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\ WEEE ES SS Se OEE [ee + =< o — a REP? Tg = ae = a : - 7 eh ee ——- ose | BOWLING ALLEY A new Chicago gang war, rumblings of which have been heard in the underworld for many days, broke in Chicago early today with the assassination of “Machine. Gun?’ Jack McGurn. ae a) The dapper little golfer, reputed to have beer! Al Capone’s No. 1 gunman in the wildest days of thée}|. prohibition era, was shot down at the close of a ‘Coca-Cola Night” in the Avenue Recreation Par- ‘Jors, a bowling alley on the,second floor at 805 Mii- “waukee av. ” fix 1929 got McGurn out of , Three gunmen entered the\the St. Valentine's case ané’ |place about 1 a, m., shortly! almost got him into the fed: behind McGurn, and, staging' eral penitentiary on Mann a fake holdup, shot down Me- act charges, Gurn as he and two friends Louise was found about 5 JACK M’GURN. They Finally Got Him! ing, and police did not know waited to bowl. ,o'clock in the home she 6¢- | who they were or if they had Eight Held /cupted with Jack at 1244 N. | out him “on the spot.” _—_ ‘Kenilworth av., Oak Park, by In fact the murder of Mc- for Quizzing Sergt. Frank Donohue of the | Gurn stood out as a mystery Strangely enough, the “ont s office. _* |aS great as the many crimes murder came at the close of MicGurn’s Two in other days attributed to the seventh anniversary of 3. ey. man. “Machine Gun” Jack, but the St. Valentine's Day mas- ZFUCHGS FLEE ——| written in the record as un- Ived. sacre of 1929, the wholesale At the county morgue she | 5° killing of seven Moran mob- quivered as she looked at her on peori ing: ‘ne police sters for which McGurn was, husband’s body and cried: Phism in the ranks of Al Ca indicted but never tried. “Poor Jack. They fbone. The recent return from , Five hours after the killing! Shouldn’t have done it. Oh, f powerful figures Jack, darling.” srison of P the police held eight persons MeGuarn’ pewo companions like Murray Humphreys and r questioning, one of theni had fled immediately after yack Guzik have brought eing Louise Rolfe McGurr;/ the shooting, perhaps in his | Continued on Page % Column 1, [the “blond alibi” whose story| automobile, which was miss-