Fred "Killer" Burke, Raymond “Shocker” Schulte,Fred Goetz,Gus Winkler, James Ray and Raymond “Crane Neck” Nugent were members of the St. Louis gang Egan's Rats and they all moved to Chicago in the period of 1925-1930 and became associates of the Circus gang under Claude Maddox and were also named by the media as Capone's “American Boys”.Story goes that Raymond “Shocker” Schulte, a.k.a. Charles Maginness, dismantled the getaway car from the St.Valentines day massacre together with Tony Capezio.Capezio got burned while using flammable liquids to get rid of the evidence.He ran to a hospital clinic,but then ran back out when he realized that someone who might saw the fire would be calling the cops. This stunt earned him the nickname “Tough Tony.”

Byron Bolton,former member of Alvin Karpis gang was also a close friend of Capezio, Bolton became a stool pigeon becase he swindled the gang for a lot of cash.After Byron Bolton’s 1935 confession,Claude Maddox was picked up by the cops again( because he was also picked up right after the massacre)but later was released.

As for young Accardo, story goes that he was in one of the look out crews together with Ross Prio and Jimmy "The Swede" Moran.Prio also got picked up by the cops for questioning.