◆ SpookStack

Declassified Document Archive & Reader
Log In Register
Reader Ad Slot
Reader Ad Slot placeholder
If you would like to support SpookStack without paying out of pocket, please consider allowing advertising cookies. It helps cover hosting costs and keeps the archive free to browse. You can change this choice at any time.

Al Capone — Part 35

64 pages · May 08, 2026 · Broad topic: Organized Crime · Topic: Al Capone · 64 pages OCR'd
← Back to feed
(18-36 - ooTo [tt is | a7 1 7 oo. “2 Leaden Valentines “~~ | Follow One On Paper; Capone’ S Gunman Slain, i | "jack McGurn, Reputed Leader In Moran Gang Massacre Shot Down Ju Bowling Alley. | CHICAGO, Feb .15.—\UP)—Twu “lead valentines” in the back rubbed out machine-gun Jack McGurn, ” baby-faced killer of the Al Capone era, today in what police believed won sh ’ Was retaliation Tor ine arociols Si. Valevines day Imassacre of seven years ago. ' «A conmtic valentine, mocking Mc- —Gurn fer his fall from former af- fluence, was found near the crum-! ‘pled body in the bowling alley where ine had gene with two supposed: ‘friends early this morning. : Detectives falled to find a motive! ‘in McGurn’s recent quiet life. The; ivalentine, addressed to MeGurn in a penciled sera#l, and his death a few, ihours after the seventh ant ‘versary: iof the mass execution of seven “Bugs” Moran gangstevs in which ne. “old clues. derby hat, Uhnree men appeared be- hind him and fired more than a “dozen shots. Two drilled the gang- ; slers back and he died immediately. | The executioners vanished—also' nearly a score of customers. Police placsd McGurn'’s wife | (Louise Rolfe McGurn, McGurn's’ Binns alii tha a Valent! wet blond alibi ii the St. Valentine's aay massacre, under technical arrest, : “I don't know who did it,” she screamed, She toid Sergt. Frank Donahue that Jack “had a piece of a book" at! Melrose park. The former No. 1 trigger man for Al Capone had $3.85! tin his pocket when he died. Three young hoodlums were picked up in a restaursnt below the bowling’ alleys immediately after the shoot. | jine. - Sarthe, ‘was chief suspect, set police trailing; or, . | AS McGurn Jeld down his coat and|. cha “laa
OCR quality for this page
Community corrections
First editor: none yet Last editor: none yet
No user corrections yet.
Comments
Document-wide discussion. Follow the Community Standards.
No comments on this document yet.
Bottom Reader Ad Slot
Bottom Reader Ad Slot placeholder
If you would like to support SpookStack without paying out of pocket, please consider allowing advertising cookies. It helps cover hosting costs and keeps the archive free to browse. You can change this choice at any time.

Continue Exploring

Use the strongest next step for this document: continue reading, jump to the topic hub, or move into the matching agency collection.
Continue Reading at Page 31
Jump straight to page 31 of 64.
Reader
Al Capone — Part 20
Stay inside Al Capone with another closely related document.
Topic
FBI Documents & FOIA Archive
Open the FBI agency landing page for stronger archive context.
FBI
Al Capone Topic Hub
See the topic overview, related documents, and linked subtopics.
Hub

Agency Collection

This document also belongs in the FBI Documents & FOIA Archive landing page, which is the stronger starting point for agency-level browsing and for searches focused on FBI records.
FBI Documents & FOIA Archive
Open the agency landing page for introduction text, topic links, and more FBI documents.
FBI

Explore This Archive Cluster

This document belongs to the Organized Crime archive hub and the more specific Al Capone topic page. Use these hub pages when you want the broader collection context, linked subtopics, and more documents around the same archive thread.
bureau
Related subtopics
Bugsy Siegel
32 documents · 2877 known pages
Subtopic
Carlo Gambino
14 documents · 1532 known pages
Subtopic
Carmine Galante
12 documents · 1245 known pages
Subtopic
Abner Zwillman
7 documents · 600 known pages
Subtopic
Arthur Flegenheimer Dutch Schultz
6 documents · 166 known pages
Subtopic
The Hells Angels
6 documents · 480 known pages
Subtopic