![]() ![]() He told the police and the media that he carried a gun because his stepfather was murdered, and his life had been threatened, both of which were true but gloss over the full truth. When arrested, he played the victim’s role. McGurn had a cherubic face and didn’t look like a typical gangster. It was known as an Outfit hangout and a place where big bets could result in the exchange of as much as $10,000, or about $150,000 in today’s money. He held part ownership in Evergreen Golf Course, a daily-fee operation in suburban Evergreen Park. In his spare time, McGurn loved to play golf and became quite good at the game. When McGurn was picked up by the police, the Outfit’s lawyers got him released. His weapon was a necessity of life members of other gangs knew who he was and his reputation as a killer. McGurn was a suspect in many gangland killings, but he never was convicted of anything more than carrying a concealed weapon and served only probation. McGurn married his girlfriend, Louise, the Blond Alibi, and they lived the good life, moving to suburban Oak Park, driving fancy cars, wearing tailored clothes and partying at many of Chicago’s jazz clubs. McGurn eventually was tasked with their killing, extracting revenge for the death of the man who helped raise him. DeMory was killed by three men who’d described him as an unsuccessful “nickel and dime” man. Jack’s stepfather, DeMory, was a grocer who sold sugar to bootleggers for use in making liquor during Prohibition, and also made deliveries of the finished product to speakeasies and clubs. His neighbors noticed that Jack always had a lot of money, even when he was not fighting in the ring, indicating he had hooked up with Capone at an early age. At 140 pounds, he was classified as a welterweight, punched above his weight and was known to be tough as a bare-fisted street fighter. He was short but very strong, having worked for a while as a stevedore on the docks. As a teenager, Vincenzo became a boxer and used the nom de guerre Jack McGurn because he thought Irish boxers got better bouts and also didn’t attract attention from police. After his father died, his mother remarried a man named Angelo DeMory. Jack’s family had come to America from Sicily when he was a boy known as Vincenzo Gebardi. Jack McGurn and Louise Rolfe, the Blond Alibi ![]() Police found the room littered with newspaper articles about the massacre, but no charges ever were filed against McGurn or Rolfe, who was dubbed the “Blond Alibi” by the press. Valentine’s Day with girlfriend Louise Rolfe at the Stevens Hotel in Room 1919A. McGurn was a suspect, but he had an alibi he’d spent St. Valentine’s Day Massacre when seven members of George “Bugs” Moran’s Northside gang were gunned down in a garage on Chicago’s Clark Street. McGurn was believed to be the mastermind behind the infamous 1929 St. McGurn was so good with a handgun that he also became Capone’s personal bodyguard. 45 automatic pistol for his closeup dirty work. Despite his nickname, McGurn preferred a. “M’Gurn” was “Machine Gun” Jack McGurn, a lieutenant in Al Capone’s gang known colloquially as the Outfit who was suspected of killing 25 Outfit rivals. To learn that MacDonald Smith held the 36-hole lead at 1-under 139, the golfing public had to dig inside the paper. Eighty-seven years ago, when the tournament was known as the Western Open, the focus was more on cops and killers at Olympia Fields than on golfĪfter the second day of the 1933 Western Open, the headline on the front page of the Chicago Sunday Tribune read, ARREST M’GURN AS HE GOLFS IN WESTERN OPEN. 27-30, 2020) at Olympia Fields Country Club outside Chicago as part of the FedEx Cup playoffs. The BMW Championship is being played this week (Aug. Random Golf Footnotes by John Fischer III ![]()
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