AL CAPONE
PROSECUTION FAILS. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) else. NEW YORK, April 3. The vagrancy charges against A 1 Capone (cabled on February 26th) were dismissed to-day at Chicago when the State Attorney confessed his inability to produce a single witness who could prove the gang chieftain was a “frequenter of 'disreputable resorts.” Several policemen escorted the elegantly-attired gangster into Court, where he posed for lie' photographers, and bantered with the detectives. The case was quickly disposed of. Not a single policeman would testify that A 1 Capone had so much as frequented a speakeasy.
The “Number One of Chicago’s Public Enemies” strolled out of Court with the earlier threats of what would be done to him, if apprehended by the authorities quite unfulfilled.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 April 1931, Page 2
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