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...survive the bullets of his confreres and shrewd enough to evade the police, there is one pitfall left for him: the income-tax laws. Of all the known criminals currently at large in the U. S., none is tougher or shrewder than roly-poly, button-eyed little Johnny Torrio, whose chin was almost shot away in Chicago in 1925, whose skill in evading the police goes back to before 1920 when he belonged to Brooklyn's famed Five Points Gang. Last week, in New York City, a Federal grand jury that had worked on the case for three months...
...school of criminals that flourished in the prohibition era, Johnny Torrio was probably dean. From Brooklyn's Five Points Gang he went to Chicago as chief gunman for James ("Big Jim") Colosimo. As assistant in Chicago, Johnny Torrio selected a stocky Brooklyn boy named Al Capone. In 1920, Jim Colosimo was shot dead. Torrio succeeded him as Chicago's top racketeer and kept Al Capone as a $75-a-week underling. Johnny Torrio left Chicago shortly after Dion O'Banion's elaborate funeral in 1924, went back to be riddled with bullets by O'Banion...
Last fortnight in Manhattan Federal agents arrested stubby, mild-mannered John Torrio, Chicago's No. i racketeer in the early 1920's and Al Capone's onetime boss, for an ordinary revenue law violation (TIME, May 4). Bail was set at a supposedly prohibitive $100,000. Last week a plump, elderly woman walked into Manhattan's U. S. District Court, dipped deep into her black purse, pulled out a fat wad of bills, carefully peeled off 97 crisp $1,000 bills, four $500 bills, ten $100 bills. A gaping clerk counted them, recounted them, made...
Released, John Torrio swung gaily out of court with Mrs. Torrio. Once off Federal property, New York City detectives arrested him on an old forgery indictment, carted him off to headquarters. Unable to furnish $4,000 bail, he was whisked to the Tombs prison. Within 30 minutes Mrs. Torrio bustled back with the cash which set her husband free for the second time...
When Dutch Schultz was murdered in Newark last October, Torrio, sought for questioning, was located sunning himself in Miami. Internal revenue agents went after him in earnest, discovered that he was at the bottom of a ring which was "cutting" legal liquor, selling it under Government tax stamps. When State Department authorities sent word last fortnight that Torrio was applying again for a passport, revenue agents mailed him a decoy registered letter, arrested him at the White Plains, N. Y. post office as he appeared to collect it. Unimpressed by Torrio's lawyer, who insisted his client...