Record
Case file
undated
National Archives Catalog
The United States of America vs. Jack Gebardi, alias Jack McGurn, alias Jim Vincent D'Oro, and Louise Rolfe (Mann Act case, Chicago)
Federal criminal case file at Chicago against Jack Gebardi, alias "Machinegun" Jack McGurn, and Louise Rolfe for violating the Mann Act by travelling from Chicago to Miami. Both were found guilty by the court without a jury. 232 digitized pages.
- Date
- undated
- Kind
- case-file
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-12
- NAID
- 300886022
- Rights
- A record of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, held by the National Archives in Record Group 21, Records of District Courts of the United States. A United States government work, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105. The National Archives catalog marks use "Unrestricted." Series "Criminal Case Files" (NAID 624785), National Archives at Chicago.
The National Archives’ note reads: “This file consists of the criminal case against Jack Gebardi, alias ‘Machinegun’ Jack McGurn, alias Jim Vincent D’Oro and Louise Rolfe for violating the 1910 Mann Act, also referred to as the ‘White Slave Act.’ Gebardi/ McGurn traveled from Chicago to Miami, Florida with Rolfe, who at the time was not his wife, for ‘immoral purposes.’ Rolfe was considered the victim of the crime, but was also prosecuted by the court for the same crime. McGurn and Rolfe were both found guilty by the court without a jury. Judge Walter C. Lindley presided, and U.S. Attorney George Q, Johnson was the prosecutor.”
The note adds that the file includes “an indictment, appearances, bench warrants, citations, mandates, motions, subpoenas, and other court documents”; 232 page images are online, and they were not read for this archive. The catalog gives no dates. The file sits in the same Chicago court series as the Capone tax case. It is not a Bureau fugitive case; it is listed in this section beside the other Chicago federal file filed here, Touhy’s.