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rst tangible clue today in the hood-bowling alley
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keys, one
might t
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bile keys.
Previous to
ran up against
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derworldrin
the additional
The widow,
Louise Rolfe,
MI:Gurns bl' o
established an alibi for him seven
years ago who
the bloody St.
sacre of seven
gangsters.
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when McGurn
back or t
been found.
William Aloi
alleys, and two employes were the!
only persons
at the scene.
shooting beganys Recovreed May
to Safety Box1
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automobile, which wast
' an industrial section
on the near North side, were two
Swhich the police believed
a safe deposit box. They
crimes.
Reported threats against the lite
of the gangsters widow from an
undisclosed source gave the police
task of guarding her.
George Bugs! Moran
persons were at the alleys
he head, yet no one who
would admit seeing the slayers has'.
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Capone henchm
assination,
with three autorno-A
this, the authoritiest
the usual blank wall
ility surrounding un- ,
the 1-ormer Miss
became known as
nd alibi" after she ,
n he was accused of
Valentine day mas-.
was shot twice in the
sio, proprietor of theHe said it was unusual tor a car
to stop there at that time or night.
The man ruin-J05. the car, which
Pfvé to be McGurna. hurried to
another machine parked across thel
ltreet and drove away, Schell said,
The P°lice Ioimd the ignition key
in place, but the wires to the switch
had been disconnected. A search
for ngerprints was ordered.
The police held to a theory that
McGurn was slain probably by a
man whom he regarded as a friend.
They said only such a person could
have come up behind him while hex
was at play.
The hoodlum had entered the al-
leys with two companions. The
investigators believed the killing
was a gang purge," as they said,
McGurn had been in fear of his
lite for some time. They also be-N
lieved the slayers ed in McGurn's
own car.
The pomp that marked gangsterl
funerals in the days of prohibition.
will be missing at McGurn's burial
Tuesday. Instead oi a $15,000 silver.
casket such as the one in which Dion it
_OBannion, another notorious hood-
lum, was laid to rest several yea:-s|
ago, McGurn will have one costing
less than $1,000.The police said the lessened
glory represented the tall in that
status of gangsters and the lack otlpopularity that was MCC-urn's event
among his own kind.
McGurns assassination, likewise.
lacked the elaborate air shown in
the slaying of 0Bannion, the
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iseverel hundred thousand dollars:
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died with $3.35 in his pockets, and
iaccording to his wits that ls about
iail there was left. Lately he had
"been picking up a little change by
handling 50-cent bets on horse
iraces.
. Not a very gioriou: end, was it!
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_i9.192d justice has been served even
ithough the law was violated by the
killers. _
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wonder sometimes if crime really
does pay. It Jack McGurna per-
isonality has survived his abrupt
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abandoned automobile of Machine-I
iGun Jack McGurn, slain gangster,
iearly today was found to be for a
"safe deposit box in the vaults of the
iosii Park Twit and Savings Bank,
1044 Lake street, Oak Park. Police
immediately went to the bank to
examine the box,
An 16-year-old girl, a blonde
stenographer, was questioned at the
Racine avenue police station today.
and her roommate at 195 East Chest-
nut street, sent word that she would
appear at the station shortly to tell
all she knew about Machine-Gun
Jack McGurn, slain early Saturday,
iand his widow. the former Louisiffnlie. Both are stenographers at thi
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'Miss Mary Dickinson. who said
t at she knew neither McGurn no;
his wife, was questioned by Capt.i'i- F!...
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tip that she was overheard to,si¥'
samidiy, "Well, they set hire 1
It developed trom_ questioningMiss Dickinson that Miss Margaret.Swift, with whom she had Shifedl
an apartment tor the last six months.
was a trtend oi Mrs. McGurn and
went on 1 party with her Friday
night. The former Capone execution-
er was murdered shortly 11181 m1d-
night that night.
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ien that she did not know McGurn
qr his wife, and that Mis Swift
knew only the woman. _Q.-After McGum was shot. did
she Say anything to you about Ii?
A.N0, she just said she was k989-
ing up with the newspapers- Q.-What time am 5119 get home
Friday night? A.--She sot home
about 2130 a. ;n. Saturday-
Q_--Did she tell you where she
was? A.-She said she WED-11 10 8 i Miss DiCkiIlSOI1 ma cant Mul-
iH¬|" Roommate is Aisoi
many and that she left the rest of
iem there. , ,3Q.-Did she say McGurns with
Abe had seen her at the Pa1'i2:'-
Mcurn Not There. i
Q.--Did she say whether McGurn
was there? A.--She said he wasnt
there.
iwas about a quarter to 5. ,
Q.A.nd what time did Marsyisvi
out? A.-I dont know.Q.--When Margy carne back at
2:30 a. m. Saturday Whit tavefn dfdshe say she visited? A.-She said
she had been to a couiile 01 1'95" -"
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Although police asked 591' 3 ¢°ni
iipuance. disorderly ==°"d °i charge
were dismissed by Municipal Ju_dS<
Lambert K. Hayes today 333" Q.-When Louise Mrs. McGurn!;called Miss swiii Friday a@m°°=-,Feb. 14, what time was it? A.-It
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William Aloisio, 1121 West. Huron
street, owner or the Milwaukee
avenue bowling alley where the
hoodlum was -killed,
~ ' Find Auto and Keys.
The automobile in which McGurn
drove to his rendezvous with gang-
land bullets Friday night was aban-
doned early today in front oi a ga-
rage at 305 North Ada street, evi-
dently by men who had accompa-
nied him and sped away In the
machine immediately alter the
shooting. '
In the car. which was brightly
ghined and hadbbviously been kept
ipidden in a garage since the killingif the one time Capone high execu-
'oner in a bowling alley at 305
Milwaukee avenue Saturday, police
found two possible clews. ,i
One was the fingerprint of a left
hand on one of the car doors. The
other was a key ring. inserted it
Lhe ignition rswitqchij eontainirgglfivu cys. one o w ic po ice eieve
is to a safe deposit box.
Saw Man Board Auto.
William Sahel], 2022 West 69th
place, a watchman employed by 8
motor delivery service. heard the
slam oi an automobile door in front
of the garage on North Ada street.
He looked out the window, because
there is virtually no night traffic
iin that industrial district, and saw
a man board a slowly moving auto-
mobile headed north.
The condition of the automobile
lindicated that ii had been gone over
carefully to eliminate all nger-prints, and on this premise Police-
man Arthur Linderman ot the
bureau of identication hopes that
the one fingerprint discovered wastl-in there carelessly by one of those
tabandoning the coupe. The license
tfnr the car had been taken out in
the name of William Belmont , 554-!l- on Slaying of McGuri|
Harrison street, s tailor whom Mc-
Gum patronized.
Police plan to check the supposed
sate deposit keys with banks.
Poltee Guard Widow. ~
Meanwhile McGurns widow, the
Iorrner Louise Rollie, his blonde alibi
in the wipingout 0! seven members
of the George Bugs ! Moran
gang, is under police guard. It is
said she has received gang threats
not totalk too much.
McGurn_ who saw many gaudy
funerals oi gangsters during the era
when a dead hoodlums underworld
status and that or his bereaved rela-
tives was impaired by anything but
the most costly coffins and floral
tributes, will go to his own grave in
a casket costing only a Iew hundred
dollars. p
The funeral will be held tomor-
row at the chapel at 624 Norlr
Western avenue. Burial will be ix
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MoGu.rn drove to the bowling alley
where he was murdered. Two men
ilast ride early Saturday were be-~lieved to have ed tn McGurn's.c.ar.11 In the auto police found a. Chicago
Assemblyma.n A. J. Prignano oi the
bloody 20th ward.1 P1-lgnano aided ln obtaining Mc-1
was arrested on a misdemeanor
1cl1arge several years ago. Police in-11 vestlgated the possibility that the twoslayings may have had a common
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Threats against the -lite of Hrs.
Jack McGurn, widow of the Ca-
Hpone gangster who wasslainearlr
issturday morning. were reported
to police today. -
Steps tonrotect her were im-
mediately taken. particularly he-
eeuse authorities are eager to ob-
tain the secrets she is supposed
l to possess which they feared
would be sealed with her death.
WIDOW GOES IN RIDING
i Mrs. McG:im' was in main: te-
iday with her 12-year-old daugh-
ter by an earlier marriage, while
preparations w e r e b e i n g com-
j pieted for McGurn's funeral.
Meanwhile detectives, seeking
through a record or McGurns re-
cent movements a clue to his late,
came upon a curious underworld
story concerning a meeting o!
racketeers in Miami, Fla., where
McGurn is reported to have
;pleacled-literally--for his hie.
The answer was: Thumbs down.
Police learned McGurn went to
Miami primarily to see Frank
Nitti, formerly known as the en-
forcer" of the laws which Scar-
race Al Capone laid. down ior his
followers.
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was brought before a "committee"
which gave him s chilly recep-
tion-not definitely ordering his
g death but declining to protect his life.
Among the members of the
"committee." it was said, were
Jake Guzik, former big shot, just
out o! prison; Ralph Capone,
-brother oi Al: Willie Heeney. a
l utility man" in the Capone on-
- ganizatlon_ and Charles "I.i.ick3 '
'Lucian0, ruler of the U. B-"
Iwhich means Unions Biciliani!
The business before the com-
mittee, police said, was the tor-
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cleared him in the St Valentine's1he rlllyinl of old Capone chieftains Day killings-ancl eight others :01-lhere. Arnonl those recently restored?
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7 McGurn's 12 years gunning in the or the gambling business, recently."
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much of "Machine-Gun" Jack
llcGurn as Vincent Gebardi. ":01!
pro!ession'al." but little. indeed. oi
his activities as a Capone sang-
pater and public enemy, or oi. the
,1-easons for his slaying.
g Center or attraction at the in-
,ques1: into Ii- cGurns death in
the county morgue was his widow.
' uise Rolfe McGurn. the "blond
_ libi who saved him from prose-
ution in the St. Valentine: Day
lriassacre of 1929.Louise. wrapped in a coat which,
she confided. was "Summer er-
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i92mlne,"'-her hair ilistenlnl with aI golden wash and tears threatmins
ito earn away her stylish arti-
liclal eyelashes. insisted she didn't
know what her husband: occu-
pation had been.
HIS NUMBER NOW.
It was McGurns brother. An-ithony Gebardi. who offered the
information that Jack was i ioif
Hp1'0, employed. Anthony said. ati the Maywood Country-Club. That
ii statement was viiorously denied
i] by James Kiilzallon. president orWhe club. Mcurn. he said. al-
; hough he was not employed there,
,i1'8Quentl.Y Played the course.
iphootinz I neat 'iBhis number
iiaow at the county mor:ue._ I
92 Louise was asked by Deputy
:Coroner James J. Whalen whether
she thought her husband was a
"pl0." She replied:
"I dont know. I know he
played a lot of golf.'92
THEY VISIT WAKE.
Earlier she had told police that
she knew her husband made
money and that she thought he
owned an interest in a handbook
in Melrose Perk-s. handbook
which, police ssid, had been op-
erated by Mcurn and closed by
state's attorney's police.
Recalling her husband's activi-
ties shortly before his death. she
said. without ipparently resiizin" 8
the grim irony of the statement.
that on Thursday night he and
she had attended s. wake at 1335S1 Austin blvd.. where Giuseppegrgelll. 67; an old iriend. had
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Friday morning, she said. they
TIMI gone to the funeral. coming
home only twelve hours beforei INQUEST QUESTIONING*.1l.. sWIDOW DOESNT KN0Wi.INf
Mcurn htmselt was to'be slain.
Mcurn slept until ll at night.
than left, tellini her ha was io-
ing to bowl. '
GASPS AT QUESTION.
But Louise. tense. pale, her car-
mine finsemaila digging deeply
into her palms, insisted that he
riidn't tell her with whom he was
going-that he never told her
arwthinl of his movements or
companions. and that she didnt
uk him.
She gasped with grief when
she was asked it she knew hisenemies, but insisted that sh?did not. that she had heard 0
no threats made against him.
