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McGurn soon became in- in difficulties with the North Siders, and the immediate’ ee Hl result was an effort to kill him.|, TO TOP PAVED WITH BULLETS Gangster Narrowly Escaped ( Death Many Times; Survived Terror Reign of Dry Era (battle against his former allies. Jack McGurn, product of “the Valley” on the lower West Side, |the law when federal agents seized e-time pugilist. graduated from | him and his “blonde alibi,” Louise the age of street fighting and thy filw years in the ring to the dead! ch warfare of gangdom in the mid jdle of the prohibition era. . i His “rise” to infamy as one of , the most deadly machine gunners! "was accompanied always by the: menace of death. Many times he - narowly escaped the vengeance that overtook him last night, fif- teen years after he became aligned with the liquor gangs. REAL NAME GEBARDI. His real name was Gebardi. He As he stood in a telephone booth in @ smokeshop at 616 Rush st., two men entered the shop ana fired on him with a machine gun: and a pistol. He survived two wounds. t JOINS CAPONE. | His answer was to join the, Capone gang as an active warrior in years of battle. And identifi-/ cation of him by witnesses to the beginning of the St. Valentine's Day massacre of 1929 indicated he took part in the most effective After the murder charge for the massacre was quashed he became involved in lesser difficulties with Folfe, June 25, 1929, on a Man act charge resulting from thei trip together to Florida. SCAPES BY MARRIAGE. Though he was convicted and sentenced to’two years in prison, he escaped the penalty by an ap- real to the United States Supreme Court based on his marriage, meanwhile, to Miss Rolfe. He had been married previously to Mrs. Helen Gebardj, but was divorced. He had one child by that mar- riage. After repeal of prohibition Mc- Gurn became a gentleman of leisure, playing golf in costly togs took the name of McGurn for the jat fashionable courses in amateur priv> ring. He was 38 years old, |tournaments. He bought the home He became aligned with the {in Oak Park, and engaged in vari- ous gambling enterprises. North Side gang in 1927. ‘The /OUS,Sambling enterprises. gang had been headed first by tournament at Olympia Fields on ] Dean O'Banion and included ‘August 27, 1933, were amazed to > Hymie Weiss and Vinceilt q8ee police invade the course and 7 ("Schemer”) Drucci—-al! shot to \rcice & golfer about to tee off on ” I death during the years of batJe /{ {ne seventh tee. The golfer was Gurn, entered under the nam: with the Capone mob. Later | McGurn, George (‘Bugs") Moran, still liv-[/o! Gebardi. He was arrested olt - ing, led the North Side crew. ||" Vaerancy warrant. .