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Jack 'Machine Gun' McGurn assassinated...
Jack 'Machine Gun' McGurn assassinated...
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February 16, 1936
ALBANY EVENING NEWS, New York, February 16, 1936
* Jack 'Machine Gun' McGurn assassinated
* St. Valentine's Day Massacre fame
* Al Capone hit man
This 16 page newspaper has a two column headline on the front page: "JACK M'GURN, ACE CAPONE KILLER, SLAIN" with subheads. (see)
McGurn was the main hit man for Al Capone during the gangster heyday of the 1920's.
Other news of the day throughout. A few binding slits along the spine, otherwise in good condition.
wikipedia notes: Jack "Machine Gun" McGurn (1905 – February 15, 1936) was a key member of Al Capone's Chicago-based criminal organization known as the Chicago Outfit.
McGurn is best known for his association with planning the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, in 1929. Although police charged McGurn in the case, he was never brought to trial largely due to his "blonde alibi" - girlfriend and later wife Louise Rolfe - who claimed they spent the whole day together.
Later in 1936 McGurn became impoverished and abandoned by his fellow gangsters, was assassinated by three men using machine guns February 15, 1936, while bowling at the second-floor, Avenue Recreation Bowling Alley, at 805 N. Milwaukee Avenue (at Chicago Avenue).
The identity of McGurn's killers is unknown, but research and speculation by criminologists suggest two possible theories: revenge by George "Bugs" Moran, whose men Jack had planned to kill almost seven years to the date before or the South Side mob under Frank Nitti because McGurn (a heavy drinker and a braggart) had become a liability because of his intimate knowledge of the Outfit.
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