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gue pd \ ST PAUL DISPATCH YER 17, 1936 awe to stop there at that time of night.|. The man whe-ldeé@ the car, which] WTO AnAFA ALLE | AUTO PROVES CLUE; IN M’GURN SLAYING! Gangsters Car ‘Found Aban- doned: Keys Recovreed May Be to Safety Box. Chicago, Feb. 17.—(?)—Finding of “Machine Gun Jack” McGurn’s au- tomobile fe Mears alter the Pormer "Scarface Al’ Capone henchman was ‘rubbed out” in a second-floor bowling alley, gave the police their first tangible clue today in the hood- lum’s crude assassination, In the automobile, which was abandoned in an industrial section on the near North side, were two keys, oné which the police believed might fit a safe deposit box. They were on a ring with three automo- bile keys. Previous to this, the authorities Tah up against the usual blank wall of imperturbability surrounding un- derworld crimes. Reported threats against the life of the gangsters widow from an undisclosed source gave the police the additional task of guarding her. The widow, the tormer Miss Louise Rolfe, became known as MrGurn's “blond alibi” after she established an alibi for him seven years ago when he was accused of the bloody St. Valentine day mas- eacre of seven George (Bugs) Moran gangsters. Twenty persons were at the alleys when McGurn was shot twice in the back of the head, yet no one who would admit seeing the slayers has been found. _ William Aloisio, proprietor of the alleys, and two employes were the only persons who admitted being at the seene. They asserted the shooting began so suddenly and was over so quickly that they were un- able to tell exactly what happened. William Schell ,employed by a motor delivery company, told Sergeant Kyran hat he: looked out of an office window | when he heard an automobile door slam and saw a man jump from aocar parked in front of the office. He said it was unusual tor a car proved to be MeGurn's, hurried to another machine parked across the Street and drove away, Schell said. The police found the ignition key in place, but the wires to the switch had been disconnected. A search for fingerprints was ordered. The police held to a theory that McGurn was slain probably by a man whom he regarded as a friend. They said only such a person could have come up behind him while he was at play. The hoodlum had entered the al- leys with two companions. The investigators believed the killing Was a “gang purge,” as they said McGurn had been in fear of his life for some time. They also be- Hieved the slayers fed in McGurn's | own car. The pomp that marked gangster funerais in the days of prohibition will be missing at MeGurn's burial Tuesday. Instead of a $15,000 silver casket suchas the onein which Dion O'Bannion, another notorious hood- jum, was laid to rest several years | ago, McGurn will have one costing less than $1,000. The police said the lessened glory represented the fall in the status of gangsters and the lack of popularity that was McGurn's eyen among his own kind. McGurn’s assassination, likewise, Jacked the elaborate flair shown in the slaying of O'Bannion, the Moran massacre and other notori- ous gangster killingss.___. f set . ,