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This jury convicted James ("Fur") Sammons, oldtime Moran-Aiello gangster, greatly pleasing the Judge. He, curly-haired, grinning, loud-voiced, obtained much publicity last summer by resurrecting a law of 1874 which provides that anyone unable to earn an honest living may be sentenced to six months on the rockpile. Although not endorsed by the Bar Association, Judge Lyle was easily re-elected last month. As accused under-worldlings are brought before him, he violently lectures them, brusquely sets their bail at $10,000 or more. He it was who detained Jack Guzick for Federal trial, and Jack...
...Dancers (Fox). When Phillips Holmes finds his boyhood sweetheart (Lois Moran) teaching school in a small French town, she confesses to him that she has not lived up to the inscription she once wrote on her photograph: "I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not honour more." Holmes, however, has been true to her. A fair thematic idea knits up this otherwise silly and incoherent picture. All is based on an old story of Sir Gerald Du Maurier. All is distinctly British in tone and notable only for the first appearance in talking pictures of Mrs. Patrick...
...beginning of last week there were three live leaders of Chicago gangland -Big Shots, in gangster parlance. They were Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, whose dominion reaches out from the South Side of the city, and his two long standing enemies, Joseph ("Joe") Aiello and George ("Bugs") Moran, both of the North Side. For weeks all three had kept public and police (who sought them on vagrancy charges) guessing as to their whereabouts. Suddenly two of them appeared, very much in the public...
...Bugs Moran had been in gaol the day his partner was mowed down. Big, greying and hardboiled, he had suffered much from the puppuppetty-pup of the machineguns. His power really was broken when his seven chief followers were riddled in his garage, St. Valentine's Day of 1929 (TIME, Feb. 25, 1929). He then seemed to have abandoned 'legging for an anti-Capone cleaning & laundry racket. Even so, one of his chief North Side henchmen, Jack Zuta, was spattered to death by slugs last summer in a Wisconsin dancehall (TIME, Aug. 11). Rumor said that Bugs last...
Though the list included Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, George ("Bugs") Moran, Joseph ("Joe") Aiello and other Grade A gangsters, only eight minor figures were rounded up by police during the past fortnight. They were: Terrence ("Terrible Terry") Druggan, ill in a hospital; Danny Stanton, jailed because his gun was said to prove ballistically that he had shot swart Jack Zuta; Caponeman Jack Guzick, first arrested by Federal agents for income-tax evasion; James (''Fur") Sammons, robber, killer, ex-convict; Edward ("Spike") O'Donnell, Capone beer salesman; ("Dago") Lawrence Mangano, west side gambling-house keeper; George ("Red") Barker...