The leading gangsters of three leading U. S. cities are leaders no more. Chicago's Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone is rounding out his first year in Atlanta Penitentiary for tax evasion. New York's Owen ("Owney") Madden languishes in Sing Sing for parole violation and Larry Fay, onetime milk racketeer, departed this life New Year's Day, broke. Twenty-four days later Boston's Charles ("King") Solomon, interested in liquor, narcotics and white slaves, was pistoled to death in a Roxbury, Mass, night club.
Last week Denver's leading 'legger, a little grocer named Joe Roma, sat...
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