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—— ing, returned home at noon, and Qhortly afterward went to sleep, Hd Grose at 11 p.m. Mrs. MeGurn wal qd went out with the remark tha intended to do a little bowling, Did McGurn talk to her of any enemies, and had he mentioned any threats? Mrs. McGurn said no to both questions. Off 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 know: much about it. Anthony Gebardi, a brother of the! slain man, said that McGurn was born in Italy, that he was brought to the United States as an infant, and that he was 32 years old. He was a golf professional employed at the Maywood Country club, according to Gaberdi. This statement was denied] later by James Kilgallon, president! of the club, who described McGurn as a frequent patron of the links. “He was a fine golfer,” said Kilgal- Inn MFften rat doem in the File" q ton, WLUTT EV. GOW Gf ce ius. { Awakened By Gun Play. | ft Mascarella related that he fs tclnesn on a hench when the shootths sleep On a bench when the snoot = Vtarted and that he didn’t see ay: lfhing that preceded it. * t “411 I know is that I woke up te sea one man shooting and telling everybody to stay down,” the porter asserted. “He kept firing til! he reached the stairs and then dived down the stairway. Everybody else followed him but Aloisi and he told me to call the police.” The only fact of moment added by Bonarek was that McGurn and his cee ete feet teen, AT thalr ensatc COMPahiOnhs Nau tach Vek tran Sei and had bowled one game before the firing. He said he was not close enough to observe who did the shoot- ing. It was generally agreed that fhe hooting was furious and fast. ¢ Stories mleid Unreconcilabie. 4 All 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 ; ny person who was standing neagpy Frnen the murder took piace, and the ypolice have feint hope of ever fnd- g one. i. Rather strangely, when MeGurn was shot down, he was not wearing ,a large diamond ring which habiiually -adorned his hand. His brother, - Anthony, demanded this ring of the , investigators, and became indignant {when he was informed that no jewelry was found on the body and no money, ether than $3.85. Mrs. McGurn re- solved this difficuity when she report- ed that her husband had left the ring at home, An Obsolete Mercenary. All in all, the police decided, McGurn was slain because he didn't undersiand that he was an anechro- nism, There are no gangsters left like Capone, who can affard to pay their murdering heip big wages for pro- tection, McGurn, unable to act with- out direction, still pushed himself in wherever he could find a ioophole. |"Ehere is even a fairly weil founded . ; the police asserted were verified Anthony Gebardi asserted he knew PB ‘l selief that he was planning to taks ‘nothing about his brother’s undé- iworld activities, or of his enemies, lit any. 4 Nevertheless, ihe police learned from other sources that McGurn wets 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 blew out gines tn kim 2 feu w poke non” | CuiGse 1G MIM & ew Weens ogc. | Three Real Witnesses Found. The witnesses to the shooting itself are William Aloisi, 1121 West Huron street, owner of the bowling alleys; his porter, Tony Mascarella, and a pin setter, Edward Bonarek, 20 years | old, 1128 Fry street. The rest of the! twenty persons in the room at me time have not been found. “T didn't know the man who got killed," declared Aloisi. “He came in at 20 minutes before one with two other men, whom I had never seen. | They all sat around a few minutes waiting for en empty alley. I paid no attention to them. About 1 o'clock I heard somebody shout that there was @ stickup and not for anybody to move. “Then there was shooting. I dived under a pool table that was near me and stayed there. There must nay fleen 10 or 15 shots fired. But I don't ifnow who did the firing. I slayeid where I was, Sheltered, until things ujeted down. I don't know whether {he man that did the shooting came in with the man that was killed.” facts. For one thing, they said, Mc- Gurn bowled 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, had the foresight to tear away the scoy'e uheet which bore the names or ina- itials of McGurn and those wto lowled with him, There was left, ap- cordingly, no clew to the identity of CHICLCO DAILY TRIBUNE cf of F; « ever a little booze and vice territory i ip the vicinity of the bowling alleys From this information the investl. gators reasoned that some other urt- 'derling of the Capone mob remnants had been assigned to gain his confi- dence and ta end him. He was too eapensive a load to carry, consider- ing his abilities. With considerable more than a grain of salt the police took a per-, sistent 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” from sen business as the gang syndicate , hé controled can sll stir up. , 1 Douot Power of Capouc. | Wart of this story is that Capone is able 10 purchase favors in the prison and that his faithful boys are siili loval to him merely in gratitude for past favors. If that were true, the investigators reasoned, Capone would stil] he strong enough to protect his one time’ favorite, It is far more likely tha! Frank Nitti and the other chiel- ltaing who are carrying on the tradi tion of gang rule in Chicago—on a imiserably lessened Capone model-- tppendage who was trying to live pn his past reputation, and gave olat fhe word that he was no longer pro- | fected from harm. Even gangstels ' ipecame bored with a useless sort prt