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Flashlamps fizzed in Chicago's crowded Federal Court last week. Guards banged shut the doors. Beginning was the decisive battle in the Federal Government's long campaign to put Alphonse ("Scarface" to strangers; "Snorkey" to friends) Capone in prison. For three years the Government had waged its campaign, spent over $195,000 on it. For almost as long Gangster Capone had been trying to sidestep charges that he failed to pay a Federal tax on $1,038,654 income during the years 1924?29. Now Scarface Snorkey was on trial...
...example of his brother Ralph ("Bottles") Capone, who had been sentenced to three years in Leavenworth on a similar charge (but had obtained a stay of mandate until Oct. 20 to file an appeal). Jack Gusick, a Capone lieutenant, had been given five years in prison; other important gangsters were behind the bars. Sighed Scarface Snorkey...
...First time was in 1929 when Capone was tried and convicted in Philadelphia for carrying a pistol. He spent ten months in jail, his only prison term to date. But underworld legend says he went to jail that time on purpose, to avoid being assassinated in Chicago...
Three years later Dwight Morrow's first civic obligation descended upon him. Press and public in New Jersey were kicking up a storm of protest about the State's prison conditions. Harried Governor Walter Evans Edge appealed to him to serve on a correctional committee. Morrow accepted, became chairman, finally knew more about prison conditions than any layman in the country. From then on his duties came thick & fast. He was sent all over the State by Secretary William Gibbs McAdoo to boom War Saving Stamps. Soon after, President Wilson put him on the Allied Maritime Transport Council, sent...
When the life of a police reporter in St. Louis grew too irksome for William Carroll Woodward he engaged in more interesting pursuits. Before he was 37 years old he had been arrested 37 times, but had been in prison only twice. Gaining skill, he went to London, opened a gaudy gaming place in Kensington, and as "The Honorable Lionel Musgrave, United States Senator," collected $800,000 from British sportsmen before he found it wise to depart. In Ceylon his fame spread when he swindled an Indian jewel merchant out of a basket of gems worth...