Capone, p.94
Capone, page 94
“I’m going”: NYT, May 25, 1930.
President Hoover: Time, May 19, 1930.
“seizing, arresting”: Kobler, Capone, p. 284.
On arrival: Associated Press dispatches, April 20, 21, 1930.
FLORIDA SUES: NYT, May 9, 14, 15; CT, May 10, 19, 30; Miami Herald, May 11, 1930.
“I saw Mr. McCreary”: Miami Herald, May 28, 1930; CT, June 14, 1930.
“Do you believe”: Miami Herald, May 29, 1930.
Capone won: Miami Herald, May 30, 1930.
“PEACE JUSTICE”: Miami Daily News, May 28, 1930.
“During the five”: CT, June 14, 1930.
“the only cause”: CT, June 15, 1930; Miami Herald, June 15, 1930.
bill for $50,000: Kobler, Capone, p. 284.
“Jake Lingle was known”: Trohan interview.
“He would take”: Whaley interview.
Another Tribune reporter: Pasley, Al Capone, p. 277.
job-related scams: Whaley interview.
“Journalists!”: Hecht and MacArthur, The Front Page, p. 40.
Hilding Johnson: McPhaul, Deadlines & Monkeyshines, p. 227.
“big, tall Irishman”: Whaley interview.
“The booze was good”: ibid.
fixing the price: Pasley, Al Capone, p. 267.
“Shortly before”: Whaley interview.
“Our managing”: ibid.
“whom I heard”: Wilson and Day, Special Agent, p. 31; Wilson, “Undercover Man.”
One day before his appointment: Boettiger, Jake Lingle, pp. 15–22.
walking the streets: Nash, People to See, p. 192; McPhaul, Deadlines & Monkeyshines, p. 138.
“The Tribune is”: “The Chicago Tribune,” Fortune, May 1934.
“He was”: Trohan interview.
notions of grammar: Gies, The Colonel of Chicago, pp. 5–6.
“The publishers called”: Waldrop, McCormick of Chicago, p. 189.
Capone happened: Fox, Blood and Power, p. 105.
A little over: Waldrop, McCormick of Chicago, p. 187–188.
bulletproof: “The Chicago Tribune,” Fortune, May 1934.
“Colonel McCormick called”: Whaley interview.
reward of $25,000: Pasley, Al Capone, p. 266.
THE CHALLENGE: Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era, p. 156.
The Police Department: Boettiger, Jake Lingle, p. 37; Pasley, Al Capone, p. 275.
“The priest”: Trohan interview.
Wilson questioned: Kobler, Capone, pp. 290–291.
“It was not”: Pasley, Al Capone, pp. 282–283.
A separate investigation: Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era, p. 163.
“Lingle Wrecking”: McPhaul, Deadlines & Monkeyshines, p. 271.
“Alfred Lingle now”: Pasley, Al Capone, p. 293.
“Can’t some way”: Lyle, The Dry and Lawless Years, p. 232.
If Capone: ibid., p. 233.
“the beams”: CT, July 19, 1930.
“Was Jake”: ibid.
Chapter 9: Secret Agents
“He had bought”: Wilson, “Undercover Man.”
“Everyone was hostile”: Baltimore Sun, March 20, 1932.
“Investigation of this”: Wilson, “Undercover Man.”
“You can make”: Kobler, Capone, p. 236.
“Eddie realized”: Wilson and Day, Special Agent, pp. 31–32.
“I hope”: ibid.
“The vice monger”: Pasley, Al Capone, p. 301.
“I’d help you”: ibid., p. 309.
“He’s all right”: CT, August 20, 1930.
Lifting his shoulders: CT, October 10, 1930.
“hang a foreclosure”: Wilson, “Undercover Man.”
Wilson had further cause: Hynd, The Giant Killers, pp. 31–44.
“the greatest natural”: Wilson and Day, Special Agent, p. 33.
“I’m a promoter”: Hynd, The Giant Killers, p. 37; Tully, Treasury Agent, pp. 40–41.
“He keeps everything”: Spiering, The Man Who Got Capone, pp. 89–90.
He alerted: ibid., pp. 95–96.
“What the hell”: ibid., pp. 97–98.
“Snorky’s gonna have”: Hynd, The Giant Killers, p. 49.
“I feel very certain”: ibid., pp. 51–52.
“This is an emergency”: ibid., pp. 52–53.
Wilson and his wife: Wilson, “Undercover Man.”
“I was much disgusted”: Spiering, The Man Who Got Capone, p. 138.
“I uncovered a ledger”: Baltimore Sun, March 20, 1932.
“I snipped”: Wilson, “Undercover Man.”
“We found out”: ibid.
