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Al Capone — Part 36
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Crowd Rushes Out j' #
Into ZeroColdas_
. Bullets Fly
VICTIM TRAILED).
BY GUNMEN
12:50 and asked for an alley. It!
was the first time, Alosio said, that:
McGurn had ever been there.
_ The parlor is a long rectangular}
room, with four alleys along th
north side, and the benches tol |
the players at the west wall. O
the south side are several pool.
tables. A cigar counter is along
the south wall, about forty feet |
from the west wall. and west of:
it is the entrance door,
There were about twenty per- |
sons in the parlor, and Alosio told
McGurn he and his friends could
have the north alley, No. 1, as
soon as those playing on ft had
Tinished.
McGurn and his companion
took off their coats, and sa
jlons wrote the three names on
‘down to wait. One of his mon 4
‘sheet at the alley--a sheet whic
Patil ae
Gang Guns Roar Again—
PANIC AT CLUB
AFTE] KILLING:
oliad disappeared after the shoo
ri _“—
Alosio was sitting on a chai
near the cigar counter—with one
shoe off. He had been injured
in an auto accident, and his foot
was still bandaged.
Suddenly three men walked in.
They shouted:
“Stand where you are. This is
a stickup.”
Without waiting. they began to
shoot. At the first shot, Alosio
Plunged beneath a pool table. But
the three men, police learned.
had stayed near the door, firing
and ceiling.
fusilade of shots into the walls
Shot From Behind
They did not walk far into the
room, But McGurn who, astounded
at the shots, had whirled to face
them, was shot from behind.
Two bullets had shattered the
back of his head. MecGurn fell
on his back in front of the bench,
at the head of the aliey, biood
streaming from his wounds.
Three shelis from .45 caliber |
automatic pistols were found on
the floor near the door, apparent-
ly fired by the “stickup men.” No
hells were foun? near McGurn's
dy. and potice believe the two!
friends” who slew him used re-
folvers.
At the county morgue a COrO-
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