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...charge which Gangster Capone found waiting for him inside the building was contempt of court. Two years ago on grounds of extreme illness he excused himself from returning from Miami to Chicago to be examined by a grand jury investigating bootleggers' incomes. Last week the Federal Government was prepared to show that Capone had been playing 'possum, could well have answered the summons to Chicago...
...trifling with the court. . . . The evidence established beyond all possibility of doubt that during the month of February the respondent was not confined to his bed. . . . The statement made on March 5 that he had been out of bed only ten days was glaringly false." Found guilty of contempt, Capone was sentenced to serve six months in the Cook County jail...
Chicagoans wondered if at last Capone's luck had turned against him, if his strange immunities from the Law were over, if his contempt conviction were the beginning of the end of his power in the second city of the land...
...pleasant boon to Bean-town if the good-natured but generally sloppy "Globe" could be prodded into over-coming its reluctance to tamper with its golden formula. It could be made into a first rate paper. And why should not the "Transcript" be chided into forsaking its snobbish contempt for the technical advances of the past quarter century in the newspaper world? In fact, would not Boston and New England profit if our local papers decided to forsake complacency for a little, first-class, cut-throat competition...
...another old charge against him Judge Wilkerson of Chicago's Federal Court had not. Summoned before a Federal Grand Jury two years ago, Mr. Capone had remained in Miami, pleaded illness, gone to horseraces. Last week he was ordered to appear in Chicago Federal Court to answer a contempt charge...