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...charge which Gangster Capone found waiting for him inside the building was contempt of court. Two years ago on grounds of extreme illness he excused himself from returning from Miami to Chicago to be examined by a grand jury investigating bootleggers' incomes. Last week the Federal Government was prepared to show that Capone had been playing 'possum, could well have answered the summons to Chicago...
During the noon recess of his trial's second day, Gangster Capone was taken to the city detective bureau and docketed on a charge of vagrancy. There he described his occupation as the "real estate business," was released on $10,000 bond...
Before a flock of newshawks, Gangster Capone became expansive: ". . . Say, this is great weather you have here. It beats Miami. The old homestead looks okay. . . . I've been asked if I have come home to write the story of my life. I haven't. It would probably make a lot of money. The last bid I had was $2,000.000. . . . I saw a piece in one of the papers about a month ago telling about how I was going into the pictures. Can you fancy that...
...think you're beautiful," bantered the gangster. The presswoman hurriedly retreated, startled. Then Capone entered the court room, settled down once more, confident that "they haven't got a thing...
...ribbon of his glasses with an air of abstraction, he heard Mr. Capone's young doctor and nurses testify that, down with pleurisy, he had been in grave condition during February and March 1929. Then Judge Wilkerson listened to other witnesses who related how the supposedly bed-ridden gangster had taken an airplane ride to Bimini (bootleg base), a boat trip to Nassau, attended the Sharkey-Stribling fight in Miami, the Hialeah races. "It is evident," commented Judge Wilkerson, "that someone is lying...