And certainly. se said. she knew
of no one who would "wish to kilit
him.
From William Aloisio. owner of
the bowling alley at B05 Milwau-
kee av.. in which McGurn was
slain, and trom Tony Mascarella,
the porter. the coroner's Jury
heard excited accounts of the
murder. but no clue to the slayers.
CONFLICTING STORIES.
Aloisio declared that McGurn
had never been in his place be-
fore, and that he did not know
him. his companions or the three
stickup men" who threw the
place into conftision as McGurn
was slain. At that time. Aloisio
deeisred. IvicGurn and his two
"friends" were waiting for an
alley.
Conflicting with that story was
the testimony or Edward Bonn-.
rek. 1128 Pry st.. another pin bofv. .*
who said that McGurn and tliiei
other two had already bowled
two frames--that he was setting
up pins for them.
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jiii credited with that goryKilled " "fr 5
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re by three hours, but not the;
hatchery avengers "esterda".;.921bbed out Killer Jack Me-*~~~ ' -- '5 or 1
Gum with two bullets in the
back.
McGurns executioners, still uni-
dentifiecl left a
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seven year old
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settling in the
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55;, " ; , comic vlaentme l= I o u n d beside
McGurn.s body
lf, in the bowling
3 alley where he
, ,_ was slain. .' " The rhyme
.> __ on the valen-
-lacl: Meurn. tine read: '
You've lost your job, -
You've lost your dough,
"You're' jewels and ears and
handsome houses,
"But things could at
you know,
"You haven't lost your trousers."
SINISTER RED.
The gaudily-colored "illustration,
showing 9, scantily clad couple
anding in a snow-drift outside a
JLISE marked Sold, showed one
"it not from the pritin pi-ess.:~ adclressee's life blood.
Twelve hours after the killing,
"Q-lice were holding beautiful
guise Rolfe McGurn, mate of the
sad man, and vainly trying toTrim? from the frightened wom-an's ips the name of the man sus-
pected of leadership of the three-
man pistol squad which surprised
McGurn in the midst of an all-
night bowling game and felled him
as he squared off to launch hisShot. - "
Louise, who married McGu1-n
four years ago when matrimony
was the only escape for both from
a Federal Mann Act charge, told
both police and 3 coroner's jury
that she "couldnt imagine anyone
wanting to kill poor Jack."
EIGHT HELD.
The imaginations of the police
were in better working order than
the widow's. No less than eight
men, all known to have good
cause to celebrate Killer Jacks
demise, were being held, while a
confidential call was out for Jim-
1:n.ia...G-uaenberg, baby brother of
Peter and Frank Gusenberg, tw0
of the seven machine-gunned to- unvari-wvaar-,death ni n North Side garage on
i St. Valentine's Day, 1929. {
CAPONES AID.
McGurns widow was a valued
aid to AI Capone. Besides serving
Capone as n. dummy in his alcohol-
business, Louise gave yeoman aid-
when McGurn, Capone: execo-92
, tioner, was arrested as perpetrator;
of the Valentine Day massacre.
She swore without a blush that,f
at the hour of_tho septuple mur-§der, Jack was in her arms in her
, boudoir.
to Miami a year later and arrested '
wily Louise, however, had one ' more trick in her fertile mind. She
married McGurn and.the Federal
case collapsed. ,
1 She freely told the coroner's jury}
the details of McGurns last hours. Il "We were living quietly in
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Louise Mcurg
l the little flnl. where the police
got me," ul-no uid.
i "W6 were dirt poor." Her
expensivg fur: ancl hnlr-wave,
however, told I differing story.
"Joel: lncl I Valentino dinner lwith me and than about mi:-'= l
night he got up and laid, You
[0 to sleep, honey. I'll go over i
, to the Avenue Alleys and roll
I low."'
Two hours later, as he threw off i
his coat in the Avenue, a North-
,west Side recreation hall, threelmen strolled tap as if to watch his .1. play, and su denly whipped out
guns. Fifteen shots in all werefired. Two took effew
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illerl left near the body of Killer Jack McGu|'n
1 r they Ind pumped 15 Lulleln at him and
drop him dead in 1 Chicngo bowling alley ll
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Euspe 111 the Valentine Day
_' massacre of seven mobsters
|lJl1St SEVCII years go-g_ .-
-whose educated trigger nger was
reputed to have sent a dozen
men to death in prohibition days,[was shot down a few m:'Lnut,e5
after midnight in a bowling alley.Alley; Alcohol War ls Seen
FHICAGO, Feb. 15 U.S.!.
Ch1°*'¬° 5 8511318116 peace came
t° 5 b1°°dY end today with
assassination of Machine Gun
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into McGum's head as he med
to flee, .
pnied McGurn to the alley and
who scribbled their names with lhis 0n_ s. score sheet for $11311-
quiet little game, vnnighgd even
as the slmman Ssned his last
011 the smooth boards. They tool; ;
the score sheet with them l
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land execution and left police
with an endless number oil
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It was a "perfect job" of gang. .
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M'cGu:n was indicted for theit 1 ?' Louise GebardlMoG1.irn was also
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Valentine's ms. 1929. the crime
which shocked 0 nation already
- familiar with scores of smile-
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Beven men were lined uvlagninlt a wait and shot downl
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But McGurn had an alibi. li furnished or an attractive blonde
. called Vincent Gebardiwho testi-
ed to the satisfaction of the law,
that her husband was with her in
a. hotel at the time of the massa-
cre. -
And today. as the blonde widow
aobbed over poor Jack as he lay
on a morgue slab. Police delfed
his shooting was not in venseme
for the shocking crime of 129.
- In Power Again
Capt, Richard Barry explained:
Gangs don't shoot lo avenge
' lomethlng that happened. years
go, They put men out of the
way for what the! are dolng
_. now."' Chief of Detectives John L.
Sullivan. declaring he was certain
. the three gunmen were im-
; ported" for the assassination.
-= gave as his theory that McGurn
was slain in the opening stage of41,
sfnew alcohol war between Chi-
cago and Milwaukee gangsters:
He said:
"Gangsters who do their kill-
_17|-|g___£hat way pin their con-
49 - / r 5 Lfldenoa to the tholl that
witnesses will either forge
nntarll; or can be tauthf to .
forget. That ll why Inch kill-
ers use no masks and an not
Here's the dtuatlon-Mo
Gnrn had been ||l'l092l68nJ broke.
There is reasontobelieve he had
even been oomlltlled to sell his
wife; jewelry and hlaaavm. Ho
had been trying to get along on
a petty gambling racket-Iaoob
making. And so he tried toresur-
rest the bigger racket of his for-
mer bosl. Capone. .
He undertook to muscle Inf:
the Milwaukee boys. and there
were three killings. Frank Stylin-
lowski was shot November ll, JOI-
eph Scaffido, oi Milwaukee. and
Angelo Kleronomol, of Cicero,
were shot a day later in front.
I believe that a connection will
be found between these killings
and McGurn'l.
"We know that McGurn had
been making desperate efforts to
raise moneyand his enemies
knew that when he was desper-
ate he was dangerous. They put
him on the spot. The trouble was
that McGurn outlived the our
days of his racket."
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of McGurn's slaying, was con---:r-0- '~ -- 1 *;*' ' *""_. -q- - -----w ~- '92 I v"",,__ 11.! urn '" -"r '___ - ___;ma -V
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The assassination of Machine
Gun Jack l92IcGurn recalls anew
the decade of death which marked
Capone's gang rule. The second
chapter oi the story of that erawill be found in the Graphic sec- I
tion of this paper.
After twenty-four hours ot investi-
gating the murder of Machine Gun
Jack McGurn. Sicilian horn swash-
buckler who ourished for half I.
dozen robust years under the wing
of Al Capone. the police last, night
advanced a theory that McGurn was
er -n pi? hip r9292:|-vs sent to death by
supposed friends.
They elaborated. ,
,,.....92 l " McGurn," they said, was through
||0ng ago as a big shot. He wail
woke and a nuisance to his mend!
_92'¢ho still retained a little of the old.
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92Wines! of the canes-vice. an-.._... Blonds Aiibilsroor ns|p.,
1111113 and bootleg alky. They wg;-Q
tired or his interference or of his
bezklnz. So they put him away to:
good." ' .
Deprived or His Delggggg,
Clilt. Martht Mullen Jr. held thll:
II Capone, now In Alcatrsz pfilqn.
"°" it "but? Ind bossing the
gangs. he would never have permit-
ted the killinl of McGu.t-n. -
"A11" he Hid. was tratetul to
McGurn tor exposing s plot 01 John
Scalisi and Albert Arlse1m11,g kill
him. McGurn was credited with
Wiping out those two men. But with
Capne locked up, McGurn hsd lit.
tie inuence. I don't think he waj
Pewerful erwush to make it worth
I»1'1i'hody's while to break up his gang
by killing the man st the top. ,1 "If he was, there will be a re ;
iievenge slayings. It's doubtful, th0ugh,}
if there will be any; nobody in the"i
rackets cares much whether he's
gone or not."
The Old Ignorance Gag.
At least 20 persons were present in
the second oor bowling alley at 805
Milwaukee avenue, known 9,5 the Ave.
1 nue Recreation rooms, at 1 a. m. yes-
tel-day when McGurn was shot in the
hack and in the head by an unlden.
tied rnan, or men, standing close be-
hind him.
Of the 20. only three have been
found to tel! what they saw. And,
what they saw was, from the stand-
Point of evidence, negligible. The wall
of silence, traditional among the gang-
_sters and the people who know them,
was erected high and tight. Vague-
ness afflicted not only the witnessls
of the actual event, but even thus;
Nvho were questioned merely sbou :
the victim's history [arid they should;
ihave known his career thoroughly], I don't know what Jack! ]:|tlli1'l2I¬'
was, declared his widow. He never
told me and I knew I shouldn't ask
him." _
Mrs. Mclllurn. so known although
her husband: real name was Vincent
Gebardl. is the former Louise Rolfe.-
Back in 1929 she established herself
as his "blonds alibi." by signing
statements asserting that he was with
'her in a hotel room [they were not
married then] when seven north side
gangsters were slain in the St. Valen-
tine's day massacre.
- McGurn was slain just a few min-
utes after the close of the seventh
anniversary of that massacre. Beside
his body on the oor was found u
comic valentine twitting him on iris
johlessness and poverty. ,
Sergt. Francis Donahue of the
c{roner's investigating force ioun~1
Mrs. McGurn in her home at 12$
North Kenilworth avenue, Oak Park.
Still handsome and tastefully dressed,;
she went to the inquest into Mc-
Gurns death. where she took the
sianci weeping and dabbin: at her
eyes-but carefully, that the mascara.
on her eyelashes might not become
smeared.
Occupation l Family Mystery.
" We have been told your husband
was a golt professional," said Deputy
Coroner Grover Whalen. " Is that
correct? " i
I don't know." replied the widow.
" He played a lot of golf. *
|She then reiated that he had a_t-
tended the wake of a friend, Git:-
Svpp Circella, 1335 South Austin.
boulevard. Cicero. on Thursday night.
He went to the funeral Friday morn-
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lihortly afterward went to sleep. H01
4 ose at 11 p. m.. Mrs. McGurn saidi d went out with the remark U181
intended to do a little bowling.
Did McGurn tall: to her of any
enemies. and had he mentioned any
threats! Mrs. McGurn said no to
both questions. '
O the stand she told Capt. Mul-
len that she did believe Jack had an
interest in a horse racing book in
Cicero. but that she didn't knowi
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Anthony C-ebardi. a brother of the!slain man. said that McGurn
born in Italy. that he was brought tothe United States as an infant. anal
that he was 32 years old. He was a
golf professional employed at the
Maywood Country club. according to
Gaberdi. This statement was deniedl
later by James Kilgailon. president
of the club. who described McGurn
as a frequent patron of the links.
"He was a ne golfer," said Kilgal-
lon. Gften got down in the '70s."
