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tHymie Weiss and Vincel ra | j : t McGurn soon became in- 'yolvéd in difficulties with the North Siders, and the Immediate result was an effort to kill him.|. As he stood in a telephone booth in # &mokeshop at 618 Rush st., : two men entered the shop and’ fired on him with a machine gun: jand « pistol. He survived two wounds, : JOINS CAPONE. | His answer was to join the! Capone gang as an active warrior | in years of battle. And identifi-' cation of him by witnesses to the Gangster Narrowly Escaped | reginning of the Bt. Valentine's | Death Many Times; Survived ‘Day massacre of 1929 indicated : . he took part in the most effective Terror Reign of Dry Era | battle against his former allies. ————— After the murder charge for the | J massacre was quashed he became | ack McGurn, product of “the involved in lesser difficulties with - Valley” on the lower West Side, | the law when federal agents seized | ope-time pugilist. graduated from | him and his ‘blonde alibi,” Louise, the age of street fighting and the } Polfe. June 25, 1929, on a Man fiw years in the ring to the dead-| (2! charge resulting from thei ‘| warfare of gangdom fn the mid | trip together to Florida. |dle of the prohibition era. SCAPES BY MARRIAGE. i His “rise” to infamy as one of | Though he was convicted and ' ' sentenced to’two years in prison, the most deadly machine gunners ‘i i ue escaped the penalty by an ap- was accompanied always by the: seal to the United States Supreme menace of death. Many times he ;Court based on his marriage, narowly escaped the vengeance j] Meanwhile, to Miss Rolfe. He had that overtook him last night, fit- |beem married previously to Mrs. teen years after he became aligned He haa” ‘one vcd by ‘that omar. with the liquor gangs. | riage, REAL NAME GEBARDIL Alter repeal of prohibition Mc- Gurn became «a gentleman of His real name was Gebardi. He leisure, playing golf in costly togs took the name of McGurn for the ; at fashionable courses in amateur ‘priv-> ring. He was 38 years old, | tournaments, He bought the home He became aligned with the jin Oak Fark, and engaged in vari- North Sid a in 1927. he |OUS gambling enterprises. ang had yeon headed - rae Players in the Western Open gang : ist, OY !tournament at Olympia Fields on Dean O'Banion and melee ‘August 27, 1933, were amazed to ta Bee police Invade the course and (“Schemer”) Drucci—-all shot to j seize golfer about to tee off on . .q, jgthe seventh tee. The golfer was Coan Che eae rears OF Pat je i MecGurn, entered under the nam: George (‘Bugs'') Moran, still liv- of wo bardl. wae bias arrested ob ing. led the North Side crew. | 2 _YS8rancy warrant.