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* 4 4 ae ee ee ee le 7 r ime pa pate co + ore hind Clerks : Anniversary of F Massacre- Saw~-- : ; Se Cat co eae Killer Killed 2 A ince CHICAGO.——Missing the seventh anniversary of the, \ Bo, Ege | 1929 Valentine’s Day massacre by three hours, but not the: { hee, Foxworth... jan credited with that gory butchery, avengers yesterday, Dede Gave rubbed out Killer Jack Mc- ; Gurn with two bullets in the sere in oy 928 mae ”. vee — back. CAPONE’S AID. rN McGurn's executioners, still uni- dentified left a symbolic refer- ence to the seven year old score they were settling in the shape of a comic viaentine found beside McGurn’s body in the bowling alley where he was slain. ‘ The rhyme ood on the valen- Jack McGurn. tine read: “VYou've lost your job, ~ “You've lost your dough, “You're’ jewels and cars and handsome houses, “But things could still b you know, “You haven't lost your trousers.’ SINISTER RED. The gaudily-colored ‘illustration, showing a scantily clad couple anding ina snow- -drift outside a juse marked “Sold,” showed one 4t not from the priting press— us addressee’s life blood. Twelve hours after the killing, slice were holding beautiful .quise Rolfe MeGurn, mate of the aad man, and vainly trying to -vring from the frightened wom- an’s lips the name of the man cus- 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 his shot. Louise, who married McGurn four years ago when matrimony was the only escape for both from a Federal Mann Act charge, told both police and a coroner's jury that a that she ‘couldn't 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 Jack’s demise, were being held, while a confidential call was out for Jim- nberg, “baby” brother of Peter and Frank Gusenberg, two of the seven machine-gunned to i his coat in the Avenue, a North- west Side recreation hall, men strolled u play, and suddenly whipped out guns. fired. through the heart. McGurn’s widow was & valued aid to Al Capone. Besides serving, os ty 1. Quon. Capone as a dummy in his alcohol : ae wat ry ae e. BLE business, Louise gave yeoman aid- eM when McGurn, Capone’s execu-' ae tioner, was arrested as perpetrator, of the Valentine Day massacre.- She gwore without a blush that,’ at the hour of the septuple mur-; der, Jack was in her arms in her® boudoir, Her story gave McGurn his alibi, -<, but caught both in the toils of Fed- eral law when G-men trailed Fed: to Miami a year later and arrested "* them on Mann Act charges. The,’ wt wily Louise, however, had one ie more trick in her fertile mind. She . married MeGurn and.the Federal case collapsed, ~ She freely told the coroner's jury : the details of McGurn’s last hours. | “We ware living quietiy in Louise McGura the little flat where the police got me,” she said. “Wei were dirt poor.” Her expensive furs and hair-wave, however, told a differing story.’ “Jack had a Valentine dinner : with me and then about mid- night he got up and said, ‘You go to sleep, honey. Pll go over to the Avenue Alleys and roll a few.’ Two hours later, as he threw off three as if to watch his Fifteen shots in all were Two took effect, o fie Lestat panes. Smee a we re