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a Ne 3 = ing, returned home at noon, and jortly afterward went to sleep, Hi 1 Awakened By Gun Play. t Mascarella related that he ‘isleep on a bench when the shoo! d went out with the remark thai] Ifning that preceded it. hen the murder took place, and the . ho andi y te g” person who was standing neasby a g one. ose at 11 p.m. Mrs. McGurn wal itarted and that he didn’t see ayy- ‘police have feint hope of ever Sud- intended to do a little bowling. € © “all I know is that I woke up to Did McGurn talk to her of any see one man shooting and telling w H Rather strangely, when McGurn shot down, he was not wearing enemies, and had he mentioned any everybody to stay down,” the porter 9 large diamond ring which habitually 2 asserted. “He kept firing till he threats? Mrs. McGurn taid no to > the stairs and then dived bos questions. down the stairway. Everybody else Of the stand she told Capt. Mul- sovlowed him but Aloisi and he tol Jen that she did believe Jack had an me to call the police.” interest in a horse racing book in The only fact of moment added by Cicero, but that she didn't know! Bonarek was that McGurn and his much about it. companions had taken off their coats Anthony Gebardi, a brother of the’ end had bowled one game before the slain man, said that McGurn was) fring. He said he was not close born in Italy, that he was brought to’ enough to observe who did the shoot- the United States as an infant, and| ing, that he was 32 years old. He was al It was generally agreed that fhe golf professional employed at Me shooting was furious and fast. Maywood Country club, according to 5 Gaberdi. ‘This statement was denied! |. Stores fleid Unreconcliable, later by James Kilgallon, president, { All the statements were like those of the club, who described McGurn| What were given in the days when gangsters were important elements in as @ frequent patron of the links. ‘ “He was a fine golfer,” said Kilpal-| #8 Population. Moreover, these dec- yon, “Often cot down in the 70s N Anthony Gebardi asserted he knew ‘he police asserted were verified || ‘nothing about his brother's under. facts. For one thing, they said, Mc- | world “activities, or of his enemies, GUrn bowled in the place three times if any. 2 week for the Jast month, and must Nevertheless, the police Jearned' have been well known to the owner from other sources that McGurn was 8nd to other patrons. . jumpy in recent months, and appar- . 50Me one, possibly the killer, hgd ently expected some dire fate, He 17¢ foresight fe tear away the sco} frequently requested the Oak ark jee we pore the names or fae police to give him special protection. iu are a ct pare and those wo One informant said he “went pretty }owled with him. There was left, ar- near crazy when a tire blew out Cordingly, no clew to the identity of close to him a few weeks ago.” Three Real Witnesses Found. The witnesses to the shooting itself are William Aloisi, 1121 West Huron street, owner of the bowling alleys; | his porter, Tony Mascarella, and a| pin setter, Edward Bonarek. 20 years | old, 1128 Fry street. The rest of the! awenty persons in the room at ne time have not been found. “I didn’t know the man who got killed," declared Aloisi. “He came in at 20 minutes before one with two other men, whom I had never seen. | They all sat around a few minutes waiting for an empty ailey. I paid no attention to them. About] o'clock I heard somebody shout that there was @ stickup and not for anybody to move. “Then there was shooting. I dived under a pool table that was near me and stayed there. There must hay: feen 10 or 15 shots fired. But I don't qnow who did the firing. I stayed here I was, sheltered, until things uieted down. I don't know whether ‘he man that did the shooting camc in with the man that was killed.” Jarations were at variance with what | 1 adorned his hand. His brother, Anthony, demanded this ring of the . investigators, and became indignant when he was informed that no jewelry was found on the body and no money, ether than $3.85. Mrs. McGurn re- solved this difficulty when she report ed that her husband had left the ring at home, Am Obsolete Mercenary. All in all, the police decided, McGurn was slain because he didn’t understand that he was an anechro- nism. There are no gangsters left like Capone, who can afford to pay their murdering help dig wages for pro- tection. MecGurn, unable to act with- out direction, stili pushed himself in wherever he could find a» loophole “here is even a fairly weil founded pelief that he was planning to tak era little booze and vice territory p_the vicinity of the bowling alleys From this information the Snvest gators reasoned that some other uit ‘Iderling of the Capone mob remnants had been assigned to gain his confi- dence and to end him. He was too expensive a load to carry, consider- ing his abilities. With considerable more than a grain of salt the police took @ per- sistent rumor that Capone, although | he must stay behind the bars at Alca-! traz for at Jeast (hree or four years more, is still getting his “cut” from skch business as the gang syndicdte hé controled can sul stir up. Douvt Power of Capone. art of this story is that Capone is able to purchase favors in the prison and that his faithful boys are stili loyal to him merely in gratitude for past favors. If that were true, the investigators reasoned, Capone would stil] he strong enough to protect his one time favorite, It is far more likely {hat Frank Nitti and the other chief ltains who are carrying on the tradi- tion of gang rule ia Chicago—on a miserably lessened Capone model— |pecame bored with « useless sort pli ‘\ppendage who was trying to live ‘yn his past reputation, and gave oltt fhe word that he was no longer pro CHICLCO DAILY aes ws fected from harm. Even gangsteks * TRIBUNE y Z ffi £- BE az