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...Capone's sartorial condition as the newshawks were: the jury that was trying him for attempting to evade payment of a $215,000 Federal Tax on $1.038,000 income from 1924 to 1929; Judge James Herbert Wilkerson; Prosecutor George Emmerson Q. Johnson; Defense Attorneys Michael Ahern and Albert Fink. After hearing Snorkey linked to Cicero gambling houses ("gold-belching pits of evil" to eloquent Michael Straus of the New York Evening Post) and hearing accounts of lavish personal and household expenditures in Florida (TIME, Oct. 19) the judge, the jury and the reporters had been treated to a detailed...
...Defense was not ready. Sadly, indignantly Lawyer Fink protested that it was unfair to give him no warning. Judge Wilkerson was unimpressed, said the defense would have to be ready by 10 a. m. next...
...Lawyers Ahern & Fink had assembled eight bookmakers with shiny shoes. To them Snorkey was no smart gambler. One William Yario said Snorkey had lost some $50,000 in two years to him. Bookie Sam Gitelson thought his profits were $25,000. Bookie George Lederman took another $25,000. Bookie Milton Held got $35,000. A sharp-eyed hunchback named Oscar Gutter swore he had won $40,000 from Capone; Harry Belford, better known as "Hickory Slim, the Dice Guy," $25,000. Other bookmakers got smaller amounts. Altogether Snorkey's fondness for playing the Caponies seemed to have cost...
...Fink, still feeling hurt, thought the language of the indictment was "vague, indefinite, uncertain," felt that a great injustice had been done to Snorkey in charging him with "attempting" to evade tax payments. Snorkey, he said, had only "omitted" to do his duty. In Washington, Treasury officials punched a hole in Snorkey's only defense by pointing out that race track losses could not be deducted from his income. If he lost consistently, they explained, the money he lost must have come from other sources than the track, and therefore he must pay income on it. Lawyer Ahern deplored...
...Harvard lineup will be as follows: Hollis, l.e.; Cammann, l.t.; Gundiach, l.g.; Gleason, c.; Brookings, r.g.; Dow, r.d.; Emory, r.e.; Haley, q.b.; Locke, l.h.b.; Fink, r.h.b.; Swift...