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) TB -al Kit +Kllod on ) eral . . t Blond Alibi | Ailed on Massact c | Anniversary Gangland vengeance caught up with Jack McGurn just seven ‘years after the most infamous ierime with which he was charged —the St. Valentine's Day massa- cre of 1929 In which seven of “Bugs” Moran's gang were slaugh- tered. On February 14, 1929. the seven | ™men were lured to & garage at 2122 N. Clark st. by a fake phone | call, At 11 a. m. an automobile re- srembling a police squad car halt-; ed in front of the garage. An- | ether car pulled up at the rear.; Two men in police uniform entered « trom the rear and four entered from Clark st. i The intruders produced ma- «chine guns from under their | {and lined the seven Moran gang- sters against the wall, announcing it was a liquor raid, and pressed‘ triggers, sending a deadly stream of bullets into the seven men, mowing them down inte a lifeless bloody row of bodies. Though Moran had not fallen into the death trap, the massacre virtually destroyed his gang, kill- ing Pete Gusenberg, Frank Gusen- berg, Al Weinshank, James Clark, John May, Adam Heyer and Dr. | Reinhardt H. Schwimmer, Three weeks later McGurn was seized by police in a downtown hotel and identified by two persons s having been seen to enter the ‘garage. But his “blond alibi?’ loretty Louise Rolfe, said she and _McGurn had been in the hotel fst j the time of the massacre, and Mj:- Gurn was freed. ' " LOUISE ROLFE M’GURN ‘Biond Alibi’ in massacre.