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Al Capone — Part 36
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Blond Alibi| Killed on Massacre
{
Hunted in Anniver.
oe with Jack McGurn just seven
years after the most infamous
'erime with which he was charged
—the St. Valentine's Day massa-
cre of 1929 In which seven of
“Bugs” Moran's gang were slaugh-
tered.
On February 14, 1929. the seven |
men were lured to @ garage at!
2122 N, Clark st. by a fake phone
call.
At 11 a. m. an automobile re-
sembling # police squad car hal
ed in front of the garage, An-
ether car pulled up at the rear.
}Two men in police uniform entered +
trom the rear and four entered
from Clark st. i
The intruders produced ma-
|. chine guns from under their coats
‘and lined the seven Moran gang-
. eae sters against the wall, announcing
i t it was a liquor raid, and pressed‘
- whe P triggers, sending a deadly stream
of bullets into the seven men,
. i mowing them down into a lifeless
i $ i 3 bloody row of bodies.
t " Though Moran had not fallen
into the death trap, the massacre
virtually destroyed his gang, kill-
ing Pete Gusenberg, Frank Gusen-
berg, Al Weinshank, James Clark,
John May, Adam Heyer and Dr.
Reinhardt H. Sthwimmer,
Three weeks later McGurn was
seized by police in a downtown
| hotel and identified by two persons
| fas having been seen to enter the
| jearage. But his “blond alibif’
“ wees. | pretty Louise Rolfe, said she and
, : ‘McGurn had been in the hotel jtt
the time of the massacre, and Mz-
Gurn was freed.
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LOUISE ROLFE M’GUR
‘Blond Alibi? in massac
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