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4 ane ae? beworta of the rossin= erohibisien dave | ae eer PA ee ee man of unflinching courage, he had jety than most of hig fellows. _ He as an athlete and under ‘his’ real ame competed tn several‘ golf tour- ents, once ever breaking into” the western open. e wa ee His pseudonym wes grined Ya the prize ring when. he was a youth and his re fgedatt. "Gas the argof or He“Was the ‘target ‘of -as- 7 igandiana. Be several tines and “antl | the es jtoday had the reputation, like Bugs horan, of belong a) man with charmed Jie. ‘Wounded in Hotel Shooting. : The first attempt an his Ufe was made in March, 1926," Two years later, on March 7, 1928, when he had already risen high in the Capone counellzs, McGurn and an- other man were shot in the smoke shop of the McCormick {now the Croydon] hotel at Rush and Ontario little more of the graces of polfte|- the federal court. McGurr was sentenced to two years in prison and the girl to four months in jail. Nefther served any, tims behind bars, however, on .this - conviction. mony while the case was being fought through, to the United States Suprenia | 5 . Plant tyihunal that policemen jrere They. went through a marriage ‘Géce- {him peers beld that since] “-- 5, their trip to the south - was not for immoral purposes but was an jricident to their usual course of life. The con: viction was therefore reversed, rail McGurns Move to Oak Park, : McGurn and his wife, shortly after the old Boss gangster Capone went to prison for failing to pay his Income tax, moved inte a house at 1014 North Kenilworth avenue, Oak Park. He insisted that he was out of the rackets = tn and wished to live the life of an Oak sireets. Bullets struck MeGurn in the} pery gentleman. hest and left arm, but he recovered uickly. The shooting was attributed Oo enemies of Capone. A fusilfade of shots was poured on im April 17, 1928, as he drove his automobile in Morgan street at Har- rison street. That time he escaped unscathed and called up several of his friends to report his good fortune. , Seized with Machine Gun. In the following month MeGurn wig " arrested while carrying a machit _gun in his automobile. He was fre 10n a technicality. A raid on his apart- ment in the Guyon hotel at 4000 Wash- jington boulevard at about the same time yielded shotguns and pistols. l “A man can keep arms at home,” | he told the police, with a smile. “I: have to keep an arsenal to protect ; myself.” Following’ the St. Valentine day! massacre, which “secret witnesses ” were said to have laid at his door, | Mecurn and Loulse Rolft resided for several weeks in a loop hotel. He furnished an accounting of his move- ments on the day of the massacre and Louise supported his story so stanch- ly that she won herself the nickname of “ Bionde Alibi.” She pertormed the same kindly office each time he was accused f crime and the police, tired of this, Si persuaded federal agents to rest the couple as violators of tila {Mann act. The prosecution was e = Leemeena. night ife and gambling résort at 205 East Superior street. The place caught fire soon afterward and the police declined to allow him to re mode} and recpen. — Since then he had been Interested in a number of undercover enter- prises, including a tavern In Me , Park that masked a gambling ho He had been keeping well out of fice notice. A year ago he and h wife moved from 1014 to 1234 North It was in late J August of 1933 while'Kenilworth avenue, Oak Park. = . iP me, . vf beh Need - ee) Li wed a FP ~