FINANCIAL STRAITS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 226, 18 May 1932, Page 3

FINANCIAL STRAITS

AL CAPONE'S WIFE STATED TO BE HARD UP GANGSTERS' WIDOWS NEW.YORK, Saturday. A1 Capone's wife is reported to be in financial straits. How far that report is spread for propaganda purposes it is difficult to tell, but there is strong talk of the sale of her "Arabian Nights" villa at Miami and other necessitous economies. How to live'Until . her "gin-winner" comes out of gaol is the chief problem when gangsters go the way of their kind. What happens to their widows? If pretty, they have a few weeks' cheap vaudeville money in their pockets until the murder has died down in public interest, then they disappear. If not pretty, and not particularly young, they disappear without even a chance of making a couple of hundred dollars show money out of their widowhood. Gang Widows "New York and Chicago have a good number of gang widows on their hands — widows and sweethea'rts. Marriage lines in that community are not so indispensable as guns. Mrs. Jack Diamond has her name in big letters in front of a Broadway vaudeville house — "Mrs. Jack (Legs) Diamond in person — Jack's crimes, loves and death." It brought a few dollars into her pockets, hecause for a week or two the crowd was willing to pay a quarter or a dime (ls or 6d) for a cheap glimpse of the widow. After that, finish. A few days ago the name of Kiki Roberts, who saw more bullets poured into her man than most women see hirthdaysj shone big and bright off Broadway for one week only. Slie knows as well as anyone what that means.