Word: snorkey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alphonse Capone cocked one blue-clad leg over another blue-clad leg in Chicago's Federal Court last week, and every newshawk in the courtroom* gasped in amazement. Snorkey wore no garters...
...acutely sensitive to Snorkey 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...
...Capone, who had been sentenced to three years in Leavenworth on a similar charge (but had obtained a stay of mandate until Oct. 20 to file an appeal). Jack Gusick, a Capone lieutenant, had been given five years in prison; other important gangsters were behind the bars. Sighed Scarface Snorkey...
...Government, considering Capone's ownership of gambling houses proved, set out to show how he had spent the returns, holding that large expenditures would prove the existence of a taxable income. While Snorkey dug a stubby forefinger into his right ear, letters were read from Lawrence P. Mattingly, Washington income tax attorney retained by Capone in 1930, to show that Capone offered to compromise with the Government and pay a delinquent tax on $226,000 for the years 1926-29. Capone, the letters showed, got one-sixth of the income from his syndicate's operations. As the letters were read...
...Scarface Snorkey had grown glummer & glummer, angrier & angrier. He scowled at Carpenter Ryder, whispered with his lawyers, mopped his brow. The jury had waked up, was following the testimony with wide-eyed interest. Leaving the courtroom one day Snorkey and his bodyguard, Philip D'Andrea, brushed aside Federal Judge Walter C. Lindley to get into an elevator. Two days later D'Andrea was arrested, searched in the 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...