“Who are you”: ibid.
I think it: Memorandum for Assistant Attorney General Youngquist, September 19, 1930. FBI-FN.
Carleon Hotel: CT, September 26, 1930.
Roamer Inn: F.B.I. Case Report, October 18, 1930. FBI-FN.
movements in Berwyn: FBI Case Report, November 11, 1930. FBI-FN.
“if for no”: Memorandum for the Director, December 15, 1932. FBI-FN.
“worked at various”: NA-FN.
On November 19, 1930: Milton H. Summers (Chicago Crime Commission) to United States Board of Parole, May 16, 1932. NA-JG.
“immediate boss”: Kobler, Capone, p. 276.
“I packed my scowling”: Wilson, “Undercover Man”; Chicago Evening Post, October 24, 1931.
During November: CT, November 14, December 5, 1930.
“I met a lovely”: Borden, “Chicago Revisited,” Harpers Monthly, April 1931.’
raid on Capone’s hideaway: CT, December 1, 1930; Dillard, “How the U.S. Government Caught Al Capone,” The Master Detective, February 1932.
“Capone has become”: CT, NYT, December 19, 1930.
“for a couple”: Author’s interview with Mike Rotunno.
Medill School: Kobler, Capone, p. 306.
“The men with power”: Murray, The Legacy of Al Capone, p. 343.
“thoroughly investigated”: O’Brien, All Things Considered, pp. 60–62.
“I can’t tell you”: ibid., pp. 62–63.
“I thought he’d tear”: ibid., pp. 63–64.
“in the Capone domain”: NYT, December 15, 1930.
In November 1930: Eliot Ness to George E. Q. Johnson, March 26, 1932. GEQJ FBI-EN.
“I was instructed”: Ness Collection, WRHS.
“When the truck”: ibid.
“The Capone gang”: ibid.
“laden down”: ibid.
“full blooded Indian”: ibid.
I had a truck: ibid.
From the inception: Eliot Ness to George E. Q. Johnson, March 26, 1932. GEQJ; FBI-EN.
“The attitude”: ibid.
“Each raid was made”: Ness Collection, WRHS.
“I evolved”: Ness and Fraley, The Untouchables, pp. 196–198.
“an even better”: ibid., pp. 199–200.
“Scarface Al Capone”: Wilson, “Undercover Man.”
Elmer Irey received: Hynd, The Giant Killers, pp. 68–70.
March 13: Messick, Secret File, p. 51; Hynd, The Giant Killers, p. 74.
“We picked up”: Author’s interview with George E. Q. Johnson, Jr.
“If Mayor Thompson”: NYT, February 17, 1931.
On February 21: NYT, February 22, 1931.
“monkey”: NYT, February 24, 1931.
“Notice anything strange”: Lyle, The Dry and Lawless Years, pp. 259–262.’
“was unable”: CT, April 4, 1931.
$2 million: Chicago Daily News, February 25, 1931.
“settled his”: CT, February 26, 1931.
“The evidence”: Opinion, United States vs. Capone. NAGL.
“And as punishment”: CT, February 28, 1931.
“If the judge”: ibid.
The U.S. Attorney’s: R.C. Harvey to Director, February 27, 1931. FBI-AC.
Well of all: March 4, 1931. FBI-AC.
“Hell, Colonel”: Hoffman, Business vs. Organized Crime, p. 35.
“I was taken”: Vanderbilt, Farewell to Fifth Avenue, pp. 172–174.
For Chicago Thompson: CT, April 9, 1931.
“Chicago Goes”: The Nation, April 22, 1931.
“He stands”: ibid.
“I was now”: Ness Collection, WRHS.
“Very cautiously”: Ness and Fraley, The Untouchables, pp. 223–224.
major offensive: NYT, May 3, 1931.
the conflict erupted: Organized Crime: 25 Years after Valachi, pp. 299–300.
“Capone was an extravagant host”: Bonanno, A Man of Honor, pp. 128–129.
“Why should”: Gosch and Hamner, The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano, p. 147.
“I don’t happen”: Hynd, The Giant Killers, p. 76.
Two months earlier: George E. Q. Johnson to the Attorney General, December 31, 1931. GEQJ.
“If reasonable sentence”: ibid.
Judge James Wilkerson: ibid.
CAPONE is: NYT, June 6, 1931.
government’s record: CT, NYT, June 6, 1931; NAGL.
Clarence Converse: Irey and Slocum, The Tax Dodgers, pp. 56–57.
“a sensation”: Ness Collection, WRHS
5,000 offenses: CT, June 13, 1931.
“Ness was considered”: Berardi interview.
The reporters: Author’s interview with George Murray.