Anthony Gebardi asserted he knew
nothing about his brother's under-
world activities, or of his enemies.iii any. 1
Nevertheless. the police learned
from other sources that McGurn was
jumpy in recent months. and appar-
ently expected some dire fate. He
frequently requested the Oak ark
police to give him special protection.
One informant said he " went pretty
near crazy when a tire blow outJ921!92BI92 er. his-92 - In . . . IYl92f92lJE an-1." i LJUDC LU null ta u:9292 vvzicn-1 a5u. '
Three Real Vtnessra Found.
The witnesses to the shooting itself
are 92Viliiam Aloisi. 1121 Vlfest Huron
street. owner of the bowling alleys;
his porter, Tony Mascarella. and a
pin setter, Edward Bonarck. 20 years
old, 1128 Fry street. The rest of the
lwenly persons in the room at the
1ime have not been found.
I didnt know the_man who got
killed," declared Aioisi. "I-Ie came
in at 213 minutes before one with two
other men. whom I had nevcr seen.
They all sat around a few minutes
waiting for an empty alley. I paid
no attention to them. Aboull o'clock
I heard somebody shout that there
was a stickup and not for anybody
to move.
Th¬il there was shooting. I di92.'l.'li
under a pool table that was near llll.
and stayed there. There must hm-ti
een 10 or 15 shots fired. But I o'on.iItlnow who did the ring. I stayud
-.here I was. sheltered. until 1hinl!5iuieted down. I d0nt know whether
the man that did the shooting camt:
in with the man that was killed. Awakened lyunflay.rhlaacarelia related that he itsl|!192192I92 l92I'l = knannh urhnn ihl Il!r92[ _ II-lump vu. :|. Uyilual us... - " - - -vv -5: Q
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" "All I know ls that I woke up to
see one man shooting and telling
everybody to stay down." the ports!
asserted. "He kept rins till he
reached the stairs and then dived
down the stairway. Everybody rie
followed him but Aloisi and he told
me to call the Police."
The only tact of moment added b_Y
Bonarelt was that McGurn and his
companions had %en o their coats
and had bowled one game before the
ring. He said he was not close
enough to observe who did the shoot-
mg.It was generally agreed that ilhehhooting was furious and fast. _ 5
' Stories eiu Um-eooncllable. nLilli the statements were like those
at were given in the days when
gangsters were important elements in
the population. Moreover, these dec-
larations were at variance with what
the police asserted were veried
facts. For one thing, they said. Mc-
Gurn howled in the place three times
a Week for the last month, and must
have been well known to the owner
and to other patrons._ Some one. possibly the killer, hid
nhe foresight to tear away the scole
tdieet which bore the names or in-
itials of McGurn and those wlo
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Rather strangely. when NcG92irn
was shot down, he was not wearing
a large diamond ring which habitually
a d o r n e d his hand. His brother.
Anthony. demanded this ring of the
in vestigalors, and became indignant
when he was informed that no jewelry
was found on the body and no money.
other than $3.85. Mrs. McGurn re-
solved this dilculty when she report.
ed that her husband had left the ring
at home.
All Obsolete lleroenary.
All in all. the police decided.
Mt-Gurn was slain because he didn't
understand that he was an anachro-
nism. There are no gangsters left like
Capone, who can afford to pay their
murdering help big wages for pro-
tection. McGurn. unable to act with-
out direction, still pushed himself in
9292here92'cr he could find a loophole.
Where is even a fairly well founded
pellet that he was planning to take
Iwcr a little booze and vice territory
l.n the vicinity of the bowling alleys
From this information the invest-gators reasoned that some other mi-
derling of the Capone mob remnants
had been assigned to gain his con-
dence and to end him. He was too
e>.pensive a load to carry, consider-
ing his abilities.
With considerable more than a
grain of salt the police look a pel-
sisicnt rumor that Capone, although
he. must stay behind the bars at Alca-
traz for at least three or four years
more. is still getting his "cut" fr msslch business as the gang Syrldicgte
lh controled can sllii stir up.
92._ Doubt Power oi Cop-ninth .
him of this story is that Capone
is able in purchase favors in the
prison and lhat his faithful boys are
slili loyal lo him merely in gratitude
for past favors.
if that were irue. the invesiigaiots
reasoned. Capone would still he
strong enough to protect his one
lime favorite. It is far more likely
lhal I-rank Nitii and the other chief-
tains who are carrying on the tradi-
tion of gang rule in Chicago-on l
miserably lessened Capone model-
ccame bored with a useless .sort_p[lippendage who was trying to live
in his past reputation, and gave out
[he word that he was no longer Pl?-Qocied from harm. Even gangstelrsl-
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panel almost succeeded.
I Most of those left are merely exist-
lrembiing and on the edge of poverty.
'Mc~Gurn's situation was described last'night by Lieul. Harry Wilson of the
Oak Park police.
A James Fltnjames Episode.
A dozen times McGurn has calledLl: to say that his life was in dangei-.|P_fa id the lieutenant. "Last Octobcg92fc went to the house on a crall anil?*und him lD 'l'i0d in a clothes closel.I le wouldn't some out until he wee_i.i.-.-,
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ilnformation ls censored out if the
,lett.-ers and newspapers that the tn-
mate: are allowed to read. In ti .tr is probable. he will get w::§through the prison grapevine. Other-wise he would have to wait until hiil term is nished."'"' in
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fiend voieni.inea" iii the back iuboeo
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iin McGurn'a recent quiet life. The;
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lo! the hiss-s execution ol seven
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The executioner-e vani5hedals0'nearly a score 01 customers. '
Police placed McGurna wire .
.Loui.se Rolfe McGiirn, McGurnsniece alibi in the si. -nicotine; ally
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ail 'th guns. The valentine portrayed, lljachine Gunne
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Shortly atter the killing, Sgt.
|Francis Donohue of the coroner!
totiice rang the bell at McGurn':
home at 1244 North Kenilworth
y Jack McGurn,_ who learned 2:32;bC;,a1';Jf§f:1§;.s "b°}°n§:sw§!'::
,1 the arts of homicide when most the former Louise Rolfe, who was
rouths 3 still 13 in run, his alibi girl" in the massacre otI qelnnnn 1-nnrenvne el'E92+::nr?glril'|n1-I 158"? Moran gangsters on vale ;. oln92-92-1.15:1-:15, "'14-~.1--.u--uu uuu I92lA|92,924 e-S day seven years ago yester--"loday 111 a bowling alley at sos ,_~=iTy= e -<
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When asked about the child she ex-
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Silence Confronts Police.
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accompanied murders charged to
Machine Gun Jack, but it had all
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"comic" valentine found lyini near At kl" you hlvenvt Ion you
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unidentied assassins early today. envelup ddreaud to J"°k MCGurn." l -
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T ~ mpudunpiewqv Chicago, Feb. 15.--Machine Gun Jack McGurn, who in the days of Al Capone was on
of the most notorious of Chicago gangsters, was shot and killed by three unjdened assai
ants early today in a bowling alley at 805 Milwaukee Ave. Three men, who slipped up b~.hind McGurn, who was bowling, red a total of more than a dozen shots from their pistol_/"
Nearly all the bullets took eect in his body.
The murder of McGurn occurred a day after the seventh anniversary of
the St. Valentines massacre, when seven men were mowed down in a N.
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or a long time Machine Gun Jack !lcGurn outed both the law and gaglamfs guns. I.-eft,,l|e's shouinin court as judge [reed him on coneenled weapon charge. Center, in hospil-IL riddled with underworld. - . {_
bullets, he still lived. Right, Louise Rolfe, his "blonde alibi bride, as her testimony saved him fro! chair 92 I _ _92;_ Lev l _a'".,: L! when he was arrested in St. Valentine: Day massacre.
Clark St. garage. McGurn has been suspected as the machine gun wielder who} '
handled the gun at that time.'1 More than a dozen persons witnessed the shooting. All ed immediatelyl
afte_rward except William Alosio, pfopwietor of the place.
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friends, said Alosio, tmnrin
shortly after midnight. They
engaged the second alley andl
took_olf their coats to bowl.§
As they stood at the end of'
the alley, three men who had
come in after them walked up,
unnoticed behind McGurn and.
began ring. I
They didlft mini . They was-Qstanding so close to Jggk gut {vealbullet took elect. He was shot new-,eral times in the head and several;
time int-he hick. He fell dead. The
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liillers ran out and the other people
1" the h°159» including his friends,
followed."
Yesterday was the anniversary
of the St. Valentine's Day massa-
l"_@. One of the most sensational
crlmes Hl American history. On
Feb. 14, 1929, seven members of{he North Side gang;.._hu.ded bylq-.1 .
enemy in ice
tacleta, were linul up against the
as t
death. p p
Mcurn Link Doubled.* * W l
There were at reports that:
MeGurn was implicated in thatl
shooting. Most investigators dis-
credited this, however. That somej
one wished to remind ltcGurn of
,Valentines Day was proved by thew
discovery of a comic lithograph
that was left with Alosio for_him
some time yesterday. It depleted0. couple in scanty clothing with a 92little jingle under it which read:'l'You've lost your job, you've loot5- your dough; l
=h'hin¢s still could be worse, you}= lmow- ;
"At least you hlvent lost Your
trousers." - l
It was the belief of the investi-
gators, headed by Capt. Richard
Barry, that the killers had accurate I
knowledge that l92{cGurn would be
in the bowling alley at about the
time he arrived. Possibly, it was
said, they waited for him and,climbed up the stairs to the second ll
oor, where the alleys are, as sooni
as he and his friends had cleared
the hallway.- It was even theorized that the,men who went with him might,
have been in on the plot. To sup- C
port this the police pointed out,
that all the bullets were directed,
at McGurn alone. His friends, in
all probability, were armed and
could have battled if they wished
in the opinion of Capt. Barry. l
But anything could have lisp-3
pened in this instance, he added.
"!.~icGurn had plenty of people with;reason to bump him off. My guess:
is he stepped on somebodys toes;
in the alky racket or the gambling:
business, recently. The gangs;
dont usually shoot to avenge"
something that happened yearsf
ago. They put enemies out ofbrisiness for what theyre doingn-aw. '
Ii Suspect in Many Killings. l
oi more FBut the...c~..u... was suspected
than a dozen murders. ,
nearest he ever came to doing a,
long stretch in jail was on a Mann
Act conviction. l
When police arrested him in
Miami, Fla., on suspicion of the St.92;
Valentine's Day murders, he was,
living with a golden-haired gun
moll, Louise Lulu Lou! Rolfe. l
Her alibi for McGurn was,
graphic,
I-le was in her arms, she said, in3 Gleorgia hotel, at the time policeec ared he was mowin down Mo-'P Le |L'i IB gangs 1".%92i'1'fI-Aaea- who placed McGurn inll.-F -1-..M
Machine Gun Jack MeGnrn
Closeup of killer who got Jose
of Ha own rneJ|'c:'nelenJ.
Chicago were rubbed out, one byl
one. Lulu Lou's testimony re-
mained unconvincingbut unshak-
able.
The underworld hailed her as the
blonde alibi when McGurn ap-
peared for trial ve times, each
time to jeer as the State prosecu-
tors backed down and asked for a
continuance.
But when the St. Valentineis
Day charges were nally dropped
for lack of evidence, McGurn's
alibi was turned against him.
He and his blonde pararnour
were indicted for violation of the_
Mann Act. ' !
In an attempt to impress tl1e'
jury, McGurn married the girl
before trial. ,
The charge stuck, however, and if
ivicum was sentenced to two]
years_in Leavenworth Prison
his wife to four months in
Cook County jail.and
thel
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But even in this he beat the rap
when the United States Supreme
Court set aside the conviction.
He served two minor terms, how-ever, Awhile the appeal was being
In 1930 he was sentenced to the
county jail for one year and ned
$300 for carrying a gun.
Later he was snatched out of
the Western Open Golf Tourna-
ment, where he was playing under
his real name, Vincent Gabardi, and
charzed with vagrancy.
