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RISE OF FORTIFIED CASTLE AMAZES INDIANA FARMERS { Carrozzo Builds Estate in Shower of $1,000 Bills. {Reprinted from vetterday's late ediuone.} Tt was last May when the residents of Hobart, Ind., (pop. 5.787] came to Geallze that there were strange do ings in the coun- tryside. Some one of great impor: tance — certainly ane of great wealth—had eome among them. Large farms were ig swift: & ly pe up for cyth—cash in $1,000 bills. A Yotal of $300,000 had been paid for land and $100,000 fas being spent tn modernizing five beautiful farm renidences, and in barn and outbuild- ing renovation and reconstruction. ‘Track Laid Out. Farms | renovating and fortifying Mr. Car- Drees locates Superior | Tish... 7 Subject of Discussion. adusteaany the king of the street fweepers chose the old Ditttneer ter. Titory for his fortified estate—and It js fortified in the most modern man- ner~Is a subject of much discussion both in Gricago and the Hobart coun- ide, ‘Carrozzo ts wealthy, but those who know him doubt that he could have; laid out nearly half @ million in) cash at any one time in recent years.; One report hes it that the Carrozzo | empire will be graced by no less & personage than Al Capone himeelf when he finishes @ one year term in the county jail after his re from, Alcatraz penitentiary next year. 47Xt ja said that Capone's friends, re! Calling the good fortune Dillinger en- joyed tn Lake county, have long considered that district to be the saf- est possible haven for their leader in crime. Dillinger made his fabu- lous escape from the unty Sattttrerew: n Point in 1934 to resume a jife of outlawry.\S ‘Meanwhile, crews of workmen are Toro's country place, which Mike named Superior farms. Wherever Mike goes on his preserves he ts with- dn sight of » number of hard faced, chunky Httle men. Some of them are beside him, others behind him and | atill others peer out from the shrub- l bery, S + My Secretaries,” He Explains, “My secretaries,” Mr. Carrozfo ex- Plains to his neighbors. But fron the many workmen on the farm} the neighbors have learned that eath of the secretaries carries a large bore pistol on his hip. None speaks aia -,Corrervo'n appearance jn the area was unheralded. He dropped in one day at the home of a farmer who was Offering for $170,000 a 320 acre tract that had three residences on it and a number of barns, Mike laid down New barns the size of Zeppelin | 145 $1,000 bills. It was « deal. * fhangers were being built. Mile dirt track had been iaid out and| farms, bringing to 900 acres there were special stables for blooded| holdings. The empire is on U. horses and cattle. A halt)¢/Then he bought four adjoining his total 8. highway No. 6 about fifty miles sout Six foot cyclone fences topped with{ east of Chicago, Driving toward Su- barbed wire Inciosed the tract. A/perlor Farms you roll along nearly a fortified empire had been created in the heart of Lake county—John Di. rozojt you please. 71 Gas something of « shock, how- Taille between the high fences—tences ordinarily seen only around penal In- favorite stamping ground.| atitutions—before reaching the first a/ group of buildings. \ Barriers Block Gateway. “The gateway 1s blocked by heavy fron barriers. Behind them is 2 pretty ever, when they found that thelr] Vite pillared farmhouse, roofed country gentleman was and {8 none! with green slate. About 200 to other than the Carrozzo who 'ong| the south stands one of the largest s Beet known eA\paro, Mike Capone barns in the central west~its length henchman end x of the street '™/ 1% gbout 300 feet. There are three borers’ council in Chicago. His name} enormous silos and many small build- i been on many police biotters since, Twice he was indicted for murder and often arrested for carry: ing conceaied weapons, but Qe never was convicted on these chargea.q 3 ings and sheds, all painted a ; pnite 7 | a im ‘are warning “But they haven't had any trouble about trespassers since ‘the folks heard about the secretaries,” one native . z=7 594] = 2b | Rows te road & ano! house, rs ou the jute bareness of the 4 ‘hed the guide. \'Mike has a lot of guests” re. “In thelr el the men and women md a ar\[pienty tricky. But they say Mike ¢ $e oe ot He felt off hie a xe! ro. o y)