“Every time Al’s fleet”: CT, July 18, 1931.
Your proposal: Attorney General to George E. Q. Johnson, July 24, 1931. GEQJ.
“There is”: Frank J. Loesch to President Hoover, June 29, 1931. HHL.
“The abject refusal”: CT, June 15, 1931.
“Last of”: CT, June 17, 1931.
Springfield, Illinois: CT, June 19, 1931.
“Why, they ought”: Time, August 10, 1931.
“It is time”: NYT, July 31, 1931.
“I cannot”: Statement of Frank J. Loesch, February 2, 1933. DJ.
“Just the old”: NYT, August 8, 1931; CT, August 10, 1931.
“I’m being hounded”: Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era, pp. 340–341.
On September 23: Spiering, The Man Who Got Capone, pp. 157–158.
On Saturday: NYT, October 4, 1931.
Chapter 10: The United States of America vs. Alphonse Capone
“THE COURTROOM!”: Shepherd, “Can Capone Beat Washington, Too?” Colliers, October 10, 1931.
Damon Runyon to cover: Clark, The World of Damon Runyon, p. 222.
“greasy, grinning”: Time, September 21, 1931.
“The Battle of Chicago”: Shepherd, “Can Capone Beat Washington, Too?”
“It will be”: CT, October 7, 1931.
“Capone’s thick-featured”: CT, October 9, 1931.
names, addresses, and occupations: CT, October 7, 1931.
“Capone is to have”: ibid.
“horny-handed tillers”: Runyon, Trials and Other Tribulations, p. 226.
“bloated figure”: NYT, October 8, 1931.
“Do you know Alphonse Capone?”: CT, October 8, 1931.
“He was unshaven:” TRAN.
“Who were the managers”: Ross, The Trial of Al Capone, pp. 47–50.
“The Raiding Pastor”: CT, October 8, 1931.
“What is your occupation”: ibid.
“The thought”: NYT, October 8, 1931.
“The impression”: CT, October 8, 1931.
Mr. Alphonse Capone: TRAN.
HERRICK: NYT, October 9, 1931.
The taxpayer is now 31: CT, October 9, 1931.
“The fatuous grin”: ibid.
Eliot Ness boldly continued to arrest: ibid.
“Your Uncle Sam”: Runyon, Trials and Other Tribulations, p. 235.
“LAVISH CAPONE LIFE”: NYT, October 10, 1931.
“I was called”: CT, October 10, 1931.
“Mr. Parker Henderson”: TRAN.
The droning testimony: NYT, October 10, 1931.
“Al Capone”: CT, October 9, 1931.
Sam “Golf Bag” Hunt: CT, October 10, 1931.
“The outside murkiness”: NYT, October 11, 1931.
“a powerful figure”: ibid.
“It is not necessary”: CT, October 11, 1931.
“I was the first”: Berardi interview.
“He bought a $4,500”: TRAN.
A salesman from Marshall Field: ibid.
Meyer Berger: NYT, October 18, 1931.
“It looked”: Runyon, Trials and Other Tribulations: p. 239.
“The testimony revealed”: ibid.
“Now, just what”: TRAN.
“There was one day”: ibid.
“as if operating”: NYT, October 14, 1931.
“They say, here”: ibid.
“Mr. Ries:” TRAN.
“If it please”: NYT, October 14, 1931.
“Are you ready”: CT, October 14, 1931.
“We have a jury”: NYT, October 14, 1931.
Edward G. Robinson: Runyon, Trials and Other Tribulations, p. 244.
“The gambler witnesses”: CT, October 15, 1931.
“Have you had any transactions”: ibid.
“How did you remember”: ibid.
“You are the Pete Penovich”: TRAN.
“a breezy sort”: NYT, October 16, 1931.
“What was the bankroll”: ibid.
“Your correspondent”: Runyon, Trials and Other Tribulations, p. 242.
“Patients of this type”: Brain, Diseases of the Nervous System, p. 429.
“He himself produced witnesses”: Ross, The Trial of Al Capone, pp. 94–96.
“The government has sought”: NYT, October 17, 1931.
“a lump bulged”: ibid.
“Quite a gale”: Runyon, Trials and Other Tribulations, p. 245.
“Every morning there are thousands”: Closing argument by Mr. Johnson on Behalf of the United States. GEQJ.
“almost evangelical”: CT, October 18, 1931.
“You are the judges”: TRAN.
All the jurors save one: NYT, CT, October 19, 1931.
“Have you arrived”: CT, October 18, 1931.
“You don’t need”: Washington Herald, October 19, 1931.
“Let the defendant step”: NYT, October 25, 1931.
“Capone’s eyes seemed”: ibid.
