paper. Each page approximately 572 x 456 mm. These pages are now staple-bound at the left margins, this issue apparently excised from a larger volume. Mild toning, some rust markings, edgewear at left margins. On pp. 1-2 is a large article about the notorious organized crime murder in Chicago, the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre: “7 Chicago Gangsters Slain by Firing Squad of Rivals, Some in Police Uniforms / Victims Lined Up in Row / Hands Up, Faces to Wall of Garage Rendezvous, They are Mowed Down. / All Took It for a Raid / Four Machine Gun Executioners, Wearing Badges, Made Swift Escape in Automobile / Moran’s Staff Wiped Out / Liquor Gang Head Missing - Police Chief, Roused by ‘Challenge’ Declares ‘War.’” The article goes on to describe the murder of seven members of George “Bugs” Moran and Dean O’Banion’s North Side Gang. The dead are identified in the article. Also: “One name loomed in the police investigation under way this afternoon and tonight. It was that of Alphonse (Scarface) Capone, gang leader extraordinary.” An early article about one of the most notorious gangland crimes of the 1920s.