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Al Capone — Part 36

62 pages · May 08, 2026 · Broad topic: Organized Crime · Topic: Al Capone · 62 pages OCR'd
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— eS eS er = = —— == ‘=e eS =. = Trio Kill Ex-Capone Chief in Alley, Pistol. McGurn was neatly dressed in gray and wore gray spats. In his , pockets were found $3.85 end two tickets, unused, to the Bath-Burman '. fight. | [Continued from first page} Card Gives Polloe a Clew. Some Importance was attached to a card bearing a telephone number, Delaware 3943, and the name “ Hen. ny.” The police supposition was that this Henny might have been one of the men with MeGurn when he went | into the bowling alley, which he vis- 74 ited frequently. iaeoni the plot, To support mart thle che police pointed out that all the Captain Disensses Motive. - “But anything. could have hap pened in this tnstance,* he added. “MeGurn had plenty of people with | reason to bump him off. My guess ix that he had stepped on somebody's | toes in the alky recket or the gam: ' bling business. and recently. The! wangs don't usually shoot to avenge | something that happened years ago. | They put enemies out of business for what they're doing now.” Three men, one of them a brother of Alosio, were seized in front of the bowling place shortly after the shoot- ing. All denied they knew anything of the slaying. Later the police dis-; covered a man who admitted he was upstairs, He is Tony Muscareilo, 2023 Wert Grand avenue. His statements cost little Hght on the mystery, how- ever, as he asserted he was asleep It was the velief of the investiga. [when the shooting started, tors, Headed by Capt. Richard Barry, that the killers had accurate know!- edge that McGurn would be in the bowling rooms, at about the time he arrived. Probably, it was said, they yeited for him and climbed up th Htalre to the second floor as soon 4 i. and his friends had clear-d th fallway. i } It was even theorized that the me iwho went with him might have been The police set out on a search for the pin boyz on duty on the theory that they were more likely than any one else to have been looking directly { McGurn as one of the bowlers, | | | » Colorful Gangland Figure, McGurn, whose real name was Vid. nt Gebard!, was one of the most colorful of all the figures in the gang err
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