“The only thing”: Irey, The Tax Dodgers, p. 65.
“disappeared into the sprawling city”: Time, October 26, 1931.
“Think of my”: Ross, The Trial of Al Capone, pp. 111–112; CT, October 25, 1931.
“I’ll knock”: CT, October 25, 1931.
corned beef: ibid.
“CAPONE GETS”: Chicago Evening Post, October 24, 1931.
“HOODLUM”: Kansas City Star, October 24, 1931.
“It is ludicrous”: Literary Digest, October 31, 1931.
“No matter how satisfactory”: ibid.
“No one seemed”: NYT, October 25, 1931.
“As you have perhaps read”: United States of America vs. Alphonse Capone, Application for Supersedeas and Enlargement on Bail, October 26, 1931. DJ.
“organized body of men”: Oral Announcement of Judge Wilkerson in United States vs. Philip D’Andrea, October 28, 1931. GEQJ.
“I still think”: United States vs. Philip D’Andréa, October 28, 1931. DJ.
Chapter 11: Circles of Hell
David T. Moneypenny: NYT, October 26, 1931; Washington Herald, March 11, 1932.
“Today was visiting”: NYT, October 30, 1931.
personal history: BP-RC.
“the gangster was taken”: CT, November 5, 1931.
“I’d like to eat”: CT, November 7, 1931.
The train reached Leavenworth: NYT, November 7, 1931.
attorney general ordered: BP-RC.
“Capone will”: Finch R. Archer to Sanford Bates, December 6, 1931. BP-RC.
“administrative reasons”: BP-RC.
“What an attraction”: ibid.
“menace to society”: Parole Report by United States Attorney. BP-RC.
Such was the standard procedure: Finch R. Archer to Director, Bureau of Prisons, September 9, 1932. BP-RC.
At Christmas: Chicago Herald and Examiner, December 18, 1931.
His sole relief: Tacoma Daily Ledger, February 8, 1932.
“Mr. Bates”: A. H. MacCormick to Finch R. Archer, April 7, 1932. BP-RC.
In 1927: Ralph Capone’s Social Record, December 14, 1931. BP-RC.
“Never did”: Ralph Capone’s Medical Record, December 10, 1931. BP-RC.
CHICAGO’S UNDERWORLD: NYT, November 29, 1931; CT, November 13, 1931; Washington Herald, October 30, 1931; CT, November 8, 1931.
WISH TO INFORM: BP-AC.
risqué tales: ibid.
visitors seeing Al Capone: ibid.
“BARE WARDEN’S”: Chicago Daily Times, December 22, 1931; CT, December 22, 1931.
“Al had a radio”: Kearns and Fraley, The Million Dollar Gate, p. 253.
“You’d be sensational”: ibid., pp. 254–257.
“I will give”: Washington Herald, March 11, 1932.
Capone did not invoke: Messick, Secret File, p. 74.
“I handle beer”: Washington Herald, March 11, 1932.
“There was absolutely”: Rogers, The Autobiography of Will Rogers, p. 277.
“Capone could be useful”: Messick, Secret File, pp. 74–75.
Lindbergh was desperate: ibid., pp. 76–77; Wilson, Special Agent, p. 58; New York Daily News, April 26, 1932.
“The whole affair”: Time, March 21, 1932.
“There ain’t no gat”: Daily Mirror, August 28, 1932.
“advance epitaph”: Homer Croy to Al Capone, April 7, 1932. BP-AC.
“I wonder why”: A. H. MacCormick to Homer Croy, May 13, 1932. BP-AC.
One final appeal: CT, March 23, 1932.
Finally, on May 2: NYT, May 3, 1932.
“I was determined”: Ness and Fraley, The Untouchables, p. 244254.
“After that it was”: NYT, May 4, 1932.
“Well, I’m on my way”: Ness and Fraley, The Untouchables, pp. 247–249; CT, May 4, 1932; AP dispatch, May 4, 1932.
“I’ll be made”: NYT, May 5, 1932.
His registration papers: BP-AC.
At the time of his arrival at the Atlanta Penitentiary, Al Capone’s rap sheet, containing various omissions and errrors, read as follows:
Admission: 1919; Arrested at N.Y. City. Disorderly Conduct. (Fighting) Discharged.
1923,? Arrested, Chicago, Ill. Traffic Violation (Collision) Dismissed.
1923,? (Denied) Fined $150.00. Operating disorderly House, Gambling at Chicago, Ill.
9–5-23; Arrested. Pistol in Car. Discharged.
3–5-24; (Denies) Arrested, Chicago, Ill. Witness—Johnnie Duffey. Murder. Released.
