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...convicted of nonpayment of taxes, Capone might be sentenced to 32 years in the penitentiary, fined $80,000. For conspiracy he could be sent to prison for two years. But still pending was the grand jury indictment under investigation the "5 seeking & 10" evidence Law. for If a an true bill were returned and conviction secured, he could be sentenced for a term that would occupy the rest of his life...
...career as a Public Enemy, "Snorkey" or "Scarface" Capone has been publicly accused of many a foul crime, including murder. He has served one year in prison, for carrying a gun. It was generally admitted that he might have wriggled out of that sentence if he had wanted to. But not to greasy, grinning Capone belongs credit for the freedom he has so far enjoyed, but rather to his adroit, Irish-blooded attorney, Michael Ahern. Born "back of the yards" in Chicago 43 years ago last week, the son of a mail carrier. Michael Ahern was educated by Jesuit priests...
...huge, rawboned, grim man is Warden Richard Elias Davis of the Utah State Prison. With a firm hand he rules the convicts confined in that strong jail, made doubly strong by the high mountains back of Salt Lake City. Last week Warden Davis heard a bomb go off. Looking out from his office he saw the prison yard suddenly seething with a bloody, vicious riot. A dozen convicts had captured Deputy Warden Giles. Three hundred others were milling in the yard armed with clubs and rocks. Some had guns. Louis Deathridge, a Missouri desperado, ran to the wall with...
...Nashville, Tenn., William L. Cherry forged three checks in 1917, was sentenced to 3-10-15 years in prison. Forty-one days later he escaped. His conscience uneasy, he enlisted in the army, hoping his finger prints would be recognized. They were not, so William L. Cherry hoped for death. He was wounded 22 times, decorated for bravery. Still hoping for capture but afraid to surrender, he joined the San Francisco police force, quit to become a guard at San Quentin prison. He married, was divorced. Last week he gave himself up in Cincinnati, said the act had brought...
...merry-go-round with one unheroic central figure bobbing through the realistic din. Not less topical than Ulysses, Alexander platz is more sordid, more sentimental. Herr Doblin's Dublin is Berlin: his hero one Franz Biberkopf, denizen of the city's lesser deeps. Just released from Tegel Prison after serving four years for killing his harlot-mistress, Biberkopf in tends to go straight, shake off the crooked company he kept before. He sells news papers, manages respectability for a while. Then he runs into his evil genius, one Reinhold, a strange, unhappy criminal type, who sips lemonade...