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: ot -Cyicago, was started im the |* federal District court of Atlanta while j- he was imprisoned in the federal penl- | tentiary there, but before its final re- jection by the Supreme court Capone had achieved the release he sought. | He was iaken out of the penitentiary there, but wasdodged_ iy a new one on Alcatraz Island, off the California coast. Nevertheless the petition for a writ of certiorart, which the Supreme court denied today, was in the matter of Alphonse Capone vs. A. C. Aderhold, the latter being warden of the Atlanta penitentiary. Capone's lawyers raised his plea after he had been committed to the penitentiary on May 4, 1932. A Supreme court decision in another case held that the atatute of limitations in criminal income tax cases is three years, and net six, as the government relied upon in convicting Capone. But Capone's lawyera had failed to raise the plea during the trial and thiz precluded him from further relief. : The Supreme court teok under ad- visement the case’in which Sam T. Ansell, who investigated elec in Louisiana, is suing 594 Long 500,000 libel. ‘ ‘ ChceH? JO-Vb- BSF 7° . Ee, Si at a am, ree » ee eee tac ee ee lata Pe LARA ae Beker