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{ a \ A coroner's jury yesterday heard much of “Machine-Gun” Ji “ McGurn as Vincent Gebardi, “ Professional," but little, Indeed, of his activities as a Capone gang- ater and public enemy, or of the ;Peasons for his slaying. | Center of attraction at the in- ;quest into McGurn’s death in the county morgue was his widow, ‘in Rolfe McGurn, the “blond I bi" who saved him from prose- tion in the St. Valentine's Day assacre of 1929. Louise, wrapped in a coat which, she confided, was “Summer er- mine,” :her halr glistening with « ‘golden wash and tears threatening to carry away her stylish arti- ficlal eyelashes, insisted she didn't know what her husband's occu- pation had been. HIS NUMBER NOW. Tt was McGurn's brother, An- thony Gebardi, who offered the pro, employed, Anthony sald, at {the Maywood Country-Club. That statement was vigorously denied {by James Killgalion, president of he club. McGurn, he said, al- hough he was not employed there, frequently played the course. Bhooting @ neat 70—his number iow at the county morgue. , Louise was asked by Deputy Coroner James J. Whalen whether she thought her husband was a “pro.” She replied: “I don't know. IT know he played a lot of golf.”< THEY VISIT WAKE. Earlier she had told police that she knew her husband made money and that she thought he owned an interest in a handbook in Melrose Park—a handbook which, police said, had been op- erated by McGurn and closed by state's attorney's police. Recalling her husband's activi- ties shortly before his death, she |said, without apparently realizing ‘the grim trony of the statement, ithat on Thursday night he and she had attended a wake at 1335 a Austin blvd, where Giuseppe ae” 67, an old friend, had oe iday morning, she said, they had gone to the funeral, coming home twelve hours before information that Jack was & golf | ' INQUEST QUESTIONING « ! i i McGurn himself was ‘to be McGurn slept until 1] at nig! then left, telling her he was to. ing to bowl. GASPS AT QUESTION. But Louise, tense, pale, her car- mine fingernails digging deeply into her palms, insisted that he didn't tell her with whom he was going—that he never told her }anything of his movements or companions, and that she didnt ask him. She gasped with grief when she was asked If she knew his enemies, but insisted that sii: did not, that she had heard o: no threats made against him. And certainly, sfle said. she knew of no one whe would wish to kilis him. From William Aloisio. owner of the bowling alley at 805 Milwau- kee av.. in which McGurn slain, and from Tony Mascarella, the porter, the coroner's jury heard excited accounts of the murder, but no clue to the slayers. CONFLICTING STORIES. Aloisio declared that McGurn had never been in his place be- fore, and that he did not know him, his companions or the three “stickup men” who threw the place into conftision as McGurn was alain, At that time, Aloisio declared, McGurn and his two “friends” were waiting for an alley. Conflicting with that story was the testimony of Edward Bont- rek, 1128 Fry st., another pin boi, who said that McGurn and the! other two had already bowled two frames—that he was setting up pins for them, LD 3& dala Mo!