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(VALENTINE CONS KILL CAPONE THU “| Suspect in Chicago Massacre Slain—Comic Card Left : Near His Body | Continued from Page One and a woman in their under 1 wear. Standing in front of a house marked “Sold.” The doggerel verse read: | || "You've Idst your job, you've lost,” ag, wour dough: it ‘Your jewels and cars and hand- vous 1M houses: : “But things could still b. M soot e worse “At least you haven't lost , trousers.” et your «. William Aloisio, who owns th , e bowling alley, said he was sitting on 8 pool fable when the gunmen came . He ducked under it wh ; ‘began shooting. He when they w Score Crossed Off Vhen they had left, he lout, He saw McGurn’s two come ‘panions leisurely straighten out | McGurn's body. Then they walked lover to the bowling score sheet,| [tore off the page on which their! ames were entered, and strolled | Alosio told the police he didn't t 7 I * ' iknow who the men were. : But police found another crum- jpled Valentine on the floor, ad- i dressed to “Wallie De Grazio.” The Valentine had been torn up. Po- lige sought t0 learn whether De ! might have _McGurh's companions one of i} iree men who sought to <en into custody for questioning. They gave their names as John Battaglio, twenty-three; Charles Alozowka, twenty-two an Sam Alosio, twenty-one, brother of the ; bowling alley proprietor, i The Police also took Alosio and the janitor, Tony Moscarello, The 1 janitor said he was asleep_w) | UMETSMUOng started. sjese wen | eqeescuens body smese—tound PES a package: of cigarettes and two unused tickets for a prize fight Jat the Chicago Stadium last night. . He had no gun. ‘There was also an auto license in ‘the name of William Belmonte of Chicago and a bill of sale showing he purchased the car last Decem-; ber 24. . ’ Police hurried to the gangster's” home after the slaying. Mrs. McGurn, partly dressed, when she answered the door, had been sobbing, they said. Some one ° already had told her of the shooting. r fi'she said McGurn had been at +4 home most of the day, but had al a tended a funeral yesterday morning. = He had no life insurance and no° “bank account. She declared she was penniless and that the only == money they had to their names was the $3.85 found in McGurn’s pockets. Blayer Described A police description of one of the ~ . slayers said the man wes sbout <-twenty-five, five feet tall and “weighed about 180 pounds. =| Police knew of no motive for the “lerime. They had lost track of Mc- Gurn during the past two years. | Belmonte, in whose name Mc- Gurn's automobile was registered, said he had permitted the slain gangster to use his name in buying -lTicense plates because McGurn told lim he couldn't get them in his own |name, 1 ‘MeGurn's real name was Vincent |Gebhardi. Once a big-time gam- ibler and alky runner for Capone, he had fallen to operation of @ small gambling resort. | He was arrested on a vagrancy ‘warrant as he teed off at Olympic | Fields, August 27, 1933, where he (had entered the Western open tour~ nament under his read name. | With him at the time, was Louise Rolfe, the blonde alibi, whom he jmarried after divorcing his first | wife. McGurn was thirty-three. Always dapper, he had not given up his ‘flair for fancy clothe: When he was killed, he was wearing an ex- pensive gray suit, a bright red tie, red suspenders, and a fine linen shirt. Police said they last heard of Mc- : Gurn on July 15, 1935, when he was ‘ operating a gambling house in Mel- rose Park. Bets on horse racing. as low as 5 cents, were taken by McGurn himself, a sharp come-down from his affluence in prohibition days. In 1931 McGurn yas—lised as Publictiremry*No. 5 by the Chicago Crime Commission.