I recognized those names because they appeared in John Kobler's "Capone," still the best Snorky bio, in large part because Kobler did a thorough job of documenting the entire Chicago crime scene. Underscores that, while the Outfit was the biggest player in Chicago's rackets, they weren't the only players. They had more competition than many other dominant mobs in other big cities during Prohibition.
So many books about Scarface I liked Robert Schoenberg's Mr Capone.
McGurn 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.
