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d —_— — werner Gebardi. FIVE REVENGE ' . Jack McGurh, born De Mora, assumed name James Vincent Ge- pardi, dubbed “Machine Gun,” has murdered a number of men. A sleek, athletic, well-mannered fittle Italian known then as James Fehardi was the son of an alky cooker who had been murdered py one Orazzio Tropea, “The Scourge.” . The kid Gebardi was hanging around the Maxwell st. station after his retwmn from the profes- and he was told by police that ll father had been put om the spélt. TWO MORE CLAIN It was Mareh 7 before the asyen- ger of Old Man Gebardi got around to bumping off Tony Finalli, and if was thirteen days | after that when Samuzzo (“Sa- moots") Amatuna, who had lived long and prosperted by ibe gun, died ‘by the same means. Ail of these incidental killings were attributed to the stripling who hed taken on the task of avenging the Gebardi family— known in the old world a¢ De jinn put his Mors. “Samoocts” had been striving to induce certain citizens to contrib~- ute to a defense fund for John Bealice and Albert Anselmit, s couple of no-goods who were then Bugs”) M 2122 N. Clar notorious as Day massacre Gurn was én pected. He won as through court the “blond a came his wif: top point in of gangster rei Jack McG on his la As Yeast th os ing last night af just what joing of late, HERE His official’ puuve record fol-| srominent in the picture and in lows: PrULoiiitssy ss ve hot water with the law. ADMIRED BY CAPONE McGurn, as he became knowy sional baxing game, was @ nat: ural enemy of that atrocious pall, He didn’t like that, but he didi't {Scalice and Anselmi. know what to do about it until one day he received a “blatk hand” letter, It told Gebardi to d get out of town Jest he feel the same urge that snet his father on his Way. t HE HAS REVENGE The kid knew what to do then. He ducked for awhile, appearing as a professional boxer, and then he returned to the wars. : His father had been put on ‘the spot on January 10, 1926. On the following February 15 Orazzio Tropea was shot—on the very spot where James Gebardi's father had died, six days later Vito Bascone, who hn i H “a a - had aided in “collections” from the elder Gebardi, met the same pfate in the same place, _ Two days after that sssassina-p tion, on February 23, Eddie (“The Eagle”) Baldielli was killed, pre- sumably because he, too, had been |, involved in the slaying of the a- He set out to gun for them, an in his enthusiastic killings he earned the attention and admira- tion of Al Capone. That was a fortunate piece of discernment on the part of Ca~ pone, Because Scalice and An- selmi were eagerly plotting the death of Scarface. MeGurn told Capone of the plot. A little later McGurn entertained Scalice and Anselmi and a fellow named Giunta at a spaghetti party in Cicero, Next morning the three guests were found de- porably dead. dantery 1, 1930, arrested under ‘the name of Jack McGurn, on a ‘charge of carrying concealed wea- pons, February §, 1930, indicted on ‘fe above charge. : March 20, 1930, held under th “ame of James Vincent for ind upstigation in Miami. F April 10, 1930, returned to Chi: cago from Mismi under name o!' Jack McGurn. . ° July 3, 1930, sentenced to one: year in the county jail and fined | $300 by Judge Frankhouser on a charge of carrying concealed weapons. WENS IN HIGH COURT December 26, 1930, that sen- tence was reversed and the case was remanded by the Supreme Court. ! July 2, 1931, under name of i That coup apparently won Mc- |Jack McGurn arrested for vicla- , Gurn his spurs as a Capone handy man. He became so prominent that he was shot at periodicaliy, being wounded once in a tiff at ‘che McCormick Hotel, Rush ant Ontario sts. THEN THE MASSACRE ' Then came the Capone mastes- piece, elimination of seven assort- ed hoodlums attached to George Sf a- A tion of Mann act. Sentenced to two years in Leavenworth peni- | tentiary. Placed on probation for ; five years. | eptember 6, 1933, under name { - jof Jack McGurn, sentenced to six Tronths in house of correction + alter he had been found guilty. iw vacrancy by Judge Thomas A." Green. |