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Hugh “Stubby” McGovern, companion of McPadden, was also shot and kilie? by Maloney during the New Year's oelebra- Hien. Maloney wan arrested on the spot With « smoking pistol, bnt, despite this fact, be was acquitted. Several handred merry-makers were unable to identify Maloney as the Filler. eyed Irish boys, most of whose names had inci- dentally “‘ski” appended to them. His companion in jail for disorderly conduct, George Darrow, re- turned to the South Side and met violent death nine days later. Not because he needed the money but because his was an exuberent nature brimming over with vitality and needed expression, George oceasionally regaled himself by a “stick-up” or a road-house hold-up and on this occasion he was efficiently shot and killed. Meanwhile the Stanton gang was doing a little shooting with the Quinlan gang which had been prospering via the muscle route into the Stanton preserves, and on October 14, 1928, a stray machine gun bullet intended for “Bubs” reached instead his companion, Ralph J. Murphy, a bartender, and Murphy was killed in- stantly. The machine gun was operated by Hugh “Stubby” McGovern, standing in the basement of a house across the street. From that day on Mr. McGovern was a marked man for George Maloney, the boy with the sawed off .38 set out for him. While George was “tailing’ McGovern, the atten- tion of the police was directed to a sensational unsuccessful attempt made by Leo Mongoven and Frank Foster, North Side gangster, to shake- down an ex-racketeer, Abe Cooper, who had be- come a broker and had gone straight. Abe with- stood the shake-down and was being hustled into an automobile, parked on LaSalle Street in the loop, for a “ride” when, suddenly he whipped out a revolver and began firing. Frankie disap- peared into the crowds, but Leo, seriously wounded, fell to the pavement. The incident stands out as an excellent example of what happens to gang- sters who attempt to quit and become respectable. Cooper was one of the few who was able to enforce his new standing but it took his old trusty “gat” to do it. Quiet in Gangland for a period. On Decem- ber 29 George Maloney, still trailing, “Stubby” McGovern, dropped into the Granada Cafe, a fam- ous South Side night club and, would you believe it, across the room he spied McGovern and William “Gunner” McPadden, making whoopee with the aid of two young women. George figured that he had spent enough time looking for “Stubby” and that he would finish the job now and to hell with the hundreds of merry-makers there assembled. George got to his feet, walked slowly over to Mc- Govern’s table and, shooting from his pocket, fin- ished “Stubby” with twe bullets. He then directed that famous .38 toward Mr. McPadden and he too, with two bullets in his body, went skidding out