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——-. an affidavit was obtained from an officer of this same vessel to the effect thet Alphonse Capone and his party hed sailed aboard his boat tron Miami to Nassau on February 8, 1929, and had returned by the same boat from Nassau on February 12, 1929, and that on both trips Alphonse Capone eppeared to be in perfect health. Affidavits were obtained thet on February 14, 1929, Alphonse Capore head been questioned for te hours by th’e County Solicitor for Dade County and en Assistant District attorney cf King’s County, New York, in the office of the County Solicito> in the Court House at Miami, Florida, the questions und answers being taken dorm by a stenographer, and that upon this occasion Capone appeared *o be in good health. The above affidavits, of course, established “he falsity of several statements in the affidavit presented to obtain e postponement of Capone's appearance before the Grand Jury a‘ Chicago and served to disprove his contention that he was sick in bed upon certain dates, end was thus too ill to appear in Chicago. On Karch 27, 1929, Capone was cited in the Federal Court et Chicago for Contempt of Court for his failure to respond to the subpoena served upon him in Floriis ordering his appearance before the Federal Grand Jury at Chicago, and on the same date he was arrested end released under $5,060 bond. On May 17, 1929, Capone was errested in Philadelphia and charged with carrying concealed weapons. He ras convicted in the Pennsylvania Stete Court and sentenced to serve one year in the Eastern State Penitentiary, which sentence he served, at the expiration of this sentence he was erraigned in the Federal Court at Chicngo, February 25, 1931, entered a plen of not e , \