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...home he had lately bought on fancy Palm Inland, just outside Miami, Fla. Though Miami usually welcomes wealthy Chicagoans, this time it was inhospitable. The newspapers printed high headlines announcing the visitor's return. A subpoena was issued for his presence in the county solicitor's office...
...that the county solicitor could complain of, however, was the gentleman's reputation. He, Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, is notorious as, but not legally recorded as, the fattest spider in the web of Chicago's criminal underworld. All that the Miami officials could do was explain to Mr. Capone that people did not like his looks and advise him to leave town. Mr. Capone, who has been ordered and ushered out of Los Angeles, Kansas City and many another city besides his own Chicago,* told the Miamians that he had done no wrong and would leave Miami...
Justice wondered where to turn last week in South Carolina. At the suggestion of Governor Richards, the solicitor of Florence County re-examined Mrs. Maude Collins, about 60, a white trash woman whose testimony sent Ben Bess, a prosperous Negro farmer, to prison in 1915. Mrs. Collins had signed an affidavit this Spring confessing that she testified falsely to jail Ben Bess. On the strength of this affidavit, Governor Richards had pardoned Ben Bess in May. The re-examination of Mrs. Collins was to find if she had committed perjury (TIME, June...
...letter to the press last week: "I myself was asked to go to Scotland Yard in the same way. I escaped Miss Savage's unpleasant experience because I happen to know, as few people do, that the police powers are not all that they pretend to be. My solicitor informed the Scotland Yard authorities that I was perfectly willing to answer any questions they put to me at his office in front of him, but that I would not go to Scotland Yard. This offer was not accepted...
Perhaps it was to prove that he really felt badly about it that Governor Richards last week gave the Ben Bess case a new twist. He wrote a letter to the solicitor of the Florence district and suggested that he present to the Grand Jury the white trash woman, Maude Collins, now 60 years old and expecting Death soon...