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...Judge was bushy-browed James Herbert Wilkerson, no friend of Capone. It was he who, two months ago, exposed and repudiated a "deal" between prosecuting and defense attorneys whereby Capone was to plead guilty to tax evasion in return for a recommendation that he be given a light sentence. In court Capone's attorney had asserted that the agreement was approved by Attorney General Mitchell and "an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury." In Washington the Department of Justice had admitted approving this deal, insisted the procedure was customary. Undersecretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills had denied knowing anything about...
...Capone?the gentleman there." Witness Ryder said Capone's friends "gave me a sandwich sometimes," thought "Mr. Al was a mighty fine man," even though he still owed him $125. He told of being paid $250 from "a roll that would choke an ox"?as big as Judge Wilkerson's fist. "There were money wrappers by the handful around the place. All marked...
...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 and the Department of Justice...
Last week Judge Wilkerson let Capone plead not guilty also to the conspiracy indictment, ordered a jury summoned Oct. 5, set Oct. 6 as the date for trial on the tax evasion charge...
...such true bill was returned. Before Judge Wilkerson appeared the foreman of the grand jury to announce that it had prepared a report on its investigation but had returned no indictment. Snapped Judge Wilkerson: "I'm not interested in reports, only in indictments," refused to accept the report. The jury then went to Federal Judge John P. Barnes and was immediately discharged. Later the fore man was seen emerging from the office of U. S. District Attorney George Emmerson Q. Johnson, looking uncomfortably red in the face...