5–8-24; Arrested, Chicago, Ill. Witness—murder Joe Howard.
President Hoover: Time, May 19, 1930.
“seizing, arresting”: Kobler, Capone, p. 284.
On arrival: Associated Press dispatches, April 20, 21, 1930.
FLORIDA SUES: NYT, May 9, 14, 15; CT, May 10, 19, 30; Miami Herald, May 11, 1930.
“I saw Mr. McCreary”: Miami Herald, May 28, 1930; CT, June 14, 1930.
“Do you believe”: Miami Herald, May 29, 1930.
Capone won: Miami Herald, May 30, 1930.
“PEACE JUSTICE”: Miami Daily News, May 28, 1930.
“During the five”: CT, June 14, 1930.
“the only cause”: CT, June 15, 1930; Miami Herald, June 15, 1930.
bill for $50,000: Kobler, Capone, p. 284.
“Jake Lingle was known”: Trohan interview.
“He would take”: Whaley interview.
Another Tribune reporter: Pasley, Al Capone, p. 277.
job-related scams: Whaley interview.
“Journalists!”: Hecht and MacArthur, The Front Page, p. 40.
Hilding Johnson: McPhaul, Deadlines & Monkeyshines, p. 227.
“big, tall Irishman”: Whaley interview.
“The booze was good”: ibid.
fixing the price: Pasley, Al Capone, p. 267.
“Shortly before”: Whaley interview.
“Our managing”: ibid.
“whom I heard”: Wilson and Day, Special Agent, p. 31; Wilson, “Undercover Man.”
One day before his appointment: Boettiger, Jake Lingle, pp. 15–22.
walking the streets: Nash, People to See, p. 192; McPhaul, Deadlines & Monkeyshines, p. 138.
“The Tribune is”: “The Chicago Tribune,” Fortune, May 1934.
“He was”: Trohan interview.
notions of grammar: Gies, The Colonel of Chicago, pp. 5–6.
“The publishers called”: Waldrop, McCormick of Chicago, p. 189.
Capone happened: Fox, Blood and Power, p. 105.
A little over: Waldrop, McCormick of Chicago, p. 187–188.
bulletproof: “The Chicago Tribune,” Fortune, May 1934.
“Colonel McCormick called”: Whaley interview.
reward of $25,000: Pasley, Al Capone, p. 266.
THE CHALLENGE: Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era, p. 156.
The Police Department: Boettiger, Jake Lingle, p. 37; Pasley, Al Capone, p. 275.
“The priest”: Trohan interview.
Wilson questioned: Kobler, Capone, pp. 290–291.
“It was not”: Pasley, Al Capone, pp. 282–283.
A separate investigation: Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era, p. 163.
“Lingle Wrecking”: McPhaul, Deadlines & Monkeyshines, p. 271.
“Alfred Lingle now”: Pasley, Al Capone, p. 293.
“Can’t some way”: Lyle, The Dry and Lawless Years, p. 232.
If Capone: ibid., p. 233.
“the beams”: CT, July 19, 1930.
“Was Jake”: ibid.
Chapter 9: Secret Agents
“He had bought”: Wilson, “Undercover Man.”
“Everyone was hostile”: Baltimore Sun, March 20, 1932.
“Investigation of this”: Wilson, “Undercover Man.”
“You can make”: Kobler, Capone, p. 236.
“Eddie realized”: Wilson and Day, Special Agent, pp. 31–32.
“I hope”: ibid.
“The vice monger”: Pasley, Al Capone, p. 301.
“I’d help you”: ibid., p. 309.
“He’s all right”: CT, August 20, 1930.
Lifting his shoulders: CT, October 10, 1930.
“hang a foreclosure”: Wilson, “Undercover Man.”
Wilson had further cause: Hynd, The Giant Killers, pp. 31–44.
“the greatest natural”: Wilson and Day, Special Agent, p. 33.
“I’m a promoter”: Hynd, The Giant Killers, p. 37; Tully, Treasury Agent, pp. 40–41.
“He keeps everything”: Spiering, The Man Who Got Capone, pp. 89–90.
He alerted: ibid., pp. 95–96.
“What the hell”: ibid., pp. 97–98.
“Snorky’s gonna have”: Hynd, The Giant Killers, p. 49.
“I feel very certain”: ibid., pp. 51–52.
“This is an emergency”: ibid., pp. 52–53.
Wilson and his wife: Wilson, “Undercover Man.”
“I was much disgusted”: Spiering, The Man Who Got Capone, p. 138.
“I uncovered a ledger”: Baltimore Sun, March 20, 1932.
“I snipped”: Wilson, “Undercover Man.”
“We found out”: ibid.
“Who are you”: ibid.
