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Al Capone — Part 36
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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.
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