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Al Capone — Part 36

62 pages · May 08, 2026 · Broad topic: Organized Crime · Topic: Al Capone · 62 pages OCR'd
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CIDI \A LOU Vanishes, but Friends Tell of Drinking Trip _ Che. ston oe Wt on MWayings INT ent. a Police were told today that of Slaying, Left Louise Rolfe (“Blond Alibi’) . McGurn was making a on West Side Sat-|- Continued from First Page. | ITH inmive Pan iT MGURN'S CAR SEF ABANDONED, ' ee ee eed KEYS CLUES }round of taverns early Sat- | urday while her husband,]Gurn was there? A—She said he! ‘“Machine Gun Jack,” was | was not there, | Q—When Marjorie came back being murdered. ; did she say where she went with Their informant was Miss Mary |: Louise? A—She said she visited fe. who 1 19, of 195 E. Chestnut a couple of restaurants or taverns 3 » Who made her statement ith her. wapt. Martin Mullen at Racine! 7 y+ was at about 1:30 a. m. Bak lav, station. | prday that McGurn, the dapp, The girl had come voluntarily! erstwhile Capone lieutenant, wr with Detectives James Dorsey and| Killed in = bowling alley at William Du Bois, who were trac-| Milwaukee av. ing a reported phone call from oo kn Ne Dekioen denied .Mary’s room Saturday mornin: At first Miss Dickinson de: in vwhich Mary’s roommate Mare she knew whether Miss Swift knew : ‘ Louise McGurn, but changed her Jorie Swift, 19, was reported to] story after her sister. Elizabeth ‘have said: Dickinson, 26, told police Marjorie “They got him after he was | had spoken of meeting Touise. h li ley.” The Dickinson girls are daugh- sent te the bowling alley. ters of Mrs. Dorothy Dickinson, FRIEND OF LOUISE. who lives at the Seneca Hotel, . Miss Dickinson denied knowl-/200 E. Chestnut st. Only Mary ‘edge of such a call, but said her| came to the station. roommate, Miss Swift, was ac- SEEK TO TRACE KEYS. ee ene with Mrs. Mcauin ann While this angle of the case was a phone call Friday afternoon being investigated, police sought , to trace keys found in his auto- Q—Did you ever see Marjorie : ; ’ 3 mobile, which was left last night Swift with McGurn’s wife? A— on a West Side street. | No. Bafta bees leer te $i AAA McGurn's Ary iy 1 Bm 81,NU ( @ After McGurn was shot did a she say anything to you about it? | coPPer-coiored casket and Louise A—No, she just said she was keep- ryeiieniigeneat i or the bur ine UP hat i in thet eMariorie ‘Investigators said that perhajw get home Friday night? A—About 2:30 a.m. Saturday. , cE posit vauil, whith may yiéigq JACK NOT PRESENT. Juable information pertaining Q—Did she say where she had|to McGurn'’s most recent deal. been? A—She said she went to ings. | a party and left the rest of them there, . ‘| @—-Did she say McGurn’'s wits , Was at the party? A—She said ; . jshe saw her there. i! - Lo Q—Did she say whether Mc-: ~ : Continued on Page 2, Column 6. a ae a aie or two of the keys found ‘in ti tlle automobile fit a secret safely The two men were friendly, pln, patrons were bowling . 4 t. @ pool or loitering in théf— ~~“) | | ender Recreation Parlors at ; . Mm. Saturday when three me deshed | in, fired several volley. aod 5 CRIENDS! SUSPECTED. Two friends who had come with McGurn fifteen minutes before Pert. also disappeared. Evidently the] .. ,. 9 “friends” had put Jack on the McGurn’s car vanished from in| m, °:.. front of the place. Bh before midnight last‘. '-~ ax Auto, Stolen at Scene lnignt witiam Schell, 35, of 9023)5 5 0 + W. Sixty-ninth place, a watchman in the Cushman Motor Delivery] - Company, 315 N. Ada st. heardd «r. an sutomobile door slam. _ ' FLEES IN SECOND CAR. He looked out and saw a man leaving a new coupe and getting! ™ M ‘into a dark sedan, which was: then driven north at a high speed. Ke The abandoned coupe was aS Mra. Gurn’s. There were five keys in the car. One was in the switch . lock on the steering post. An-! “es Gaudy wel, ther, on chain with “three adg dftional keys, was in the shif letk. ‘Bergt. Kyran Phelan said oni! the three keys is a door kev Mr. T Teay. te ta the McGurn home at 1224 N. Kenilworth av, Oak Park te could not identify the others, but one was said to resemble the type ' usually issued for safe deposit vaults. A search was to be made for such @ vault, An incnastian af the an- tint An inspection of the car, which had been kept inside since its dis- appearance, revealed a lone fin- gerprint, PRIGNANO DEATH STORY. On the ledge back of the seat: in the gangster's sutomobile was a Chicago American of Dec. 39. The headline read: “Nitti Hunted in Prignano Killing.” The former js Frank (The Enforcer") Nitti, now ruler of the Capone interests, and the latter was State Representative Albert J. Prignano, who was shot to death, at, his doorstep in a simulated! heldup shortly after Christmas. picGurn's name was not men-. ed in the Prignano killing,
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