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~ T\\ donaily Snows “eaparade. eo: ee ~ } —ink “Gusenberg. died within an NY —~ QO =the arrest of Mecurn February Ducked under pool table ef ahooting. Valentine Massacre Spotlighted McGurn' The Gt Valentine's mamacre Mt dingraced Chicago and made ‘nchine Gun” Jack” MoGura red February 14, 1029, me fare at 2131 8, Clark ot. ‘Seven members of the “Bugs” pram mod, supposedly awaiting Tage when two men drewsed tn ee uniforms ‘walked into’ Ube hat happened waa never ‘on. but ‘apparentiy the fake Ucemen ned Une tea up as © raid, whereupon other mach~ runners who catme in the back xtabot them down aa they stood ‘inst & wall The acene later, ‘seven men Lying in the blood uttered room, is the high spot the history of prohibition law- wntas in Chicago. GURN SHOT BEFORE. Bix of thé victsms were dead €2 police arrived. ‘The seventh | Ahern, repestedly rressed for tra), | but the mate Xept taking cantina: ance Claiming that additloon! feridence was being uncovered. In the meantime Scalise was as- saanated in x qung killing gen- ‘rally laid to the Capone mob, 1MGURN'S CASE STRICKEN, McGum Ultimately was edmaii- ted to bei! and finally,"in Decem- ber “ot i838, the indicesient aging hum was stricken when, Soe the fourth consecutive. ter wre after meslontne’ “palice Tserberg. ane his brother aie Tied to the meer | “Things could still be Worse, you entine addrensed to Jack MeGurn and know." was the Ironic phrase oa tbe val ary Ex we eats mee Fie bia toaned on the floor Len feet from hin body. LAW, GUNS Jeck McQurn for 28 years bore 1 been accused a ‘year befare | of court, be appeared ready for) a harmed fe The shooting of MeGurn. “Me-| trial and the state was not. No| The law never quite caught up one was ever tried far tne erume | with him when ambushed in Als car | Rad been taken supposedly to Alexian Brothers Hos ‘Bo ended the prosecution of Me Gur for the’ Valentines Dey ‘Masaacre without the blond alibt fever appencing im court, Several moaths later came the prosecution of McOurn and Lou- ‘be on federal Mang act charges Fesulting from thelr trip to Florida fogetner, ‘which dragged on for Years until the United States Bus! FE had been shot through the a Te rallied and ved and his ow gangsters spirited him eway gm the ospieal wtule he wae Fun ‘precarious condition. "WANTED FOR MASSACRE. The mastacre started a furore eleewer ‘The gangs almost got him in 28: tren he survived eight years more during which. in hotel lab- Dies. on wolf inne, in Fiorige and be wae the owt con- picoous ‘character of ‘Chicago’. Snéerworid. ‘The blond Louise Rolfe whom he marrie€ in RY Attempt to beats Mano ect case, ‘was aimost constantly win him, Made him even more conaplcuous, Chicago. Rewards. totaling | Breme Court finally upset his con | 0 sere otfered and the got | viction by Federal Jaage Lindley (But. somehow” tne "€apper gun: iislea seventeen men a4 want: | "hich had twice been upheld ty|™an escaped during a) these for the the Court of "Appeai, he mt | AN “UNSOLVED CRIME." at ten daye. inter when ad eamcre omobite was found ina bum: | wciees Sowa in Chass uutisately went gown, in Chicags, crime snnais aa "an unaaived | crime, In the paaaing years there as been a genera! opinion ameng po" Dee and other invertiatare chat Moore ‘was certainly Bot ‘the ieader ih the plot cree (DOE, Hera accepted found the machine gun- | {wor it ‘hat the head man in, mt found, the “machine Fl | the execution af whe seven heres | amit tate Rote Bar| emery wee Pred Ter | Fei ease, Real Sake thn capone ally no i Feat Doe te serving a Lie sentence in iach Farage at. 1723 N. Wood st —_-Hrent excitement was occasioned ‘two weeks after the murder | before ‘the Bt years the arsaasination thet over: Took! so many of his contempo- "His career was almost cut short Valentine's Day massacre that made him ha- | fonaleruminad celebrity. we wan ambushed in bu car in 1928 and hot Whrough the lung. SPECTACULAR more humerous and even” more spectacular, His furse big brush with the low came in 1627 when he was grabbed in # police roundup when Eunmen were se:sed on disorderly | Conduct chatges and subjected 10 Sanity testa. After ‘many “coo Mouanees. during which the dap- CHEATED FOR 12 YEARS per Jack demonstrated his men- | charges and federal charges under [tat niternees, be was finally az-|the Mann act based on their trip* uted, to Florida and other southern. re. ‘And ia bis behalf the nen sorts Algerman A. J. Prignano eppeared| ‘The state cace drasred 1 testify as io Une food character avers tnd. 8 jot MeGhirn. “That war the same ond forfeiture Prigmano who was» state repre sentative when he was snot down snd ‘killed in front of hus ‘Twen- fleth Ward home the night ef j December 29. 