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| two days while the entire city was ; combed for McGurn’s slayers, and | then boldly drive it to the spot at which it was left. | Investigators had been informed that McGurn and his two com- “XN panions drove im the car to the! Avenue Recreation Parlor, 805, ) Milwaukee ay., in which he was! ‘Driver Flees; on St on Seat of Cai hale at 12:55 a. m. Saturday. 1s Newspaper Mentioning They believed that the siayers: Frank Nitti and Prignano at wet it % fee etter the’ murder. They assumed that whoever abandoned it would not have Forty-eight hours after “Ma- driven it far, and searched the ‘hine Gun” Jack McGurn was shot! immediate neighborhood in an ef-/ ‘and killed, his automobile, missing fort to find where it was kept. (Picture on Page 4.) ince his murder, was driven te O15 N. Ada st. last night and aban? © doned by & mysterious man, wh(: fled in a second auto. “That act brought new mystery! to police who have sought to Pierce the wall of gangland silence and find a motive for the slaying. For, on the rear seat of the car, Was found s newspaper dated De- ember 30 and bearing the head- line: “Prank Nitt{ hunted in Prig- nano Slaying.” Police recalled that Frank (The Enforcer") Nitti, once pow- erful lieutenant of Al Capons id McGurn had been bitter ene: nies, and that McGurn and Stati: Tkepresentative A. J. Prignano hat Heen friendly. Ly. Only one fingerprint was found nm it, showing that great care had been used to avoid detection, CAPONE COUNCIL TOLD. ; It was the second time that the name of Nitti had appeared in the investigation during th day. Police had been told earlier that McGurn, fearing a plot to: "| kill him, hed appealed to a coun-: cil of the Capone gang in Miamt for protection and had been de-| nied aid. Included in that coun-' cil, the police were told, were Nitti, Ralph Capone and Jake Guzik, only recently released from prison. . WIDOW THREATENED. Meanwhile, Mrs. Louise Rolfe McGurn, his widow, was protected against reported threats againgt her life, apparently designed +o :| keep her from “talking.” Polite dbubted that McGurn had cop- fided + vy secrets to her and re- ,Sarded the threat as misdirected.