I think it: Memorandum for Assistant Attorney General Youngquist, September 19, 1930. FBI-FN.
Carleon Hotel: CT, September 26, 1930.
Roamer Inn: F.B.I. Case Report, October 18, 1930. FBI-FN.
movements in Berwyn: FBI Case Report, November 11, 1930. FBI-FN.
“if for no”: Memorandum for the Director, December 15, 1932. FBI-FN.
“worked at various”: NA-FN.
On November 19, 1930: Milton H. Summers (Chicago Crime Commission) to United States Board of Parole, May 16, 1932. NA-JG.
“immediate boss”: Kobler, Capone, p. 276.
“I packed my scowling”: Wilson, “Undercover Man”; Chicago Evening Post, October 24, 1931.
During November: CT, November 14, December 5, 1930.
“I met a lovely”: Borden, “Chicago Revisited,” Harpers Monthly, April 1931.’
raid on Capone’s hideaway: CT, December 1, 1930; Dillard, “How the U.S. Government Caught Al Capone,” The Master Detective, February 1932.
“Capone has become”: CT, NYT, December 19, 1930.
“for a couple”: Author’s interview with Mike Rotunno.
Medill School: Kobler, Capone, p. 306.
“The men with power”: Murray, The Legacy of Al Capone, p. 343.
“thoroughly investigated”: O’Brien, All Things Considered, pp. 60–62.
“I can’t tell you”: ibid., pp. 62–63.
“I thought he’d tear”: ibid., pp. 63–64.
“in the Capone domain”: NYT, December 15, 1930.
In November 1930: Eliot Ness to George E. Q. Johnson, March 26, 1932. GEQJ FBI-EN.
“I was instructed”: Ness Collection, WRHS.
“When the truck”: ibid.
“The Capone gang”: ibid.
“laden down”: ibid.
“full blooded Indian”: ibid.
I had a truck: ibid.
From the inception: Eliot Ness to George E. Q. Johnson, March 26, 1932. GEQJ; FBI-EN.
“The attitude”: ibid.
“Each raid was made”: Ness Collection, WRHS.
“I evolved”: Ness and Fraley, The Untouchables, pp. 196–198.
“an even better”: ibid., pp. 199–200.
“Scarface Al Capone”: Wilson, “Undercover Man.”
Elmer Irey received: Hynd, The Giant Killers, pp. 68–70.
March 13: Messick, Secret File, p. 51; Hynd, The Giant Killers, p. 74.
“We picked up”: Author’s interview with George E. Q. Johnson, Jr.
“If Mayor Thompson”: NYT, February 17, 1931.
On February 21: NYT, February 22, 1931.
“monkey”: NYT, February 24, 1931.
“Notice anything strange”: Lyle, The Dry and Lawless Years, pp. 259–262.’
“was unable”: CT, April 4, 1931.
$2 million: Chicago Daily News, February 25, 1931.
“settled his”: CT, February 26, 1931.
“The evidence”: Opinion, United States vs. Capone. NAGL.
“And as punishment”: CT, February 28, 1931.
“If the judge”: ibid.
The U.S. Attorney’s: R.C. Harvey to Director, February 27, 1931. FBI-AC.
Well of all: March 4, 1931. FBI-AC.
“Hell, Colonel”: Hoffman, Business vs. Organized Crime, p. 35.
“I was taken”: Vanderbilt, Farewell to Fifth Avenue, pp. 172–174.
For Chicago Thompson: CT, April 9, 1931.
“Chicago Goes”: The Nation, April 22, 1931.
“He stands”: ibid.
“I was now”: Ness Collection, WRHS.
“Very cautiously”: Ness and Fraley, The Untouchables, pp. 223–224.
major offensive: NYT, May 3, 1931.
the conflict erupted: Organized Crime: 25 Years after Valachi, pp. 299–300.
“Capone was an extravagant host”: Bonanno, A Man of Honor, pp. 128–129.
“Why should”: Gosch and Hamner, The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano, p. 147.
“I don’t happen”: Hynd, The Giant Killers, p. 76.
Two months earlier: George E. Q. Johnson to the Attorney General, December 31, 1931. GEQJ.
“If reasonable sentence”: ibid.
Judge James Wilkerson: ibid.
CAPONE is: NYT, June 6, 1931.
government’s record: CT, NYT, June 6, 1931; NAGL.
Clarence Converse: Irey and Slocum, The Tax Dodgers, pp. 56–57.
“a sensation”: Ness Collection, WRHS
5,000 offenses: CT, June 13, 1931.
“Ness was considered”: Berardi interview.
The reporters: Author’s interview with George Murray.
“Every time Al’s fleet”: CT, July 18, 1931.
