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cee ree buildiag up a series of tax-evasion convic~ tions against his henchmen. “They began to crack4up fast when we got Jack Gusik. indicting, trying and sentenc ng him to a five-year term, all within thirty days You'll remember, he was Capone's ‘financial secretary.” He was the brains of the organization. Capone was the power that made the wheels go. Guzik's out on an ap- peal which the Supreme Court will probabiy reach in the latter part of this month. “Frankie ‘ake, the ex-frefighter, is doing one and a half years in Leavenworth. Terry 4 Druggan, who was 2 cabbiz before he joined up with Capone, on March 5 started a two- and-a-half-year stretch. Ralph Capone.” Al's _ brother. is doing three years. Frank “itis im for eighteen months Sam Guzik has gone up for a year and Louis Lipechultz is under indictment. “When the witnesses we needed saw those leaders of the Capore ormnization getting Ikmocked off in rapid-fire order, it b>zan to dawn upon them that the United States Gov~ emment meant business and that Capone, perhaps, after all was up against some‘hing he couldn't beat this time. Hed failed to fix it for the fellows closest to him. a “so SHUMWAY TALKED. It was his testimony “that we needed most. It tied the account up with Capone and the Cicero establishment in a way that couldn't be untied Of course, we had other evidence, and we presented plenty of it, al kinds of ft, but none so dinching as this. However, we weren't taking any chances. For example, the United States Attorney must gave taken avout ove pussivie witnesses before the grand jury just to get them on record as swearing they didn't know anything about Capone's business. That was so the defense couldn't use them as alibi wit- nesses later on. “To go back a bit—CaBone was fighting every inch of the way. Witnesses we needed were being smuggled out of town, out of the State, even out of the country. * “put at had made one big mistake. And be had made it six years before—at noon on -Kentucky Derby day in May, 1925. That was when the West Suburban Ministers’ and Citizens’ Association tricked the Shermt and his deputies into raiding the Hawthome ke Shop at Cicero. ' at ‘eas from the Hawtborse Smoke Shop, afterward called The Ship or The Subway, “that tbe book, which I found, and which Shumway identified, bad come. That little tobacco store, right in the heart of Ciccru, on its main street across from its two lead- ing banks, just about $00 feet fron the es, slice of the Western Electric Company cero, was (he front for s tuxurious:gam- hling joint that occupied tx floors and Wey Whe mat REN sel a Ph patronsige CY Sieh-claks her's GR employed 2 bundred men end contained “woulette wheels, blackjack Tayouts, craps : tables and poker tables, as well as wire facii- ties for betting on the ponies. - ~ wholesale distribution of beer and alcoliol. ~¢ “He had other rackets, teo, particularly "the cleaning and dyeing business. >" “well whea we raked Capone's plece 2Well, whea we raided Capon’: plece Cicero that day, Al chime dashing sctoss the street from bis hotel with onty his pants and coat over his pajamas. The guards tried «to stop him, and right there Al began mak- ing mistakes. He said it was his ‘party “his place and be was going in. * “waen mE cot Ix he made his next mis- take. He began ordering people around, tell- ing Shumway to (ake away the cash on hand and in several other ways known definitely that thé joint belonged to him. He threatened the raiders; be had them “beaten-up by his gang as they left the place. “And fifteen minutes after the raid, the house ‘was operating full blast again. ‘ “But the big mistake be made was to to dicker with the minister in charge of raid. He told their leader that he'd take his bawdy houses out of Stickney if they'd Jet him alone in Cicero. They'd had hit houses in Stickney raided a week before. They “wouldn't trade, so be threatened them.- i E ‘Aamily then prevailed upon him not to tee- , tify. Phe other witnesses also decided to keep : their mouths shut on that occasion. But when Cthe Government took Capone before Judge PJames HW. Wilkerson in Chicago last fall, _ they tatked and presented evidence te prove “that in the 1924-1929 period be bad ap in- come of more than $1,000,000; bow much more nobody knows. | raid in 1976 after W. KH McSwiggin, Assist- F ant State's Attorney, was killed near the j. gambling foimt, but their value ‘escaped notice at the time”. 5 oe te a ee Fain ore Sun PDarch 2d MPI 2.