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Al Capone — Part 36
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“ONE LONE CLUE
INM GURNCASE
A FINGERPRINT
CHICAGO, Feb, 17 (1N.5.).—A]
lone fingerprint, found on the |:
abandoned automobile of “Ma- |
chine Gun Jack” McGurn, was the L
only definite clue ta his ‘assassina- ]
tion in police possession today,
Police admitted as much as they [
revealed the automobile of the }
one-time chief executioner for Al
Capone was recovered last evening
after being abandoned on a North
side residential street,
Witnesses told police the auto ;.
mobije was parked by a lone man
who fled In a second car,
Car Kept Two Days
Police marveled at the audacity
of the man or men who had kept
the car for two days while the
city was being combed for clues
chine-gunner.
MeGurn had driven the saute
mobile to the Northwest Side
bowling alley where he was slain
by three men early Saturday,
Adding to the mystery of the
slaying was the discovery in the
automobile of a newspaper dated
Thin.
December 30, and bearing the
headline:
“Frank Nitti hunted in Prig-
nano slaying.”
Police recalled that Frank, “The
Enforcer” Nitti, once a powerful
Capone chieftain, and McGurn
were bitter enemies, while Mc-
Gurn and Prignano had been
friendly.
Hiding Place Sought
to the murder of the golfing ma
|
anne vac Sn ea .
Assuming that whoever aban- |
doned the sutomobile would not
have dared drive it far, police be-
gan a systematic search of the im-
mediate neighborhood where it
was found in an effort to discover .
where it had been hidden. -
McGurn's “blonde alibi,” under
police guard following mysterious
threats on her life, prepared to -
bury him tomorrow without the
ostentation formerly accorded pub-
jic enemies, while police and the
underworld waited tensely today
for reprisals.
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Police investigation today cetit
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ered on thecoundup of some 26
bowlers who witnessed the slaying. -
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