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ee ~N “4 widGW ullart d. Po ue oe Car Found nd Abandoned 48 Hours After’ Soaring: Wiliotass: Dasan se ee ee By the Associated Press, CHICAGO, February 11.—Finding of “Machine Gun Jack” McGurn's + automobile, 48 hours after the former “Scarface Al" Capone henchman Was , “rubbed out,” gave tne police Uneir first tangible clue today in the hood- lum's crude assassination. ' In the automobile, which was aban- , doned in an industrial section on the ; near North Side, were two keys, one . which the police believed might ft .. a safe deposit box, They were on a e Sine with three automobile keys. Reported threats against the Lite” of the gangster’s widow from an un-. disclosed source gave the police the ~ y additional task of guarding her, . Casket Cole £1 on8 asket Costs $1,008, ( The body of McGurn reposed in’ a $1,000 casket yesttrday while detec-- tive squads sought a score of men in an effort to determine who killed him and why. Louise Rolfe McGurn—the widow who shared and spent a generous portion of the “millions earned by the old booticg syndicate—arranged for simple funeral services to- morrow morning. None of the lav- ish trappings so long identified with gangland’s formal farewells were in evidence. Curious crowds were con- spicuously absent at the mortuary, where the scar-faced “big fellow's” favorite follower lay in death. “Broke” at Time of Killing. Investigators said he was “broke” when assassins cut him down in a ‘cheap bowling alley early Saturday. ‘They held the belief his reduced finatices led to his slaying. They figured new leaders of the mob— McGurn's former friends—became an- ‘noyed by his attempts to jain them in the opcration of gambling, vice and illicit alcohol rackets and ordered his elimination. Police squads renewed efforts to frid the 17 witnesscs who fled from the recreation rooms, the two men who bowled there with the victim and the three men who precipitated the gun- fire by pretending to rob the place, =| ee ——_