GANGSTERS FATHER
“THAT YOUNG’DEVIL” CAPONE
/r^JLGJH^ACJO,:.--March 2. An old man. living in Hungary, says a inesasge from .Berlin', claims to be the father of the notorious gang leader A 1 Oapone. The doings of his son . so iiueased him that he went to the Crosswardein Police Station and excitedly demanded that the police should tejegraph to. the .Chicago I'edinsist upon, -the severest punishment for-• ‘‘Scarf ace. ” ■‘:‘He wasta' young .devil as a hov,” said the old nian, who is'named Lad-isla-us Kabovim .‘‘For all. the thrashings I gave ..him. when -he was young, he. was a perfect terror, and frequently in • conflict?,witji the police.” A-ty firsts tlie.; 'police thought their visitor , was demented): biit Kabovic is imported to have , satisfied • them by j, Uterine of dqciumeitts--.and. photographs that ho really is -the .father of Oapone, rwho came to- America, when lie. was 17 ;ir*ears old. <* Tt looks as if Oapone may spend most of the-.rejuaindei - .of .hisxlife. in. gaol. The Federal.war bin-hoodlums -is ip,iarked by the'-depifrttire of a. special deportation drain, ;i with . 125 aliens ;aboa.rd. In a,day or two they will he last-bound. iaerqss, the. - -Atlantic. Thirty c tyit of,.>£]les©• wo-re-- Capone’s Jieiitenants, : • Two of hi*.gamblin')? house managers revealed :,to the. grand, jury what was his share, qfthe. profits, and indictments'are being issued against Capone for failing to pay his income tax, with the prospect- of a long term in Leavenworth'Prison.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 March 1931, Page 3
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