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ROCHESTER N Y AMERICAN
SUNDAY, march 1, 1931,
CAPONE TERM
ADDS SPIRIT TO
DRIVE ON GRIM
atened
Chicago Law Agencies Heart-
cariction
ened by Conviction of 'Pub-
lic Enemy No. 1'; More Seen
RARD
e
CHICAGO, Feb. *28.-(P)-Heart
eued by the conviction of the key
a
man, Alphonse Capone, the
cies charged with enforcement
the law in Chicago pushed forward
with renewed vigor in their fight
on gangs.
Heartened by
In the Criminal Courts Building,
key man, Al-
where the county's wheels of jus-
agencies charged
tice grind and in the Federal Build-
ing, where United States District
law in Chi-
Attorney George E. Q. Johnson,
renewed
his assistants drive relentlessly at
gangs,
the organized criminal element, a
courts
building
new spirit of enthusiasm and con-
wheels
of
fidence was apparent.
justice
Al Capone, the czar of all Chi
federal
building,
cago gangs, had at last been
Attorney
E,
Q.
proved at variance with the law.
assailants
are
driv-
Public Enemy No. 1" was found
the
guilty of contempt of court by Fed
organized
eral Judge James H. Wilkerson
spirit
of
en-
Friday and sentenced to six montha
was
appar-
in jail.
Prosecutors believed that the
all
turning point had been reached in
Chicago
their battle ägainst gangland, with
proved
the "big fellow," the one who had
"Public
never been convicted in his home
of contempt
courts, finally under sentence.
Judge James
sentenced to
IMPRESSIVE LIST
In contrast with the years when
that the turn-
the gang barons made their own
been reached in their
= - gangland, with
law and enforced it, the govern-
the de ODE who had never
ment today was able to point to an
les his home courts,
impressive list of convictions and
thé rentence.
indictments. Most of th eold time
Bestened Br Move.
rival gangs have been merged,
driven out of town or killed off. so
I with the years when
the list is made up almost entire-
barce made their own law
lv of the henchmen, of "Scarface
the government
"Al" Capone
an impressive list
Ralph Capone, older brother of
al indietments. Most
the portly leader and a lieutenant
ta nu gangs have
in his liquor-gambling-vice syndi-
the out of town or
cate, has been sentenced to three
almost
years in prison and fined $10,000
il the betchmen of
for income tax violations.
Jack Guzik, Capone's business
olõer
brother
manager, received the giggest sen-
Leutenant
tence so far for income tax fraud
-five years.
Frank Nitti, known as the Ca-
pone "enforcer" is already serving
an eighteen-months sentence for
dodging government taxes.
Tony Mopes" Volpe, a oné time
Capone's body guard and more re-
cently one of his executives, has
been ordered deported to Italy
Sam Guzik, brother of Jack, has
been indicted and two former beer
barons, Frankie Lake and
Druggan, have entered conditional
pleas of guilty to income
charges.
The government has indicated
isjust-getngstartedont
come tax cases against those
have made millions and given
of it to the government. And
no secret that the reputed wealth
of Al Capone himself has been
der investigation for months.
30 DAYS MORE
Judge Wilkerson, in permitting
Capone thirty days more of free-
dom on the contempt case to en-
able his attorneys to file an ap-
peal, stipulated that unless his de-
cision were reversed, Capone must
start serving his term by July. This
would keep him in jail until De-
cember, when the government hopes
to have its income tax case against
him ready to take before the grand
jury.
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 vag-
rancy warrants sworn out against
the "public enemies.
It is one of these warrants that
brings Capone into court next
Wednesday "No. 1" on the list
compiled by the Chicago Crime
Commission will face Municipal
Judge Frank M. Padden and at-
tempt to prove he has a lawful oc-
cupation.
Raliat R L
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