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= 7 i. Wh i ; A coroner's Jury yesterday heard Much of “Machine-Gun"” Jack McGurn as Vincent Gebardi, “golf professional,” but little, Indeed, of his activities as a Capone gang- ater and public enemy, or of the ,reasons for his slaying. ' Center of attraction at the in- quest into MeGurn's death tn ‘the county Margue was his widow, Ie Rolfe McGurn, the “blond li 7 ibi” who saved him from prose- ution in the St. Valentine's Day assacre of 1929. Louise, wrapped in a coat which, she confided, was “Summer er- 7 INQUEST QUESTIONING =: mine,” -her halr glistening with a golden wash and tears threatening to carry away her atylish arti- ficlal eyelashes, insisted she didn't know what her husband's occu- pation had been, HIS NUMBER NOW. Te was McGurn's brother, An- thony Gebardi, who offered the information that Jack was a golf pro, employed, Anthony sald, at the Maywood Country-Club. That statement was vigorously denied by James Killgalion, president of he club. MeGurn, he said, al- though he was not employed there, frequently played the course, hooting @ neat 70—his number iow at the county morgue... ‘ Louise was asked by Deputy ‘Coroner James J. Whalen whether she thought her husband was a “pro.” She replied: “I don't know. I know he played a lot of golf.’' THEY VISIT WAKE. Earlier she had told police that she Enew her husband made money and that she thought he owned an interest in a handbook in Melrose Park—a handbook which, police said, had been op- erated by McGurn and closed by state’s attorney's police. Recalling her husband's activi- ities shortly before his death, she said, without apparently realizing ‘the grim irony of the statement, ‘that on Thursday night he and ‘she had attended a wake at 1335 at Austin blvd, where Giuseppe Gircella, 67, an old friend, had e jFriday morning, she said, they had gone to the funeral, coming home only twelve hours before WIDOW ‘DOESN’T KNOW’. IN McGurn himself was to ‘be ‘slain. McGurn slept until 11 at night, then left, telling her he was go- ing to bowl. GASPS AT QUESTION, But Louise, tense, pale, her car- mine fingernails digging deeply into her palms, insisted that he didn't tell her with whom he was going—that he never told her anything of his movements or companions, and that she didnt ask him. She gasped with arief when she was asked !tf she knew his enemies, but insisted that sh did not, that she had heard o no threats made against him. And certainly, safle said. she knew of no one who would wish to kilis him. From William Aloisio. owner of the bowling alley at 805 Milwau- kee av.. in which McGurn was slain, and from Tony Mascarella, the porter, the coroner's jury heard excited accounts of the murder, but no clue to the slayers. CONFLICTING STORIES. Aloisio declared that McGurn had never been in his place be- fore, and that he did nat know him, his companions or the three “stickup men” who threw the place into confusion as McGurn was slain. At that time, Aloisio deciared, MéGuin and his two “friends” were waiting for an alley. Conflicting with that story was the testimony of Edward Bonj.-, rek, 1138 Fry st.. another pin bay.! who said that MeGurn and the} other two had aiready bowled two frames—that he was setting up pins for them, Ly Ly ft ni vesid ae CHICAG® tin by aer Aig . ie