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Al Capone — Part 36

62 pages · May 23, 2026 · Broad topic: Organized Crime · Topic: Al Capone · 62 pages OCR'd
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SOUGHT SINCE KILLING, [S FOUND Left in Street by Gang Which Flees in Car, ‘The automobile of Machine Gun 4Jack McGurn, which had been sought by the police since the notorious {gangster was slain early Saturday in ,& bowling alley at 805 Milwaukee! enue, was found early today int! front of 315 North Ada street. It hag been left there only a few minute earlier. . Persons living in the neighborhood Teported to the police that a man who stepped out of the car, a Ford, joined several others who were in a second automobile and rode away with them. It was the belief of the police that the two men who entered the bowiing alley with McGurn shortly before he was slain fled in this car. The identity of these men has not been made known. William Aloisi, owner of the all and two of his employés—the only ‘ones of 20 witnesses who saw McGurn | slain available for questioning—have consistently maintained that they did not know them; nor McGurn, for that ‘matter. The car was clean and apparently4 had been kept in @ garage. The police ere of the opinion that whoever had & had decided to get rid of It as a, measure of safety. « Orders Bowlers Questioned. ee, 5 Capt. Martin E. Mullen Jr. ordered y yesterday that all persons known ag regu lar patrons of Aloisio's be ques: tioned, and detectives of the Racin avenue station were busy searchin; for these bowlers. There was no change In the police theory that McGurn was slain prob- ably by a man whom he regarded as @ friend. Only such a person, accord- ing to investigators, could have come up behind him when he was at play. Possibly, it was said, several men, in- cluding two who entered the bowling place with him, were in the murder plot. It was viewed as a “gang purge” to rid the Caponeltes of a man who, at 32 years, had outlived his underworld usefulness. Funeral Pomp to Be Missing. The pomp and circumstance that marked the funerals of gangsters in the days when Al Capone was grea; ‘will be missing tomorrow when Mg: ‘Gurn's body is buried. , Indications were that only a fay ssized cortege would follow it from the Rago undertaking rooms at 624 North Western avenue, to the place of interment in Mount Carmel ceme- tery. About 150 visitors called yesterday to view the body. Many of these were friends of the Gebardi famiiy [McGurn was born Vincent Gebardil, There was a sprinkling of his one time friends in gangland, but it was reported that many others were con- spicuously absent. There was no massing of floral tributes and no sheaf of telegrams from other cities. Instead of a $15,000 silver coffin such as the one in which Dean O'Ban- ion was laid to his final rest eleveg ‘years ago, McGurn will have a mod test one that cost something less thar '$1,000, Police officiais held that the lessened glory represented the fall in ‘the status of gangsters. i
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