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Jack 'Machine Gun' McGurn assassinated...
Jack 'Machine Gun' McGurn assassinated...
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February 15, 1936
THE NEW YORK TIMES, New York, NY, February 15, 1936
* Jack 'Machine Gun' McGurn assassinated
* St. Valentine's Day Massacre fame
* Al Capone hit man
This 32 page newspaper has a two column headline near the bottom of the front page: "'Machine Gun' McGurn Is Slain in Chicago; Linked to St. Valentine 'Massacre' of 1929".
This is a early 1st report on the same day it happened. McGurn was the main hit man for Al Capone during the gangster heyday of the 1920's.
Other news of the day throughout. Light browning with little margin wear, 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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