CRIME IN CHICAGO

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 64, 2 March 1929, Page 5

CRIME IN CHICAGO

LEADING GANGSTER ARRESTED. ECHO OF ST. VALENTIN’S DAY MASSACRE. [United Press Association—By CahleCopyrfeht.l [United Service.) (Received 2, 9.30 a.m.) New York, March 1. A Chicago message states that Jack Magurn, who is rated as an ace gangster and machine-gunner, has been arrested and charged with leading the St. Valentine’s Day massacre. He occupied a suite in Stevens’ Hotel, three floors above where the State Attorney’s investigators of this crime were quartered. A KEY WITNESS. BEING PROTECTED BY POLICE. [United Service.] New York, March 1. A gangsters’ girl, who is protected by detectives against intimidation, which has ruined other witnesses, holds the key to the position in the investigation of the St. Valentine’s 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 Capones, chief machine gunner, in his hideout 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 newspaper photographers have agreed not to snap her. and reporters will not interview her, in this manner assisting-the police.

On February 14 it was cabled that one of the most cold-blooded crimes in Chicago’s history was perpetrated when two automobile loads of gangsters raided the garage where a certain company had its headquarters, and murdered, with sawn-off shotguns, seven employees. The police construed the assassinations as the outgrowth of the so-called “beer war.” and thought it likelv that some of th? employees of the cartage company had been engaged in running beer. The victims were treated in the customary gang manner—namely, shot down without the slightest chance to defend themselves. All the murderers escaped.