Let’s take a look at the successes and failures of the St. Valentine’s Day massacre.
First, what is the St. Valentine’s Day massacre?
The event known as the St. Valentine’s Day massacre occurred in North Chicago. Seven well-dressed men were found riddled with bullets inside the S.M.C Cartage Co. garage. They had been lined up against a wall, with their backs to their executioners and shot to death. Six of these seven men were members of a mob family led by “Bugs� Moran. The seventh was Reinhardt H. Schwimmer a mechanic. These men were mobsters and were killed by mobsters of a different family, Al Capone’s family.
The massacre was planned by the Capone mob in retaliation for an unsuccessful attempt by Frank and his brother Peter Gusenberg (from Moran’s family) to murder Jack McGurn (a high up in Capone’s family) earlier in the year; the North Side Gang's complicity in the murder of Pasqualino Lolordo as well as Antonio Lombardo, and Bugs Moran trying to take over a Capone-run dog track in the Chicago suburbs, and the rivalry they had in the bootlegging industry.
Four of Al Capone’s men set it up and killed six of Moran’s; let’s now take a look at the successes and failures:
A look at the successes:
One of the big success stories is that the idea was to take down Moran, and the massacre definitely crippled him to a point that within a few short years he gave up his position.
They were successful at luring Moran’s men into the warehouse.