Your proposal: Attorney General to George E. Q. Johnson, July 24, 1931. GEQJ.
“There is”: Frank J. Loesch to President Hoover, June 29, 1931. HHL.
“The abject refusal”: CT, June 15, 1931.
“Last of”: CT, June 17, 1931.
Springfield, Illinois: CT, June 19, 1931.
“Why, they ought”: Time, August 10, 1931.
“It is time”: NYT, July 31, 1931.
“I cannot”: Statement of Frank J. Loesch, February 2, 1933. DJ.
“Just the old”: NYT, August 8, 1931; CT, August 10, 1931.
“I’m being hounded”: Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era, pp. 340–341.
On September 23: Spiering, The Man Who Got Capone, pp. 157–158.
On Saturday: NYT, October 4, 1931.
Chapter 10: The United States of America vs. Alphonse Capone
“THE COURTROOM!”: Shepherd, “Can Capone Beat Washington, Too?” Colliers, October 10, 1931.
Damon Runyon to cover: Clark, The World of Damon Runyon, p. 222.
“greasy, grinning”: Time, September 21, 1931.
“The Battle of Chicago”: Shepherd, “Can Capone Beat Washington, Too?”
“It will be”: CT, October 7, 1931.
“Capone’s thick-featured”: CT, October 9, 1931.
names, addresses, and occupations: CT, October 7, 1931.
“Capone is to have”: ibid.
“horny-handed tillers”: Runyon, Trials and Other Tribulations, p. 226.
“bloated figure”: NYT, October 8, 1931.
“Do you know Alphonse Capone?”: CT, October 8, 1931.
“He was unshaven:” TRAN.
“Who were the managers”: Ross, The Trial of Al Capone, pp. 47–50.
“The Raiding Pastor”: CT, October 8, 1931.
“What is your occupation”: ibid.
“The thought”: NYT, October 8, 1931.
“The impression”: CT, October 8, 1931.
Mr. Alphonse Capone: TRAN.
HERRICK: NYT, October 9, 1931.
The taxpayer is now 31: CT, October 9, 1931.
“The fatuous grin”: ibid.
Eliot Ness boldly continued to arrest: ibid.
“Your Uncle Sam”: Runyon, Trials and Other Tribulations, p. 235.
“LAVISH CAPONE LIFE”: NYT, October 10, 1931.
“I was called”: CT, October 10, 1931.
“Mr. Parker Henderson”: TRAN.
The droning testimony: NYT, October 10, 1931.
“Al Capone”: CT, October 9, 1931.
Sam “Golf Bag” Hunt: CT, October 10, 1931.
“The outside murkiness”: NYT, October 11, 1931.
“a powerful figure”: ibid.
“It is not necessary”: CT, October 11, 1931.
“I was the first”: Berardi interview.
“He bought a $4,500”: TRAN.
A salesman from Marshall Field: ibid.
Meyer Berger: NYT, October 18, 1931.
“It looked”: Runyon, Trials and Other Tribulations: p. 239.
“The testimony revealed”: ibid.
“Now, just what”: TRAN.
“There was one day”: ibid.
“as if operating”: NYT, October 14, 1931.
“They say, here”: ibid.
“Mr. Ries:” TRAN.
“If it please”: NYT, October 14, 1931.
“Are you ready”: CT, October 14, 1931.
“We have a jury”: NYT, October 14, 1931.
Edward G. Robinson: Runyon, Trials and Other Tribulations, p. 244.
“The gambler witnesses”: CT, October 15, 1931.
“Have you had any transactions”: ibid.
“How did you remember”: ibid.
“You are the Pete Penovich”: TRAN.
“a breezy sort”: NYT, October 16, 1931.
“What was the bankroll”: ibid.
“Your correspondent”: Runyon, Trials and Other Tribulations, p. 242.
“Patients of this type”: Brain, Diseases of the Nervous System, p. 429.
“He himself produced witnesses”: Ross, The Trial of Al Capone, pp. 94–96.
“The government has sought”: NYT, October 17, 1931.
“a lump bulged”: ibid.
“Quite a gale”: Runyon, Trials and Other Tribulations, p. 245.
“Every morning there are thousands”: Closing argument by Mr. Johnson on Behalf of the United States. GEQJ.
“almost evangelical”: CT, October 18, 1931.
“You are the judges”: TRAN.
All the jurors save one: NYT, CT, October 19, 1931.
“Have you arrived”: CT, October 18, 1931.
“You don’t need”: Washington Herald, October 19, 1931.
“Let the defendant step”: NYT, October 25, 1931.
“Capone’s eyes seemed”: ibid.
“The only thing”: Irey, The Tax Dodgers, p. 65.
