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——-- a, r Oo an affidavit was obtained from an officer of this same vessel to the effect thet Alphonse Capone and his party had sailed aboard his boat tron Miami to Nassau on February 8, 1929, and had returned br the same boat from Nassau on February 12, 1929, end that on both trips Alphonse Capone eppeared tn wu ral Affidavits were obtained that on February 14, 1929, Alphonse Capore had been questioned for ts hours by the County Solicitor for Dede County and an Assistant District Attorney of King's County, New York, in the office of the County Solicito> in the Court House at Miami, Florida, the questions und answers being taken domm by a stenographer, and tha* upon this occasion Capone appeared to be in good health. The above affidavits, of course, established “the falsity of several statements in the affidavit presented to obtain ew postponement of Capone's appearance before the Grand Jury oat Chicago and served to disprove his contention *hat he was sick in bed upon cer*ain dates, end was thus too ill to appear in Chicago. On March 27, 1929, Capone was cited in the Federal Court et Chicago for Contempt of Court for his failure to respond to the subpoena served upon him in Floriis ordering his appearance before the Federal Grand Jury at Chicago, and on the same date he was arrested and released under $5,060 bond. On May 17, 1929, Cepone was arrested in Philadelphia and charged with carrying concealed weapons. He ras convicted in the Pennsylvanin . Stete Court and sentenced to Serve one year in the Eastern State Penitentinry, which sentence he served, st the expiration of this sentence he was erraigned in the Federal Court at Chicago, February 25, 1931, entered a plen of not ee ae i ee 8 ep me er ee RE ee ee