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we Parsee 14. Kean it. Fowwart? —_— a. ‘vr. larbo x Reve cr. Joseph . se * . fr Lhe Chicago, Feb. 15.--A tangle tte, Qaim : ‘gangland hostilities—extended back Fe Gain te, Bek ps L. iirc. Tamm | ff. ¥ seven years to the St. Valentine's massacre of 1920—tonight enmesre the hunt for ihe sigyera or sappe “Wachine Gun" Jeck McGurn. --- “Public enemy No, 5” on the ork he died today, ust 12 hours past the exact anni- versary of the septuple killings of George (Bugs) Moran benchmen which spotlighted him in notoriety. Three pistol men his “charmed life” in a near North- . ve west Side bowling alley. . . . wine?’ There were “just too many rea- « _ Aneeslated Frese % MOTO. F sons” why the Math of ihe chief MACHINE. GUN race} | Jmachine gunner, of the oo. Gal] Tike police search concentrate on! }the Fwo companions who went ee Killere. sald Mal Coghlan, assist-,McGurn late last night—~his wito nave cen ay ant State’s attorney. jsaid be slept most of the anniver “poli ‘sary of the killings, which caused Police will have to untangle, him much trouble with authorities iy. Misa Gandy .-..-- many phases of his life before we, —to the bowtin . _In his dozen years as a major c@nt that the pair snatched from gangster, the frequent target of pul-| the scoring board after the shovoiing: ‘ ~ ee ] “syndicate” could : to make it easy to trace hit > lets himself. McGurn was credited in underworld boastings with the death of at least two dozen men, the extortion of thousands of dol- lars, a favorite with his chief, “Al'; Capone (now in Federal prison), : the sheet presumably containing/| their names and Jack's. Possibly, Police ..theorized, the ir had “fingered” the onetime shadow of Boss AI Capone, for the slaying | ' Revenge Discounted, \ trio. which bred jealousy among his own associates, and a suave ruthlessness! There were rumors, too, of other with enemies of his gang which in-' underworld jealousies and of rival- cited hopes of vengeance, Ties among the Capone counselors, Into all these and their rami{- returned from prisons and jails, fications, authorities dug for clews.) Over control of the gang’s remnants. They quickly rounded up the] Authorities considered it strange widow--once Louise Rolfe, the that several recent killings, ap- “blonde alibi,” whose testimony! parently motiveless, have followed cleared him in the St. Valentine's, the rallying of old Capone chieftains Day killings—and eight others for! here. Among those recently restored |: questioning. But gangland’s wallito circulation were Murray Hum- of silence intervened when search-|phreys and Jack Guzik. ing queries were put to them, | The possibility of revenge for the “My God, they shouldn't have! ; done it.” the widow exclaimed. But ters—despite the coincidence she said she had no idea of who dates—found little “they” might be. She said the $3.85 Police Capt. Richard Barry. found in her husband's pockets “The gangs don’t usually shoot to along with two unused tickets and a “piece of a book” years ago,” he commented. “My (horse race betting enterprise} rep- guess ts that McGurno stepped on resented their entire estate from somebody's toes in the alky racket, McGurn's 12 years’ gunning in the or the gambling business, recentty.” gang wars, William Aloisio, bowling alley, tol te ‘saran store agate roprietor of the Said the killing was likely due to “a police the trio,new alky war between Chicago and came into His second-story estab-, Milwaukee hoodlums. lishment, shouting “Stick them up!"! He said he learned recently that and that he ducked when the vol-:McGurn had turned to competing ley started. Other witnesses sald with the Wisconsin alky cookers they heard 45 shots as the gunmen and bootlegzens.eadethat he “un- closed in ‘on ccurn and fired, doubtedly was put on the spot.” away at him He had two bullet —— = wounds in the head. Chief of Detectives John Sullivan ony 4 Deas savage slaying of the Moran gangs- |. of |, support from rize fight avenge something that happened |- TT rs q's, wand