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After two years of forgetfulness of his own dignity, the United States Federal Court has Invited Al Capone to face the contempt proceedings which it instigated then-Capone, with a long tally of murders to his credit! Capone smiles at the sense of proportion of the Court, which "wants" him for a trifle like contempt-and has so far refrained from answering the invitation.

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The combine was growing. thoroughly organised and so auto- eratic were its sales methods that every gambling-dea and saloon in the territory had to pay salaries to Its agents, whose jobs were to see that the places received protection from the police. By midsummer, 1924, Capone and Torrio were each pocketing £20,000 a week. They ruled by the gun.

As Manhattan has its roaring Forties, so Chicago, southward of the Loop, and the Rialto has its sinful, ginful. Twenties. It is here, O'Banion, a florist till 6 p.m. and in the pinochle period of 1920, in a bootlegger afterwards, had work- Amato's three-chaired barber-shop.ed with Capone, until 1924, when that the biographer of Capone he began to grow independent, and picks up the red thread of his formed a gang of his own. carcer-Capone, who dropped in O'Banion must be ticked off. On on Chicago. An impecunious November 10 a couple of Capone's hoodlum in that year, and in

men called at O'Banion's shop to 1929 was estimated by the internal order doral tributes for the funeral revenue service to be worth of a gangster who, extraordinarily, £4,000,000.

had died naturally. They spent

| £160 with O'Banion, and told him 10 stand by, as others of the dend man's friends would be along to order flowers.

In 1920 he was not the seigneur of a magnificent estate on Palm Island, Miami Beach, Florida, and jolly Falstaffan host at swimming parties in its marble bathing pool. At noon three men entered tho Not then the Loop first-nighter,shop, and approached the counter, attended by 18 tuxedoed gentle abreast. "Hello, boys" said men-in-waiting, quick of eye and O'Banion, extending his right quicker on the draw; posted strate-hand. The centre man grasped it gically about the house: rising as

firmly. Six times the guns spoke, one man ra Capone goes to indulge two bullets in the right breast; a in the entreacte cigarette. Not third through the larynx; a fourth then riding along the fashionablo a bit to the left of it; a Afth in Lake Shore drive in a £5,000, the right cheek; the sixth into the specially built limousine of eft check, when O'Banion lay armour-plated top and body, with sprawled among his flowers. The double panes of bullet-proof glass.

centre man had held O'Banion's Not then the Big Shot, occupying right hand in a vice-like grip. two floors of a down-town hotel as while the man on his left did the G.II.Q., Issuing orders to the shooting, and the man on his right police, reluking a judge over tho

imprisoned Banion's left-hand. telephone.

A Lowly Debut. The unknown Capone of 1920, making a lowly debut into the Chicago underworld at the behest of one Johnny Torrio, was just one of the bourgeoisie, loud of dress, free of profanity; no paunch then; stout-muscled, hard-knuckled; a vulgar person; Torrio's all-round handy man-but he was to revolu- tionise crime and corruption.

Gangster Funeral Era.

It was one of Chicago's many handshake murders. Τινο

of Capone's gunmen were suspected, but no one was ever brought to trial. The gangster funeral erg dates from the O'Banion obsequies. He was laid out in a £2,000 casket | which was displayed for three days in an undertaker's establish- ment.

"Silver angels stand at the head He enjoyed complete immunity and feet, with their heads bowed in from prosecution. The "hook-up." | solid golden candlesticks that the Corruption. The red thread of the angels held," said a Press report. Capone career is strung on the "Beneath the casket, on the marble political hook-up. Back of the slab that supports its glory is the machine-gun and sawed-off shot-nscription, Suffer little children gun crews; nerving the arm of the to come unto me." A typical thug and aasaasin; riding at the Capone touch, this Inst! wheel of every death-car; exploit- O'Banion's death marked the be ing crime and its spoils the hook-ginning of what is now called the Bootleg Battle of the Marne, the war for bootleg supremacy be i tween the Capones and the fol lowers of O'Banion, Capone won. He lived by day in his armoured car, alept at night with sentinels at his door, and earned the posi tion (which he still holds) of being the most-shot-at man in America Gangsters fell like poppies, and Al anapped his fingers both at his rivals and the law.

up.