With unusual consideration, the;
arresting olficers allowed him to;
nish his match before taking him t
off to jail. He shot an B6.
Lauri-n~~jury sent him.,,to_ the,
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v.'2'n'lC.-sG6, Feb. 15- SsttmisI P!-Machine Gun Jack Mc-
G"-"ll Ilnglter, was shot Ind
killed in s bowling alley early
today,
The victim was ldentled poll-
vlly s.s Meurn by Bergt. Kyrsn
Plwlln or the detective bureau.
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s near Northwest Side.
First reports of the shoottn
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imen walked into the bowling ll-
ley, drew a machine gun! tired directly at McGurn. Tm
] then turned and lied._McGurn was allied with thel
forces ot_Sca.rtmee Al Capone,
now serving time In Alcstru
prison for evasion 01 iederal tn-
Oome tax.
The shin gangster was reputed-
si one of ¬apoes gunners in
'&he clays oi the prohibition ere,rhea the Capone gang was one
1' the most powertul and bloody
in the history oi the city. @-
McGurn's death came just sev-
en years and n day after the
St. Valentine: day massacre in.
which seven George Bugs!
Moran gangsters were slain in I
near Northside garage. The Mo-
?-an gang was previousiy I rivsi
i the Capone mobsters.
1 L The l:|owlLng alley where Mc-
, Gurn was killed was reported to
E have been owned by him. o
- The name McGu.rn was an ellas.
His true name was Vincent
Gebardi. He also used the sling
Jack Demory. F
McGurn had been arrested sev-|~
ersl times in Chicago. He ws
qhargeei with participation in the3:; Valentine's dsy massacre in
. 9. He furnished his famous
'§Jlond alibi" to beat that rep,
The blond alibi was Miss
Louise Rolfe who testified that
they were together in e hotel athe time of the slaying. w
The state tailed to convict.McGurn but the federal governyj
ment stepped In with a. Man
lot 1.-lnorge ngnlnet botln The!
ere convicted In 1931 and Mo»-
urn was sentenced to serve two
ears in Leavenworth. Miss
olfe was given e lesser term.
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lice record of Machine Gun JaeMcGurn was as follows:
I Jan. 1, 1930, arrested under Mi
iuame of Jack McGurn, on a chargi
f of carrying concealed weapons.
l Mar. 20, 1930, held under the name
James Vincent for investigation in
Miami, Fla.
1 July 3, 1930, sentenced to one year
fn the county jail and fined $300
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reversed and the case was remanded!
3 by the supreme court. '
July 2, 1931. under name of Jack,
McGurn, arrested for violation of
1 Mann act. Convicted and sentenced
to two years in Leavenworth peni-
itentiary but placed on probation for
ve years.
-, Sept. 6, 1933. under name of Jac
1i'lcGurn, sentenced to six monthif the house of correction on a vag-
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nu First Murder. He was also convi '
The first murder was obviously-I'"§rs1 wort or vial
nervous piece oi work tor the sensi-
tive young west sider. but_once over
the hill of his rst homicide, Mi
Gum went, in the parlance of tho
day. to town.
His efficiency and earnestness tn
!IEdl'E5Slng wrongs with a pistol W01!
ithe admiration of Scarface Al
Capone, then rising to prominence
-_-__1i-1.
to Avenge Death of.
Said to
Prompted Crimes.
If epitaphs must be written tor
hoodlums. it can be said for Ma-
chine Gun Jack McGurn. who was
slain early today. that not since the
medieval days of the Italian city
states has there been a hired killer
as gracious. debonair and deadly.
What their velvet-clad and
rlumed young men with Florentine:
daggers were to the Sforzas or tho
lMedici, McGurn was to no less 1ibuccaneer. Scarface Al Capond.
.who revered him tor his deadliness
and his loyalty.
l The legend about McGurn on the
near west side is that he started his
career as a killer to avenge his
lffather. slain by blackhanders when
McGurn was a boy in his teens. This
|was about the time oi the birth ot
prohibition.
lVlcGurn. born Gebhardi, was I
carefree youth livi.ng in the shadow
of Notre Dame church at Sibley andOlregon streets when his father was
5 311'].
A relative ribbed the young
man up and told him the names of
at least six men responsible for the
murder of his father, the story goes.
l When this relative had stirred in
the young man a passionate desire
"for revenge; he had launched Mc-1
lGurn on his career. Within the
next year. according to underworld
gossip. McGurn had killed everyLone of the Sicilians "fingered" in
the death of his father.as Chicago's_ biggest gang leader-
Once under the wing ot the t'isinB
Capone. McGurn was made.
A close friendship developed be-
tween the two social outlaws. ind
among all his associates, Capone
trusted lvicurn to the last line.
It was McGurn, according to
competent police informers. who
first learned some years ago that
ambition had stirred within the
breasts of John Scalise. Albfli
Anselmi and Joseph Giunta. who
planned to kill Capone and seize his
organization.
McGurn informed Capone of the
plot. A few nights later McGurn
was host to Scalise. Anselrni and
Giunta at a spaghetti party in
Cicero. The next morning the bodies
oi the three were found in Ham-
. McGurn was shot once in an ettempted assassination as he stood."n a cigar store in what was the
the McCormick hotel, Ontario an
-Rush streets. This was in the days
of the intense rivalry between the92Capone mob and the north side
gang of George Bugs ! Moran,
The St. Valentine Murders.
p This rivalry was liquidated seven
years ago yesterday. when a squad
of Capone killers walked into the
garage at 2122 North Clark street
and mowed down seven Moranites
and their associates. McGurn was
reported to have been at that
party. along with Fred "Killer"!
Burke and the late Gus Winkler.
McGurn was the target tor
assassins a second time. on March
7. 1928. Machine gunners riddled
his automobile on the west side,
Ihnf ha n92':r-nnm-1 I|92"|<r':t'l'92|Fll'1
""1i/l¢'£:'iiFlIi"i~i l§ls 1iFéii§{{é i§sa been
-accused of about everything but
pickpocketing. but never served I
jail term.
He was convicted in the state
courts for gun carrying and on I
vsgrancy charge. but beat both
cases in the Illinois Supreme court.mond. 'act with the aroma;iwidow. but won a 1 .
IMcGurn was ind l
in the St. Vale_nti.n
l but the case
dropped. He esta
that he was with
the Stevens hotel
the mass killing.
His golf was go
him dare to compe
.the rst six ho185 -
;then discovered ti"; ha
.with a warrant ism ___ "- 1 _ .
Thomas A. Green in Felony court.
were following him. He blew up
and quit. He stood trial and was
convicted in the lower court.
It is a good thing he is gone."
Judge Green said today. Men of
his type have no place in the com-
munity. His case is a point in the
argument for an amendment to the
constitution to permit men with
rputations as gunmen to be
slearched on probable cause by po-
lice."
' Since the breakup of the Capone
lgang, accomplished through the in-
lcome-tax conviction of the leader,
Mi.-Gurn. along with other notorious
members ot the mob. had drifted
almost into obscurity. McGurn had
spent his time golfing and taking
icare ot a few handbooks in which
.he was interested in Cook county
.outside Chicago.Ila-nll-inn Pludrnl R III
The body was claimed at the
morgue by McGurns brother. An-
thony Gebardi_ B22 South Morgan
street. who filled out a blank con-
taining some family history at the
request of Henry Vala, a clerk in
the coroner's office. -
McGurn was born July 2. 1903.
lat La Guts. Italy. and Was brought
t-to this country as a baby by his
parents. Thomas and Josephi!
Verderams Gebardi. The dead
.noodiums profession was given asta golf professional at the MaJ'9292'00dFountry Club for seven NE-HTS Drill?to February. 1935.
lF According to the brother. MCG-L11 !
.1 carried no insurance and had no
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_ A new Chicago gang war, rumblings o
which have been heard in the underworld for
many days, broke in Chicago early today with
the assassination of Machine Gun! Jack
,McGurn. r
The dapper little golfer, reputed to have beenili
Al Capone s ulo. 1 gunman in the wildest days of ti'l§L' - Ir,
prohibition era, was shot down at the close of a
j CocaCola Night in the Avenue Recreation Par-
jors, a bowling alley on the second floor at 805 Mi!-
'waukee av. T
I Three gunmen entered the
{place about 1 a. m., shortly
a fake holdup, shot down Mc-
Gurn as he and two friends
waited to bowl.
L Strangely enough, the
murder came at the close of
the seventh anniversary of
the St. Valentines Day mas-behind McGurn, and, stagihgIIrIi~ gt +-iir. 1929 got McGurn out of
the St. Valen_tines case ant}
almost got him mm the fed-
eral penitentiary on Mann
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Louise was found about 5
o'clock in the home she oc-
Eight Lcupied with Jack It 1244 N.
Kemlworth av., Oak Park, by
* f0! Quizzing Sergt. Frank Donohue of the
coroner's office. .
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stories of jealousy for control
of the mob.
mm: Fight to
-_-. us 4-1 - ,
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Other stories were that the
hoodlums w e r e quarreling
over the distribution of what
spoils remain of the golden
days of prohibition. There
have been many threats.
Other theories dealt with
efforts of the hoodlums to re-
gain control of the night
92clubs and the wet spots in
the near North Side. It was
reported that the old guard
was challenging the rule in
that sector of Bill Connors,ward committeeman and boss
of the Forty-second Ward.
There was theposslbllity, too.
that McGum was killed in re-
venge for one of the many crlrnes
lsid to in other days of his
underworld career.
EXPECT REPRISALS.
But whatever the motive. the
police feared that the killing of
McGurn was only the rst chap-
ter in a new gang war. They ex-
'pect the friends ol McGurn, who
was 38, to strike back. and soon.
Near McGurns well-dressed.
well-groomed body l.s it lay in
a pool of blood was s. valentine.
His name was written on the en-
velope in pencil. The valentine
read:
Youve lost your fob; you've
lost your dough;
Your jewels and clrs Ind band-
some houses! '
But things could still be worse-,
you know . . .
At least you haven! lost your
trousas!" -*
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Powlirtg Alley at l2:4§ K _
As nearly as police could piece
together the scene and the action
in the recreation Darlors. this is
what happened:
McGurn and two companions
entered the place at 12:45.
They spoke to William Aloisio.
29, the proprietor, asking him
when they could get alleys I and 2
for bowling.
.-iloisie told them they wouldi Grand av., the janitor, was taking
a nap.
iiicdium had entered when the
ldoor was flung open and threeA men entered.
One shouted:
This is a ltlekup . . . stay
- where youre at!"
have to wait about fifteen min- h0Qt1ng_
utes because the alleys were then
in use.
Thne are five pool tables near
the door and about twenty feet
north are four alleys for bowling.
iv.icGurn and his two compan-
ions walked to the most distant
alleys, I and 2, and removed
their coats.
TRIO WATCHES BOWLERS.
They stood watching the men
using that aiiey, and one of the
two men with McGurn put the
three names on a bowling sheet.
Aloisio was seated near the
counter at the door. On a. bench
'I-om Mascarella, 3'7, of 2023
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DUCKS UNDER. POOL TABLE.
1} Aloisio, who had his left shoe
ii off because of an injury to his ieg.9292 scrambled for cover. He ducked
T under s pool table.
1 The twenty patrons, aside Irom
jMcGurn and his companions, dove
Funder tables and behind benches.
92 Mascareila, awakened by theishots, looked up to see one man
ibacking out ofthe doorway. H-2
was shouting:
"Everybody stay down!"
In an instant the three gunmen
were gone.I Fifteen minutes passed after
almost in-uneoiately ne oegani
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Then McGul'1'l's companions
seized tl:lebowlin: sheet on which
their names had been written and
raced each other to the door.
when the patrons and Aloisio
and Mascarella emerged from
cover they saw McGurn lying on
ll-le iloor at the head oi alley No.
1. I-le was dead.
That was enough for the pe-
trons. They took their coats and
hats and ran.
were in the place with the dead
"Machine Gun" Jack when police
arrived.
IMMACUL-ATE IN DEATH.
