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of evidence, = heen C (4) On June 15, 1931, Capone went before Federal Judge James Wilkerson to answer 2 indictment charges. 1 charge was evasion of income tax on millions of dollars, The other charge was violations of the National Prohibition laws over a 10 year Period. Both of the indictments were backed by mountains On June 18, 1931, the Federal agents began to mop up $he rest of Capone's gang (68 gangsters). On June 19, 1931, Capone went to the Federal Building in’ Chicago where he pleaded guilty to defrauding the government of $200,000 in income tax evasion & enspiring in a $200,000,000 beer smeicate violating the iiquor laws, © On July 31, 1931, Federal judge Janes H. Wilkerson permitted the attorney's of Capone to withdraw Capone's plea of guilty in the income tax case, but he reserved decision on the prohibition conspiracy until September 8, 1931. The liquor conspiracy case, charging 5,000 violations, was ordered re- submitted to the Federal Grand Jury for return of indictments, providing a higher penalty than that provided on a conspiracy charge. The grand jurors were then charged to investigate the Capone liquor conspiracy, On October 14, 1931, Milton Held (a race track booknaker) testified that Capone placed 4 or 5 bets with him each day, & lost on almost every race, Held said Capone's losses in 1925 amounted to $12,000 on the horses. At the close of that court session, Philip D'Andrea (1 of Capone's bodyguards) was arrested & held wlyhout bond in a Chicago jail for having @ concealed weapon in court. On October 24, 1931, Capone ws finally sentenced, Capone was chewing gun at the time, When the final sentence was read by Federal Judge James H. © Wilkerson, Capone's jaw dropped, his eyes widened & he bustled importantlly to the side of his attorney's, On October 26, 1931, Capone's trip to Leavenworth was ordered delayed by the circuit court of appeals, On this day Capone wes to start for prison: by train to began his 11 year sentence & ws fined $50,000, On October 27, 1931, the defense attorney's seeked a supersedeas for Capone. On July 20, 1932, Col. Zack Miller, the owner of the 101 Ranch, left Ponca City,Oklahoma, bound for St.Louis, Missouri, There he met Louis Alterie, reputed henchman of Capone. From St.Louis they went to Atlanta were Capone was serving time, Capone wanted to buy the vast ranch to organize an Italian colony to promote grape culture & to continue the ranch as a show place of the southwest. Capone did not buy the land for some unknuwn reason. On November 16, 1932, Capone, under the heaviest guard of United States Marshals, was taken to the Federal Building an hour before the hearing opened, Corridors of the building were swept clean of loiterers. Spectators were admitted shortly before court opened, everyone forced to find a seat & then the doors were closed, Assistant Attorney General A.G.- Loungaquist, who appeared from Washington,D.C. to fight Capone's attempt to ~ fme-som, opened the proceedings before Judge E., Marvin Underwood with dismiss the action for lacic of ie al sufficiency. The court gave __gouncil 1 week in which tw. file abreif answer to the governments