Torrio It was who glimpsed the latent possibilities of prohibition, and took in Capone as his partner on a fifty-fifty basis. Handreds of small fry bootleggers bad leapt in to the field-they must be eliminat- ed. Capone would tolerate con- solidations--not rivals.

Capone's methods of overcoming sales resistance-in commen use in the early days of haphazard bootlegging competition Were aimple and direct. His "drum 'mers" would enter a saloon or speakeasy, revolvers dangling at their belt-holsters, and ask the proprietor whom he bought hia beer from.

A

An Arsenal, He lived in the Hawthorne Hotel-really 3 steel-shattered windows and a full garrison-with

arsenal. Here he directed the bootleg war and his other enter- prises-vice, gambling, and $100,000 électric hare coursing pro- ject. He was an inveterate gum- bler-bookies gloated when he hove in sight. He was their meat. He would bet as high as £20,000 on a single race. In 1929 he lost' £2,000,000 to the bookles. His

Arguments Reinforced. "Well, what about going in with us?" they would say to the shaking proprietor. If necessary, they would give him 24 hours to con aider his decision. If at the end of 24 hours he did not agree to buy Capone hootch, they reinforced1.0.U. was par on any race-track. their arguments with revolver Capone lived in acute terror of butts or bullets.

death. Judges lived in acute Joe Howard was the first non-terror of Capone. descript bootlegger to trespass on

One day he rang one up from G.H.Q. the Capone preserves.

One quiet "I thought I told. you to dis afternoon he was drinking in a charge that fellow!" he barked, re. speakeasy, when the swing-doors ferring to a henchman who had teleflapped. Two men entered. Ons been haled to. Court. "Oh," safa

was Capone.

"Hallo, Al," cried Joe, putting I wrote a memo. for Judge

the judge, "I was off the bench. out his hand. The man he spoke and my bailiff forgot to deliver to put out his hand, too, but it it

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ho'd a revolver, and he fired six "Forgot! Don't let him forget. times. Joe heeled over, dead, still again!"... grinning....

A Battle in Earnest. In O'Banions made a really serious September, 1928,.) the attempt to "shoot up" Capone. They attacked the Hawthorno Hotel in eight motorcars.. The

from a machine-gun, swept paat frat ear, firing blank cartridges the hotel a block in advance of the rest. That was intended to bring.

All the witnesses of Joe's demise 8. LACK, were stricken with an ailment that Superintendent has since become epidemic in such Hong Kong, February 12, 1991. cases loss of memory.

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A Rival Gang............. Jerry Connor was next-not nondescript, like Joe, but a power ful bootlegger, head of rival gang On September 7, 1928, there was The following unclaimed tele some shooting between the rival grams are lying at the office of range in South Lincoln Street, and the Great Northern Telegraph when it was over, O'Connor lay The other seven cars came up to ed it on the sidewalk, and sprayed you, had entree when Capone Company (Limited) of Dens dead on the sidewalk gether, seven minutes later, and as the lobby with 100, rapid-fies Was at home, you would and him Rcurity, from Shanghal killings in 1923. 16 In 1624 46 in sprayed its facade with machine quarter-inch armour plate Coolly games with his son, whom be There were nine more similar they drew level with the hotel, shells, each capable of penetrating faning in on the radio, or play- puttering about in carpet slippers Naval from Shibuya 1928 and 64.in 1920. Out of this gun fire as firemen work their he carried his gun Tack to the car, Idolises, says Mr. Fred D. Pasley,

FV JENSEN total of 185 pang murders only hose. Every door, and window

Superintendent pix men were brought to trial, and was fake. The cixil carpinited and the raiding party moved away in "Al Capone, the Blography of Hong Kong February 1981 of the six, All were to be acquitted directly at the hotel lobby, a man

in good order. Strangely enough, Belf-made Men

Capone and his merry men to the in khaki stepped out, carrying a nobody was killed. front to see what the trouble was. Thompson suh-machine-gun, park-

Now, meet Al, the home boy!

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