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WITNESSES IN. HIDING "AFTER KILLING IN BOWLING ALLEY A new Chicago gang war, rumblings of which have been heard in the underworld for many days, broke in Chicago early today with the assassination of “Machine. Gun” Jack ‘McGurn. * | The dapper little golfer, reputed to have beer! Al Capone’s No. 1 gunman in the wildest days of the prohibition era, was shot down at the close of a ("Coca-Cola Night” in the Avenue Recreation Par- Jors, a bowling alley on the,second floor at 805 Mii- waukee av. jir 1929 got McGurn out of , Three gunmen entered the)the St. Valentine's case ant! \place about 1 a, m., shortly! almost got him into the fed: behind McGurn, and, staging eral penitentiary on Mann a fake holdup, shot down Me- act charges. Gurn as he and two friends Louise was found about 5 waited to bowl. ,o’clock in the home she oc- leupied with Jack at 1244 N. Eight Held ;Kenilworth ay., Oak Park, by for Quizzing Sergt. Frank Donohue of the coroner's office. . Strangely enough, the’ murder came at the close of McGurn’s Two the seventh anniversary of the St. Valentine’s Day mas- Friends Flee At the county morgue she sacre of 1929, the wholesale killing of seven Moran mob- quivered as she looked at her sters for which McGurn was) husband’s body and cried: indicted but never tried. “Poor Jack. They 1 Five hours after the killing| ant have dongtt om the police held eight persons] McGurn’s two companions Vor questioning, one of then! had fled immediately after Being Louise Rolfe McGurr, | the shooting, perhaps in his the “blond alibi” whose story| #utomobile, which was miss- i JACK M’GURN. They Finally Got Him? ing, and police did not know who they were or if they had put him “on the spot.” In fact the murder of Mc- Gurn stood out as a mystery as great as the many crimes in other days attributed to “Machine Gun” Jack, but written in the record as un- solved. Theorizing, the police pointed to stories of a wide schism in the ranks of Al Cae one. The recent return front prison of powerful figures ike Murray Humphreys ang Yack Guzik have brought Continued on Page 3, Column 1,