McGurn was on his back. a
pool of blood spreading out from
his head.
Bis clothing was as immacu-
late and costly as in the halcyon
days of the Capone mob.
His overcoat, hat and suit coat
lay on a bench. where he had
placed them.
He wore a gray vest and trous-
ers. gray spats. black shoes, white
shirt and red checkered e.
His red suspenders had gold
c'asps. set with red stones. and
he wore a gold tie chain.
53.85 IN HIS POCKETS.
In his pockets were $3.85. hall.-n up-nnvnn-n A Quin urn anll package ul 92.l55l ct, I-n0 h3.I'i=kerchiefs, some memoranda. and
I. wallet containing an automobile
license issued to William Bel-
monte, 5541 W. Harrison st.
The memorandl. in the wallet
took police to several addresses.
At the ieet oi the body weretwo .45 automatic shells. A third
was near the door. .
Fifteen feet lrom the deed Ml:-I
Gum were two bullet holes in the
oor. There was another hole
above the door. indicating this'
shot had been fired es the as-l
sassins were leaving.
.lHEY "KNOW NOTHING." ;
Aloisio claimed to know lllllei
about the shooting. Mascarelle
said he didn't know anything
l either. .
Neither had seen McGurn be-
fore. Neither knew the two men
with him. 1l Was McGurn killed by the three
I stickup" men or did McGurn'si companions do the job? l
. Aloisio and Mascarella said they 1
didn't know. They hadn't any.
idea. They didn't know where the.
valentine came from.
They didn't know anything abort
five other valentines found on the
cigar case near the entrance. i .ll
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Ehsly One of Killers_
Qne of these had n tom to
bits. The pieces were put togeth-
er to compose the name, "William
Degrazio." Degrazio. police learned.
i a guard at the Bridewell. A
squad was sent out for him.
The others were addressed to
"Skippy." Jim Lyne." Nick de
John. and "Doe Pecaro."
Police were attempting to iden-
tify these men on the theory they
may know who was in the place
at the time of the shooting and
perhaps who McGurns compan-
ions were.
DESCRIBE ONE MAN.
Aloisio and Mascarella fur-
nished only one description. They
said one of the three stickuD"
men was about 30 years old. 5
feet tail and weighing 180 pounds.
He was dark complexioned and
woredark clothing and no hat.
He was the one who backed out
last. shouting:
"Ever.vbod.v stay down!
BELMONT]; FOUND.
Checking up on the automobile
license. Lieut. Richard Barry
went to the Harrison st. ad-
dress and found Belmonte, a
tailor. with his uncle. Tony Lam-
bert. 39. of 1334 W. Van Buren st.
Belmonte. who is 38, admitted
letting McGurn use his name in
purchasimz a car. He had become
dlrqiminted with the gangster
fhrourlh rnal-zine rlothing for him.
'lf'AKEl92' FOR GRILLING.
Belmont» and Lambert warr-
lirougllt to the st-at-ion to be ques-nbi -A I... n a ll -as 92|..||-- llncu U uim suiu.-a auuuzumwho was in charm or the investl- ll
iation.
One or the squads arriving atthe murder scene picked up three
m_en who were entering a restau-lrant below the recreation parlors.
They were A1oisios brother,
rsam. 21, oi 1141 W. Huron at.;.
John Ba-ttazlia, 23, of 1154 W.
Ohio st... and Charles Alazowka.
:2. of ans N. Curtis st. l
They were locked up at Racine r
av. station to oe interrogated by
Capt. Mullen, Deputy Chief of
Detectives Storms. and Chief Dep-
uty Coroner Victor Schlaeger.
WOMAN ALSO QUIZZED. 1
Also questioned was Aloisios
wife, Jacqueline. of 2020 Pierce
st. She said her husband had
never mentioned Metium.l On a piece of envelope in Mc-
;Gums pocket was a telephoneiinumber, Delaware 3943, and the;
name "Henny." The number was I
traced to the Wesiminister Hotel,
1219 N. Clark st.
Police could find no one at the!
hotel by that name.
i In one ot McGum'e pockets two
tickets to the prize fight lastnight at the Chicago Stadium
were found. They were unused.
Capt. Mullen reaarded this a
an indication that Machine Gun"
Jack had been summoned to keep
an important engagement and
that the two men with him took;
1-urn to the recreation parlors to
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ILFS.t VERSL-EFT. SAYS LOUISE. 3r $031 . the blond Louise told Se l
nohue that Jack has missed
I-{he gh because he had over-_
slept. J : _ Thursday night JBCR had 8'07-9
tn the wake oi e friend she knew;
i I35 "Ngtkl" Louise Flld, anl1__did
inht get home until Friday morn-
gins.
' He sir-pi uniil almost 10 19- If
lsi night and then left home._.__.__A_-.i- -u-* '
Ting alley to investigate the shoot;
1,1111-%, cepz. Mullen ma he believed."either McGurn': companions 11$
the three "stickup men" had use
it to make their getaway. Mc-
;Gurn did not have the car key:
on his Demon.
ALOISIO HA -RECORD.
~ Alotsio told Capt. Mullen he
had operated the recreation place
1 only since October. Before that
he booked horses and operated
gambling houses. He has a police
lrecord of several arrests, but has
never been convicted.
Despite his story that he had .» . . 3iellpialnlll that he was somg t never seen McGum before last
]r'_o some bowling.
L MCGUTB left in his automobile.night and d1dnt know him, po-
-lice believe the dapper gangster
had been there before.-H 1936 Ftrd 11¢ IHXE COUPE» illicli. Another point in his story which-T _.____ .__ _ _ _
had been registered under Be".xrionts-s name. [
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. The ca-r could not be Inuiqd
when police arrived at the bowl.the investigators doubted was that
McGurn had been shot from long
range.
Since both bullets struck him
in vital spots in the head and
neck. they believe the assassins
were much closer. However, there
were no powder burns.
Capt, Mullen ordered e. thor-
nugh search ior patrons who Iledi
from the recreation parlor. He
wanted them produced i.n time
,!or the inquest et the county
morgue today._.,»-7
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1Lived as Gentleman, ,
1 Even Among Wealthyl
j man; but he lived like one.
Q And Louise Rolfe. one or the;
first of the eangsterie molls, con-
ducted herseli very much as el
3 lady.
j Born Vincent Gebardi. he took
the Irish monicker of Jack Mc-
Gurn when he embarked on a
short career as a lightweight pu-
n gilist. .
But by the time Mcurn had
Iswitched to machine guns in his
business of fighting. golf had be-
come his favorite sport.
GOOD GOLF PLAYER.
1 And he was e. good lolier. He
toasted that he shot around I8.
Louise's usual score was about 96.
and on the golf links they were
'a pair as could be seen.
.mired-the iorm of Louise as shel
jpleyeci on the fairway and tire
F green.
L-07as attractive and as fashionable
Many e golfer filled up a four-
some at the Evergreen public
course without knowin: the mild-.
mannered. trim stranier in the
party was McGurn. And many *1.
player. on Lincoln Park course ad- 1
In Florida on the beaches in
the Winter they cut as neat a.
figure as the New York million-~
aires with whom they rubbedshoulders. 1
A frequenter of Chicago hotels:
and night clubs, McGurn, always
immaculately but not iiashily
dressed. looked the part oi a pros;
porous business man guest. F
How well he fit into the picturi-
was shown by the iact that heIJ92'£d in the Stevens for two weeks
following the St. Valentine's mas-.I92
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sacre. during most of which time
all Chicago policemen were eup-
posed _to be hunting hi|n.__
ACQUIRED FINE I-101$.
In the heyday ol their luoceee.
they acquired I line home ht 1114
N. Kenilworth av, in the exclu-
sive north end oi Oak Perk.
In the depression of post-pro-
hibition that home was lost. but
the McGurns were living in I
modest home I few blocks ewmv
when Louise got word there that
her husband had been killed.
In recent months McGurn had
sunk many points in the under-
world scale end the one-time
Public Enemy No. 5 was reported
to be the proprietor oi e Mlywoodq
bookmaking establishment that
would take bets ls low as 50 cents.
But even that emporium was
properly housed. The buildings
was o closed bank building.r
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ll ' r n . , .Blond Alibi E§escr|bes§w*d°w FUHY Dressed
]acks Last Hours ind lg when POHCE
Their Home. . A"i"e-
Attractive Loui se Gebardt. c°nm '°d mm nu an
-=b1<m¢ moi" or Vincent Gebardi. -covered by a sheet. His black hair
In" ..Macmm Gun hcku MC- was ruffled. There was 1 smudge
his I h d d blood his Gum, lowered a tear-stained ?:ce_ we ea m on
Vhidktrchjf from her eyes iii For justamoment pretty LouiseW C° " ' Mmgu may to pm °{~§' .§ gr ?anr§d§§£§:r'he<r tel"F 1"" husband. may. F icarryeher blali to the anteroom. _There were M 11"" me";-. He offered her water, but she111st l.sob; d '5 rsaidzl d t t » h 1 " on wan any. Poor J13} Th ' on n Earlier. weepinz soltlv at the"3 5°: ' th gunre widow Racine st. police station, whereNear co BPS!» ¢ she was questioned by Sergt. Don-
wgked rose the Yard supporikd ohue, Capt. Martin Mullen. De-
by 331-gt Frank Donohue of the tective Lieut. Richard Barry., ' . hi h heels Sergt. Kyran Thelan and Patrol-'°°"° " 5 °m°" Her E - men Richard P. Broehl. she hadclicked 5011356 the n°°r M me asked repeatedly for water and
anteroorn where were Attendant for aspirin. - N
Justine Krutkewicz and Dr. Jerry: WANTS DRINK EN ROUTE. l
Kearne. coroner: phy&iciln- l On the way to the station with
-I-hey wok her-her black Sergt. Donahue, her escort on her
in b wn first day of wldowhood, she haddraped d1'°5 wnpped . To ven requested him to stop at at a veil over her eyes ih . . .frgia cf:-Isa hit on her heme solme station for a drink ofv.'at.er.5-E-geslgif t:': ?_cg:1%b § 5or°:n¬eI But that was ail over at the Machine Gun Jack's bullet-to'.n
body. There was nothing now. S to
didn't want anything. Not ev
s class of water.
That was Louise Gebardi. in
-her happier cm the sensational
witness for the derense or Ma-
chine Gun Jack" when the heat
was on him for the infamous St.
Valentine: Day massacre. Perpe-
trated exactly seven years before
Jack himself was massacred.
GAVE JACK AN ALIBI.
She testified then that she was
with Jack at the time the seven
were slain in the N. Clark st. ga-
rage. He "beat the rap."
Later they were arrested to-
gether in the Stevens Hotel and
convicted under the Mann act,but the United states Supreme
Court reversed the conviction.
Alibis today were needless. And.
perhaps. it was just as well tor
Louise that they were. She in-
sisted she knew of no reason for
Jack's asassinstion. that she
didn't even know what he did for
hours before his death.
STORY 01" LAST HOURS.
Here, according to the police
record. ts her story oi those hours.
QWhen did you last see your
husband? A-~Between ll and
11:30 p. m. February H. 1936.
QWhere did he say he We3* A Sm: ' jimlfrglle. She had answered theLlM§Eh£IE-G1£lAck_: low q estlons of the Jan. She had seen
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hgoing? A-1-Ie said he was gems
bowlinl.
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Q-Do you know where hehowled? A-No.} Q-Was any one with him when
. e leit the house? A--No.
- Q--01 your own knowledge do
ou know if he had any trouble
with any one lately? ANo. _
j'10LD HY REPORTER-
QDo you know he was shot
and killed last evening. AYes.
i A reporter came to my house snd
told me.
Earlier Louise had told Serzt.
Donohue of a mystery phone call
telling her something had hap-
pened."
Q.-Do you know of any res-
ison why he should have been
killed? ANo.
QDo you lmow it he belonged
to any secret or labor organiza-
ttions? A-None.
1 QHe.s he be
lately? A-No.
. QI-low did he leave home last
nisht? A-He left in his own
Ford coupe.
