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r fi. sane ST TP ie ie, Say Seti! " WASHINGTON, Aug. BA. PI phone’ Capone, the ‘convicted cago gangster, asked “the Su- wigment St dewey Courts denying Dim a writ of habeas corpus tied © nat A.C. Aderhoid, warden of Atlante penitentiary. “wi Attotney Wiliam ©, Leahy and tlliam 3, Hughes Jr. of Waabing- fou. jit contended Cayene “was fried in the Federal Distaget Court gn Iilinois and convicted pn three pharges of violating the Internal revenue laws after expiration of she ‘statute of Umitations. 4 The petition said Capone, ene- “ime terméd ‘public anemy No, 1," aves eonvicted for violation of the ‘gncome tax iaws for the calendar wyears 1925, 1925 and. 1927, ‘and in- ‘dictments were not returned until j June 5, 1831. The petition sald on ‘these three counts Capone, who recently was transferred to the new Federal prison at Alcatraz in San Francisco ‘Bay, was ‘sentenced to an ageregate lof ten years in the penitentiary nd to pay a fine of $30,000 on those three counts. — The indictment, the petition said, ‘ghowed on jts face that the of- fenses charged in counts 1, 5 and 9 ‘were committed more than three lyears prior to the filing of the tn- dictmentc’. * , Capone ‘filed his’ petition for 2 habeas corpus writ in the Federa} court of northern Georgia and St -was denied, He appealed to the ‘Cireult Court of Appeals in the yitth Cireust, which affirmed the ‘Judgment of the jower ‘court, ava 69-/¥0-A ae Wag bale. care. caee ee dye ite i rc PWM Leelee eee Po eC aiattel anes sarees Pe PO eer + i q Wr eee ag peg OT oe ee . *