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- as ae ~ ‘ bere ES ae =t84 . Tere 7h Viel Wraynia iS rs 5% aus -- She Will Disclose 32". Secrets; Mate“ , Begged Life fy" ‘ ~ ofl # ’ umn { CHICAGO, Feb. 16 (NB), ‘y Threata against the life of Mrs. tendy......, Jack McGurn, widow of the Ca . Freceeesecee pone gangster who wasslain early. Saturday morning, were reported » ee to police today. . , Steps to protect her were im- , mediately taken, particularly be ~ cause authorities are eager to ob tain the secreta she is supposed - to possess which they feared would be sealed with her death. WIDOW GOES IN HIDING Mrs. McGurr’ was in hiding t day with her 12-year-old daugh ter by an earlier marriage, while i preparations were being com- S| j pleted for McGurn's funeral. é Meanwhile detectives, seeking through a record of McGurn’s re cent movements a clue to his fate, came upon a curious underworld story concerning a meeting of racketeers in Miami, Fla., where McGurn is reported to have. pleaded—literally—for his life, The answer was: Thumbs down. Police learned McGum went to Miami primarily to see Frank Nitti, formerly known as “the en: forcer” of the laws which Scar- face Al Capone laid down for his followers. PROTECTION REFUSED Instead of seeing Nitt! alon-, however, the story is that McGurn t was brought before a “committee” ; which gave him a chilly recep tion—not definitely ordering his } death but declining to protect his ; life. Among the members of the “committee,” it was sald, were Jake Guzik, former big shot, just - out of prison; Ralph Capone, . brother of Al; Willie Heeney, “utility man” in the Capone or | ganization, and Charles “Lucky” Luciano, ruler of the “U. 5.°— which means “Unione Siclliani.” The business before the conr mittee, police said, was the for- mation in Chicago ‘of a branch of the big loan shark racket which already had proved highly profit- able in New York—profitable be- cause @ man with a gun makes a highly efficient soeliestos, a splendid insurance policy against “pad loans.” _/ , a ard oa " “MRS. JACK McGURN \ Former “Blond Alibi”? Weeps At Death / ral es. -