I highly doubt that Accardo was involved.

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.

Good explanation, Toodoped. Good to hear from you.

I remember reading in the book { the last Mafioso} johnny roseli is talking to frattiano about aiuppa beconning boss of the outfit. "hes was nothing but a cheap bust out man from cicero"

The guys who robbed accardos house always fascinated me , accardo was never one to be crossed

John Mendell robbed a jewellery store belonging to accardos friend Harry levinson , wen accardo found out he made them give all the loot bak . That's wen the house was robbed , bernie Ryan , Steve Garcia , vincent morretti, Donald Swanson , john mendell , john macdonald , bobby hertogs, micheal volpe who was supposed to watch the house while accardo was away was also murdered . The last two to be killed John Borsellino and Gerry Carusiello had taken care of the burglars and had now themselves been taken care of. No more ties to Accardo.

I cant understand why he would murder his housesitter Michael volpe.

I think I read where a couple of the burglars of accardos home, had their faces burned off with blow torches, I cant understand why he would murder his housesitter Michael volpe.

Yeah borsellino was part of the wild bunch , did William “Butch” Petrocelli not get him clipped , think I read that somewhere

Technically, Volpe disappeared.

Loose lips sink ships. Volpe knew too much and had already spilled to the grand jury that there had been a break in. A fact Accardo had been trying to deny.

I think I read where a couple of the burglars of accardos home, had their faces burned off with blow torches, I cant understand why he would murder his housesitter Michael volpe.