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Al Capone — Part 35
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which marked another house the
{fluent hoodlum had occupied st
122 N, Kenilworth av. 2 few years
tarlier.
Comparative hard times drove
and Louise, the pretty, typi-
ally North Bide girl, who left an
Addison st. home and a Lake View
High Schoo] education to join the
Hfe of the underworld—from the
house at 1112 more than three
years ago.
He returned to the less pre-
tentious house at 1224. Some of
the neighbors objected, but police
said Jack could not be evicted un-
less he ran afoul of the Jaw again.
| ‘Instead he ran afoul of the ene-
1 Mies of the law.
| ALMOST BROEE, SHE SAYS.
Today, as she was led from the
‘morgue to the state’s attorney's
' office, she said:
“We were bractleally broke.”
l From ihe state's attorney's of-
\fice she was returned to the
‘morgue for the inquest at 11 a.m.
Her tears by then had smeared
the thick mascara over her face.
‘She would say little to reporters,
‘put when she was asked:
“Was he good te you?”
«a She answered:
“Oh, he was wondesful . . .
always a0 nice.“
‘WAVES CAMERAS AWAT.
* Newspaper photogarphers she.
motioned away with her hand. on
which was a platinum weddirk:
Ting, her only jeweirr, and in
which she carried a black Pura?
with the initials "L. G.” a
She pleaded: ;
“Boys, please don't.”
To the questioning of Assistant
State's Attorney Hal Coughian,
too, she insisted that she knew
little of her husband’s business
operations and that his death
had been entirely unexpected.
Coughlan asked her:
Q—What has your husband
been doing for a living lately?
A-—I don't know.
NOT MARKING MUCH.
Q—How has he been making
money? A—He hasn’t been mak-
ing much, but he always seemed
to have some when he needed it.
No, I don’t know where he got it.
Q—Who has he been hanging
around with? Who are his asso-
ciates? A--I don't know. He nev-
er told me much about those
things.
Q—Whoe would want te kill
him? Who would profit by his
death? A—TI haven't anv idea, I
thought that. sort of thing was
all past and gone,
Q—Has he been threatened
Istely? A—I don't know. OF,
please don't ask me sO MANY ques
tions.
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