Fred Samuel Goetz (February 14, 1897-March 20, 1934), also known as "Shotgun" George Ziegler, was a Chicago mobster and a suspected participant in the Valentine's Day Massacre in 1929. Events 842 - Charles the Bald and Louis the German swear the Oaths of Strasbourg in the French and German Year 1897 ( MDCCCXCVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Events 1600 - The Linköping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Linköping, Sweden. Year 1934 ( MCMXXXIV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Saint Valentine's Day massacre is the name given to the murder of seven people as part of a Prohibition Era conflict between two powerful criminal gangs in Chicago
Born in Chicago, Illinois, he was stationed at Langley Field, Virginia during World War I as a pilot in the US Army's aviation branch and rose to the rank of 2nd lieutenant before the war's end. Langley Air Force Base is located three Nautical miles (6 km) north of the Central business district of the city of Hampton, Virginia World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All He later earned a degree in landscape engineering from the University of Illinois after graduating in 1922. This article is about the flagship campus For other uses and locations of University of Illinois, see University of Illinois (disambiguation The University of Goetz worked as a lifeguard at Clarendon Beach until he was charged with assaulting seven year old Jean Lanbert. Goetz denied the charges however and later jumped bail on June 10, 1925.
Almost four months later, Roger Bessner implicated Goetz and Hymie "The Romeo" in a recent failed robbery of a Dr. Henry R. Gross in which the family chauffeur Barney Hernandez was killed. Detective questioning Bessner believed Goetz had been attempting to recoup the loss of $5,000 he forfeited when he fled earlier that year.
During the next several years, Goetz would become associates with underworld figures such as Yallow Kid Weil and Morris Klineman as well as participating in several armed robberies including the robbery of $352,000 from the Farmer and Merchants bank in Jefferson, Wisconsin with Gus Winkler and four others in 1929. There are a few other places named Jefferson in Wisconsin Jefferson is a city in Jefferson County Wisconsin, and is its Gus Winkler ( March 28, 1900 &ndash October 9, 1933) was a St
After the Valentine's Day Massacre, Goetz left Chicago and began bootlegging operations in Kansas City, Missouri before becoming associated with the Barker Gang. Kate "Ma" Barker ( October 8, 1873 – January 16, 1935) was a legendary American criminal from the " public enemy He later participated in several bank robberies with Alvin Karpis, Fred and Doc Barker as well as the 1931 kidnapping of millionaire Edward G. Alvin Francis "Creepy Karpis" Karpowicz ( August 10, 1907 – August 26, 1979) born Alvin Karpowicz, nicknamed Bremmer in 1933. He collected the ransom and released Bremmer.
Returning to Chicago, Goetz was killed in a drive by shooting while outside a closed Cicero restaurant The Minerva on March 20, 1934. The motives for is murder are unclear, however a number of his former associates had motives for his murder including the Barker Gang who may have feared he may have been talking about their recent heists as well as the Chicago Outfit and the North Side Gang for his alleged involvement in the St. The Chicago Outfit shortened to " the Outfit " is a Crime syndicate based in Chicago Illinois, USA. The North Side family Gang, also known as the North Side Mob, was the dominant Irish-American Mafia criminal organization (although a large number of Valentine's Day Massacre.
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