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VALENTINE EONS | KL CAPONE THUG Suspect in Chicago Massacre :| Slain—Comic Card Left 4 Near His Body Continued from Page One -fand a woman in their underwear. |‘ _| Standing in front of a hous S ir e marke t sold. The doggerel verse read: q | ‘You've lost- your jeb, you've |! ; your dough: ad 6 ost “Your jewels and cars and nanael |. some houses; i 4 ‘But things could still be worse : a, wou know, y At least you haven't lost your’ trousers.” « William Aloisio, who own: ‘il io, s the bowling alley, said he was sitting on a pool table when the Zzunmen came in, He ducked under it when they i began shooting. Seore Crossed Off When they had left , he crawle ‘out. He saw McGurn's two ee ‘Danions leisural ‘ Pp Ms ifeisurely straighten out: 'McGurn's body. Then the ; ‘over to the bowling store sheet! |tore off the page on which their! names were entered, and strolled: Alosio told the polj idn’t. know who the men were. pe didn . But police found another crum- | pled Valentine on the floor, ad- | dressed io “Willie De Grazio."” The ' Valentine had been torn up. Po- _lice Sought to learn whether De i Grazio might have been one of | McGurn'’s companions, | Three men who sought to flee when the police arrived were tak- en into custody for questioning. They gave theie names as John Battaglio, twenty-three; Charles Alozowka, twenty - two an Sam Alosio, twenty-one, brother of the j bowling alley proprietor. i The police also took Alosio and, _ the janitor, Tony Moscarello, The’ janitor said he was asleep whe USO g started. een aw « ; ewer p Pr eR ern ees I >-ictim Unarmet— a ee body mese—taund "35, a package: of cigarettes and two unused tickets for a prize fight ‘at the Chicago Stadiurn last night. - He had no gun. | There was also an auto licerise in ‘the name of William Belmonte of Chicago and a bill of sale showing he purchased the car last Decem- ; ber 24. . t Police hurried to the gangster’s home after the slaying. ; Mrs. MeGurn, partly dressed, pene she answered the door, had. been sobbing, they said. Some one - 4 already had told her of the shooting. rr Ct) 6She said McGurn had been at = 4 home most of the day, but had at-; 4 tended a funeral yesterday morning. . = He had no life insurance and no” © bank account. She declared she ~ was penniless and that the only - == money they had to their names was | - the $3.85 found in McGurn's pockets. Slayer Described escription of one of the * A police description of one Of tne .. slayers said the man was about - *- twenty-five, five feet tall and «weighed apout 180 pounds. Police knew of no motive for the crime. They had lost track of Mc- |Gurn during the past two Years. Belmonte, in whose name Mc- Gurn'’s automobile was registered, said he had permitted the slain ‘gangster to use his name in buying -lTicense plates because McGurn told | him he couldn’t get them in his own name. iT oF | McGurn's real name was Vincent \Gebhardi. Once a big-time gam- ibler and alky runner for Capone, he had fallen to operation of a small gambling resort. He was arrested on a Vagrancy ‘warrant as he teed off at Olympic Fields, August 27, 1933, where he had entered ‘the Western open tour- ‘nament under his read name, | With him at the time, was Louise ‘Rolfe, the blonde alibi, whom he jmarried after divorcing his first | wife. McGurn was thirty-three. Always dapper, he had not given up his i fiair for fancy clothes. When he was killed, he was wearing an ex- pensive gray suit, a bright red tie, red suspenders, and a fine linen shirt. _ Police said they last heard of Mc- > Gurn on July 15, 1935, when he was { operating a gambling house in Mel- rose Park. Bets on horse racing. -as low as 5C cents, were taken by McGurn himself, a sharp come-down from his affluence in prohibition days. In 1931 McGurn was—lived as Publiamrenryeno. 5 by the Chicago Crime Commission.