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HELD USELESS ‘AND A RENEGADE, BY CAPONEITE | Underworld Silence Balks Inquiry. TURN TO GRAPHIC SECTION. The assassination of Machine Gun Jack McGurn recalls anew the decade of death which marked Capone's gang rule. The second chapter of the story of that era + will be found in the Graphic sec- tion of this paper. After twenty-four hours of investl- gating the murder of Machine Gun | Jack McGurn, Sicilian born swash- buckler who flourished for half a dozen robust years under the wing ict Al Capone, the police last night advanced a theory that McGurn was sent to death by some of his own supposed friends. They elaborated. ' | “McGurn,” they said, “was through, iYong ago as a big shot. He wat yoke and a nuisance to his friendd siness of the gangs—vice, game ——. Blonde Alibi Is Poor Help.. bling and bootleg alky. They were Ured of his interference or of his ee So they put him away for * peprived of His Defender. Capt. Martin Mullen Jr, held that arene now in Alcatraz prison, Uberty ‘and bossing the gangs, te would never have permite ted the killing of McGurn. “AL" he said, “was grateful to MeGurn for exposing a plot of John Scalisi and Albert Anselmi’ to kill him. MeGurn was credited with. wiping out those two men. But with Capone locked up, McGurn had lit. tle Influence. I don't think he was Powerful enough to make it worth anybody's while to break up his gang by killing the man at the top, >» “If he was, there will be a few devenge slayings. It's doubtful, though,} 4 there will be any; nobody in the, fackets cares much whether he's gone or not.” The Old Ignorance Gag. At least 20 persons were present in the second floor bowling alley at 805 Milwaukee evenue, known as the Aves inue Recreation rooms, at 1 a. m. yes+ i terday when McGurn was shot in the back and in the head by an unlden- titled man, or men, standing close be- hind him, Of the 20, only three have been found to tel? what they saw. And what they saw was, from the stand- point of evidence, negligible, The wall of silence, traditional among the gang |sters and the people who know them, was erected high and tight. Vague- ness afflicted not only the witnessde of the actual event, but even thos3 who were questioned merely sbo’ the victim's history [and they should, have known his career thoroughly], “I don’t know what Jack’s busin was,” declared his widow. “He never told me and I knew I shouldn't ase him.” Mra. McGurn, 20 known although her husband's real name was Vincent Gebardi, is the former Louise Rolfe: Back in 1929 she established herself as his “blonde alibi,” by signing statements asserting that he was with her in a hotel room [they were not married then] when seven north sida gangsters were slain in the St. Valen» tine’s day massacre. + McGurn was slain just a few min+ utes after the close of the seventh anniversary of that massacre. Beside his body on the floor was found & comic valentine twitting him on his joblessness and poverty. 1 Sergt. Francis Donohue of the edroner’s investigating force found Mrs. McGurn in her home at ’ North Kenilworth avenue, Oak Park. Swill handsome and tastefully dressed, she went to the inquest into Mc- Gurn’s death, where she took the stand weeping and dabbing at her eyes—but carefully, that the mascara on her eyelashes might not become smeared. Occupation a Family Mystery. “We Rave been told your husband was a golf professional,” said Deputy Coroner Grover Whalen, “Is that correct?” “I don't know.” replied the widow, “He played a lot of golf.” 1She then reiated that he had dt tended the wake of a friend, Gite seppe Circella, 1335 South Austin byulevard, Cicero, on Thursday nigh’ fe went to the funeral Friday morn- CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE 7 S, Sb