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= Anniversary of Massacre- Sow - => Killer Killed CHICAGO.—Missing the seventh anniversary of the, 1929 Valentine's Day massacre by three hours, but not the: rubbed out Killer Jack Me- Gurn with two bullets in the back. McGurn’s executioners, still uni- dentified left a symbolic refer- ence to the seven year old score they were settling in the shape of a comic viaentine found beside McGurn’s body in the bowling alley where he was slain. F The rhyme s on the valen- Jack McGurn, tine rea . “You've lost your job, - “You've lost your dough, “You're jewels and cars and handsome houses, “But things could still be worse, you know, “You haven't lost your trousers.” SINISTER RED. The gaudily-colored ‘illustration, showing a scantily clad couple anding in a snow-drift outside a 4 1 i ! yuse marked “Sold,” showed one; at not from the pritin un addressee’s life blood. elve hours after the killing, solice were holding beautiful -suise Rolfe MeGurn, mate of the ead man, and vainly trying to ering. from the frightened an’s lips the name of the man sus- pected of leadership of the three- man pistol squad which surprised McGurn in the midst of an all- night bowling game and felled him as he squared off to launch his shot. Louise, who married McGurn four years ago when matrimony was the only escape for both from ; @ Federal Mann Act charge, told y both police and a coroner's jury 5 that she ‘couldn't imagine anyone wanting to kill poor Jack.” EIGHT HELD, The imaginations of the police were in better working order than the widow's. No Jess than eight men, all known to have good cause to celebrate Killer Jack's demise, were being held, while a confidential call was out for Jim- nberg, “baby” brother of Peter and Frank Gusenberg, two of the seven machine-gunned to press— man credited with that gory butchery, avengers yesterday, ——_— death mi a North Side garage on: St. Valentine's Day, 1929. CAPONE’S AID. McGurn’s widow was a valued aid to Al Capone. Besides serving Capone aa dummy in his alcohol? business, Louise gave yeoman aid- when McGurn, Capone’s execu-: tioner, was arrested as perpetrator, of the Valentine Day massacre. She swore without a blush that, at the hour of the septuple mur-: der, Jack was in her arms in hert boudoir, Her story gave McGurn his alibi, but caught both in the toils of Fed- eral law when G-men trailed them { to Miami a year later and arrested ’* them on Mann Act charges. The |’. > wily Louise, however, had one more trick in her fertile mind. She married McGurn_and.the Federal case collapsed, She freely told the coroner's jury | the details of McGurn’s last hours. i “We were | Louise McGura the little flat where the police however, told a differing story.’ “Jack had a Valentine dinner with me and then about mid- night he got up and £0 to sleep, honey. to the Avenue Alleys and roll af Two hours later, as he threw off his coat in the Avenue, a North- west Side recreation hall, three men strolled up as if to watch his play, and suddenly whipped out guns. Fifteen shots in all were fired. Two took effect, through the heart. hot em {BO BN