1938. "The “next year thedencally jangster ‘who never fix prosecution. ‘while ne was elu) fighting tm Municipal Mann act conviction ip 1930 he JCourt McGura beat a charge of wat tried by Judge Prankrauset ed faced income Jearrying concealed weapons when on charger ol ‘carrying corceaiet Judge Rooney was convinced the) seapons and sentenced to's yeal [irum'he waa charged with carrying |in Jal and « 3900 ‘ne "wad Dot cononaled but was IyinS' FLED TO FLORIDA. Desige hum on the west offen auion| LED TO FLORIDA ease Jura tried to avoid the sun tla) by Jumping bond and. tie. er, VALENTINES NEXT. ing to Florida. But eventualis be McGurn's next big claah with| was caught there on Al Capone's tbe law was the St. Valentine’s|paistial estate and Drury and Massacre. ‘There was great exciie-| Howe went down and brought fan ment when he was arrested two| back weeks ‘after the iting of seven | COURT AID TO AOODLUMS. |Meran mobsters in aN. Clark at| Atocness Thomat Nash and rage and the police announced| acienaee! Ahern. who fought most he had been positively identified of tcGurn's cour battles eatrorc by two witnesses, one a myster-|the case lo the Ilinols Sup" Hous society equestrienne whose | Court and won a. reversal on it HIdentity’ was closely guarded.” : ground that thr detectives act Polled in their efforts to con- search warrant whe they se~c viet “him of the massacre, the |McGum The decision mnt sa Drewecutors moved ewainat the, freed Pion bul etiier Nondlums #2e air in alate courts ce statutory ling similar prosecutions tga for the murder ef « pobse: nthe face of reported posi: pou — 7 | tery Ca fidow Fully Dressed! Mecnine Gun Jaci's” puttet-torn | 24 J body. There was nothing now She | When Police |SaR ti st en Bila" Cliue onnardy Arrive. her happier daye the sensational | witnens for the defense of Ma: chine Oun Jack” ‘when the heat Yak on low for ene sntarmour Bt lentine' Day massacre. perpe- trated exactly seven sears before | Jue himnsell was mastacred. GAVE ‘JACK’ AN ALIBL Bhe testified then that she was Continued from Firet Page. ered by a sheet. Hla black hair Tuttled” There waa w mDUdee | is forehead ead blood on is Sr Just a moment pretty Loulse ered her handkerchiet hen Sergi Donohue had to | Gy er back to the anteroom.. [ere 3) Ip the N. Clark { offered het water, but ane|tage He “beat the Tap H Later’ ney were atrested to 71 don't want any.” ether sn the Stevens Hotel and ier ‘weeping softly al the|tonvicled under the Mann act Tne at. police. station, “where [DU the United States Supreme ‘was quetlloned by Sergt, Don: [Court reversed the conviction, Albis today were needless. And, | perhaps. it was just aa well for [Louise inat ‘they were She ins) sisted ahe knew of no reason for Jacks" Awastination that ane didn't even know what he did for hours belore his death, STORY OF LAST HOUBS, Here, according to the polloe| ve, Capt. Martin Mullen. De- Wee. ‘Lieut, Richard Barry, fl. Kyran ‘Thelan and Patro, E Richard P. Broehi, aha had ed 1 peatediy far water and sspiria, NTS DRINK EN ROUTE. ™m the way to the station with ft Donnie, ber escort ao et |neSer ee you vowied?” A—No, ‘Q_Was ary one with him when the Rouse? "AN, ‘Q—Of your own Enowleder do you know If he had apy trouble ‘Fith any one lately?” A—Ro, TOLD RY REPORTER Q—Do you know he was ahot apd killed” inst evening. "A—Yes. A reporter came to my bose nd told: me, Earlier Loulae had told Beret know where he ith Jack at the time the seven | DoPOnUE of & mystery phone call telling her pened. ‘Q—Do you Rnow of any ree son why be should” have been Xitled? -A_No. Do you know if he belonged to any secret or labor organisa ‘omething had hap- istey? ‘Q—How did he leave home last. night? AHe left in hie own, Ford coupe Toulse was taker, to the station tor questioning by Bergt Donon. WAYS IN WALK TO CAR “Tube we te nim Take me | ime Loaise naw ln alse te him The said she didnt know hs! | then Beret. Donchur rang her’ dark had! been Goin. fort idcorbel enciv today ahe_anewerrs|ieioly ‘but she. theuthe eer “delay. She wen fully! Ge owned a piece of & bes Greed, sobbing but not hytler-| at Melone Parke jicat ‘whe Bera, Donahue and feret Donohue asked! pore approached MeGuns De vou know about Juckt= | ome it was evident that bed news Ane an 4 ta [Bad arrived fire wet MY Get! Blew bade acier LAMP BURNING. “We, e's ane | Through a window they could Apd Louie threw on her fur!see te maser bedtoom. ot a“juunty black hat and first oor A night lermp bar ied" down the path with Bers. dimly weiween tous RYT tein Bononue j beds of aspen wood. But ine bedt TELLS OF PHONE CALL. were deserted, ‘She tld of the phone call as] They peered through anoth: they drove ‘te the” station, but] "sndow into & nar don It during the of | beled in dark cof like the 21d not mention it during the of ike the Jfieiat questioning, @horiiy fuer Bedroom. Tt, t00, was which wan vacant “Deo bedrooms on the second oor ali were emper 'h be Hevea" one War ied ty Medurt's nad "pee io a? wake Thursday | Seyeatvord daughter. «aries Inivht'"Fetaréay seming he hed |auburnchatced Benes” But i Ke Teabat wo "tne loan” wkien fale (waa the daugier had flown, | “Something bas happened to ance But ahe tnsisted thet was al. Tronicaily, ane revealed, Jack Hl Tells ‘Blond Alibi’ of Y p,