* Louise was taken to the station
for questioning by Sergt Donohue.
SWAYS IN WALK T0 CAR.
1 Down the red tile path from
..he sumptuous yellow brick house
-.|r 1224 N. Kcnilworih av. in one
1'-if Oak Perkin most exclusive resi-
itfoniiai districts she swayed un-
sieeriily on his arm.
She subbed:An-_ . _ _
"Take he to him! Take ma
u him!
When Beret. Donohue ran: her
doorbell early today she answered
"after a delay. she was fullyidr.eIssed. sobbing but not lwster-Jwe .
i Beret. Donahue asked: 11 Do you kn-ow about Jack?
She said:
-om: my out How mi is!
hrs _
Well, he: gone.
And Louise threw on her fur
coat. a jaunt: black hat and
walked down the path with Sex-ft.
Donahue. p
rests or mom: csu. l
i She told of the phone call as
they drove to the station. butdid not mention it during the oi-i
iioiol questioning. Shortly alter
the shooting. she said. s voice i:-oldiher over the phone; .
Something has happened to- Jack!"
But she insisted that was ail.
Ironically. she revealed. Jack
had gone to a wake Thursday
night. Yesterday morning he had
gone to the funeral which fol-_ -n__-_ ~ _ Tr" r" * "' ' 7 ' I _ _ _ 7 ----*' '' * "
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time Louise saw him alive. 1
She llid she didn't know whet
Jack had been doing for s living
lateLv. but she thou:ht- r;
"lleewnedapieoealaboahat Melrose Perk. » '
when Beret. Donahue and re-
porters approached McGurns
home it was evident that bad news
had arr?-%' first.
NIGHT LAMP BURNILG.
1 Through a window they could
see the master bedroom on the
first oor. A night lump burned
dimly between Louis XVI twin
beds of sspen wood. But the beds E
were deserted. i
They peered through another;
window into s living room, car-:
peted in dark. coffee color like the
bedroom. It, too, was lighted by
s dim lamp. But the lamp threw
its rays on upholstered furniture
which was vacant. I
i Two bedrooms on the second
floor also were empty. It is be-
lieved one was used by McGurn's|
14-year-old daughter, a dark-eyed.;
auburn-haired beauty. But it it
was. the 'de.ug'hter hsd own. -
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.'.ll2 N.Ke1Iilworth av. =1 few years
fprlier. -JComparat1'vely hard times drove
ck and Louise. the pretty, typi~
call? North Bide girl. who left an
Addison st. home and a Lake View
High School education to join the
life of the underworld-from the
house at 1112 more than three
years ago.
He returned to the less bre-
tentious house at 122-1. Some of
the neighbors objected, but police
said Jack could not be evicted un-
less he ran afoul of the law again.
Instead he ran afoul of the ene-
mies of the law.
ALMOST BROKE, SHE SAYS.
Today, as she was led from the
morgue to the states attorney's
office, she said:
"We were practically broke.
Frorri the state's attorneys of-
fice she was returned to the
morgue for the inquest at 11 a.m.
Her tears by then had smeared
the thick mascara over her face.
She would say little to reporters.
but when she was asked:
"Was he good to you?
4 She answered:
"Oh, he was wontlc-rful . . -
always an nine.
l92'A92'ES CAMERAS Al'92A1'.
* Newspaper phoiogarphers sheimotioned awe; with her hand. on
which was a platinum wedciiiilg
ring. her only Jewelry. and in
which she carried a black our-any
with the initials "L. G."
She Dleaded "
"Boss. lllease don.
To the questioning oi Assistant
State's Attorney Hal Couzhian,
too. she insisted that she knew
little of her husband: business
operations and that his death
had been entirely unexpected.
Coughlan asked her: _
Q--What has your husband
been doing for a living lately?
A-I don't know.
N0! MAKING MUCH.
Q-How has he been making
money? AHe hasn't been mak-
ing much, but he always seemed
to have some when he needed it.
No. I dont know where he lot it.
Q-Who has he been hanging
around with? Who are his asso-
ciates? A-I don't know. He new
er told me much about those
thins.
Q-Who would want to kill
him? Who would profit by his
death? A-I haven't any idea. I
thought that.sort of thing I-gs
all past and eonb.
QI-ias he been threatened
lately? A-I don't know. O11.
please don't ask me so man! COIN
tions. .
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The St. Valentine: massacre
that disgraced Chicago and made
Machine Gun Jack McGurn a
mmmaiiy known desperado oc-
icurred February 14. 1920. in a
"* {ga.rageat2122 N. Clarkst.
1 Seven members oi the "Buss"
'MIos'ln mob. supposedly awaiting
a .-shipment of booze. were in the
garage when two men drmsed in
police uniiorms walked into the
place.
. What happened was never
imown. but appartlv the lake
_ policemen lined the men up as/"" in a raid, whereupon other mach-
ine gunners who came in the back
door shot them down as they stood
against a wall. The scene later,
the seven men lying in the blood-
spattered room. is the high spot
in the history oi prohibition law-
'lessnm in Chicago.
M_ GUB.N SHOT BEFORE,
Six or the victims were dead
when police arrived. The seventh.
[Frank Ousenberg. died within anihliur after mentioning police-
men."
i Gusenberg and his brother,
Peter. also tilled in the massacre. had been accused a year before
,in the shooting oi McGurn. Mc-
Gurn had been shot through the
lung when ambushed in his car
and had been taken supposedly
dying to Alexian Brothers Hos-
pital. _ _He rallied and lived and his
fellow Gangsters spirited him away
from the hospital while he was
still in precarious condition.
17 WANTED FOR MASSACRE.
The massacre started a furore
in Chicago. Rewards totalling
$40,000 were otiered and the po-
lice listed seventeen men as want-
ed for the killings. -
The most tangible lead came
. ; about ten days later when an
r__ e automobile was found in a burn-
-l.;i ing garage at 1723 N. Wood st.4";"* It was apparent an effort had
been made to destroy the auto-. llmobile. Police named Claude
*. . Maddox, a Capone hoodlum, as the
----~ {owner of the car.
Great excitement was occasioned
by the arrest oi McGurn February
28, two weeks alter the murder.
It was found the machine gun-IF! had been living in the Stevens
lotel with Louise Rolfe as Mr.ind Mrs. Vincent D'Oro.
BLOND ALIBI ENIEBS.U In the race oi reported D051-i
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ILive identication of McG1u'n by
two witneses, Jack insisted it
was a bum rap" and that at the
timeotthekillinghewasinthe
hotel with the lair Louise. That
was where ahe got her name. "the 1
blond alibi. i
There was much hubbub as oth-
er nhssterl were rounded up.
" nails ii-{worn and John
Scaliae were indicted for murder
and Rocco Panelli as accessory
attw the tact.
McGu.rn's lawyers. Nash and
Ahern, repeatedly pressed for trial, '
but the state kept taking continu-
ances, claiming that additional
evidence was being uncovered.
In the meantime Sc-alise was as-
sassinated in a gang killing gen-
erally laid to the Capone mob.
MGL"RN'S CASE STRICKEN. "
McGurn intimately was admit -'
ted to bail and nally. in Decem-
ber ol I929, the indictment
against him was stricken when.
for the fourth consecutive term
of court. he appeared ready Ior
trial and the state was not. No
one was ever tried ior the crime.
So ended the prosecution oi Mc- ;
Gum for the Valentine's Dag."
massacre without the "blond alibi
ever appearing in court.
Several months later came the!
prosecution or MeGurn and Lou-3
ise on federal Mann act charges.
resulting Irom their trip to Florida -
together, which dragged on for
Fears until the United States Su-
preme Court finally upset his con-
viction by Federal Judge Lincliey
which had twice been upheld by
the Court of Appeals.
AN UNSOLVED CRIME.
The massacre or N. Clark st.
intimately went down in Chicago
crime annals as an unsolved!
crime.
In the passing years there has.
been a general opinion among po- }92
lice and other investigators that 1*
McGurn was certainly not the.
leader in the plot. l
The most generally accepted.
theory is that the head man in
the execution oi the seven Moral!
gangsters was Fred "Killer"'
Burke. also a Capone alLv. who
is serving a liie sentence in Mich;
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which McGurn washter tried.
He beat the rap on the muncre
charge by producing the blondedibi who leter became hi! Wife.
She testied that she and McGum
were in e hotel south of the Loop
when the Moran men were_mur-oolnpenlonl at In e ,,|eeo_nd-oor
bowling alley wetting their turn
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where you ere!" "
McGurn ltlened. Without In-
other word, the pelt opened re.
One bullet struck McGurn just be-
hind the right ear, the other in the
lower part 0! the neck.92 Tnmpled on the oor near the
spot where he tell police found 1
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' Suspect in Chieaiio Massacre
4 SiainComio Card Left
* Near His Body
Continued !'TOm Page On;
iiand l_ Woman in their 'Lll'ldEI"w'ea1I_i
"Sold." The doggerel verse 1-eggimd
P some houses; ;-_ B : mms could still be worse,
U011. know, ;. "At 1995 11°?-i M1'Bn't lost Hour;
trousers.
a William Aloisio,bo -'1i"S Bile!. said hevtroas 1:59 P001 table when the gunmen cgmeL1; HE ducked under it when they1 San shooting,
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when their baa left ll.?92:i-finigie Isa-W MCGurn's 'iwi.m§i'.i-if|.-- ----- -.. .eisurely straighten mi,!McGurns body, Then they walked}tover t° the b°W1m3 score sheeti°° ° the Page on which their!
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L out.Alosio told the police he iii kdntknow who the men were, ,-
But pOl1CE| found another Crum-
illled Valentine on the oor ad-idressed to Willie De Grazia " The
Valentine had been torn u' Plice sought to learn whetger 1;Grazia might have been one oi
;'M¥..l:urri's companions.fee men whwhet the P0liCe a i'rFi?:<igh92i'e;: til?
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i. °.Jamt°1_'- T0113 Moscarello. TheJanitor d |-| sai e was 1ith'|!1'!'mUtTng started, _f_?_E.-E"-ii- '". You ! Itiiiiyou 'ob ' -- your dough; J . 1/ouve lost, Standing in tront of a house m f
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two unused tickets tor a prize ght
Eat the Chicago Stadium last night. .
He had no gun.
- There was also an auto license in
'-the name of William Belmonte of
Chicago and a bill of sale showing
he purchased the car last Decem-5
ber 24. 'Police hurried to the gangsters
home alter the slaying.
Mrs. li.-!cC-urn, partly dressed,when she answered the door, had.been sobbing. they said. Some onealready had told her of the shooting.:'_
She said McGurn had been at_'-
tended a funeral yesterday morning. .u He had no life insurance and noj"
- bank account. She declared she-ii home most oi the day, but had nt- -,.
§{ was penniless and that the only
money they had to their names was _i the $3.85 found in McGurns pockets.
Slayer Described
r- A police description or one oi th _
1 slayers said the man was about
1-twenty-ve. live feet tall
~-iweighed aoout 180 pounds.B
and
at Police knew ot no motive for thei crime. They had lost track ot Mc-
iGurn during the past two years.
Belmonte. in whose name
said he had permitted theMc-
Gurn's automobile was registered,
slain
igangster to use his name in buying
i license plates because McGurn told
i him he cou1dnt get them in his own
i: .McGurn's real name was Vincentname.
lGebhardi. Once a big-time gam-
ibler and alky runner for Capone,~he had [alien 'to operation
small gambling resort.ota
i He was arrested on a vagrancy
warrant as he teed off at Olympicirieias, August 21, 1933, where heihad entered the Western open tour-
nament under his read name.
l, With him at the time, was Louise
ERolte, the blonde alibi. whom he
Lmarried after divorcing his rst
i wife.
McGurn was thirty-three. Always
dapper, he had not given up his
tfiair for fancy clothes. When he
was killed, he was wearing an ex-
pensive gray suit. a bright red tie.
red suspenders, and a ne
shirt.linen
. Police said they last heard of Mc-
Gurn on July 15, 1935, when he was
{operating a gambling house in Mel-
rose Park. Bets on horse racing.
