Word: snorkey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Busy newshawks immediately figured that if he got time off for good behavior Snorkey would spend six years, eight months, 15 days in the penitentiary and eleven months in the Cook County jail, a total of seven years, seven months, 15 days. By that time he would be 40. In addition to his $50,000 fine he was charged with court costs estimated by the prosecution at $30,000, and he still owed $215,000 in back taxes...
Sucking a coughdrop, Alphonse Capone faced Judge James Herbert Wilkerson in Chicago's Federal Court last week. Snorkey was nervous. Fortnight ago a jury eleven-twelfths rustic had found him guilty of failing to pay an income tax during the years 1924-28, had decided he feloniously "attempted to evade & defeat" payment during three of those years. Now he was to be sentenced. As a concession to the solemnity of the occasion he had left off his jewelry, was wearing a comparatively sober pinchback suit of blue. He fondled a bandaged right fore-(trigger)-finger, sucked and sucked...
Judge Wilkerson was nervous too. In a low voice he ordered Snorkey to stand up. Snorkey clambered to his feet, gulped, swallowed his coughdrop. Slowly, deliberately Judge Wilkerson sentenced him to the limit-17 years in prison, $50,000 in fines. Snorkey hiccuped, regurgitated his coughdrop...
Sentence. A moment later Judge Wilkerson explained the sentence in detail and Snorkey realized that he would not have to spend 17 years in prison. For the felony of attempting to evade tax payments during three years his sentence was five years for each offense, but two of the terms were to run concurrently. For failing to pay up the other two times he received one year each, but those two sentences were also to run concurrently. Total: eleven years. The fine for each count was $10,000; total: $50,000, and all of that Snorkey must...
...Judge Wilkerson was less severe than he might have been, he was running no risk of ambiguity. Patiently he explained : that Snorkey's sentence of six months for contempt of court, which he has not yet served, might run concurrently with the felony sentences, so that Snorkey would not have to serve more than eleven years; but, in case a higher court overruled his sentence on the three felony counts, thereby cutting ten years from the sentences, the two misdemeanor sentences and the sentence for contempt must be served consecutively. Thus Judge Wilkerson made as sure as possible that...