Word: gangsterisms
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...Guilty," muttered Gangster Capone...
Meantime, word came that Johnny ("The Immune") Torrio?who brought Snorkey from New York to Chicago eleven years ago, was later scared out of town by rival guns?would come back from Florida to succeed his onetime protege. Gangster Torrio has been erroneously reported as hiding in Italy. His pretensions to the Chicago gangland throne will probably not go unchallenged. Hardly had the Capone pleas been entered last week before two gunmen were shot down in a reawakened feud between the South Side gangs of Frank McErlane and Edward ("Spike") O'Donnell. Attorney Johnson said that the Government also...
...luck and courage of one of the city's six Public Enemies ran out when he fainted in an uptown police station. He was Arthur Feigenheimer alias "Dutch" Schultz, prominent member of the Bronx beerage. In a run-in with two city detectives outside his Fifth Avenue apartment, Gangster Schultz saw one of his four henchmen shot down, fled. Captured, taken to headquarters, Gangster Schultz begged for a sedative, said that he was on the verge of nervous prostration, asked that no camera flashlights be exploded. After he was placed under $150.000 bail (it was later halved, he was released...
...charges against Gangster Capone are the result of two years of patient enterprise on the part of 100 Federal investigators. Rarely could the sleuths find an authentic bank account for the racketeer. Many records under aliases in Cicero, Ill., his suburban suzerainty, had been destroyed. But the archives of the bank did reveal canceled checks made in payment to the Capone organization for liquor consignments. Queried about their checks, saloonkeepers blandly replied: "Chickens; we bought chickens to serve our customers." "One saloonkeeper," said Attorney Johnson, "had given checks for enough chicken to feed all Chicago...
...such tricks which enables you to believe in incidents, which, however convincingly they be arranged, are basically somewhat ridiculous. He impersonates Stephen Ashe, a brilliant and bibulous lawyer whose daughter is so much influenced by his eccentric conduct that she sees nothing wrong in having an affair with a gangster whom he has defended in court. There ensues an agreement between father and daughter: she will give up the gangster if he will give up the bottle. The agreement lasts till Stephen Ashe gets drunk again. He then disappears and his daughter goes back to her gangster. When the gangster...