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Hokitika Guardian, 29 January 1932, Page 5

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■’SCARFACE” KEEPS BUSY.

MACHINES FOR AUSTRALIA

CHICAGO, Jan. 14

Though, naturally, . “Scarface” AL: Capone and his associates do not make their “business” dealings public, it is generally believed that this syndicate is directing operations of many slot machines and fruit gambling devices that have been sent to Australia for operation on license. People who think that Capone is idling away his time in the county gaol while awaiting, the disposal of ‘his appeals and the final orders removing him to Leavenworth Penitentiary simply don’t know Capone. Recently lie lias been occupying the hospital suite in the county gaol, receiving his lieutenants in daily conferences and conducting his gigantic business'affairs quite as easily as he did from his luxurious quarters in the Lexington Hotel. ABOVE KINSHIP JUDGE ON LAWSUITS. LONDON, Jan. 14. If your mother is driving you in a motor car, a crash occurs, and you are injured—sue her! Such is the purport of Mr Justice Swift’s Bumming up in a motor collision case, He snid; “I ennnot understand people coming to Court and saying, ‘We did not sue the I’riv-r boca-SO he is our brother’. If 1 was in a car with my own brother and I was injured because of his negligence I would sue him, Whether the r ers °n driving is a mother or brother, however, near and dear, what objection can there be to suing p” UNION CARS ONLY. FUNERAL PROCESSIONS CHICAGO, Jan. 14. Hereafter in Chicago one may attend a funeral only in a union motor car. The undertakers have issued a ;notice stating: “Privately-owned automobiles are unwelcome. If people do not wish to ride in cars furnished by the morticians and driven by union drivers, please stay out of the procession.” PUBLIC “EXECUTION.” GANG ASSASSINATIONS. NEW YORK, Jan. 4. An astounding public., “execution” of a man who had incurred its disfavour has been carried out by gangland. a»g-.-a ssassittationa..inKt hayrack, eteer warfare reached a climax in dramatic manner in the heart of Brooklyn with the execution of a war veteran in the street. Four gunmen marched John McEvilley, world war veteran, up against a brick wall at dawn. They maderhim stand with his .book to them nndj the executionjsts then pumped bullets from four revolvers into him, kjiling him, ts i The slaying is linked by the pol-ce to the waterfront gang warfare, which, has harassed Brooklyn for a detade, claiming a score of victims. No numbers of the firing squad were found by the authorities. , UNPICKABLE LOCK. HIGHWAYMAN’S BIG REWARD SAN FRANCISCO. Jan 14. Harold Marks, a Lo s Angles highwayman, is spending a year in San Quentin prison perfecting a non-pick-able lock. The dial cylinder type of locks is quite immune against the efforts of the Jimmy Valentines of Son Quentin. A manufacturing concern paid Marks £20,000 for his patent, and when he is paroled next month, he will get a cheque for this fortune, in addition to the new suit of clothes which is provided for the day of exit.