-as low as 51" cents, were taken by
lvicG'urn himself, a sharp conic-down.
from his aluence in prohibition
days
In 1931 McGurn d as
PUbli 0. 5 by the Chicago
Crime Commission.
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"1 am getting too prominent for$~o1.a-is go0d. 92A1 Capone, Dec. 16, :
"1 am not in any rackets; I
In an honest real estate dealer.
I wish the newspapers would lent-e
ms alone."--Al Capone, Jan. 24, 1921.
EHOLD Alphonse.Capone at
the height ol his arrogant
power; any time between
late 1926 and mid-May of
iir.A gross man. tat, with thick lipti
l d I scar on one cheek. A pow;
erful rnsn. immune to the penaitie£_
01 tha law that applied to lessen
mortals.
Vi-hen he went abroad it was in
In armored car that weighed seven
tons. Picture this strong man in his
fortresses-the Hawthorne hotel in
Cicero, with the metal shutters im-
pervious to bullets; the Metropole
or the Lexington hotel in Chicago.
where he and his followers held
whole oors at a time; or on his
seaside estate outside Miami.
No policemen ever raided these
places. They knew that raids would
be futile gestures. The courts would
1-use I-unlrl Ainhnncn Pnnnhb In :0-..... ..-.... .,,.......... e..,-..- ... ..-
count.
Picture Capone the politician,
shaking hands with judges, call-
'ing assistant state's attorneys hisif:-lends, telling representatives To
ithe stale capitol and aidermc_1
lin the city council whom he heilset in their places! how he wanttrti
them to vote.Americas Public Enemy No. 1, the
symbol of all the crime the prohibi-
tion era produced; oi a man above
the law; a man who feared nothinir
jg nan! nuhlitluv U-cn»=y-. l. .,.....v,|- .
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The Capone power had ripened in
obscurity. -
Already it has been related how
he came to be the partner ot John
Torrio in a business which in 1924
controled bootlegglng on the south
side, owned a chain of brothels in
a crescent of west and southwest
suburbs. and operated dozens 0!
gambling hells.
Early in 1924 in front of his home
at 7104 Clyde avenue a spray of
bullets was directed at Torrio. One
leaden pellet passed through his
lower jaw. It shattered his courage
as well as the jawbone. When he
recovered he wanted no more of thqfame. He retired and his mantle
ell upon Capone. '_-£That rising young executive aist'as the target of the men who
eliminated Torrlo. They poured a
withering rain ot bullets upon his
automobile as it stood in the street.
and Capone escaped only because
fortune had decreed that he should
be at the moment in a restaurant
nearby. Promptly he bought the
bulletproof car and strengthened
his iorce of guards.
He obtained the absolute loyalty
of those guards by making it more
protable for them to be his rnen
than to be anybody else's. The sai-
ar;-"was 51% u week. Also Capone
clothed them. led them. and gave
parties for their amusement. He
asserted that it cost him $3,500 a
week for his personal protection.
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In 1924 the Torrio-Capone organi-
zation dominated only the south"
lside and the suburbs it had taken
lover. North side bootlegging was
in the hands of a gang oi! tough
iirnen headed by George Bugs?
Moran and Dean OBanion. On the
fiiié.-To " 2?"ii i .1, , _ , -__ -r.»-sqn---was-a. '
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west side was another gang. of
@lci1lan origin. headed by the six
Gonna brothers. f92- These Gennas were iniportant
gteople. They invented a new tech;
nlqus in the manutactura or sieg-
hoi. They put it in the home.
Hundreds or their iellow country-
men. each in his own little house,
cooked alky. The Genna organiza-
tion collected each cookers output
Baily and paid cash for the work.
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E-fcepona in a bathing suit in Flori
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_ blind through which the materials
or making mash could be punf ssed. . . - -- -- --
The pay we nd this over and
ver in tracing the history ot the
prohibition era! was good. A better
grade cooker could earn SN to Sill!
a week.
The preductionfend outgrew the
sales end of the Senna Q|'llE.Ip_ri-SQ.
Its leaders sold some of the product
to Capone and Torrie, but not
enough. Hence they came to covet
the territory of Moran and OBan-
lon, which overlapped theirs in
spots. .
A precarious peace had been
maintained, however, through the
ettorts of Mike Merlo, head of the
Unlone Sicillano. Merle was no
bootlegger or gangster; he was the
paternal arbiter of all the actions
oi his countrymen on the near
north side. He had decreed that
there should be no Warfare between
the Gennas and their rival bootleg-
gers. '
In mid-November of 1924 Mike
Merio died. A magnificent funeral,
with a statue of him worked in
owers to ride on a oat behind the
herse, was arranged.
It was always a pleasant ction
of the gang leaders that each had
a legitimate business. 0'Banion, a
orid, roundfaced little fellow who
walked with a limp, was a orist
ind had a shop at 738 North State
Qtreet, opposite the entrance to the
Holy Name cathedral. The Merlo
funeral meant much business there.
O'Banion, who was not above
making an honest dollar, was in
that shop on Nov. 19 when three
men of dark complexion entered. He
dropped his rose trimming and went
forward to meet the delegation.
"Hello, boys," he said, extending
his right hand to the man in the
center. " You from Mike Merlo's?"
"Yes," replied the man, seizing
the hand in both Of his.
While he held it in a viselike grip
one of the other strangers deliber-
ately red six bullets into the body
of O'Banion. He tell dead in a
bower of owers. The killers went
away.
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The O'Banion killing and its att-
errnath gave the rst inkling, to the
general public, ot the power that
the gangs had achieved in darkness.
The funeral of the bootlegger orist
was one of the most magnicent
ever held in the City. The coin
reputedly cost $15,000.
But O'Banion did not go un-
nvenged. His associates were quite
tough enough to handle the Glennas.
It was only a little while' until
three ot the brothersA'lony, Mike,
and Angelo--were slain. The others
followed Torrie into obscurity.
Into their territory. without much
trouble, stepped Capone, I-its genius_ -a -
- -.1 as-nz.r.la? moms-..-as r beyond
till! 0! the Gennas. H0 Bltlbulhe.
big dlstllleries that could turn out
thousands .o£ gallons -02 -laleohnl
daily. It was Impossible. oi course.
to-keep these hidden lndetinltly. but
arithmetic showed that one which
stayed at work six weeks paid tor
ilselt and thereafter returned a
handsome prot. Raids, then, were
only annoying, not damaging to a
great extent.
I-le established breweries and
made working agreements with the
brewmakers already supplying the
trade. I-le strengthened his sales or-
ganization and gave it twin objec-
tives; to deliver the goods and to
see that rival wholesalers stayed
away trom the saloons.
Also, Capone litted the art of pro-
tection to new heights. It became
understood just how much tribute
a truckload of beer or a ve gallon
can oi alcohol should pay the po-
licemen and the politicians. Some-
times the police looked the other
way; sometimes they conveyed the
delivery trucks to destination.
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The rules of the game prescribed
that the driver must follow his
specied route. It he tailed a po-
liceman not already taken care
of" would arrest him and take him
to a station. Once it had reached
that point and the capture had been
reported in the newspapers, no one
would dare turn the truck and its
cargo back.
Capone had able xers. One was
Joe Fusco, who had in the old days
outrsnlced Capone in the Torrio or-
ganization. Another was Dennis
Cooney, who acquired and still en-
joys e tortune estimated in the mil-
lions, which he gathered in the con-
duct ct houses ot prostitution. He
had the ear of the higher ups oi
politics.
Also, Capone had able allies out-
side the Chicago area. There was
always a market here tor better
beverages than the home bathtub
crews and the six-weeks stills could
turn out. Through Frank Uale, a
Brooklyn gangster, Capone was able
to bring in cargoes oi imported
Scotch for the limousine trade.
In another way the Uale alliance
was valuable. He and Capone could.
at need. exchange crews or gunmen
to handle each other: enforcement
work. Obviously, it was an advan-
tage to have killings done by men
who would not be recognized away
from their home towns.
Killers, guards, business men, x-
ers. allies, political friends, huge
revenuesall these Capone had in
plenty before the summer ot 1925
ended. I-Ie had gathered them with
a minimum of personal publicity.
Still left to oppose him and his
schemes was the north side gang,
headed by Earl Hyrnle! Weiss
and George B-inn. Itsmembers were iiidlvidtialistsii ah?consequently their setup diner:
from that ct Capone. They I-I'll.
had an triba1..l1nas.._Thsy mist»gather for a battle. but it was dix
cult to hold the1n~toget.he'r for
campaign, Capone was organized
for the long pull. His men were as
solidly combined as a burocracy and
could be trusted to carry on over a
period of months, or even years.
'A desperate attempt to kill Ca-
pone was attrlbuted to the cockiness
ot the north siders. He was at-
tacked Sept. Z!, 1926, In his retreat
at the Hawthorne hotel this was
before the metal shutters were put
up!.
Eight carloads of gunmen drove
slowly past this hotel. 'Ihe rst one
let go a random blast of re in the
street._ The supposition was that
Capone and his men would hasten
to the windows to see what was
going on. and that the volleys from
the succeeding cars would wipe
them out.
'I'he tactics were carried out ex-
actly. Into the rst oor of the
hotel more than a thousand bullets
were poured. Yet no Capone gang-
ster was scratched. That was be-
cause Capone thought fast and gave
a warning when the rst shots wereMn-val
" Down to the door. everybody!"
he cried. -1
The bullets zipped through the
windows, but the masonry saved the
men on the oor. When it was all
over Capone arose from his prone
position.
"'I'hai.'s the last we'll take from
that mob," he announced.
On Oct. 5 a young man who said
his name was Oscar Lundin rented
a room at .1419 North State street,
Next door was the old 0'Banlon
place, still a ower shop and still
the headquarters oi the north aide
mob. On the same day a young
woman rented a room in the rear oi
6 West Superior street. It over-
looked the rear oi the orist shop,
ll "16 YOI-I118 man's overlooked the
front.
In each oi! these rooms three men
planted themselves. From behind
the curtains they watched the move-
menls oi Moran, Weiss, and their
cohorts. As they watched they n.
gered their sub-machine guns. Their
orders were to make sure of their
quarryand they did not tall.
On Oct. 11 a car belonging to
Weiss halted in front oi the shop.
In it were W. W. O'Brien, well
known as a criminal lawyer; Ben-
jamin Jacobs, a 20th ward politi-
cian; Patrick Murray, a beer ped-
dler; Weiss, and his chauffer, SamPeller. _As they were getting out of lhF
car there was a burst oi machini-
gun re from the window next dong.
Weiss, struck ten times, died in-
stantly. Murray also was slain on
the spot. The others were seriously
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u- ee men in the room at T60 NorthS|Ete street had ed.four place Inter _Al flnngrgg ggllgtj - ' " '¥-ii" " ."'l' --.Cfiet of Police Morgan Collins.
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Capone killed Weiss. he stated. I
did not. I am lorry he; dead. When
he was shot I was out of town. But
if you want me to come in tor ques-
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Chief Collins told him not to
come. " What wal the use! " he
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In April, 1927. Assistant State's
Attorney William MeSwiggin, youth-
ful son of a policeman and a prod-
uct ot the west side. where he be-
came acquainted with many of the
youngsters who later were impor-
tant cogs in the gangland machines.
was slain in Cicero. With him died
two gangsters who had OPPOSEI3
Capone rule.
There were unolcial assertions
that Capone had ordered the triple
murder. These at length reached
his ears.
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f Billy Mcswiggin was my goodtiiend. I am sorry he is dt'al'1- Ami
was in Florida when he washumped off."
The police. again, did not question
Capone. lvhat was the Ilse?
In May of that year Commander
Francesco de Pinedo, Premier Mus-
solini's around the world fl.92'El- 59¢
his Marchetti hydroplane down in
the lake off Grant Park. On a mil-
llonairee yacht; was a reception
mmmiitee, With judges and other
officials stood Al C&D01'1e-
He was now quite denitly the
rst of the public enemies. A re-
porter wanted to know why he had
been invited to welcome the distin-
guished visitor.
