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Al Capone — Part 33
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te James HL. Wilkerson to | “go eany
on the gang ieader were made pulr
= ward. :
Oncar F; ‘Nelson, Republican, igre run.
, ning fer * reflection in -this
Republican. - Both
a support. . .
. Ald, Nelson has been listed by the *
-, Municipal Voters’ league as the “pre
ferred” candidate in this struggle.
2 This recommendation, ‘it
5 yesterdey, was given ‘despite certain |
- allegations made to the officers of the |
‘ Jeague by ‘former Attorney General | |
Edward J. Srundsage. Mr. Brundage, :
who is one of Dehmiow's chief back- |
ers, told the deague officers that Nel- “|
son had had aitiligtion# wilh Capone. |
Hark Back té Capone Trial. '
Incidents wpon which thesd charges
were based took place in October, 1931,
when Capone was on trial before Judge
Wilkereon for income tax evasion,
Both Mr. Brundage and Ald. Nelson
have tolé their versions of the iInci-
dents ‘to the league, They repeated
them ¥
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tae
ito a Tawsun« reporter.
The narratives agtee on some points
my home = tix with me. Herri-
faa committepman.
E tose nize fo
4 He Festerday in cognettion with the
bitter fight tor alderman in the 46th § E
ward ©
* ggamet Arthur & Dehmlow, another &
Mr. Fdwe-ds
Mfr. Clogs. .
cemansar thr tas oie
treating “Capone's lavyon ek x
1014 them ¥ was certain that they were
wetting fa an@ tmpartiel treatment,
but. they .saked. 08m _dalk with Zhe.
square dqal
followers in the’ city council: He namea
Ald. Nelson as one ‘of these followers
and, turning to Berritélia, anid, ‘Have
Nelson out here tomorrow aight.” |
age Pviixerson day I talked with
Judge HvVitkerson, Who ida me that
Capone's lawyers [Michael Ahera and
Albert Fink} were objecting io every
piece of government evidence and
mihat they would ‘be ‘treated aa- law
yers when they ected as
en they acted ae lawyers.’
“The following night Serritella
came again to my home with Aid.
Nelson. Capone was not with them.
Ald. Nelson and I talked 46th ward
politics [Mr. Brundage*iq « voter in
that ward]. Nelson asgured mer
was for anything 1 wanted.
~“ These Incidents tock place
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