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ow—rrener Gebardi. FIVE REVENGE DEATHS LAID 10 STRIPLING. Jack McGurn, born De Mora, assumed name James Vincent Ge- bardi, dubbed “Machine Gun,” has murdered a number of men. A sleek, athletic, well-mannered fittle Italian known then as James Gebardi, was the son of an cooker who had been murdered «by one Orazzio Tropea, “The Scourge.” The kid Gebardi was hanging around the Maxwell st. station and he was told by police that his father had been put om the spilt. ‘He didn’t like that, but he didy't know what to do about it umbil one day he received a “blstk hand” letter, It told Gebardi to get out of town lest he feel the same urge that snet his father on his way. t HE HAS REVENGE The kid knew what to do then. He ducked for awhile, appearing as a professional boxer, and then he returned to the wars. His father had been put on the spot on January 10, 1926. On the joliowing February 15 Orazzio Tropea was shot—on the very spot where James Gebardi's father had died. Six days later Vito Bascone, who had aided in “collections” from the elder Gebardi, met the same pfate in the same place, Two days after that assassina~)| tion, on February 23, Eddie (“The Eagle”) Baldielli was killed, pre- TWO MORE CLAIN It wes March 7 before the ayen- ger of Old Man Gebardi got around to ‘bumping off Tony Pinalli, and it was thirteen days after that when Samuzzo ("Sa- moots”) Amatuna, who had lived long and prosperted by tbe gun, died ‘by the same means. All of these incidental killings were attributed to the stripling who hed taken on the task of avenging the Gebardi family— known in the old world as De Mors, “Samoots” had been striving to induce certain citizens to contrib- ute to a defense fund for John Bealice and Albert Anselm! = couple of no-goods who were then prominent in the picture and in hot water with the law. ADMIRED BY CAPONE McGum, as he became known after his retum from the profes: sional baxing game, was # nati ural enemy of that atrocious pall, fScalice and Anselmi. Be set out to gun for them, ant in his enthusiastic killings he earned the attention snd admira- ‘tion of Al Capone. That was a fortunate piece of discernment on the part of Ca~- pone, Because Scalice and An- selmi were eagerly plotting the death of Scarface. McGurn told Capone of the plot. A little later McGurn entertained Scalice and Anselmi and & fellow named Giunta at a spaghetti party in Cicero, Next morning the three guests were found de- porably dead. That coup apparently won Mc- Gurn his spurs as a Capone handy man. He became so prominent that he was shot at periodically. being wounded once in # tiff st ‘che McCormick Hotel, Rush and} Ontario sts. THEN THE MASSACRE sumably because he, too, had been, Then came the Capone mastef- ‘involved in the slaying of the be- piece, elimination of seven assort~ ed hoodlums attached to George /fa~ A doing of late, HERE’ His official »winwe record fol-j lows: January 1, 1930, arrested under the name of Jack McGurn, on a charge of carrying concealed wea- ns. February 5, 1930, indicted ‘fe above charge. a iMarch 20, 1930, held under the “mame of James Vincent for in. ‘pstigation in Miami. April 10, 1930, returned to Chi. cago from Mismi under name 0}: Jack McGurn. ‘ July 3, 1930, sentenced to one year in the county jail and fined; 8300 by Judge Frankhouser on a charge of carrying concealed ‘weapons. WIENS IN HIGH COURT December 26, 1930, that sen-/ tence was reversed and the case | vas remant by the esr oy Supreme! July 2, 1931, under name of Jack McGurn arrested for viola- tion of Mann act. Sentenced to; two yeats in Leavenworth peni- tentiary. Placed on probation for itive years. eptember 8, 1933, under name f* jof Jack McGurn, sentenced to six jronths in house of correction iter he had been found guil ‘ov wnerancy by Judge Thomas A. Green, 4 x t