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Al Capone — Part 8

70 pages · May 08, 2026 · Broad topic: Organized Crime · Topic: Al Capone · 69 pages OCR'd
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. LS ais ee ee Te a ee ys tributions to faction eel . Efeon he testoe Ci the Inlection tetg cur problem the aflegedly respectable ae par rT ni a JBANSIAR Ae i s. Attorney a War on Crime. ake <- "(Continued ‘trom Aree pase.) — eo Ly an “ understandiog of the problems or ganized crime creates.” < Then wine. with cold detachnien! and tn’the methodical manner of the chess player te whom Mr. Jehnsot had Ukened himself, the atceunt of aupects of the cross section. - “When we proved,” he said, “that Raiph Capone tool $1,871,000 ln three years from beer and gambling we ghowed under a blasing light the new SQOR SG HHUET & SRE at SS factor In the problem of crime, “That factor js crime with sichee. “We proved, too, that Jack Guaik took $1,049,000 from gambling in aed -years. Of course that's power. measuring in dollars of that power gives the citizen at a glance the dit- ference between nermal crime and ab norual or organized crime. Of course there always will be crime, bot it will be normal crime instexd of “Donerame! exime. . do" Normal crime menaks down the ley. — boulevard in a costly omr. Tentacles 4f Organized Crips.’ “Organized crime has appalltiag fications. The more vious gangs are getting Inte the distribution of ‘eounterfelt money and narcotics. The ijacker Is being pajd off In counter: eC: money. Ke can't complain. toudly he does not dare to. But a bile are surreptitiously vet oan the hints that ‘perhaps this matter aisiante cise, Open the door, and say aeGet out! “We know that n Ui “Tells of Pie ciay aS al ,” Organized crime drives down the! on a baste of equality, it made my ge [*2 agent wanes make con.} *®0g¢dcm a of political par world. » ” 5 2 i RICAGO SUNDAY TRIBUNE DE .21, 1930. GEORGR B. 0. JOHNSON. * tlana. His” lawyer was not with ‘him Btep for him, he became tequacious. At timea he was insolent, such being his notion of how to enferce his con- tenfion that he should be treated with Obviously bs thought the fodera) district attorney was « simpleton and, to searching Queations as to his bank deposits, he|* “The policy of this efflep in alriby replied that he had units under five different allases if the Pin- Kert Biate bank at Cicero. Thare was no talk about Hquor vislations and nnd pone proudly babbled his way toward Leavenworth. - “Did you.” he would be ‘asked, “de | Le | Pontt auch aod such sums under this Samet”. ~ * Xen, 1 OM,” be would rebiy, > What about ar ; - ~ inva! tn -uncovert zties. hws eos must ver tor these ome ee atta, cationing Mr. * They. privilege * jee ‘bidden =| eget Ld aro fe" and pri pone bla, was nd botes of all Ca. 2 als fides f i g i Lee E rs th 1 F | at ae, Fu? the administration ectibes to a solemn -on But there are. officiats mente! reservations as te the the constttation which xhey part, wf do mot fatend 15°65 dyes fait . . AFFER OLIPPING!: sar Wf WSPAFF vinced that the roots of thé altuatiow’ created by organized crime deep the violation of the nationAl proh: tien act and that violators of it are hotbed in which crime spreads end, lacking anybody te watch his|®T0Wth oan be uprooted by teking easy money out of organized crime” In doing that # is not important “somtl Particular erime w hoodlum ts victed of, but tH is important tira oe impress on thia community , body is beyond the law, His Poticy Moves Om. “ “That policy te also goldg 4n counties of Tlinots where nation that wR. “a wide open
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