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Al Capone — Part 35
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Lived as Gentleman, |
Even Among Wealthy:
Jack McGurn was no gentle-)sacre, during most of which time
man; but he lived like one.
And Louise Rolfe, one of the
‘| first of the gangsteris molls, con-
ducted herself very much as a
lady.
Born Vincent Gebard!, he took
the Irish monicker of Jack Mc-
Gurn when he embarked on 4
short career as a lightweight pu-
gilist.
But by the time McGurn had
switched to machine guns in his
business of fighting, golf had be-
come his favorite sport.
GOOD GOLF PLAYER.
4 And he was a good golfer. He
boasted that he shot around 78.
Touise's usual score was about 96.
and on the golf links they were
us attractive and as fashionable
‘@ pair as could be seen,
Many a golfer filled up a four-
some at the Evergreen public
course without knowing the mild-,
mannered, trim stranger in the
party was McGurn. And many ‘4.
player. on Lincoln Park course ad-
_-mired: the form of Louise as sh:
| Played on the fairway and
| green.
In Florida on the beaches in
the Winter they cut as neat a
figure as the New York million-
aires with whom they rubbed
shoulders. ;
A frequenter of Chicago hotels
and night clubs, McGurn, always
immaculately but not filashily
Gressed, looked the part of a Pros; |
rerous business man guest.
How well he fit into the picture
tras shown by the fact that he
lwed in the Stevens for two weeks
following the St. Valentine's mas*
all Chicago policemen were sup-
posed to be hunting him.
ACQUIRED FINE HOME.
In the heyday of their success,
they acquired a fine home at 1114
N. Kenilworth ay., in the exclu-
sive north end of Oak Park,
In the depression of post-pro-
hibition that home was lest, but
the McGurns were living in a
modest home a few blocks away
when Louise got word there that
her husband had been killed.
In recent months McGurn had
sunk many points in the under-
world scale and the one-time
Public Enemy No. § was reported
to be the proprietor of a Maywood «
bookmaking establishment that
would take bets as low as 50 cents.
But even that emporium was
properly housed. ‘The bultlding v
was a closed bank building.
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