◆ SpookStack

Wt 7 \ ST paUL DISPATCH YER 17, 1936 ——- | eS SSS), He said it was unusuai tor a car AUTO PROVES CLUE IN M’GURN SLAYING! Gangster’s Car Found Aban- doned; Keys Recovreed May Be to Safety Box. i . 17,—(P)\—Finding of “Machine Gun Jacl MeGurys au- tomobile’ er the former “Scarface Al” Capone henchman was “rubbed out” in a second-floor bowling alley, gave the police their first tangible clue today in the hood- lum’s crude assassination, In the automobile, which was abandoned in an industrial section on the near North side, were two Keys, one which the police kelieved might fit a safe deposit box. They ‘were on a ring with three automo- bile keys. Previous to this, the authorities ran up against the usual blank wall of imperturtability surrounding un- derworld crimes. Reported threats against the lite of the gangster’s widow from an undisclosed source gave the police the additional task of guarding her. The widow, the former Miss Louise Rolfe, became known as McGurn's “blond alibi" after she established an alibi for him seven years ago when he was accused of the bloody St. Valentine day mas- acre of seven George (Bugs) Moran gangsters. Twenty persons were at the alleys when McGurn was shot twice in the back of the head, yet no one who would admit seeing the slayers has been found. William Aloisio, proprietor of the elleys, and two employes were the only persons who admitted being at the scene. They asserted the shooting began so suddenly and was over so quickly that they were un- able to tell exactly what happened. ‘William Schell’ employed by a@ motor delivery ‘company, told Sergeant Kyran Phelan jhat he: looked out of an office window when he heard an automobile door slam and saw a man jump from a car parked in front of the office. to stop there at that time of night.|, The man whe—Jeée the car, which|' proved to be McGurn’s, hurried to another machine parked across the street and drove away, Schell said. The police found the ignition key in place, but the wires to the switch had been disconnected. A search tor fingerprints was ordered. ‘The police held to a theory that McGurn was slain probably by a man whom he regarded as a friend. ‘They said only such a person could have come up behind him while he was at play. The hoodlum had entered the al- Jeys with two companions. The investigators believed the killing Was a “gang purge,” as they said McGurn had been in fear of his lite for some time. They also be- lieved the slayers fled in McGurn's; own car. The pomp that marked gangster funerals in the days of prohibition will be missing at McGurn's burial ‘Tuesday. Instead of a $15,000 silver casket such as the one in which Dion O'Bannion, another notorious hood- lum, was laid to rest several years| ago, McGurn will have one costing Jess’ than $1,000. The police said the essened glory represented the fall in the status of gangsters and the lack of popularity that was McGurn's even among his own kind. McGurn’s assassination, likewise, Jacked the elaborate flair shown in the slaying of O'Bannion, the Moran massacre and other notori- ous gangster killings _—_y t (4.1% °-A ™.