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Al Capone — Part 36
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combed for McGurn’s slayers, and [ " — .
a | then boldly drive it to the spot at poo Ses
j which it was left. Pir eats a
Investigators had been informed ; Lo. oe
XN panions drove im the car to the|
Avenue Recreation Parlor, 805° Ati weeds
a ‘Oriver Flees; on Seat of Car siain at 12:55 a. m. Saturday.’
is Newspaper Mentioning They believed that the slayers.
murder.
They assumed that whoever.
Forty-eight hours after “Ma- driven it far, and searched the
chine Gun” Jack McGum was shot immediate neighborhood in an ef-
‘bince his murder, was driven to
fae WN ada ef lact nisht and shea J
| two days while the entire city was
ee me BAER
that McGum and his two com- eh. fate ts \>-
nee ne mt etn. Milwaukee ay., in which he was, “4 ch pana
sed it flee
Frank Nitti and Prignano [*4." “° after the
abandoned it would not have,
and killed, his automobile, missing fort to find where it was kept.,
Wear O41, CRM OF. Ae Adil and 4 elshateal
a doned by & mysterious man, whi:
\ fled in a second auto.
. That act brought new mystery !
to police who have sought to
Pierce the wall of gangland silence |
and find a motive for the slaying.
For, on the rear seat of the car,
was found a newspaper dated De-
rember 30 and bearing the head-
line:
“Frank Nitti hunted in Prig-
nano Slaying.”
Police that Frank
(“The Enforcer’) Nitti, once pov
erful lieutenant of Al Capon:
d McGurn had been bitter ene
aies, and that McGurn and Stati:
Hiepresentative A. J. Prignano ha
fieen friendly.
recalled
Only one fingerprint was found
en it, showing that great care
had been used to avoid detection,
‘ CAPONE COUNCIL TOLD.
. It was the second time that.
‘the name of Nitti had appeared
in the investigation during th
‘day, Police had been told earlier:
that McGurn, fearing a plot to:
kill him, had appealed to a coun- |
cil of the Capone gang in Miam!_
for protection and had been de-|
nied aid. Included In that coun- |
cil, the police were told, were
Nitti, Ralph Capone and Jake
Guzik, only recently released from
prison. - ‘
WIDOW THREATENED.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Louise Rolfe
McGurn, his widow, was protected
against reported threats againgt
hr life, apparently designed ‘o
kéep he: from “talking.” Polite
{ dbubted that McGurn had cow-
' fided sry secrets to her and re-
,garded the threat as misdirected.
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