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...Chicago last week Albert Hoffman, bond salesman of Davenport, Iowa, was convicted in Federal court of violating the Dyer Act. Judge Woodward, believing Hoffman no criminal, gave him probation instead of jail, with the following provisions: 1) Remain within 50 miles of Davenport; 2) Hold his job: 3) Sell his car and buy no new one; 4) Not pleasure ride; 5) Not drink liquor; 6) Not gamble; 7) Report to Judge Woodward each & every theatre, restaurant and building he enters on trips (only one per month) to visit his Chicago relatives...
...arrange a peace pact for Chicago's liquor gangs. Outside a cinema theatre he was arrested for carrying a revolver. Immediately he pleaded guilty, accepted a year's sentence with such apparent relish as to give rise to the belief that he was really seeking refuge in a Pennsylvania jail from hostile gunsters (TIME...
Many of the old Capone friends and enemies would be absent when "The Big Fellow" returned to town. He might have seen them had he been released from jail a week earlier, for they were on hand (by special permission of the police) for gangland's latest, grandest funeral, that of John ("Dingbat") Oberta. Joe Saltis, retired beer chief, came down from his place at Saltisville, Wis.., to brag of the $100,000 he had invested there in a nine-hole golf course, a clubhouse "that sleeps 26 people." George ("Bugs") Moran, who lost seven of his north side hirelings...
...grew vegetables nearby. Annoyed by chicken thieves, Fred Brown tied a flag to the door of the henhouse so that it would flap when anyone opened the door. Annoyed by a sheriff, he went to court as a witness in a case, cursed the judge, was taken away to jail for five days. Unwilling to converse with strangers, to all who asked questions he answered "My past is buried. Ask no questions...
...Manhattan, when the "Black Maria" in which he was driving nine prisoners to jail, caught fire, Patrolman Arthur Quinn summoned a fire engine. When the fire engine arrived, ten minutes later, he allowed the prisoners scorched, screaming, blinded by smoke...