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oer A ODDS ACAINST A REHEARING Chicago's Ex-Gang Chieftain 48 fh. Believed Likely to Serve His a, Time ot Ateatras. z:- ihpectas ta Tax Naw: Yoax Tams. — > Y"WASHINGTON, Oot. 26:—Prob- Py ‘the last avenue through which “Capone ~ talght “Rave ‘pecaped “serving the ‘rast of bis care oe m 1925 to 1827, was blocked to Neay by the Bupreme Court. - > Without explanation the court re fected « petition of the former Chl- leaga gang leader for review of ower court findings, in a habeas jeorpus proceeding. 1 Counse) for Capone, conceding in- ‘some tax evasion charges, argued! ‘that as the indictment was drawn” more than three years after the ‘al-; $eged offenses occurred, the statute: ef Umitations barred the court from taking jurisdiction. The action of the high court left to Capone the sole recourse of an mppeal for a rehearing, a move in which the odda would’ be ageinat . Ag a result Capone is likely | stay at Alcatraz prison at least til he becomes eligible for parole. Since the court confined its ruling to the essential point of the peti- Hon, it threw no light on the ques- fon’ whetbér counsel for Capone, tm appealing to the Court of Ap tram the decision of the Dis- Court for Northern Iiinois, had erred In failing to raise the Statute of imitations as a Jegal impediment to his trial Besides the ten-year prison sen- tence, Capone received a year's term in county jail and = fine of At the trial, counsel for Capone asked the court to direct a verdict an -dttempt to “ @ limjtation was six years because ‘detraud” the AG Li QW, wr