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nce mee cause you'd heard that Ben wanted to steal your racket and had put up a cash offer to the man that got you. Yes, and then he’s going to tell about your sending him to New York, along with others to let daylight through Frankie Yale. Of course he’s going to sing about that Valentine day affair And how are you going to like that Mr. A] Brown.” Of course Mrs. Beige was required to come to Mr. Swanson’s office, where, confronted with these letters, she continued in an even higher crescendo with the result that she was kept in semi-custody by detectives for fear that something might hap- pen to her. Her husband was eventually arrested and held for three days. Strangely enough no lawyers came forward to attempt his release. But Frankie Beige stood up and took it on the chin, which is why, maybe, that he’s still a member of Capone’s gang. What he said in response to ques- tions was, in effect, that his wifey was just trying to make some easy dough, by shooting off her mouth. Mr. Beige had never met Mr. Capone and Mrs. Beige was crazy when she said that he used to sleep out in the corridor of Capone’s room in the Hotel Metropole until relieved by another guard, Louis “Little New York” Campagnia. Capone and Frankie Rio did not return to Chicago until March of 1930. During the interval little of importance occurred in the Big Fellow’s realm either as regards business or blood-shed. His affairs seemed, indeed, to prosper while those of his enemies, the Aiello-Moran outfit, seerned to be afflicted by an evil fortune. The “Enforcer” of the Big Fellow’s business, Frank Nitti and Hymie “Loud Mouth” Levine held forth from headquarters in the Lexington hotel, deciding with finality who should be killed, who should be bombed, whose trucks should be hi-jacked. One of Poy Fran, 401 Bond, believed to have slain three Capone gangsters in a saloon in the famons Baster Day massacre of 19230. Arrested as a suspect ha was indicted largely on the testimony of Chicago's ballistic expert, who sald that « pistol found in Bel Bond's room was the one which fred the fatal bnilets. In this picture Del Mond is being qnestionsd by Coroner Merman HE. Sundesen. Lower photograph shows police looking at the epot where the bodies were found. the more sensational, though unimportant, affrays during the lull was between Tommy MeNichols and Jimmy “Bozo” Schupe, small time West Side bootleggers. On July 31 Tommy and Bozo held a duel on Madison street, Tommy standing on one side and Bozo on the other. They killed each other. James Walsh, a beer-runner, was murdered in De- cember by Charles “Babe” Baron after a prize- fight at which Waish, during an altercation, slapped “Babe” with his fists. Two days later the body of Patrick King, criminal of sorts, was found in the deserted gambling joint owned by Terry O’Connor on South Wabash Avenue. On January 27, 1930, Johnny Genaro, a grade “C” bomber for the Ca- pone outfit, was put on the spot by James Belcas- tro, another Capone bomber, but did not die, John- ny and Belcastro have since made up and are getting along nicely, according to reports. If you hear any loud noises it may be Johnny and Jimmy. On February 3, 1930, Joseph Cada, companion of Jimmy Walsh on the night Walsh was killed, was shot to death in his automobile near the Green ‘Mill Cafe, a famous whoopee joint where inciden- [56] tally, at that time, Texas Guinan was holding forth. The next day Julius Rosenheim, supposedly an informer, was filled with bullets and dumped into a snow bank near his home, and all was quiet until February 24, when Frankie MacEarlane, in a hospital under an assumed name, was be-set by a5