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Fo a em ie built. Ze REASU Y ofichls are conkideat tat ways gets its man, even If be be a king of gangdom. ‘The work of those men scared gearly a million dollars in delinquent tazes eut of racketeers in Chicago alone last year. Those sleuths, who operated in Chicago, were led, incidentally, by a man who hag called Baltimore his home for the last four years. He is Frank J.¥Wilson, 6008 Gover toad, who probably rs to his neighbors more like an imsurance agent or salesman than as the man who collected the fuel that went into the fires that burned the props that aiood under the bouse that Capone jack ’- ™ ‘ mis 15 A heretofore untold story of a web of evidence weven hy many agents weer ee ware eee oF many agencies until it stretched ‘ate far cor mers of the land; of how they “built a lot ie ~ ef heat” around Capone; of -a mapet-rack- elect fighting back, struggling to sever each straod of evidence as it tangied about him; ef terrified witnesses and of big-time gam- blers unprofessionally addicted to bridge; of Scarface Al's “big mistake”; of an mnocent- looking book covered with five years’ dust, and, lastly, of the difference between a man’s pen and pencil writing that dramatically solved the riddle of the book and sealed the “against a number of men whaee names have figured prominently in the press 25 eppon- enis pf. constituled autbonity,, Some are in "direction, " quided_ to their journcy’s end by ‘the effective and determined work of the rep Teseptatives of several cooperating agencies. “Fe Dea rs ae. eee ibe Burean of ioléeraal "Meévenie takes 2 matural pride in its part of this accomplish- ,Ment, not because of the natoriety of the "men involved, bit because it is a forward fend compeliing step ia the’ Sisintegration of organizations the aw. “T've read that others are “aspiring te the ~wacant thrones.’ Speaking for one branch ef the Federal service, my only observation is that the imcome-tax laws siil] are on the _atalute books, and there sfe no carmptions that had set themseives above . web into an unshaiterable whole, ‘for ‘master ads ; Mr. Wilson, who, until the World War . changed the course of his life, was a Buffalo ah. WILSON’S MODESTY about his status as real estate agent, is teticent about his part “Uncle Sam's ace income-tax investigator end in the Capone case, but quick to elaborate about bis work as chief of the ageots, sent te Batimere the results the case is expected to effect. For Chicago when word came down from highest example, explaining that men who have Sled Governmental circles that the income of Jun inadequate returns or none at all in the past —-Scarfare Al was to be investigated oace and >, Adz may escape prosecution by voluntarily filing for al, was emphasized by his insistence that ““d 7"¢ g “delinquent” or “amended” returns and ac- there could have been no success without the SS 4 cepting the proportional fines and interest _Mlawiess and wholebearted cooperation cx. 6° ~ _ Ubereon, Mr. Wilson said: “tended by many agencies of the Government. “One big gambler who had not made any ._, These, as enumerated by Mr. Wilson, in- return for several years has come through -Guded not only his chief, Eimer L. Irey, bead with a payment of over $300,000. He con- of the Internal Revere Bureae’s Intelii- fessed that he had been scared by the Capone gence Unit, and Commissioner Burnet, but case. “Delinquent” returns in Chicago during «880 the Degartment’ of Justice, the Post- the investigations last year were almost _wiice Department, tie Commissione- of Ner- double those of the previous year, increas. _cotics, the Bureau of Immigration, semi-pub- ing nearly $1,000,000, and we keow that “fic izations and, ‘last but mot deast, we scared most of it in. ‘George E. Q. Johnson, and bis stall im the -_ : roffice of the Poited States Attorney at Chi- “some PLoPLe sav.” be continued, “that the "cago. < ie im ‘Government shouldn't accept taxes oncrimi- = © It fel to Sis, Winer single lot, however, " pal incomes, that it's tainted money.’ Well, peeled the bit of evidence that clncted Q if we didn go after them and make them {he cust against Capone, proving to the sate: = 7} M 0 ve Semmes ere Share at ie, we'd 5 known—that face Al, paroa oth he ting ese eu ne i "Bae YON hae Dee E: oe, eriminating against tine eee ee ded fs ~ ; epee ae eo Ts ened 2 x beneet Har pe ee er | ieca Root Ele NS ile