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...week. Guards banged shut the doors. Beginning was the decisive battle in the Federal Government's long campaign to put Alphonse ("Scarface" to strangers; "Snorkey" to friends) Capone in prison. For three years the Government had waged its campaign, spent over $195,000 on it. For almost as long Gangster Capone had been trying to sidestep charges that he failed to pay a Federal tax on $1,038,654 income during the years 1924?29. Now Scarface Snorkey was on trial...
...corridor by Secret Service men before gaping policemen, charged with carrying a concealed weapon (.38 calibre revolver). D'Andrea showed a badge reading "Deputy Bailiff of the Municipal Court," was told it was no good. Capone rivals began a war of succession, killed one James L. Quigley, minor gangster...
...month the Press chuckled when Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone went to a charity baseball game in Chicago, sat in a front box, shook hands with the players, had his picture taken. For in another front box was sitting Chief Investigator Pat Roche, who had said he was looking for Gangster Capone for a fortnight but could not find him (TIME. Sept...
Last week Gangster Capone, with a bodyguard of eight including "Machine Gun" Jack McGurn, attended the Northwestern-Nebraska football game at Evanston, Ill. This time the players did not greet him. And when the spectators learned of Capone's presence among them they raised a storm of angry booing. "I came to see the game," said Gangster Capone. "I'm going to stick...
Northwestern's President Walter Dill Scott asked Chief William O. Freeman of the Evanston police to evict Gangster Capone & party.* Chief Freeman said they had tickets, were committing no offense. He did not see how it could be done. The student booing continued, however, and at the end of the third quarter Capone & henchmen left. A crowd of 400 followed him out. A band of Boy Scouts gamboled about him shouting...