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...long campaign which the Federal Government has been conducting to put Chicago's Chief Gangster Alphonse ("Snorkey") Capone in jail for a good long time, moved toward its decisive phase last week, and in two preliminary skirmishes Gangster Capone was victorious. In July Capone appeared before U. S. District Judge James Herbert Wilkerson to be sentenced for failure to pay tax on a $1,038,654 income and for conspiracy (with 5,000 offenses) to violate the Prohibition law, to which he had pleaded guilty. But to Judge Wilkerson had come word that between Capone's Attorney Michael Ahern...
...career as a Public Enemy, "Snorkey" or "Scarface" Capone has been publicly accused of many a foul crime, including murder. He has served one year in prison, for carrying a gun. It was generally admitted that he might have wriggled out of that sentence if he had wanted to. But not to greasy, grinning Capone belongs credit for the freedom he has so far enjoyed, but rather to his adroit, Irish-blooded attorney, Michael Ahern. Born "back of the yards" in Chicago 43 years ago last week, the son of a mail carrier. Michael Ahern was educated by Jesuit priests...
...Snorkey & Hancock...
Secretary Mellon may not get all of Snorkey's $215.000 in delinquent taxes, for most of the racketeer's worldly goods have been shrewdly placed in his wife's and mother's names. And there was small chance of Capone's getting all of the Federal punishment coming to him. Snorkey's attorneys believed that by saving the Government the trouble of a trial they may get their client off with a sentence of three years for both offenses. Still pending is a six-month sentence for contempt of Federal Court (TIME, March 9). Capone, now aged 33, hopes that...
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...