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Al Capone — Part 33
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INEW DRINE FOR
“| sick ‘of ‘Mingling "With Yéland
-Prisoners, Former Gang King
-} Petitions tor His Freedom
Island” lest week with @ halt
hundred of the nation’s most
desperate criminals after a apec-
feculat journey from Atlanta, the
arch gangster asked the U. 8.
Supreme Court to order bis re
Jease.
His attorneys slapped a petition
before the high court yesterday,
contending Capone's
ment is
‘The court is expected to gives
quick decision shortly after it re-
convenes October 1.
Representing Capone sre Wil-
liam EZ Leshy and Wiliam J.
Hughes, Washington attomeya,
lower courts held that the Capone
case fell within # provision of the
statute giving the Government the
right to prosecute within six years.
Capone was convicted on
charges of evading income taxes
in March of 1926, 1027 and 1928.
JAIL RELEASE}
He was seni
May 6,
$30,000 an;
12, 10 years in |"
Federal prison,
1932. In addition he was fined |:
yne 2a bl
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