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Al Capone — Part 36
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Trio Kill Ex-Capone
Chief in Alley,
Pistol. McGurn was neatly dressed
in gray and wore gray spats. In his
, pockets were found $3.85 end two
tickets, unused, to the Bath-Burman
'. fight.
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Card Gives Polloe a Clew.
Some Importance was attached to a
card bearing a telephone number,
Delaware 3943, and the name “ Hen.
ny.” The police supposition was that
this Henny might have been one of
the men with MeGurn when he went
| into the bowling alley, which he vis-
74 ited frequently.
iaeoni the plot, To support mart thle che
police pointed out that all the
Captain Disensses Motive. -
“But anything. could have hap
pened in this tnstance,* he added.
“MeGurn had plenty of people with |
reason to bump him off. My guess
ix that he had stepped on somebody's |
toes in the alky recket or the gam: '
bling business. and recently. The!
wangs don't usually shoot to avenge |
something that happened years ago. |
They put enemies out of business for
what they're doing now.”
Three men, one of them a brother
of Alosio, were seized in front of the
bowling place shortly after the shoot-
ing. All denied they knew anything
of the slaying. Later the police dis-;
covered a man who admitted he was
upstairs, He is Tony Muscareilo, 2023
Wert Grand avenue. His statements
cost little Hght on the mystery, how-
ever, as he asserted he was asleep
It was the velief of the investiga. [when the shooting started,
tors, Headed by Capt. Richard Barry,
that the killers had accurate know!-
edge that McGurn would be in the
bowling rooms, at about the time
he arrived. Probably, it was said, they
yeited for him and climbed up th
Htalre to the second floor as soon 4
i. and his friends had clear-d th
fallway. i
} It was even theorized that the me
iwho went with him might have been
The police set out on a search for
the pin boyz on duty on the theory
that they were more likely than any
one else to have been looking directly
{ McGurn as one of the bowlers,
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| | » Colorful Gangland Figure,
McGurn, whose real name was Vid.
nt Gebard!, was one of the most
colorful of all the figures in the gang
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