AL CAPONE
INCOME TAX PROSECUTION. . T —. „ . * (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) CHICAGO, October 15. The attorneys for the defence rested their cases to-day exclusively upon showing A 1 Capone’s immense losses 1 })v betting on race .horses. A number of bookmakers were among the defence witnesses, and they testified that as th e gangster had been wagering as high as, ten thousand dollars on a race, and had been almost consistently picking the wrong horse, 4. lie lost between 1924 and 1928 a total iy of 310 thousand dollars. The Court almost resembled a borne, makers’ booth at a racing stand to-day, with such characters as “Hickory Slim, the Dice Guy,” among the witnesses for Capone. The defence counsel’s purpose in stressing the gangster’s losses is that ' therefore he has had n 0 wealth upon ■which he should pay income taxes.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 October 1931, Page 5
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