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- f iS 6 J- leo A emt eee = i. = _ t ‘Gar Found Abandoned 48° Hours After Shooting. f Widow Guarded. By the Associated Press, CHICAGO, February 17.—Finding of "Machine Gun Jack” McGurn’s + automobile, 48 hours after the former “Scarface Al" Capone henchman was “rubbed out,” gave thes police thelr . first tangible clue today in the hood- _ lum’s crude assassination. j In the automoblle, which was aban- doned in an industrial section on the { near North Side, were two keys, one - which the police believed might fit . @ safe deposit box. They were on a ; * ring with three automobile keys. Reported threats against the Uie’ of the gangster’s widow from an un-. disclosed source gave the police the” » additional task of guarding her, Casket Costs $1,008. i The body of McGurn reposed in a $1,000 casket yesthrday while detec-- tive sqaads sought a score of men in an effort to determine who killed him and why. Louise Rolfe McGurn—the widow who shared and spent a generous portion of the ‘millions earned by the old bootieg syndicate—arranged for simple funeral services to- morrow morning. None of the lav- ish trappings so loug identified with gangland’s formal farewells were in evidence. Curious crowds were con- spicuously absent at the mortuary, where the scar-faced “big fellow's" favorite follower lay in death. “Broke” at Time of Killing. Investigators sald he was “broke” when assassins cut him down in a ‘cheap bowling alley early Saturde: They held the belief his reduced finauces led tw his slaying. They figured new leaders of the mob— McGurn’s former friends—became an- cmoyed by his attempts to join them in the operation of gambling, vice and illicit alcohol rackets and ordered his elimination. Police squads renewed efforts to find the 17 witness:s who fled from the recreation rooms, the two men who bowled there with the victim and the three men who precipitated the gun- five by pretending to rob the place, | —S { vo