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Al Capone — Part 33
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ONE EFFORT:
. alice,’
Mr. Brundage continued, .“if. they
O INFLUENCE sr. susie osm
4 Green, president of the Amenoan: Zed-
2 ‘ration of Labor, would not oppore
confirmation. They told me they could
| make that guarantee. I told them
| I would consider what they bad sai.”
: | Gots 11 Year Bentonce.’ '
—— . (Capone recelved an eleven year sen-
tence from Judge Wilkerson = few
‘Continned from page. days later. and ia] now servigg Miat
__TContinned from first page) d4erm in Attanta “penitentiary. os
° = ‘Ald. Nelson, in his version of these
in the week in which Capone wae} incidents, flatly Genied ‘that he went’
found guilty. Later, { believe it was}to Brundage's-pffice with Capone ant
a day or two after hia conviction {Cp-| that the conversation was along any}.
pone was still at ilberty on ball], C4-| tines aave politics. .
Pone came to my office at 110 South; “During the trial,” the alderman
ig Dearborn street. With him were Ser-| said, “I received a call-from Serri-
ritella, Ald. Nelson, Patrick Sultivan/tella, He asked me to ¢rive with
2 of the Chicago Building Trade councll.| him to Mr. Brundage's home to dis-
and Jerry Horan of the Flat Janitore’} cuss harmony among the Republican
POT ee aE
¥ union. fact the 48th ward. I agreed!
{ “They said they had heard that|and we went to Lake Forest. There
+ Judge Wilkerson’ intended inflicting a|we talked politics but came to no
{beavy sentence upon Capone. Berri-| agreement. I told Mr. Brundage that
+ tella thought that a two year term,|I was ready to confer with him at any
‘as was originally proposed when Ca-|time but we did not agree on any (
(Done pleaded guilty to the Indictment. | candidate for ward committeeman or
would be sufficient. I don't recall who | for any other post. .
“made the statement but I was told “I learned that Capone had been
that if Capone received a two year|there the night before and I assume
term the opposition of railroad Jabor | that Serritella wanted me to go there
to Judge Wilkerson’s elevation to the | in order to make it appear I was an-|
Circuit bench would be withdrawn.” | «wering a summons.
Judge Wilkerson was not formally Gets Another Call, r
nominated for the Page vacancy on} “A few days later, I received a tel \"
‘age Circuit Court of Appeals by Prest-| phone call from Patrick Sullivan a
, dM Hoover unti! Jan. 12, 1932, but! Jerry Horan, They said Serritella hal
the MW been mentioned for the post. called to say that Mr. Brundage wan
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