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NA oe! Louise Visits Morgue and Peers | i at Body, Sobbing ‘Poor Jack’ ————— ba Se = ia “Blond Alibi’ Describes, Widow Fully Dressed Jack’s Last Hours in When Police Their Home. ' Arrive. Attractive Lout se Gebardi, i Continued from First Page. “blond alibi” of Vincent Gebard, covered by a sheet. His black hatr alias “Machine Gun Jack” Mc-(Was ruffled. There was a smudge Gurn, lowered a tear-stained/9D his forehead and blood on his handkerchief from her eyes ati For Just @ moment pretty Louise the County Morgue today to peer lowered her handkerchief. at her husband's body. | Then Sergt. Donohue had to 1 then —' CITY her back to the anteroom. There were no allbis then— “He offered her water, but she glist 2, s0b: i ‘said: don't ‘ “ k! They shouldn’ “I don’t want any.” oer a ner " _warlier, weeping softly at the haye done Itt fire widow Racine st. police station, where Near collapse, the gunfire widow she was questioned by Sergt. Don- walked across the yard supported ohue, Capt. Martin Mullen, De- by Sergt, Frank Donohue of the tective Lieut. Richard Barry, coroner's office, Her high heels Sergt, Kyran Thelen hit Patrol. clicked across the floor of the acre repeatediy for water amd anteroom where were Attendant for aspirin. : Justine Krutkewicz and Dr. Jerry WANTS DRINK EN ROUTE. Kearns, coroner's physician. | _ On the way to the station with They took _her—her black Sergt. Donohue, her escort on her ist day of widowhood, she had fromine Cont a We over er ves Ge" Fequested im to siop ata a black turban hat on her head @hsoline station for a drink of end little white ribbons on her ¥ ater. esto the second floor and- But that was all over at the j re slal m ». rgue. She had answered the | “Machine Gun Jack,” now jurt Westions of the Jaw. She had seen ine of four bodies in a roon ‘phere postmortems are held, was Continued on Page 4, Column 2. \ ‘Machine Gun Jack's" bullet-to-n , There was nothing now. She didn't want anything. Not ev ® glass of water. That was Louise Gebardi, in her happier days the sensational witness for the defense of “Mi chine Gun Jack” when the heat was on him for the infamous St. Valentine's Day massacre, perpe- trated exactly seven years before Jack himself was massacred. GAVE ‘JACK’ AN ALIBI. She testified then that she was With Jack at the time the seven were slain in the N. Clark st. ga- rege. He “beat the rap.” Later they were arrested to- gether in the Stevens Hotel and convicted under the Mann act, but the United States Supreme Court reversed the conviction Alibis today were needless. And, perhaps, it was just as well for Louise that they were. She in- sisted she knew of no reason for Jack's assassination, that she didn’t even know what he did for hours before his death. STORY OF LAST HOURS, Here, according to the police record, is her story of those hours. Q—When did you last see your jhusband? A--Between 1] and 11:30 p. m. February 14. 1936 Q—Where did he say he was going? A-—He said he was gong, bowling. BDofe F,