“disappeared into the sprawling city”: Time, October 26, 1931.
“Think of my”: Ross, The Trial of Al Capone, pp. 111–112; CT, October 25, 1931.
“I’ll knock”: CT, October 25, 1931.
corned beef: ibid.
“CAPONE GETS”: Chicago Evening Post, October 24, 1931.
“HOODLUM”: Kansas City Star, October 24, 1931.
“It is ludicrous”: Literary Digest, October 31, 1931.
“No matter how satisfactory”: ibid.
“No one seemed”: NYT, October 25, 1931.
“As you have perhaps read”: United States of America vs. Alphonse Capone, Application for Supersedeas and Enlargement on Bail, October 26, 1931. DJ.
“organized body of men”: Oral Announcement of Judge Wilkerson in United States vs. Philip D’Andrea, October 28, 1931. GEQJ.
“I still think”: United States vs. Philip D’Andréa, October 28, 1931. DJ.
Chapter 11: Circles of Hell
David T. Moneypenny: NYT, October 26, 1931; Washington Herald, March 11, 1932.
“Today was visiting”: NYT, October 30, 1931.
personal history: BP-RC.
“the gangster was taken”: CT, November 5, 1931.
“I’d like to eat”: CT, November 7, 1931.
The train reached Leavenworth: NYT, November 7, 1931.
attorney general ordered: BP-RC.
“Capone will”: Finch R. Archer to Sanford Bates, December 6, 1931. BP-RC.
“administrative reasons”: BP-RC.
“What an attraction”: ibid.
“menace to society”: Parole Report by United States Attorney. BP-RC.
Such was the standard procedure: Finch R. Archer to Director, Bureau of Prisons, September 9, 1932. BP-RC.
At Christmas: Chicago Herald and Examiner, December 18, 1931.
His sole relief: Tacoma Daily Ledger, February 8, 1932.
“Mr. Bates”: A. H. MacCormick to Finch R. Archer, April 7, 1932. BP-RC.
In 1927: Ralph Capone’s Social Record, December 14, 1931. BP-RC.
“Never did”: Ralph Capone’s Medical Record, December 10, 1931. BP-RC.
CHICAGO’S UNDERWORLD: NYT, November 29, 1931; CT, November 13, 1931; Washington Herald, October 30, 1931; CT, November 8, 1931.
WISH TO INFORM: BP-AC.
risqué tales: ibid.
visitors seeing Al Capone: ibid.
“BARE WARDEN’S”: Chicago Daily Times, December 22, 1931; CT, December 22, 1931.
“Al had a radio”: Kearns and Fraley, The Million Dollar Gate, p. 253.
“You’d be sensational”: ibid., pp. 254–257.
“I will give”: Washington Herald, March 11, 1932.
Capone did not invoke: Messick, Secret File, p. 74.
“I handle beer”: Washington Herald, March 11, 1932.
“There was absolutely”: Rogers, The Autobiography of Will Rogers, p. 277.
“Capone could be useful”: Messick, Secret File, pp. 74–75.
Lindbergh was desperate: ibid., pp. 76–77; Wilson, Special Agent, p. 58; New York Daily News, April 26, 1932.
“The whole affair”: Time, March 21, 1932.
“There ain’t no gat”: Daily Mirror, August 28, 1932.
“advance epitaph”: Homer Croy to Al Capone, April 7, 1932. BP-AC.
“I wonder why”: A. H. MacCormick to Homer Croy, May 13, 1932. BP-AC.
One final appeal: CT, March 23, 1932.
Finally, on May 2: NYT, May 3, 1932.
“I was determined”: Ness and Fraley, The Untouchables, p. 244254.
“After that it was”: NYT, May 4, 1932.
“Well, I’m on my way”: Ness and Fraley, The Untouchables, pp. 247–249; CT, May 4, 1932; AP dispatch, May 4, 1932.
“I’ll be made”: NYT, May 5, 1932.
His registration papers: BP-AC.
At the time of his arrival at the Atlanta Penitentiary, Al Capone’s rap sheet, containing various omissions and errrors, read as follows:
Admission: 1919; Arrested at N.Y. City. Disorderly Conduct. (Fighting) Discharged.
1923,? Arrested, Chicago, Ill. Traffic Violation (Collision) Dismissed.
1923,? (Denied) Fined $150.00. Operating disorderly House, Gambling at Chicago, Ill.
9–5-23; Arrested. Pistol in Car. Discharged.
3–5-24; (Denies) Arrested, Chicago, Ill. Witness—Johnnie Duffey. Murder. Released.
5–8-24; Arrested, Chicago, Ill. Witness—murder Joe Howard.
