CRIME: Capone & Caponies

Alphonse Capone cocked one blue-clad leg over another blue-clad leg in Chicago's Federal Court last week, and every newshawk in the courtroom* gasped in amazement. Snorkey wore no garters.

As acutely sensitive to Snorkey Capone's sartorial condition as the newshawks were: the jury that was trying him for attempting to evade payment of a $215,000 Federal Tax on $1.038,000 income from 1924 to 1929; Judge James Herbert Wilkerson; Prosecutor George Emmerson Q. Johnson; Defense Attorneys Michael Ahern and Albert Fink. After hearing Snorkey linked to Cicero gambling houses ("gold-belching pits of evil"...

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