CRIME: Capone Moved

While California's new Governor was pardoning the country's most famed political prisoner, the country's most famed criminal prisoner last week also obtained a degree of freedom. The family of Gangster Alphonse ("Scarface") Capone paid to the U. S. $37,692.29 on his bill of $50,000 in fines and $7,692.29 court costs for the offense of income tax evasion, for which he has served six years, eight months of a ten-year sentence, since 1934 in rock-grim Alcatraz.

The former overlord of Chicago booze and prostitution was taken some 400 miles from Alcatraz to the Federal correctional prison on Terminal Island, off San...

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