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Al Capone — Part 35

64 pages · May 08, 2026 · Broad topic: Organized Crime · Topic: Al Capone · 64 pages OCR'd
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ANGLANE PROBED, ‘NWTCURNSLAYING Gunner Linked to Valentine Day Massapre Killed by ‘-" * Wistol Men. * By the Ammciated Pram. . . + CHICAGO, February 15--A eating | va back seven yours to the St, Valertipes massacts of 182b—enmesbed tonight the hunt for the slayers of dapper ‘,° “Machine Gun” Jack McQurn. “a “Public Enemy Mo. F" on the orig- > Inal Chicago thst, be died early today, jast 1] hours past the anniversary “| ibe septuple Kiliuing of George (Bugs) @ Moran henchmen which brought him j natlonal notoriety. Three pistol men: anded his “charmed life" in # near northwest aide bowling alley. There were “just too many reasons” why the death of the chief machine gunner of the Capoot “syndicate could have been desired to make 1 easy to trace his iciliers, sald Mal Coghlan, assistant Btate's attorney. | “Police will have to untangle many I I Babine Pihaset of his Hfe before we can even et aiarted foward a solution.” he added. Doses Years #4 Ganguier, in his dosen yeara ae & major gang ater, the frequent target of bullets himself. NeGurn waa credited in un- | | derworld bomstings with the death | of st least (wo domen men, the extor- |! tlon of thousands of dollars, a faver |; with his chief, “Al” Capone, which | bred jealousy among his own mamd- cates, and # ausve ruthlessness with nem ise. Into al] hese and their ramifications @uthorities dug for ches. They quickiy rounded up the widow —once Louie Folie, the “blond { alibi” whose testimeny cleared him in the @t. Valentine's day kilings—and aight other, for questioning. But qangland'’s wall of ailence intervened. “They shouldn't have done it," the [r widow exclaimed, but she wid she had | no Kea of who “thes” might be. Sha | mid the 6209 found js her husband's |. pocketa plong with two unused prize fight tickets and a “piece of a book” Chorse race betting enterprise) | + resented thelr en eatata. oe ee Loh “Fue Companies Sought, ~~ Wiltem ASME peibristar of ibs Dewiing allog, wit pcties the Sorte same fete le sucemd-sicrs establntmant, shaving “stick them ‘wp.” and thet [De decked when the volley marted. companigns wet it . Geet Baer Met Mahl to nd bow sare Otay regarded significend, Eith ‘thet the pal ancicted from the soor- - ing board, after the shooting. ths shert 7 preumebly ¢uilaining thelr names a a a The pomitiity of ivvnge for wel - Lif ie aaah hier Pieenige sonoaiel SRR —deepite ihe acincidenes of date— [Te Tree found Little support trom Police Capt. |; Richart Berry. f Mise Gandy “Tha gatge don usually shoot to! ¢ . avenge something thet happened yearn | | Ar.” he commented. “My pues is that’ | MeGurn stepped oo somebody: tas ip | the aley racket, or the guamdiiing fusl- Beas recently.” : E gE i i a F 5 the Wisconsin alky cookers and boot- legeers. , An inquest heard brief testimony , from Mr. McGure and fram Anthony & Oebardi. who said he was Jack's broth- er and that his real name was ~Vin- | cent Gebardl” Gebardi said he un- F 3 i @ reminder that golf was Jack's pas: time-and thet he was once good ' ee #nough to enter the Western open sunder Ais own name. The inquest | * was continued to Merch 4. Late today al] persona questioned in the slaying were released, jaclud- j, dag Alotzio at William Belmonte, a tailor who made many of McGurn‘s muita, They wit be arraigned Monday, but Police said continuences sould be masked pending the outcome of the cor- Oners inquest. From the original “public enemy”! Toster of 26 names, McGurn's was the - ointh to be erased og death. By peng pane or from patural causes #ack Zuta, Joe Aiello. Frank Me- Erlane, George (Red) Barker, William ! (Thiee-fingered Jack? White, Joseph ' (Pepe) Genaro, Prank Rio and Myles Danse!) previously had dled, Capone. No. 2 on ihe list, ts ati. werving & Federal prison sentence at, Alcatraz, near San Frapcisco, for ln-1 comet lax erasion = Willie Niemoth is lerving tine in Maryland: James (Pur? Sammons in Indiens, ond the others ere "at large’ —gevern) after complet- ing prison terms on income 14x cherges, Ralph (Bottles! Capone. Al's brother, la adfORerresiacter group. . rr _:
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