1929 newspaper GANGSTER Jack McGurn arrested 4 Murder ST VALENTINES DAY MASSACRE

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1929 newspaper GANGSTER Jack McGurn is arrested in Chicago for leading the massacre of 7 gangsters in the ST VALENTINES DAY MASSACRE on behalf of AL CAPONE's Gang
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inv # 4H-203
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SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE, ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the
Johnstown Democrat
(PA) dated Feb 28, 1929.
This newspaper contains a front page heading and 1/2 column report of the
ARREST of AL CAPONE henchman JACK McGURN for his leading the ST VALENTINES DAY MASSACRE of 7 gangsters in Chicago, IL
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The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre is the name given to the 1929 murder in Chicago of seven men of the North Side gang during the Prohibition Era. It happened on February 14, and resulted from the struggle between the Irish American gang and the South Side Italian gang led by Al Capone to take control of organized crime in the city. Former members of the Egan's Rats gang were suspected of a significant role in the incident, assisting Capone.
"Machine Gun" Jack McGurn (July 2, 1902 – February 15, 1936), born Vincenzo Antonio Gibaldi, was a small-time boxer, Sicilian-American mobster and key member of Al Capone's Chicago Outfit.Jack McGurn is associated with planning the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, in 1929, though this association has not been proven. 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.
Less than three years later, McGurn, by then impoverished and abandoned by his fellow gangsters, was assassinated by three men with pistols on February 15, 1936, one day after the seventh anniversary of the St. Valentine's Day massacre. He was bowling at the second-floor Avenue Recreation Bowling Alley, at 805 N. Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago.
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