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ft - “Machine Gun’? McGurn - Slain by Three Gunmen ‘ (Continued from First Pai jure, deathly pale from grief, with | spots of color showing from the req ‘of her nails and lips, and the dark brown at the roots of her blonde chair. ‘It was revealed during the in- quiry that McGum is the mother of a 12-year-old daughter. When asked about the child she ex- ‘claimed: “Oh, don’t ask me. how I feel?” Silence Confronts Police. The slaying of McGurn did not have the class or the finesse that accompanied murders charged to “Machine Gun Jack,” but it had all the elements of silence that con- fronts police in the average gang killing. Four men were questioned by the pilice, but professed to know little Can’t you see o:j the killing. Two of them were in J tie bowling alley when MeGurns! ‘eilers entered. All of them declare they knew McGurn only by whit they had read in the papers. Those questioned were Willial “Aloisio, owner of the bowling alley; Sam, his brother; John Battaglio, 23 years old, of 1154 West Ohio street, and Charles Alozowska. The latter| three were picked up when they entered a restaurant below the! bowling alley after the killing. William Aloisio was held for the inquest and was due for some more quest‘oning, despite his assertions that he did not know McGurn. Valentines on Counter, One fact compelled police to be-| lieve that Aloisio might have been chummy with McGurn. On cigar counter in the bowling alley were found four valentines similar to the one found near McGurn's body. These valentines were all ad- dressed in the same handwriting as| that which carried the name of McGurn. They bore the names of| Nick de John, Doc Pecaro, Dyme and Skippy. Racine avenue station that he was g started. He said he believed bout fifteen shots were fired. Tony Mascarella, 2023 Grand iflavenue, employe of the bowling {i-| ley, also witnessed the shootillg. He dived behind a radiator when the bullets began to fly, but said e would be unable to identify the killer of McGurn, “I was asleep tm a chair at the side of one of the alleys,” he said. “I awoke to see one man with an automatic pistel backing out of the | entrance door, shooting as he went. | I jumped for a radiator.” Two Men with Victim. McGurn, accompanied by two other men, entered the place_be- tween midnight and 1 a.m. They) chose two of the four alleys in the place, took off their coats, pawed over the balls and prepared for a game. One of the party had marked up the hames of the three on the score sheet. Before the bowling had started the three assassins entered. There were about fifteen other men in the place besides the McGurn party. “Stick ‘em up, everybody,” shout ed one of the intruders. * Before anybody knew what was up the assassin with the automatir: began firing at McGurn at a dist tance, police supposed, was between twenty and thirty feet, Shot Twice in Head, McGurn caught two bullets before he could turn around. One entered his skull just above the nape of the neck, the other behind his right ear. The ex-Capone killer slumped down on his back on the sleek maple flooring of the bowling alley —dead. When police arrived he was still sprawled there in his shirt- sleeves with two rivulets of blood pouring out of his nose. MeGurn was dressed in his usual immaculate style. He wore a gray suit of good tailoring. gray spats, a fine shirt and a red tie. Slung over a bench behind the alley were his suit coat, a black overcoat and a derby. . Besides the valentine, police found Jim] among McGurn effects an aulomo- bile identification card issued to | Alosio told Sgt. Kyran Phalen! witiam Belmonte, so4l Harri ‘and Capt. Martin’ Mullen of the! sirece Dumont, 5841 Harrison Belmonte, a tailor at a loop shop fitting on a bench when the thréel. where McGurn had had suits made, hillers came in and that he dived 'tsld police he had allowed McGur lnder @ pool table when the shool- 'ty use his name in procuring licens| Plates for his automobile, to avoi the difficulties that beset the not rious gangster in his public bus: ness affairs. fight at the Stadium fast night: ey were $2 mezzanine seats, an: id not been used. .85 in his pockets. Companions Suspected. The possibility that McGurn's tw bowling partners may have led him to the slaughter engaged the y vlice in thought, but they were at a loss to find out who they were, in view of Aloisio’s statement that he did ino even know McGurn, let alone his companions. As McGurn’s companions crowded out of the bowling alley with the rest of the customers, they took with them the bowling sheets on which ‘their names were inscribed. There was some question as to ow many shots were fired in th illing. Three bullet holes were al: hat the police found on the prem- ses. One was over the door, lead4 if police to believe that McGurn’s companions may have returned the fire of his killer. There were four .45 caliber shells scattered on the floor. Two were near McGurn’s body, one near the door and one near a_ telephone booth adjacent to the door. Police learned that William de Grazio, a guard at the bridewetl. frequented the bowling alley and planned to question him to learn if McGurn was a regular visitor there. Aloisio, although he admitted he had conducted a gambling place before the “heat wave” last sum- mer, said that no gambling had been carried on in the bowling al- |leys. Inquest Is Opened. > McGurn's body was taken to the pounty morgue, where an inquest "se pockets were-two de 8 {o the Hank Bath-Red Bur- There was ‘was opened by Coroner Frank Walsh today. Mrs. McGurn told her question- ers that her husband had gone to a funeral yesterday morning, but! that she did not know who the cen-- tral figure at the funeral was. McGurn returned to Oak Park in the afternoon and slept through into the late evening, she said. About 11 o'clock last night, Mrs. McGurn related, her husband dressed and announced he was going out to bowl. A retiring wife, Mrs. Me- Gurn declared she did not learn with whom he intended to bowl, or where. * Of McGurn’s business, Mrs. Mc- Gurn declared she knew little, ex- cept that he had an interest in some handbooks, one of them in Melrose Park. This handbook, which has been' conducted by McGurn and his ap- fie for more than a year “de- ite frequent public notice of it. cated in the quarters of the funct Citizens State Bank of Mal- ‘ipse Park, at Broadway and Main street.