CRIME: Spectator

Last month the Press chuckled when Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone went to a charity baseball game in Chicago, sat in a front box, shook hands with the players, had his picture taken. For in another front box was sitting Chief Investigator Pat Roche, who had said he was looking for Gangster Capone for a fortnight but could not find him (TIME. Sept. 7).

Last week Gangster Capone, with a bodyguard of eight including "Machine Gun" Jack McGurn, attended the Northwestern-Nebraska football game at Evanston, Ill. This time the players did not greet him....

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