Show IMA EScAPES 7 1 t I. I I a aven goven ve ven 1 Returns Returns Home 3 rl Play y Santa Claus Clau far w Hiss Hiss' Two Sons r h CAGO Dec I ec 28 26 s UP 1 Leo j van n. n tho ho small smalltown town boy by who im me a bIg biff town gangster gun gun- and b beer er runner has e escaped executioners executioners' bullets and still BUn T the tho United Press learned tot toi to- to I t r i v r though It Is La true as a IL Chicago cr reported recently nUy that I ros as marked for death th last May Maj ns walked Balked r half knowingly into a was wall not slain He lIe grail wounded nd O Ono o story has it th that t ays ya S 'S he he- 1 was lS as near death At an any J f ho eventually vent recovered Yest Yes Yes- t ay ho he o appeared at his homo home in Park a LL suburb and played Sut ta- ta Claus Glaus to his hIs' hIst t two o boys vens ven's suspected d 1 tji be he had cheated them of ot the thedeth deth h they had planned lanned Thc They w wr were r n t certain and md to n added ei doubt t b bye r remaining absent nfl boar old scenes cen s This gave savo rise tot to t that ho 10 was dead q t notwithstanding h f fierceness as chief assistant to Certo Bugs rge Dugs Bugs Moran when that i tr h b side aide gang leader was ML Al At Ca Ca- peens peo's 1 f ital l likes top to top p Santa ta Claus Ho also likes t to 80 his dog dob To two circumstances cir cir- stances rices are are due tho the knowledge kno Is 18 alive alivo KEPT HOME SECRET frior r to to h his v voluntary withdrawal f from gang circles J main maln- fi 11 ed cd headquarters at t a a. west sIde aide 1 1 Few knew v that a ho had a no real home elsewhere hat home borne Is a green a and d white bungalow on a 3 quiet street In a Du- Du page county to town n Villa Park 8 i riles miles west est of ot Chicago It Is occupied pl pied 4 by Mrs Mr I and the thet t tW boys boyeL both Oung young ugh h to believe In n Santa anta sant Claus lons Pho home borne is modest modes its Interior expensively but simply furnished fur fur- d and none none would suspect tho the thoat thoat at attractive active housewife of ot being other tl i a widow with a no modest in in- in come The neighbors are arc not rif o than ordinarily curious about what v t goes on at tho the bungalow so sono no one n noticed Uc d just when it wasU was vas U week that a man who bad had not boon seen for a ft long time timo arrived tit jIt wasn't until the man took the thet t dog for tor a aa long IonS walk on Christmas day that ho was r recognized og- og nize It I was OS himself self alia lie fro whistled cheerfully TOLD OF SANTA Tho hD boys boy's o s 's ran nom from the house tho the same same afternoon and d tho the other ther children of ot the neighborhood at pIa play eager cager to tell tellI j lali l I the Christmas presents Santa C ii au had left them The Santa Claus Claus' was wae Mongor Mongo r tl n who had been sentimental l enough to choose Christmas week for his return to his hb own fireside o time his arts ls death was as being announced b belatedly In newspaper headlines hoso stories stones were partly right A en was wai s summoned to a north forth side lido rendezvous and md he ho was slot allot ot at there but the remainder of tho rumors tho-rumors rumors erred Ho lIo was not killed nor cremated nor burled buried in an as unmarked un un- marked grave What actually happened was that the aim afro n of or the tho machine gunners gunners who waited for him was bad One so source fcc has It that oven was leas wiLs' wiLs only slightly wounded At any rate he be was Is seen n b by a n. number of 01 his friends ab about ut a week later f After that he dropped out of ot sight for two too reasons reasons to to avoid nold prosecution on a 0 gun sun carrying charge- charge and to l keep out of tho the way of ot those Moran gang foes toes who h had d put him on the tho spot |