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SUNDAY, MARCH 1, 1931.
SUN]
CA
CAPONE GUILT
AL
AIDS CHICAGO
CRIME DRIVE
Officers Are Heartened
Chica
By the Conviction
en
lic
of Public Enemy."
CH)
PUSH FORWARD
man,
IN GANG FIGHT
cies
the la
with
By the Associated Press
on gai
In
Chicago, March 1. - Heartened by
there
the conviction of the key man, Al-
tice
phonse Capons, the agencies charged
ing,
with enforcement of the law in Chi-
Attorn
his as
cago pushed forward with renewed
the or
vigor in their fight on gangs.
new s)
In the criminal courts building
fidence
where the county's wheels of justice
Al
grind, and in the federal building,
cago
proved
where U. S. District Attorney E. Q.
'Publi
Johnson and assailants are driv-
guilty
ing relentlessly at the organized
eral
criminal element, a new spirit of en-
Friday
in jail
thusiasm and confidence was appar-
Prose
ent.
turning
Al Capone, the czar of all Chicago
their bi
gangs, had at last been proved at
the "bi
variance with the law "Public enemy
never
No. 1" was found guilty of contempt
courts,
of court by Federal Judge James H.
Wilkerson and sentenced to six
months in jaii.
Prosecutors Lelieved that the turn-
ing point had been reached in their
$
battle against gangland, with the
n
"big fellow. the one who had never
5.
been convicted in his home courts,
finally under sentence.
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Heartened By Move.
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In contrast with the years when
p:
the gang barons made their own law
a
and enforced it, the government was
1
able to point to an impressive list of
a
convictions and indictments. Most of
tl
the old-time rival gangs have been
J
merged, driven out of town or killed
off, so the list is made up almost en-
I
tirely of the henchmen of "Scarface
Al" Capone.
Ralph Capone, olõer brother of the
portly leader and a lieutenant in his
liquor-gambling- vice syndicate, has
been sentenced to three years in pris-
on and fined $10,000 for income tax
violations.
Jack Guzik, Capone's business
manager, received the biggest sen-
tence so far for income tax fraud-
five years.
Frank Nitti, known as the Capone
"enforcer," is already serving an
eighteen-month sentence for dodging
government taxes
Tony (Mops) Vclpe, once Al Ca-
pone's bodyguard and more recently
one of his executives, has been or-
dered deported to Italy
Sam Guzik, brother of Jack, has
been ind icted and two former beer
rons Lake and
D.uggan, have entered conditional
pleas of suilty income tax charges.
Just Gerting Started.'
The government has indicated it is
just getting started on the income
tax cases against those who have
made millions and given none of it
to the government, and it is no secret
that the reputed great wealth of Al
Capone himself has been under in-
vestigation for months.
Judge Wilkefson, in permitting Ca-
pone thirty days more of freedom on
the contempt case to enable his at-
torneys to file an appeal, stipulated
that unless his decision is reversed,
Capone must start serving his term
by July. This vould keep him in jail
until December when the government
hopes to have its income tax case
against him ready to take before the
grand jury and ask an indictment.
Besides an occasional murder
charge or violation of parole case, the
state's attorney's office drive against
gangland has consisted mainly of
prosecution on the vagrancy war-
that enemies." rants brings sworn It is Capone cut one against of into these the court warrants "public next
piled Wednesday. by the 'No. Chicago 1" on crime the list commis-
com-
sion will face Municipal Judge Frank
Padden and attempt to prove he
S a lawful occupation.
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