CHICAGO MURDERS

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 136, 5 March 1929, Page 11

CHICAGO MURDERS

GANGSTER’S “GIRL” A ’ WITNESS EFFORTS TO AVOID IDENTITY (Rec. March 4, 7.5 p.m.) New York, March 3. A Chicago gangster’s “girl," who is protected by detectives against intimidation which has ruined other witnesses, holds the key to the position of the investigation of the Valentine Day murders. Even the newspapers have agreed to shield her identity. She is a pretty blonde girl, who was caught with Jack Magurn, who was known as Capone’s chief machine gunner, in his hide-out in a certain hotel. The police intimated to-day that the girl had related the whole story of the massacre. The newspapers call her Louise Rolfe, but though'she is the centre of the biggest crime story in America, the newspaper photographers have agreed not to snap her, and tlv 1 reporters will not interview her, in this manner assisting the police. It was reported yesterday that Jack Magurn, rated the ace of gangster machine-gunners, was arrested and charged with leading the Valentine Day massacre, in which seven men were shot in a garage. He occupied a suite in the Stevens Hotel three floors above where the State Attorney’s investigators' of this crime were quartered.