27 February

A Peerless touring car is blown up in Maywood, and Jack McGurn is arrested at the Stevens Hotel.

St. Valentine's Day Massacre Unsolved

Seven men lined against a garage wall in Chicago, 1929. Gunmen dressed as police. Capone blamed by everyone, charged with nothing. Nobody was ever tried.

The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals upholds the conviction.

Al Capone tax evasion trial Convicted

Chicago could never convict Al Capone of murder. In 1931 the Treasury got him with a lawyer's letter, a bookkeeper's ledger and his own grocery bills.