It's this way," was the reply-
We heard that there might be H11
anti-Fascist demonstration. If H113/'-
thing like that was planned,.CaP°"°
would be more effective in squelch-
lng it than a hundred policemen."
Such appearances were ill-advised.
In general, Capone realized this,
and while he was often seen in pub-
lic gatheringsparticularly prize
ghts and basebail gnmeshe never
again took part In a public {unc-
lion.
He would have preferred the
darkness. B1-It he had iIl'0WT1 3°
great that be could no ionizer re-
nrlain out of print. And he had felt
llie lash of publicity as early as De-
cllmber. 1926, two months alter the
I ll,-eiss killing.. Wei ndgI{-Befo- i-epcrsawaemas" ls" T___ M ueau -31--amend" imi-
ldentiiy or :uarar|'tee"hir'prlvacy.
Attempts were made to interview
him in the hotel. These were unsuc-
cesstul, but the news that so no-
torious a person was in their midst
caused the Californians to cry loud-
ly tor his ousting, The perspiring
management of the hotel, hearing
this public clamor, at length re-
quested that Capone surrender his
accommodations.
This so irritated the Big Fellow
this was the name his henchmen
used in referring to him! that he
really did grant an interview.
I wouldn't stay in any town that
dldn't~want me," he declared. " I'll
go back to my own city. And 1n92
going because I want to go. The
hotel dldn't ask me to leave, either,"
Returning to Chicago. he made
the experiment 01 organizing him-
self into a minister 0! propaganda.
He attempted, rather clumsily, to
give the news about Capone a fa-
vorable twist.
With his omnipresent guards care-
fully concealed, he received a re-
porter in the hallway oi his nomi-
nal home at 72-14 Prairie avenue.
He was a strange appearing Capone.
Over his underv.'ea.r he wore a long
pink apron. He had on carpet slip-
pers and he held. in'one diamonded
hand, a pan of spaghetti richly
drowned in sauce.
Come in and have a little oi this
Swnnhet I cooked myself." he urged.
Let's quit talking about bootleg-
ging and such things. Positively I
have retired. I am a plain business
man, and all I ask is that the news-
papers let me alone."
It was not a convincing picture
and the reporter wrote it for what it
was, a half comic interlude intended
to deceive.
Vfhen he rst went to Miami, with
a huge roll of thousand dollar bills
in his pockets, there was a storm of
criticism. For a time it appeared
that his fortune was so tainted that
he wouldnt be allowed to spend it.
Hardened now in such matters, the
Bil; Fellow called on the chief of
police.
"Let's lay the cards on the table,"
he said. I am here to enjoy my-
self. I am not a criminal and I have
never been in jail for anything,
Against me there is nothing but gos-
sip. Does Miami want me as a vis.
ilor who'll mind his on-n business
and spend his money, or do I have
to appeal to the courts for my con-
stitutional rights." ,
The authorities withhold their de-
rision for a little while. Then they
said there was no law that could
keep him out. Further. which they
didn't mention, the real estate mar-
ket was not exactly booming. andwalled eitate on Palm Island. It
came a center for gay parties, a d
the Big Fellow: parties out-Ibo e
those oi many a winter colonial Fancient wealth a'¥rd'h'igh social pt:
altlon. He kept his pledge to let
Florida alone and the only com-
plaint about hll manage was that
it looked runny to have armed un-
tinels on guard around the house.
PINK
Thus we nd Capone nearing the
height of his power. Bootlegging.
brothels, gambling paid their trib-
utes on a scale something more
than county-wide-and the county
held more than four million per-
sons. Local governments could not
touch him.
Enough, it would seem, for any
man. He had, and spent, a million
a year. Yet lt was not enough for
Capone. Like a good many others,
he dreamed ot dominating Chicago's
labor organizations with strong arm
methods.
His rst chance to break into that
eld came almost by accident. Mor-
ris Becker, who conducted several
dry cleaning establishments, began
having trouble with rivals and with
employes. There was a rumor that
he had formed a partnership with
Capone, and Becked conrmed it;
That's right," he said, "I don't
need the police to help any rnore.' Ilzave the best protection in the
world now."
Bl this time the Capone methods
and resources were too well known
for any one to doubt that he would
soon try to dominate unions.
George Red! Barker. an ex-con-
vlct, and Murray Humphreys set out
on the work. With unerring instinct
Capone ordered them to attack the
teamsters and chauffeurs organiza-
tions. They got results. How Barker
seized the coal teamstei-s union was
told later by an olcial he ousted.
"Lefty Flynn was our chiet in
1928." said this informant. " Like
me, he had come up from the ranks.
1-le knew the game and was useful
to the union. But he was not a gun-
man and he was 60 years old.
Barker set out on a systematic
course of terrorism.
"First he tried to kidnap Flynn:
children. That failed. Flynn took
his family to a summer home in
Vi-isconsin. Barker followed him
there and shot him. It you ever
come back to Chicago you'll be
killed, he told the wounded man,
and so will your whole family."Barker appeared at the nob
union meeting with a bunch of tql-
lows carrying shotguns. 92'92'I1e;cdoes the business agent sit? he 1-
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cluding the American Federation of
Labor, battled againt the gangs,
but the latter, with the potent name
of Capone to fail beck on, contin-
ued to progress in their campaign
even up to 1932.
Only a crystallized public senti-
ment, it now became certain, would
be able to halt the march of Ca-
one to a dictatorship so wide and
o strong that few businesses in Chi-
ago would be able to refuse any
emands he might make.
_ That sentiment was being formed.
America, the whole world, now saw
Capone for what he was. a criminal,
big only as he was evil. Good peo-
ple everywhere recognized him as
the symbol of all the raw lawless-
ness that went to make up the pro-
hibition era.
Capone did not understand. He
went ahead. He played desperately.
He scattered money. In two yeaxishe bet. and lost, two million dal-
,la_rs on race horses. He gave magi.
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seven men allied with the north side
gang headed by George Ivioran. Stiil
belligerent, still unafraid oi Caponhl
that gang continued to serve its ter-
ritory with liquor. The seven had
gathered to receive a truckload of
imported stuff that had been offered
to lvloran by a supposed friend.
At 10:30 a. m. an automobile with
drawn curtains was halted at the
curb near the garage. Five men
stepped from it. Three wore police
uniforms and two were in civilian
clothing. The unitorrned L-to. with
pistols drawn, walked into the ga-
rage.They collected the weapons of the
seven, who made no resistance, hav-
ing accepted the statement: "We're
police ocers. All were lined up
facing a wall, with their backs to
the door of the garage. Their hands
were in the air. Frank and Peter
Gusenherg. John May, Al Wein-
shank, James Clark. Adam Heyer,
and a young doctor named Schwirn-
merthose were the names. and the
Gusenbergs were notoriously haters
of Capone.? The supposed policemen steppeci__iSld¬. One of the other men calmiyf
[sprayed the backs of the seven vie-;Ems with machine gun bullets. Theyi
led. all of them.
That was the St. Valentine's day
massacre. Nothing quite so fero-
cious had ever been known before,
even in the gang wars.
At the moment Al Capone was in
his stucco villa on Palm Island. tak-
ing a lesson in etiquette. A young
woman. expert in such matters, was
instructing him how to rid himself
of his gloves and stick when he en-
tered a drawing room.
George Moran, he of the charmed
lite, had been late at the garage.
Seeing the car at the curb, he drove
away, assuming that it belonged to
the police. By so narrow a margin
rid he miss his own rendezvous with;
txtinctlon. ! Only Capone kills like that," he.
asserted that same evening. _?
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DEAIHS LAID
T0 STRIPLING i
Jack McGurn. born De Mora.
assumed name James Vincent Ge-
bardi, dubbed "Machine Gun."
has murdered a number of men.
A sleek, athletic, well-mannered
little Italian known then as James
C-eberdi. era the son oi elk:
cooker who had been murdered
, by one Orazzio Tropes, "The
Scourge.
The hid Gebardi was hanging| around the Maxwell st. station1 and he was told by police that
father had been put on the sptt.
He didnt like that. but he didift
know what to do about it until
one day he received a black
hand letter. It
get out of town
same urge that
on his way.
t HE HAS REVENGE
The kid knew what to do then.
He ducked for awhile, appearing
as a professional boxer, and then
he returned to the wars.
His Iather had been put onthe
spot on January 10, 1926. On the
iollowing February 15 Orazzio
Tropea was shot-on the very
spot where James Gebardi's father
had died.
six days later Vito Bascone, who
had aided in collections item
the elder Gebardi, met the same
Piste in the same place,Two days after that assassins-plest he !eel the
snet his fathertold Gebardl to ITWO MORE 51.311! 1
It was Maren T beiore the aven-
ger oi Old Man Gebardl got
around to -bumpinz oi! Tony
Finalli. and it was thirteen days;
alter that when Samuzso "Sn-.
moots"! Amatuna. who had lived
long and prosperted by §92m,"'
died by the same means.
All of these incidental killings
were attributed to the strlpllnz
who had taken on the task of
avenging the Gebardi family-
known in the old world as De
Mora.
Samoots had been striving to
induce certain citizens to contrib-
ute to a detense fund tor John
Bcalice and Albert Anselmi. a
couple of no-goods who ware then
prominent in the picture and in, '..' it us 1
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Gurn was en
pected.
He won a
throusa court -
the "blond a
came his wi! - - '
top point in
0! Bansster rei
Jack McG
on his la
M least th
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icing of late,
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His Ofdillpuanx record fol-lows: IF "5.i_..__'.*~.§§_-
hot water with the law.
ADMIRED BY CAPONI .
McGum, as he became known
after his retu.rn lrom the PIOf¢81"_
sional basing game, was o natti
ural enemy of that atrocious paill,Ffcalice and Anselmi. iHe set out to gun for them, an
in his enthusiastic killinss he
earned the attention and admira-
tion of Al Capone.That was a fortunate piece oi
discernment on the part or Ca-1
pone. Because Scalice and All-
selmi were eagerly plotting the
death oi Scarface.
McGurn told Capone oi the plot.
A little later McGurn entertained
Scalice and Anselmi and a fellow
named Giunta at s. spaghetti
party In Cicero. Next morning
the three Eliests were found de-
porably dead. i
That coup apparently won Mc-
Gurn his spurs as a Capone handy
man. He became so prominent
that he was shot at periodicaliir.being wounded once in a tiff at
the McCormick Hotel, Rush ant
:1 tion, on February 23, Eddie "The O 1° 5 |'
.Eag1e"! Baldielli was killed. pre-THEN rue MASSACRE '
Lsumably because he. too, had been 4 Then came the Capone master-JBBUIW 1. 1930. arrested under
the name or Jack McG11rn, on 1
Chfse oi csrryin: concealed wee-
Dons.
K February s. man. indicted on
.He above charge, 1
~iMarch 20. 1930, held under thframe of James Vincent for in?Ifstigation in Miami. Id
April 10. 1930. returned to Chi."
ft-so from Miami under name o".Jae!: McGurn. _ *1
Jul? 3:_1930. sentenced to one{ear l I.-HE count? jail and ii-mm!
c300 by Judge Frankhouser gn
*1 charge 111 clrriilni concealed
weapons.
WINS IN HIGH COURT
December 26. 1930. that sen.
tence was reversed and the cage
was remanded by the supreme.
Court. 1
July 2. I931. under name off
Jack McGtu:n arrested for viola-"
tion of Mann act. Sentenced toLPWO Felts in Leavenworth penl-
>~E~iif3"- Flaceo. on probation for"five years, I Ieptember B. 1933, under namero I Jack Ii-flcGurn_ sentenced to six
rtpnfhs in house of correction;miter he had been found I-!1.llll_92'.- Involved in the slayins of the ; piece, elimination of seven assort- rs gin ? by Jud Tmmii A-'- - ed hoodlums attached to George run i
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