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WENTY MORE WITNESSES TO SLAYING DISAPPEAR Continued from First Page. stories of jealousy for control of the mob. Hint Fight to Keuie Cabarets Other stories were that the hoodlums were quarreling over the distribution of what spoils remain of the golden; days of prohibition. There have been many threats, Other theories dealt with efforts of the hoodlums to re- gain control of the night clubs and the “wet spots” in the near North Side, It was reported that the old guard was challenging the rule in that sector of Bill Connors, ward committeeman and boss of the Forty-second Ward. There was thepossibility, too, that McGurn was killed in re- venge for one of the many crimes laid to him in other days of his underworld career. EXPECT REPRISALS. But whatever the motive, the police feared that the killing of McGurn was only the first chap-j ter in a new gang war. They ex- pect the friends of McGurn, who was 38, to strike back. and soon, Near McGurn’s weill-dressed, well-groomed body as it lay in @ pool of blood was a valentine. His name was written on the en-| velope in pencil. The valentine read: “You've fost your job; you've Jost your dough; Your jewels and cars and hand- some houses! . But things could still be worse, you know... At least you haven't lost your trousas!”